Gen Me (Z) read the rough cut from IMDB... not watching. The Thing came out a couple years BEFORE ET... "around the same time" is relative to Reagan being President vs Bush (1) being president...both "around the same time....[same decade]".
1. The Thing - 1982 2. Possession - 1981 3. Lifeforce - 1985 4. They Live - 1988 5. The Burning - 1981 6. Halloween 3: Season of the witch - 1982 7. Reanimator - 1985 8. Night of the Comet - 1984 9. Invaders from Mars - 1986 10. Day of the Dead - 1985 11. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer - 1986 12. Near Dark - 1987 13. The Blob - 1988 14. The Keep - 1983 15. Scanners - 1981 16. The Monster Squad - 1987 17. Leviathan - 1989 18. Cutter’s Way - 1981
I was a teenage boy in 1985 but I can assure you that I watched "Lifeforce" 168 times for the nuanced performances, the stellar screenplay and the top-notch special effects. It had absolutely nothing to do with the hot woman walking around buck naked. Honest.
@kenneth I JUST saw The Blob free on YT. Loved it! Like most films--people in their late 20's played high school kids! Steve McQueen starring in it made me watch it. That ending should make everyone on planet Earth nervous. The military flew it to an extremely cold area since cold was the only way to defeat it. Well, global warming is making us break records for highest temperatures yrly! Frozen areas will melt. Uh oh! That blob of strawberry Jello will rise again! 😂
I remember watching Lifeforce On-Demand a while back. I also have The Thing and They Live on blu-ray and dvd! Gotta have me some cheesy cinematic B-Horror goodness to watch during the Halloween season!
The On-Demand synopsis had a hilarious description written out for it; it was something like (paraphrasing) "Space vampires walk around London killing everyone. One of them is a hot naked French chick with a nice rack."
Man, I can't believe these weren't initially well received, I couldn't image life without any of these films. Thank the Gods for VHS and VCRs, it brought life back to films that Hollywood already thought were DOA.
THESE movies are what are called "cult films" in a very true sense of that term, meaning that they might not have been your box-office mega-"blockbusters" upon their immediate release, but had gradually attained a kind of popular or classic status over the interim of time since. They're reputations sorta SNOWBALLED to use an analogy there.
80’s horror is second to none. I was lucky enough to catch so many bad but extremely fun regional type drive-in movies in theaters, and the Drive-in. I live in Baltimore and we still have Bengies Drive-in, full size original screen Seen the original Evil Dead there a few years ago.
"You are the king of Jack and Sh*t, and Jack left town", "Ash, Housewares", "Hail to the king, baby" - those were the days! Only years after school I got why our maths teacher always said "Groooovy" :-))) "They live" has become soooo real during the last five years, it is spooky. May I mention "The Exorcism of Jane Doe", the one where a young woman is due to be embalmed, but has other plans - gore galore, and I nearly **** myself. "The Thing" is a masterpiece, the horror version of "Icestation Zebra", I hate the cold - but then again, "30 Days of Night" may also qualify for this collection -> I am undecided and scared now, great! Edited to add "Bone Whistle" starring Kurt Russell...
They Live did not "Flop" and that has been discredited for a while... "They Live was theatrically released in North America on November 4, 1988, and debuted at #1 at the box office, grossing $4.8 million during its opening weekend." They made the budget back in a week - With a Final Gross of $13m, it wasn't a Blockbuster by any means, but it's not a flop.
Partially shot in Santa Monica and The Culver Studios. Live action HeMan was Monster Squad's in-studio "neighbors." You can see the side gate of the real studio as the 'front gate' of the in-film studio where the Three Amigos steal their costumes from.
While I love Scanners, Stephen Lack's acting ability is abysmal! I don't think he delivers a single line of dialog in the entire movie that isn't stilted and awkward.
While I agree with you, I think it kind of works for the character. Normally a performance like that would bother the shit out of me but not with this movie.
The gate also was one of those awesome movies which should also be in this list,a couple of those mentiones like cutter & bone or henry though im sure they are awesome doesn't exactly belongs to the horror movies genre we understand.They are mostly thriller type of movies based on something which belongs in the realistic sphere of things,accompanied with drama elements as well! But i can accept that the true horror is also more terrifying many times than the monster we see in a film like that,so i can understand those movie also be on that list!
