American action, sci-fi, and horror trash from the 80s

[Nanker Phelge]

Yet another classic with Donald Pleasence...

 

[DaveCinzano]

I'll see your Pleasance, and raise you a Bronson

All three currently up on (UK) Netflix

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I think that is supposed to be Linda Blair on the cover...

 

[Belushi]

Jesus this thread takes me back

 

[Belushi]

I saw all these, mainly because our video shop had different prices and these were all a pound rental

 

[mwgdrwg]

Ninja films!

This was my favourite film for a short period:

 

[hot air baboon]

I'll see your Pleasance, and raise you a Bronson

....I am thoroughly ashamed to say I actually saw that at a cinema...

...it was a Cannon cinema ofcourse as was the film ( courtesy of Mssrs Golan & Globus - the imprimatur of high-quality 80's cinema entertainment ) ...they wouldn't have got anything released without actually owning the cinemas...

...the only thing I can remember was that Bronson's character was called Leo Kessler..which was a bit confusing as ofcourse that was the brand name used for all those Sven Hassel rip-off paperback series....although their second-rate character is in some ways quite appropriate.....( & a little bit reminiscent of The Fly 2 where they decided to name the son of the original Fly Martin Brundle....who was ofcourse a fairly well-known F1 racing driver of the time )

 

[Belushi]

I liked a good buddy movie

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Lone Wolf McQuade has a fantastic soundtrack by Francesco De Masi

 

[Nanker Phelge]

 

[Nanker Phelge]

This claims to be directed by Martin Dolman, but MArtin Dolman is really Sergio Martino who made the near classic Spaghetti Western Mannaja: A Man Called Blade, which was one of the last great Spaghetti Westerns...

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Because Starcrash 1 was such a massive hit...

(also known as Escape from Galaxy 3)

 

[Nanker Phelge]

This was 1992, but everything about it is mid 80s trash....

'He'll need bigger guns....'

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Watched this in Netflix recently....fucking shite. From the makers of Miami Vice, Directed by Starskey (not Hutch), theme tune by Bob Dylan, has a young Larry Fishburne, a rotten turn from the always good Stephen Lang....and has Ajax from the Warriors as the kingpin bad guy...

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Robert 'Exterminator' Ginty was a 80s trash action god....

 

[Nanker Phelge]

 

[DaveCinzano]

Nice article about Cannon from 2013:

The rise and fall of Cannon Films

Fascinating documentary about Cannon by Mark Hartley (who did the excellent Not Quite Hollywood about Ozploitation flicks):

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A less well-received doc, but featuring interviews with Globus and Golan:

The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[DotCommunist]

Ninja films!

This was my favourite film for a short period:

this, despite looking cheese has some excellent swordplay and a fantastically shot ninja bloodbath in a clinically white train interior

and christopher lambert

 

[Nanker Phelge]

total poop

 

[DotCommunist]

wtf is it with bad 80s art on VHS covers? Is it just that these low rent shitefests were just too cheap to do a photo cover

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I think the art just made them look more exciting than they ever could be....

I mean a Ninja flying above the city launching four star throwers whilst firing off some kind of flame thrower is way better than anything in the movie

 

[hot air baboon]

....I realise the cynically derivative naming-alike is embedded in the culture of the exploitation flick they often sell themselves short by their regrettable lack of originality and faith in the rough-diamond qualities of their product....

...I mean lets think this through ...if you were putting together a hit-squad of no-holds-barred mercs to execute some dirty business in some far-off hell-hole for your backers would you go for a Shakespeare quoting thespian like Burton and his tag-along mates Harris & Moore or a crew of inglorious bastards like..

.....COLLINS....BORGNINE....VAN CLEEF.....KINSKI....

...I think we all know who'd come out worst in a toe-to-toe bun-fight in a back alley out of that lot...

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Van Cleef as a Ninja....

 

[Nanker Phelge]

 

[DaveCinzano]

Van Cleef as a Ninja....

Alternative title:

Deadly White Van Men

 

[Nanker Phelge]

 

[Nanker Phelge]

more Van Cleef rubbish

 

[Nanker Phelge]

A knock out title from the Sybil Danning advenutre series

 

[hot air baboon]

....this was a weird one I remember me and my chums went off to the local flea-pit to see on the back of the Kung Fu tv series..

...there was some buzz about it & I see the story was originated by Bruce Lee, James Coburn and Hollywood script-writer Stirling Silliphant....

.....an early experience of consumer disappointment....

 

[Nanker Phelge]

....this was a weird one I remember me and my chums went off to the local flea-pit to see on the back of the Kung Fu tv series..

...there was some buzz about it & I see the story was originated by Bruce Lee, James Coburn, and Hollywood script-writer Stirling Silliphant....

.....an early experience of consumer disappointment....

Was supposed to be a Bruce Lee starring mystical martial arts epic....