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"Get away from her, you bitch!" #Aliens turns 40! #JamesCameron's balls-out #scifi sequel upped the action while maintaining the spine-tingling #horror elements of #Alien A bona fide masterwork that refuses to date in its ability to leave you breathless vhsrevival.com/2019/11/11/h...
Hear Them Scream: Aliens & the Rise of the Xenomorph
A sequel that lives up to an original picture is a rare thing indeed. Even rarer is one that in some ways surpasses it, but director James Cameron managed to produce two of the most astonishing of …
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#TheKarateKid Part III was released #OTD Despite some memorable villains & a superlative score, the series went out with something of a whimper thanks in part to #RalphMacchio's age and the casting of a minor Here's a deep dive: #80s #Movies #80smovies vhsrevival.com/2025/04/15/t...
The Best Around? John Avildsen Treads Familiar Territory in The Karate Kid Part III
Generally speaking, a good sequel retains the winning elements that endeared us to an original movie while offering something fresh and rewarding. The Karate Kid was one of the surprise hits of 198…
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Blockbuster season certainly lived up to its promise in 1981, three of cinema’s biggest and best-loved movie icons battling it out for summer supremacy @VHSRevival brings you all the #retro #movie news from #June '81 #movies #80s #80smovies vhsrevival.com/2020/06/05/t...
This Month In… June (1981)
Blockbuster season certainly lived up to its promise in June of ’81, two of cinemas biggest and best-loved movie icons battling it out for summer supremacy, but it was the introduction of a f…
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A happy birthday to the late #BillPaxton, a super talented & versatile actor who blessed us with many iconic performances, but my favourite will always be the insufferable, belching windbag Chet from #WeirdScience Pure comedy gold "I’m even considering making up some shit!"
Original #DieHard director #JohnMcTiernan returned for what many consider to be the best sequel in the series #DieHardWithaVengence, which premiered #OTD Samuel L Jackson freshened things as the series took on a more buddy cop approach Here's a deep dive vhsrevival.com/2018/01/31/s...
Same Shit New Rules: Die Hard: With A Vengeance
Die Hard with a Vengeance would prove something of a departure for a series that had stuck to a very particular formula. Back in 1988, the original Die Hard revolutionised the action genre with its…
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Released #OTD, #MichaelDugan's mafia funded exercise in creative dementia, #Mausoleum, is a schlocky sex demon #horror that has to be seen to be believed @VHSRevival brings you the lowdown 👇 #80s #movies #80smovies #horrormovies vhsrevival.com/2021/06/04/m...
Mausoleum (1983)
Of all the sub-genres in horror’s multifaceted pantheon, few are as primal, or as intriguing, as the ‘Sex Demon’ sub-genre, which I suppose is technically a sub-sub-genre in the t…
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Directly influenced by #RobReiner's #StandbyMe, #JohnSingleton’s immensely powerful coming of age drama #BoyzntheHood exposed the self-perpetuating violence of inner city #LosAngeles with a reality that was both shocking & vital Here's a deep dive 👇 vhsrevival.com/2021/07/14/o...
Once Upon a Time in South Central LA: Boyz N the Hood’s Enduring Power
Movies as powerful, important and enduring as John Singleton’s controversial drama Boyz N the Hood don’t come around too often. Not only was it revolutionary, portraying characters that…
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The #Fridaythe13th series reached a new nadir #OTD with the release of The New Blood, a soapy, bloodless affair with a cheap gimmick, but if it were not for executive meddling & the MPAA, it may have been quite different 👇 #horror #slasher #80s #movies vhsrevival.com/2020/04/15/t...
The Bold & the Bloodless: Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
The New Blood is a mutilation of a movie. Not because of Jason himself, but because of the Motion Picture Association of America, who hacked away the majority of the gore and set about castrating t…
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A happy 89th birthday to the legendary #JackNicholson One of #cinema's greatest, absolutely unique to the bone, & one of the coolest cats to ever walk the face of the planet They don't make them like him #movies
Meet Max, #TheRoadWarrior Max, in #GeorgeMiller’s hugely innovative action sequel, a #movie which set the bar for not only #dystopian #cinema, but action #movies in general Here's a deep dive 👇 #MadMax #80s #80smovies #scifi vhsrevival.com/2021/01/11/t...