Space Vampires to malevolent shapeshifting extraterrestrials to head exploding ESP, the 80s movies had it all. "Oh, we cater to all types, sir. You'd be surprised." ---Blockbuster Video
A few great movies I've seen just once, and never seen hide nor hair of since: 'Of Unknown Origin', (1983) with Peter Weller; El Dia De La Bestia' (1995); La Cabina (1972).
PRACTICAL EFFECTS is why the 80s were so great. Before CGI the effects teams had to stup up their game and The Thing is one of the greatest ever. Monster Squad and Little Monsters were 2 of my favorite to this very day. A Monster Squad remake is said to exist but the studio took the insurance money and never released it. So many gems that people still overlook to this day. C.H.U.D is also a good one part 2 CHUD the Bud is so bad it's good.
Call me crazy, except I was 12 when these movies came out, so I actually remember it so im not crazy (but please, i hold no ill will in the inevitable slew of "you're crazy" replies lol)... But I believe LEVIATHAN wasn't looked at as much since it came out in 1989, aka "the deep dark mysterious ocean craze" year... More specifically, it came out in March 1989--- 2 months after DEEPSTAR SIX, starring Miguel Ferrer, and as it happens, about what, 5 months or so before THE ABYSS* While DeepStar and Leviathan don't have the same plot PER SAY, it's basically a "crew of scientists find terror at the ocean floor" movie. And when they come out within 2 months of each other, as if u think about most things in life, that which comes 1st is looked at more. I remember seeing both in the theaters, and liking DeepStar more, though both were pretty MEH. Not to mention, though u can't get more different than the plot of LEVIATHAN as opposed to the plot of ROBOCOP, I vividly remember some sorta feeling of either grander expectations of seeing Peter Weller and expecting another masterpiece like Robocop was, or the unshakable feeling of simply not being able to see/hear Peter Weller and NOT thinking of Robocop.....I mean shit, despite how awesome Mr Weller always is, I couldn't NOT think of Robocop even wjen je showed up as a senior citizen in that season of DEXTER...I mean shit pt 2: electric Boogaloo, I couldn't help but think of Robocop ever so slightly even when we didn't even SEE him,,but heard him, in his gripping voice acting of older, grizzled Bruce Wayne in the animated version of the all time classic THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS pts1&2 ("You don't get it son. This isn't a mudhole, it's an operating table and I am the surgeon..." 😊).... So yeah, albeit a minute fact perhaps, and of course I'm in no way saying that LEVIATHAN got a raw deal cuz without DeepStar SIX, we'd have gotten a SAVING PRIVATE RYAN-esque classic, I am certain that didn't help... * -- even THE ABYSS,,which now, especially in light of the directors cut, was "victim" to that year of 1989, and taking juuuuust enough of a hit because of the aforementioned other ocean deep movies, in that many people either went in expecting another deep sea horror but BETTER cuz it was Cameron, OR chose NOT to see it, because well... they expected "yet another" deep sea horror, of which we already got 2 just a few months earlier. ..... .... ... .. . I'm not crazy . .. ... .... ..... 😂😮
Interesting movies, so why so many spoilers? What is the point of this video? I want to watch the movies, not get a recap. I'm sorry but your videos are titled like essays. while in reality they spoil most of the movie. With 1,13 million subs maybe hire an amateur writer if you are not up to the task. I'm sorry if it's crude but it's a bit effed up that I, as a viewer, have to SKIP through your vids to avoid getting the whole movie spoiled.
The The blob and The Stuff are still some of the most terrifying monsters I ever saw in the cinema to this day. There is just something about dealing with something that can't be reasoned with or even understood that really put things in the edge.
Maybe it's just me but Monster Squad was one of my favorite movies growing up and I watched it all the time as a kid. Since it's an 80's movie, I would describe it as Die Hard with Monsters and Kids. As such I never thought of it as a scary or horror movie. And I will die on my hill that the Dracula in that movie is one of the best screen Draculas ever despite being dressed like a costume store Dracula, he made that outfit seem not campy. Also, Wolfman's got nards.
TBH I think your script writing needs more work and your delivery. Some lines just make almost no sense. It sounds like it is written by AI. eg "When Hooper's Invaders from Mars was first released, it was unfavourably compared to the original and was considered to be made in poor taste to the classic it was" You do realise that makes no sense?
Same here, but taking a chance of getting backlash here, as I still can't stand The Burning and Near Dark (which in my opinion was only somewhat redeemed by Cameron's influence in casting and the truck chase).
