The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Horror
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Ten minutes into The Return of the Living Dead I was smiling. Frank, the manager of a medical supply warehouse has been showing his new...
Fright Night (1985)
Fright Night starts out as a commentary on the state of modern horror and ends by being and assault on it. The problem with modern...
Cat’s Eye (1985)
There are going be volumes written about why Stephen King’s work is so loved by half the population. There’s got to be something, I mean,...
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
I didn’t actually think that it was possible, but the people who made Friday the 13th: A New Beginning have made a film that is...
Silent Night Deadly Night (1984)
I am struggling through my feelings about Silent Night Deadly Night not to sound like a touch-sensitive prude. By this point, I can take a...
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street arrives at an interesting point for horror movies, just as the vogue for quickie gut-bucket stalk-and-slash shockers is...
Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghostbusters is a very funny movie but more than that, it is an exception to the notion that big budgets and special effects and sour...