The Future is Here: Mad Max 2; The Road Warrior
Not only is Mad Max 2 a perfect movie, it’s one of the most influential dystopian films ever, becoming the standard bearer for not only action sequels, but action movies in general. You only …
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With his action #movie output growing stale, #SylvesterStallone looked to reinvent himself as a token sheriff on the path to retribution in #90s #thriller #Copland Up against some of Hollywood's finest, he rediscovered his acting chops & then some 👇 vhsrevival.com/2021/03/31/c...
Cop Land & the Search For Stallone
Stallone or Schwarzenegger? Every once in a while that age-old question reemerges, but back in the late 80s/early 90s this particular subject was much more ubiquitous. Today it’s the Stathams…
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After an age in commercial limbo, the #MastersoftheUniverse reboot is just around the corner, but almost 40 years ago #CannonFilms killed a readymade franchise with a misguided attempt at forging the next #StarWars Here's the story 👇 #80s #movies vhsrevival.com/2018/04/25/m...
Masters of the Universe: Cannon Films & the Fall of Grayskull
How Cannon Films killed a readymade franchise in the making Golan-Globus emerged from the B-movie bonfire like a flaming phoenix. After purchasing Dennis Friedland and Chris Dewey’s flailing …
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#PaulThomasAnderson’s dazzling depiction of the porn industry’s golden age #BoogieNights, which rides a tenuous, powdered line between hilarity & devastation, is one of the finest #movies of the #90s Here's a deep dive 👇 #90smovies vhsrevival.com/2021/12/26/t...
The Seventies Unzipped: Dirk Diggler Shoots for the Stars in Boogie Nights
They say everyone has a special talent. Some are artistic. Others are practical or good with their hands. Many are born athletes, possessed by the kind of unwavering ambition that’s shared by…
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#TomBerenger stars in B-grade #DangerousMinds cash-in #TheSubstitute, which turns 30 today Ethically patronising & remorselessly stupid, this franchise -spinning VHS smash is a goldmine for #badmovie nuts Here's the lowdown, homies 👇 #90s #90smovies vhsrevival.com/2020/08/04/t...
The Substitute (1996)
We’ve been here before, many times before, but don’t sell The Substitute short. Of all the heavy-handed, transparently racist, high school vigilante films we’ve been subjected to …
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Badass babes, blind samurai & the legendary #LarryCohen… @VHSRevival brings you all the #retro #movie news from #March 1990 Cowabunga dudes! #90s #movies #90smovies #tmnt vhsrevival.com/2020/03/10/t...
This Month In… March (1990)
For longtime gamers, the name Tom Clancy probably evokes memories of the hugely popular Splinter Cell series, or, if you’re a little older, Rainbow Six for the original Playstation, but the n…
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Struggling to stay to true to its internal logic, #horror sequel #FreddysRevenge almost put the ANOES series on the shelf But it's difficult to not be fascinated by it both on & offscreen Here's why 👇 #80s #movies #80smovies #FreddyKrueger #slasher vhsrevival.com/2020/03/27/d...
Dream Lover: The Incomparable Freddy’s Revenge
Freddy’s Revenge. Anyone familiar with the A Nightmare on Elm Street series will surely recognise Jack Sholder’s 1985 sequel as something of an outlier, a film that seems to divide opin…
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#Terminator 2: Judgement Day recently topped a poll as the greatest action #movie spectacular of all time It's difficult to argue In 1992, one of the greatest sequels ever commited to celluloid was a monumental event that surpassed all expectations 👇 vhsrevival.com/2020/02/26/m...
Man and his Machine: Terminator 2 is the Blockbuster Sequel that Defined a Generation
In creative terms, the hardest movie to make is a sequel. If a sequel has been put into production it’s because its predecessor struck a note with the theatre-going public, which is typically…
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1982's long-forgotten #thriller #MurderbyPhone taps into the era's #Poltergeist led #horror through appliances sub-genre with spectacularly bad consequences Next time the killer may consider simply whacking them over the head with it 👇 #80s #movies vhsrevival.com/2023/03/03/m...
Murder by Phone (1982)
The horror-through appliances sub-genre was all the rage back in the early 1980s. Once again Steven Spielberg was at the heart of it with Poltergeist, a wildly successful supernatural horror direct…
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#RonShelton’s bittersweet ode to loyalty, friendship & #basketball, #WhiteMenCantJump, is one of those rare, perfect #movies that never fails to make me smile... & I'm not even a fan of the sport @VHSRevival takes to the courts with a timeless classic 👇 vhsrevival.com/2023/03/21/t...