Great List! In case anyone is interested not all of these were box office flops. They Live, Re-Animator, DOTD and Scanners all made about two to three times on the Investment. Henry and H3 both had well over a five time theatrical return. Amazingly, Night of the Comet had over a Twenty!!!! time return, its definitely more of a somewhat forgotten sleeper hit that some how became lost in the shuffle .
Great selection of films covered. Otis was odious, even moreso than Henry. BTW, in Scanners it's rev-ook not ree-vock which sounds like a pair of trainers.
5:27 George Nada? All this time, I thought his name was John Nada. 6:04 What's the point of wearing a long-sleeve shirt on top of another long-sleeve shirt in California?! I mean, how cold does it get there?! Why not wear a short-sleeve button-front on top of a long-sleeve undershirt? 6:13 It got everything right except which party was the worse culprit. 6:25 Absolutely incompetent weapon-handling right there. 6:28 The extra-lame version of '80s hip-fire. 6:29 The left always squeals about greed, but they give lust a pass. The right always squeals about lust, but they give greed a pass. In the words of a notorious leftist: "None of the above. Cut the cord!" 8:44 Children's holiday?! Are you kidding?! Do some research on the historically authentic Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced "SAH-when" or "SOW-when"). The goals of the maniacal Celt-Gaelic villain are entirely in keeping with that deranged belief system. 9:18 (otherworldly) 9:41 Arnie's stuntman/body double. 10:13 Another helping of incompetent weapon-handling. 11:09 Homage to 'The Omega Man'. 13:55 Dr. Logan claims that they don't have enough ammunition, but that's a little hard to believe. They wouldn't even have to use military-issue guns or ammo. They could use high-capacity .22s! Anyone can easily carry over 1,000 rounds .22 LR in their pockets since .22 LR often comes in 550-round "bricks." And if you want to get more large-scale, they could have maybe attempted to use vehicles to carve swathes through zombie hordes, but that concept might not have been in the budget. Romero explored that idea later with the Dead Reckoning, a vehicle that totally reminds me of Damnation Alley. 15:18 "Cold blood" would imply the absence of motive. If it was for revenge, that would be a motive that might fall within the purview of "hot blood." 17:36 Hey, kids! It's Tim Thomerson! [Applause] 21:21 'Scanners' is pretty much the first X-Men movie. 23:51 Again with the two long-sleeve shirts?! I've never seen anyone actually dress that way IRL?! Only in movies! And right next to him [ 23:54 ], you've got Daniel Stern's "Six Pack" wearing a t-shirt. I just don't understand why they do this in movies so often. An overdressed character is standing next to an underdressed character. Or one of them is dressed appropriate to the weather/environs while the other isn't. 24:31 Why did people in the '80s have such a problem with sleeves? 24:52 "Crisp?" More like "chewy." 🙃 26:50 Of these, I'll go with Leviathan. As for suggestions: Street Trash, Bad Channels, and Freaked.
Half of this list are certainly not "cult classics" only outdated & boring or just plain tacky, when you forgot to add the fun, gory &/or outlandish Peter Jackson's "Bad taste", Brian Yuzna's "Society", "Street trash" or the brilliant & still very much terrifying John Carpenter's "Prince of darkness" definitely are to this day. I was a teen in the 80s & we swallowed a bunch of stupid B movies, but we knew when credit was due & "The burning", "Night of the comet", "near dark" or "Halloween 3" certainly aren't classics by any means.
0:53 The Thing (1982) 2:36 Possession (1981) 3:47 Lifeforce (1985) 5:10 They Live (1988) 6:35 The Burning (1981) * 7:36 Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) 8:53 Reanimator (1985) 10:23 Night of the Comet (1984) 11:49 Invaders from Mars (1986) 13:24 Day of the Dead (1985) 14:50 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) 16:19 Near Dark (1987) 17:51 The Blob (1988) 19:38 The Keep (1983) 20:52 Scanners (1981) 22:06 The Monster Squad (1987) 23:26 Leviathan (1989) 25:07 Cutter's Way (1981)
It's not about when the movies were mae it was when the're in theatres. Monster Squad came out after Lost Boys while lost boys was still hot. Leviathan came out as the same time as the Abyss (James Cameron) Peter Weller is not a box office draw despite Robocop.
The Keep is awful. It's only being praised because Critics have started pretending Michael Mann is a great Director - he isn't. Invaders From Mars and Night of the Creeps are both meh. Lifeforce is enjoyable if you're a teenager - Re-animator is enjoyable if you're not! The Blob and The Thing are probably the best 2 of your picks. The Burning gave my friend's 14 year old brother nightmares - he screamed as we watched it. The SFX are excellent.
