The Hunger (1983)
June 6, 2026
The film looks extraordinary. The Hunger earns its 6.5 the way a fashion shoot earns a magazine cover.
Tag: 1980s
The 1980s ran on excess, practical effects, and synth, and its movies never apologized. This tag collects reviews of 1980s cinema: the blockbusters, the B-movies, and the decade’s outsized influence on everything since.
1980sNear Dark (1987)
June 6, 2026
Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark strips every vampire cliche and builds a Western instead. That tension carries the picture.
1980sVamp (1986)
June 6, 2026
Judged as a complete film it is mediocre. Vamp earns its 5.5 as a stylish, uneven eighties horror comedy that is worth seeing almost entirely for one unforgettable element, Grace Jones as a vampire stripper who never speaks a word…
1980sVampire’s Kiss (1988)
June 6, 2026
Nicolas Cage delivers one of the most committed and bizarre performances ever as a yuppie who thinks he's turning into a vampire. Vampire's Kiss earns its 6.5 as a fascinating, deeply strange film that is far more interesting as a…
1980sAn American Werewolf in London (1981)
May 19, 2026
John Landis' 1981 horror-comedy. Rick Baker transformation effects won first Best Makeup Oscar.
1980s
1980sA Christmas Story (1983)
May 19, 2026
Peter Billingsley plays Ralphie. The film operates as memory instead of plot.
1980sA Christmas Carol (1984)
May 19, 2026
Scott plays Scrooge in a faithful television adaptation that became a holiday staple after theatrical release. A Christmas Carol is Clive Donner's 1984 American television adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella, depicting the Christmas Eve transformation of Victorian London miser…
1980sScrooged (1988)
May 19, 2026
Scrooged is Richard Donner's 1988 American comedy adaptation of A Christmas Carol, with Bill Murray as a cynical television executive producing a live Christmas Carol broadcast on Christmas Eve who is himself visited by three spirits over the course of…
1980sNational Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
May 19, 2026
Chechik's 1989 American comedy depicting Clark Griswold's plans for a perfect family Christmas at his suburban Chicago home, which unravel through extended-family chaos, holiday catastrophe, and a frozen pool that becomes the screenplay's central comic obsession. Christmas Vacation is the…
1980sLethal Weapon (1987)
May 19, 2026
A suicidal LAPD detective is partnered with a family-man veteran during a Christmas drug investigation that turns into open warfare. Lethal Weapon is Richard Donner's 1987 American action film about a suicidal Los Angeles Police Department narcotics detective who is…
1980sThe Fly (1986)
May 19, 2026
David Cronenberg's body horror about a scientist whose teleportation experiment merges his DNA with a housefly. The Fly is David Cronenberg's 1986 American body-horror film, a substantial remake of the 1958 Kurt Neumann original, depicting a scientist whose teleportation experiment…