Throwing Up Bricks: White Men Can’t Jump’s Bittersweet Courtship
Finding a pitch-perfect film, even in the heady realms of plaudit-heavy, high-art cinema, is a tough task indeed. Even the most highly regarded movies have questionable moments, creases that you fe…
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Think you know your Waynes from your #Eastwoods, your #Schwarzeneggers from your #Stallones, your Keanus from your Stathams? Then test your mettle with @VHSRevival’s #Blockbuster Action #movie #Quiz #70s #80s #90s #movies #moviequiz vhsrevival.com/2020/03/19/d...
Dead or Alive, You’re Coming With Me: VHS Revival’s Blockbuster Action Quiz
Got a Death Wish, Punk? It’s time to test your mettle with VHS Revival’s Blockbuster Action Quiz
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A #film that needs no introduction, the legendary #SamuraiCop has reached Holy Grail territory among #badmovie fans Devised around the #LethalWeapon concept, it's the #movie that Loaded Weapon 1 should have been Here's the story behind the madness 👇 vhsrevival.com/2021/02/28/s...
Samurai Cop (1991)
Samurai Cop is the movie Loaded Weapon 1 should have been. It’s so gloriously bad spoof writers must have been fearing for their jobs, or at the very least taking notes. As we can surmise fro…
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TV stalwart Terry O'Quinn delivered a tour de force in 1987's long forgotten #satire on Reagan's family values in the darkly comic #horror #thriller #TheStepfather @VHSRevival charts the rise and fall of the serial killer in this essay on the #movie 👇 vhsrevival.com/2021/04/09/w...
Who Am I Here? The Stepfather & the Decline of the Serial Killer
On a quiet, leafy suburb we enter a house, a white picket fence monument to Reagan’s America. Inside, a man stands bloodied yet strangely serene, staring at his reflection in a mirror, starin…
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Originally scripted as a much darker, definitive ending for Riggs & Murtaugh, many consider #LethalWeapon 2 to be superior to the original Here's a deep dive on what could have been and what would ultimately be 👇 #movies #80s #80smovies vhsrevival.com/2024/02/01/p...
Playing Dirty… It’s Just Been Revoked: The Fascinating Story of Lethal Weapon 2
They say it is better to be left wanting more; as appealing as ‘more of the same’ may sound following moments of intense exhilaration, it is never quite the same the second time around.…
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Originally scripted as a much darker, definitive ending for Riggs & Murtaugh, many consider #LethalWeapon 2 to be superior to the original Here's a deep dive on what could have been and what would ultimately be 👇 #movies #80s #80smovies vhsrevival.com/2024/02/01/p...
Playing Dirty… It’s Just Been Revoked: The Fascinating Story of Lethal Weapon 2
They say it is better to be left wanting more; as appealing as ‘more of the same’ may sound following moments of intense exhilaration, it is never quite the same the second time around.…
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Crudely tapping in to the #80s aerobics craze, David Prior's ludicrous, late to the party #slasher #KillerWorkout is lame, insane & preposterous in the best ways imaginable They don't make them like this anymore 👇 #horror #80smovies #badmovies #movies vhsrevival.com/2016/11/18/k...
Killer Workout aka Aerobicide (1987)
Killer Workout is a feminist’s nightmare. Released at the tail-end of the slasher boom, it manages to freshen an exhausted genre by using its most obvious ingredients to smother you like a so…
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Originally screened in 1981, #SamRaimi's wicked, low-budget #horror #TheEvilDead, widely released #OTD in 1983, would run into more trouble after being labelled the 'Number 1 Video Nasty' in the UK Here's a deep dive into a low-budget marvel 👇 #80s vhsrevival.com/2019/08/22/s...
See No Evil: Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead
When you hear the term ‘video nasty’, what’s the first thing that leaps to mind? Many words and images flash before my eyes: lurid depictions of death, cannibals, slashers, snuff,…
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Here's a something a bit different from @VHSRevival, an exploration of America’s relationship with narcotics through the lens of #FrankHenenlotter’s exploitation classic #BrainDamage 👇 #horror #80s #80smovies #movies vhsrevival.com/2021/10/08/t...
This is Your Brain On Drugs: A Brief History of Narcotics in Frank Henenlotter’s Brain Damage
Sometimes a movie comes along that really takes you by surprise. Brain Damage is much more than a trashy B-movie horror. It has all the ingredients, but behind the film’s bad taste presentati…
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