Maybe because I was a teen in the 80s... I loved some of these movies... And my friends and I rented VHS tapes on the weekend to binge-watch... That we knew would be B-movies... To give us something to laugh at... While eating pizza and subs...
Initially turned off by its grossness, I've come to love Halloween 3, Season of the Witch. Tommy Lee Wallace does a great job, bringing us a very intense child murder at the hands of a popular pumpkin mask, and who doesn't love Tom Atkins man-stash? A perennial favorite!
THESE movies are what are called "cult films" in a very true sense of that term, meaning that they might not have been your box-office mega-"blockbusters" upon their immediate release, but had gradually attained a kind of popular or classic status over the interim of time since. They're reputations sorta SNOWBALLED to use an analogy there.
"The Keep" aged well? I wouldn't put that or "Lifeforce" on the same list as "The Thing". Don;t get me wrong, I keep going back to all those movies, but they're not even in the same league. "Thing" is a masterpiece of editinmg, acting and cinematography, and a time capsule of 1980's electronic music. I love Lifeforce, it's not a bad movie, but its practical effects don't hold up as well. "The Keep" just shows bad editing and storytelling - watching it I can imagine all these scenes that were filmed or planned, but were definitey needed, but just didn't get into the final cut. I keep imagining the crew watching the movie for the first time, and sniping about those missing scenes. "What about that scene where Molasar is shown killing all the Germans that Gabriel Byrne finds in his last scene", and the other guy is going "Molasar? Who the heck is Molasar".
I don't remember if Lifeforce appeared on HBO, Cinemax, The Movie Channel, or Showtime in late 1985 or early 1986, but my teenage self fell in Love with Mathilda May. I watched it every time it came on that month. I think it was after the fifth or sixth time that I watched it that I actually started paying real attention to the story. But today it is among one of my all time favorite movies, even if it's a little cheesy, especially the acting of "Carlson" and Patrick Stewart.
They Live, Night of the Comet, and Cutter's Way are good movies, if you don't take them as high value works of art. "I came here to chew gum and kick a$$ and I am all out of bubble gum." is a line that still crops up from time to time. Describing a gun as "Ok for date night in the barrio." lives rent free in my head, and "What if it were?" was the perfect ending to Cutter's Way.
The Thing doesn't seem like it belongs on this list as it's a sci-fi horror masterpiece right behind Alien. LifeForce was a hot mess but a visually engrossing watch. They Live is an absolute B-movie classic and one of my favorites; the fight scene is one of the best brawls out there - Roddy and Keith beat the absolute piss out of each other. Invaders From Mars and The Blob were both critically touted and vastly better than the originals. Near Dark was garbage; only thing memorable about it was Bill Paxton's over the top performance. Scanners was entertaining but is one of Cronenbergs weaker movies imo. Leviathan was decent, very derivative but a lot better than Deep Star 6 and Deep Rising imo. Halloween 3 was completely off the wall and is basically the red headed step child in the series; it really shouldn't be called a Halloween movie.
Zombie Bub is the hero of "Day of the Dead", and would be justification enough for it, though it has lots of others (That bleak, eerie opening is as good as any in the series - "It's a dead place. Like all the others, you know. Listen. You can hear it over the engine." Cue shudders...)
Halloween 3: Season of the Witch was a good movie!! It just threw everyone off, because it was not about Michael Meyers!! It was a thought to make other movies about Halloween that were totally different stories! The public could not understand that, and rejected it, because they expected another Michael Meyers movie!
Critics never enjoy movies the the masses do! they think they are highly sophisticated in their taste of genres. Look at Siskel & Ebert in their day. They panned STAR WARS for being too sophomoric, but yet it went on to be the biggest money maker of the year, and won many oscars for special effects, score, and more. shows you the critics only have a biased opinion. it's what they like individually not what the masses would like. We just want to be entertained. especially when it comes to Sci-Fi or Horror movies
Goes to show how practical effects almost always top CGI. Near Dark didn't even have that much in the way of special effects. It was great story, great acting, great writing and great directing. Even a soundtrack by Tangerine Dream!
Watched the blob recently. Great movie. Leviathan i believe came out alongside Deepstar Six? Both ocean set monster movies and in 98 Deep Rising rocked up
Alot of these did NOT flop. Many pulled in decent amounts at the box office but were far, far more successful on home video and cable.
