TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN
Here we have a true American oddity with a history as nutty as what ended up on screen.
YEELEN
The alleged masterpiece of Souleymane Cisse, 1987’s YEELEN (BRIGHTNESS) has been called the “greatest African film ever made.”
THE LOST BOYS
Surprisingly, this novel isn’t all that bad–even if it contains the expected hasty prose and wobbly storytelling I’ve come to expect from movie novelizations–being quite slick and enjoyable overall.
HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH
The nuttiest of the HALLOWEEN sequels, a Michael Myers-less something-or-other involving computers, Stonehenge, androids and deadly masks.
CUJO
CUJO carries Stephen King’s well-known penchant for bloat to hellacious extremes. It includes just about every extraneous detail you can think of.
THE SHADOWED MIND
An insane asylum set South African horror-sexploitation oddity from 1988 that was heavily informed by FAREWELL JOHNNY, the granddaddy of South African horror/cult films. Taken on its own terms THE SHADOWED MIND is agreeably bizarre, though not nearly as deep as it purports to be.
Art, Exploitation and the Cannon Group
Remember the Cannon Group? It was a small movie studio purchased in 1979 by the Israeli duo, Menahem Golan and Yorum Globus, who quickly turned Cannon into one of the most prolific and ambitious film conglomerates of the 1980s.
Remembering the Mann: 1981-2012
On May 25, 2012 the Pacific (formerly Mann) Manhattan Village Theater in Manhattan Beach, CA closed its doors.
1987: It Was Quite A Year
According to author Stephen Romano, “There may never again be another time in film history like the end of the eighties–or a year like 1987.”
WE’RE GOING TO EAT YOU
The second feature by Hong Kong’s Tsui Hark was this Kung Fu infused, cannibal-themed comedy