Tag Archives: 1982

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A family moves into a long-condemned New England household with a big pond out back that everybody loves to swim in. Soon, however, they find that the pond was the site of the execution- by-drowning of a witch three hundred years before, and she’s back to revenge herself on anybody nearby, whether they’re Catholic or not. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Yu Chun and her two loyal servants are deep in prayer when an evil sorcerer appears. He puts a curse on her, which causes her head to periodically detach from her body, fly through the air and attack those around her. Attempts at exorcism and removal of the sorcerer’s poison are unsuccessful, and Yu Chun is …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model’s …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Bound together by a desire to play “Mazes and Monsters,” Robbie and his three college classmates decide to move the board game into the local legendary cavern. REVIEW: The 1982 film Mazes and Monsters is interesting only in the sense that it is completely and utterly full of crap. An adaption of the Rona Jaffe novel …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young girl (and her dad’s girlfriend) is kidnapped and held prisoner by a deranged man who killed her mother in front of her years earlier. REVIEW: I’d heard of this movie and remember seeing it in the video store back in the day but never took a chance on it because it just didn’t really …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A playwright that is desperate to come up with his next big hit decides to kill one of his students and steal his idea for a play that he wrote. REVIEW: I saw Deathtrap one Sunday afternoon on cable when I was a kid and just really couldn’t get into it. It didn’t have enough gory …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Muscle-bound Ator and his mute East Asian sidekick travel from the ends of the earth to save his aged mentor from the evil, mustachioed Zor. REVIEW: If one thing that you can count on is that whenever a movie becomes popular, it’s that about a bazillion cheap rip-offs of it being made. It’s like death and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills. REVIEW: “Now I’ll show you what I already know.” John Carpenter’s most indispensable film, The Thing, is based on John W. Campbell Jr.’s Who Goes There?, a novella dealing with paranoia and the fear of assimilation …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A woman-hating killer stalks one of his victims that got away after she has been admitted to a hospital, taking out anyone unfortunate to get in his way. REVIEW: I remember seeing the trailer for Visiting Hours back in 1982 when I was eight-years-old and I thought that it looked quite awesome. I had just gotten …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After being the victim of a cruel prank in high school a crazed killer seeks revenge on those responsible at their 10 year high school reunion. REVIEW: I remember seeing Class Reunion (aka National Lampoon’s Class Reunion) on cable one Friday night back in 1985 or so and even though I didn’t get some of the …

SYNOPSIS: Dr Daniel Jekyll researching into drugs that would help mankind avoid surgery discovers a white powder that unleashes the animal in every man, and in his case turning him from a shy and timid doctor into a wild sex crazed party animal. To the delight and dismay of both his rich fiancée and stripper girlfriend. REVIEW: Another lost gem …

SYNOPSIS: Story about a rapid deployment defense unit that is called into action whenever freedom is threatened.

SYNOPSIS: “In the second Star Trek film, Admiral Kirk is now a Starfleet Academy instructor, while Captain Spock serves as a cadet training officer, while being in command of the USS Enterprise. Meanwhile, scientists aboard Space Station Regula One are conducting the Project Genesis experiment, and the USS Reliant is assigned to the Genesis project. While surveying a lifeless planet …

SYNOPSIS: A sheriff tries to stop the killing spree of a mute maniacal murderer who, as the result of years of medical experimentation, has the ability to self-heal. REVIEW: If memory serves, I was in my early teens when I first saw “Silent Rage” (Columbia Pictures, 1982), a drama-thriller-horror film starring action legend Chuck Norris and directed by Michael Miller. …

SYNOPSIS: A demented killer is stalking teenagers in a small town during a county fair. REVIEW: When I wa: a Junior in high school my mom rented Death Screams from our local video store and I’ll admit that I was less than impressed by it at the time. However, I watched it again years later and really dug it (in fact, it …