Gen Me (Z) read the rough cut from IMDB... not watching. The Thing came out a couple years BEFORE ET... "around the same time" is relative to Reagan being President vs Bush (1) being president...both "around the same time....[same decade]".
@@Goat_Sass Did not, came out the VERY SAME YEAR (82).
1. The Thing - 1982
2. Possession - 1981
3. Lifeforce - 1985
4. They Live - 1988
5. The Burning - 1981
6. Halloween 3: Season of the witch - 1982
7. Reanimator - 1985
8. Night of the Comet - 1984
9. Invaders from Mars - 1986
10. Day of the Dead - 1985
11. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer - 1986
12. Near Dark - 1987
13. The Blob - 1988
14. The Keep - 1983
15. Scanners - 1981
16. The Monster Squad - 1987
17. Leviathan - 1989
18. Cutter’s Way - 1981
Thanks for the summary. I think that The Stuff - 1985 should’ve been on this list.
Thank you
Thank you, that you did what should be done by the channel.
I was a teenage boy in 1985 but I can assure you that I watched "Lifeforce" 168 times for the nuanced performances, the stellar screenplay and the top-notch special effects. It had absolutely nothing to do with the hot woman walking around buck naked. Honest.
Exactly the same reason why I watched the film.
That is an eerily exact number.
Sure you did... ;)
Really, you couldn’t manage the 169th time just for posterity?
Arabella black Angel, NY Ripper and Don't Torture an Ugly Duckling for same reason.
CUTTER'S WAY hardly counts as a horror movie?
How, exactly, is "Cutter's Way" a horror movie?
Day of the Dead was my favorite Zombie Movie
I miss the 80s
The Burning script was written before Friday 13th so was original and is 2 of my favorite films 😊🐾💜👍
The Burning is a real gem
I watched "They Live" and "Leviathan" on video as a kid. loved them both. I am surprised that critters (86) isn't on the list.
Critters 1 and 2 are fantastic - I think 4 has a young DiCaprio?
The Thing, They Live, Monster Squad, Reanimator, Invaders from Mars, Day of the Dead, The Blob, & Leviathan are great classics from my childhood.
@kenneth I JUST saw The Blob free on YT. Loved it! Like most films--people in their late 20's played high school kids! Steve McQueen starring in it made me watch it. That ending should make everyone on planet Earth nervous. The military flew it to an extremely cold area since cold was the only way to defeat it. Well, global warming is making us break records for highest temperatures yrly! Frozen areas will melt. Uh oh! That blob of strawberry Jello will rise again! 😂
@@deborahwilson4684 you might wanna try the remake, since that's the version that's being referred to here.
I have every one of them you mentioned
I have ALL these films in my library.
I remember watching Lifeforce On-Demand a while back. I also have The Thing and They Live on blu-ray and dvd! Gotta have me some cheesy cinematic B-Horror goodness to watch during the Halloween season!
The On-Demand synopsis had a hilarious description written out for it; it was something like (paraphrasing) "Space vampires walk around London killing everyone. One of them is a hot naked French chick with a nice rack."
No Flops Given! The Blob consumed the Box Office and everyone one in it! Most of these movie I have seen and they are gems compared to movies now.
Wolfman's got nards!
Man, I can't believe these weren't initially well received, I couldn't image life without any of these films. Thank the Gods for VHS and VCRs, it brought life back to films that Hollywood already thought were DOA.
That's because the title is clickbait. at least half of these film did quite well on release and very few of them "flopped".
THESE movies are what are called "cult films" in a very true sense of that term, meaning that they might not have been your box-office mega-"blockbusters" upon their immediate release, but had gradually attained a kind of popular or classic status over the interim of time since. They're reputations sorta SNOWBALLED to use an analogy there.
80’s horror is second to none.
I was lucky enough to catch so many bad but extremely fun regional type drive-in movies in theaters, and the Drive-in.
I live in Baltimore and we still have Bengies Drive-in, full size original screen
Seen the original Evil Dead there a few years ago.
"You are the king of Jack and Sh*t, and Jack left town", "Ash, Housewares", "Hail to the king, baby" - those were the days! Only years after school I got why our maths teacher always said "Groooovy" :-)))
"They live" has become soooo real during the last five years, it is spooky.
May I mention "The Exorcism of Jane Doe", the one where a young woman is due to be embalmed, but has other plans - gore galore, and I nearly **** myself.
"The Thing" is a masterpiece, the horror version of "Icestation Zebra", I hate the cold - but then again, "30 Days of Night" may also qualify for this collection -> I am undecided and scared now, great!
