Category: 1980s Movie Reviews

The Dead Zone (1983 Movie)

Even though this movie had the same major plot points as the book, it felt really disjointed going from one storyline to another....

Maximum Overdrive

Maximum Overdrive Starring: Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington Directed by: Stephen King Written by: Stephen King Rating: R Length: 1 hour 37 min Genre: Horror Comedy Release Date: July 25, 1986 Based on the short story “Trucks,” which is not one of my favorite stories in the Night Shift collection, Maximum Overdrive has the makings...

Cat’s Eye

I have seen Cat’s Eye quite a few times as a kid. I think I would watch it every time I stumbled across it on cable around the time it came out. A cat very loosely ties together three stories. Two of the stories came from Stephen King’s Night Shift...

Children of the Corn

Children of the Corn Starring: Peter Hortron, Linda Hamilton, John Franklin, Courtney Gains Directed by: Fritz Kiersch Written by: George Goldsmith (screenplay), Stephen King (short story) Rating: R Length: 1 hour 32 min Genre: Horror Release Date: March 9, 1984 I had never seen Children of the Corn before now, even though I do believe I have...

The Shining (1980 Movie)

The Shining Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers Directed by: Stanley Kubrick Written by: Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson Rating: R Length: 2 hour, 26 minutes Genre: Horror Release Date: 1980 I’ve seen this movie many times. I love this movie. It still scares me. I watched it immediately after first reading The...

MWG: Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome

Hanging out at Marci’s house, she was checking out what was available to watch on Netflix Instant Play. When she realized I had never seen this movie before, she was shocked and picked it as her movie of the month. Netflix synopsis: While the final Mad Max film can’t...

MWG: Legend

Stacy wanted to continue on the theme we have had going on this year with what she calls, “The Tim Curry classic Legend.” Netflix synopsis: Jack (Tom Cruise) lives peacefully in a mythical forest with animals and goblins until fate leads him to battle a host of terrors to...

MWG: Big Trouble in Little China

It is Jim’s turn to pick the movie for us this month. Here is what he said when asked to pick a movie, “I’m going to go with the great John Carpenter masterpiece, Big Trouble in Little China.”  I’m surprised he didn’t pick it sooner. Netflix synopsis: Traveling through...

MWG: Red Sonja

Amy has picked Red Sonja as our next movie pick. She picked it to go along with other recent choices of Conan, Clash of the Titans, and Willow. It has the common theme of fighting in it. I also think they are trying to do a remake of this...

MWG: Willow

Jeremy had February’s pick so he finally decided on a movie at the beginning of March. He kept using some excuse like he had homework to do or something. Whatever! Anyway, I think this movie pick came about due to someone mentioning it on television or something happened that...