Edited to add "Bone Whistle" starring Kurt Russell...
John Carpenter's "The Thing" is the most brutal horror film of all time! Truly an epic!
gory yeah no doubt brutal I am not sure about that on how you are using the term brutal
A Brillant Film!
brilliant
@@insertclevernickname Martyrs was an over the top gore fest but it isn't nowhere near as bad as some of you make it out to be.
I remember seeing Lifeforce in the theater back in 85 and thinking what great little film.
They Live did not "Flop" and that has been discredited for a while...
"They Live was theatrically released in North America on November 4, 1988, and debuted at #1 at the box office, grossing $4.8 million during its opening weekend."
They made the budget back in a week - With a Final Gross of $13m, it wasn't a Blockbuster by any means, but it's not a flop.
Exactly.
'They Live' is accurate for today. Just today it is phones & smart stuff.
Man Monster Squad is a childhood gem of mine
Me, 20 seconds in, " Is that the Monster Squad"? Yeahhh!
YES!!! Still love that movie! Wolfman’s got nards!!!
Partially shot in Santa Monica and The Culver Studios. Live action HeMan was Monster Squad's in-studio "neighbors." You can see the side gate of the real studio as the 'front gate' of the in-film studio where the Three Amigos steal their costumes from.
It's like Goonies for horror fans
Same here buddy. I bet I watched it 20 times as a kid. I still watch it ever few years as an adult. Takes me back to childhood. I was born in 1982
While I love Scanners, Stephen Lack's acting ability is abysmal! I don't think he delivers a single line of dialog in the entire movie that isn't stilted and awkward.
While I agree with you, I think it kind of works for the character. Normally a performance like that would bother the shit out of me but not with this movie.
For any "Life Force" fans I'd like to suggest 1966's "Queen of Blood". It's a great movie from a great era.
This is on tubi. When I searched for it, Roku called it “Planet of Blood”, but Tubi does have it named Queen of Blood.
The gate also was one of those awesome movies which should also be in this list,a couple of those mentiones like cutter & bone or henry though im sure they are awesome doesn't exactly belongs to the horror movies genre we understand.They are mostly thriller type of movies based on something which belongs in the realistic sphere of things,accompanied with drama elements as well! But i can accept that the true horror is also more terrifying many times than the monster we see in a film like that,so i can understand those movie also be on that list!
The thing bro the original is freaky asl
Yeah! I love it! 😎👍
Space Vampires to malevolent shapeshifting extraterrestrials to head exploding ESP, the 80s movies had it all.
"Oh, we cater to all types, sir. You'd be surprised." ---Blockbuster Video
Make America the 80s Again
They live is one of my favorite movies I wish I could stream it somewhere 🤷🏿♂️
From the Blob to Night of the Creeps were fantastic. I want the sequel Apocalypse of the Blob.
Where is "From Beyond" 1986 ?...
I was also hoping to see that one. It's one of my favorites.
I'm surprised "Basket Case" wasn't on the list. Cheesy but fun movie
The funny thing is every movie on this list and probably all 80s low budget movies would make great video games.
“Society” is a good 80s flick for horror with social commentary that has aged well. “Vamp” is fun.
I have come to kickass and chew bubblegum and I'm all out of bubblegum!
I just Loved the KEEP again last week.I own many of these. Screw the Critics ,If they hate it it's probably Great!! Not counting MV!
When you realize what Yondo looked like when he picked up Peter Quill off Earth.
A few great movies I've seen just once, and never seen hide nor hair of since: 'Of Unknown Origin', (1983) with Peter Weller; El Dia De La Bestia' (1995); La Cabina (1972).
PRACTICAL EFFECTS is why the 80s were so great. Before CGI the effects teams had to stup up their game and The Thing is one of the greatest ever. Monster Squad and Little Monsters were 2 of my favorite to this very day. A Monster Squad remake is said to exist but the studio took the insurance money and never released it. So many gems that people still overlook to this day. C.H.U.D is also a good one part 2 CHUD the Bud is so bad it's good.
Ummm there was still CGI in the 80's-example: Tron!
😴'WE SLEEP ~ *_THEY LIVE'_* 🟦💀🟥
(🐲couldn't be more *_True_* these days.....get ready, they'll be pulling out the stops soon enough🐉)
"Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" is truly chilling, all too believable.
I have to say it was written very well
Brutally realistic and based on true events
I COMPLETELY AGREE!!!!
Call me crazy, except I was 12 when these movies came out, so I actually remember it so im not crazy (but please, i hold no ill will in the inevitable slew of "you're crazy" replies lol)...
But I believe LEVIATHAN wasn't looked at as much since it came out in 1989, aka "the deep dark mysterious ocean craze" year...
More specifically, it came out in March 1989--- 2 months after DEEPSTAR SIX, starring Miguel Ferrer, and as it happens, about what, 5 months or so before THE ABYSS*
While DeepStar and Leviathan don't have the same plot PER SAY, it's basically a "crew of scientists find terror at the ocean floor" movie. And when they come out within 2 months of each other, as if u think about most things in life, that which comes 1st is looked at more.
I remember seeing both in the theaters, and liking DeepStar more, though both were pretty MEH.
Not to mention, though u can't get more different than the plot of LEVIATHAN as opposed to the plot of ROBOCOP, I vividly remember some sorta feeling of either grander expectations of seeing Peter Weller and expecting another masterpiece like Robocop was, or the unshakable feeling of simply not being able to see/hear Peter Weller and NOT thinking of Robocop.....I mean shit, despite how awesome Mr Weller always is, I couldn't NOT think of Robocop even wjen je showed up as a senior citizen in that season of DEXTER...I mean shit pt 2: electric Boogaloo, I couldn't help but think of Robocop ever so slightly even when we didn't even SEE him,,but heard him, in his gripping voice acting of older, grizzled Bruce Wayne in the animated version of the all time classic THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS pts1&2 ("You don't get it son. This isn't a mudhole, it's an operating table and I am the surgeon..." 😊)....
So yeah, albeit a minute fact perhaps, and of course I'm in no way saying that LEVIATHAN got a raw deal cuz without DeepStar SIX, we'd have gotten a SAVING PRIVATE RYAN-esque classic, I am certain that didn't help...
* -- even THE ABYSS,,which now, especially in light of the directors cut, was "victim" to that year of 1989, and taking juuuuust enough of a hit because of the aforementioned other ocean deep movies, in that many people either went in expecting another deep sea horror but BETTER cuz it was Cameron, OR chose NOT to see it, because well... they expected "yet another" deep sea horror, of which we already got 2 just a few months earlier.
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George Nada....George?????? are you f'n kidding me, you hack. its John Nada
Interesting movies, so why so many spoilers? What is the point of this video? I want to watch the movies, not get a recap. I'm sorry but your videos are titled like essays. while in reality they spoil most of the movie. With 1,13 million subs maybe hire an amateur writer if you are not up to the task. I'm sorry if it's crude but it's a bit effed up that I, as a viewer, have to SKIP through your vids to avoid getting the whole movie spoiled.
The The blob and The Stuff are still some of the most terrifying monsters I ever saw in the cinema to this day. There is just something about dealing with something that can't be reasoned with or even understood that really put things in the edge.
Yes!! You are so right there! No negotiation is possible at all! It’s like a disease! On a larger scale!
Maybe it's just me but Monster Squad was one of my favorite movies growing up and I watched it all the time as a kid. Since it's an 80's movie, I would describe it as Die Hard with Monsters and Kids. As such I never thought of it as a scary or horror movie. And I will die on my hill that the Dracula in that movie is one of the best screen Draculas ever despite being dressed like a costume store Dracula, he made that outfit seem not campy.
Also, Wolfman's got nards.
This is a great list. Thank you for not ranking them!
A great one for this list , The stuff.
Sam Neill sure seems to find himself in some weird ass movies, doesn't he?
The head explosion scene in Scanners is awesome.
A classic!!
It's like saying Brazzers was poorly recieved.
Near Dark is a decent vampire film, The Lost Boys is a masterpiece of a vampire film. There is no surprise why Near Dark got overshadowed.
Everyone is a gem and i’ve seen them all (except Possession and Cutter’s Way). This was my time and still is!
Even though I thought it was okay as a teen if you rewatch Night of the Comet now it's actually pretty retarded.
Video rentals was the equivalent of movie apps. Good times
"The Keep" was an epic novel. The film, not so much. One day, I'm going to finish the "Adversary Cycle".
TBH I think your script writing needs more work and your delivery. Some lines just make almost no sense. It sounds like it is written by AI. eg "When Hooper's Invaders from Mars was first released, it was unfavourably compared to the original and was considered to be made in poor taste to the classic it was" You do realise that makes no sense?
There's a big difference between remakes and updated versions. ..., one must pay attention to be able to tell the difference... I have that talent
My main problem with Scanners is that Stephen Lack couldn't act his way out of a wet paper bag.
Love The Monster Squad, Leviathan, The Thing, and They Live. I need to see The Keep and The Burning.
Leviathan also came out a few months after Deep Star Six and people weren't interested in a second deep water mining monster flick.
When there was so less of CGI available, these movies are pure genius of ingenuity and improve.
The Blob scared the crap out of me as a kid. Also love The Thing.
The thing was only 80s horror movie I liked on this list
The Keep was amazing movie. I even bought the novel and read it
I own so many of these… some absolute cult classics that deserve more recognition!
Same here, but taking a chance of getting backlash here, as I still can't stand The Burning and Near Dark (which in my opinion was only somewhat redeemed by Cameron's influence in casting and the truck chase).
Is it so hard to just list the films under each video?
Night of the comet,and it lives definitely going on the rewatch. Theres a few on here i didnt hear about and definitely going to have to check out.
There are NO zombies in Life Force.
GREAT LIST! Nice to see these now Classics all together
The chick from Life Force was my movie crush...
Return of the Living Dead
Great List! In case anyone is interested not all of these were box office flops. They Live, Re-Animator, DOTD and Scanners all made about two to three times on the Investment. Henry and H3 both had well over a five time theatrical return. Amazingly, Night of the Comet had over a Twenty!!!! time return, its definitely more of a somewhat forgotten sleeper hit that some how became lost in the shuffle .
Great selection of films covered. Otis was odious, even moreso than Henry. BTW, in Scanners it's rev-ook not ree-vock which sounds like a pair of trainers.
5:27 George Nada? All this time, I thought his name was John Nada.
6:04 What's the point of wearing a long-sleeve shirt on top of another long-sleeve shirt in California?! I mean, how cold does it get there?! Why not wear a short-sleeve button-front on top of a long-sleeve undershirt?
6:13 It got everything right except which party was the worse culprit.
6:25 Absolutely incompetent weapon-handling right there.
6:28 The extra-lame version of '80s hip-fire.
6:29 The left always squeals about greed, but they give lust a pass. The right always squeals about lust, but they give greed a pass. In the words of a notorious leftist: "None of the above. Cut the cord!"
8:44 Children's holiday?! Are you kidding?! Do some research on the historically authentic Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced "SAH-when" or "SOW-when"). The goals of the maniacal Celt-Gaelic villain are entirely in keeping with that deranged belief system.
9:18 (otherworldly)
9:41 Arnie's stuntman/body double.
10:13 Another helping of incompetent weapon-handling.
11:09 Homage to 'The Omega Man'.
13:55 Dr. Logan claims that they don't have enough ammunition, but that's a little hard to believe. They wouldn't even have to use military-issue guns or ammo. They could use high-capacity .22s! Anyone can easily carry over 1,000 rounds .22 LR in their pockets since .22 LR often comes in 550-round "bricks." And if you want to get more large-scale, they could have maybe attempted to use vehicles to carve swathes through zombie hordes, but that concept might not have been in the budget. Romero explored that idea later with the Dead Reckoning, a vehicle that totally reminds me of Damnation Alley.
15:18 "Cold blood" would imply the absence of motive. If it was for revenge, that would be a motive that might fall within the purview of "hot blood."
17:36 Hey, kids! It's Tim Thomerson! [Applause]
21:21 'Scanners' is pretty much the first X-Men movie.
23:51 Again with the two long-sleeve shirts?! I've never seen anyone actually dress that way IRL?! Only in movies! And right next to him [ 23:54 ], you've got Daniel Stern's "Six Pack" wearing a t-shirt. I just don't understand why they do this in movies so often. An overdressed character is standing next to an underdressed character. Or one of them is dressed appropriate to the weather/environs while the other isn't.
24:31 Why did people in the '80s have such a problem with sleeves?
24:52 "Crisp?" More like "chewy." 🙃
26:50 Of these, I'll go with Leviathan. As for suggestions: Street Trash, Bad Channels, and Freaked.
Half of this list are certainly not "cult classics" only outdated & boring or just plain tacky, when you forgot to add the fun, gory &/or outlandish Peter Jackson's "Bad taste", Brian Yuzna's "Society", "Street trash" or the brilliant & still very much terrifying John Carpenter's "Prince of darkness" definitely are to this day. I was a teen in the 80s & we swallowed a bunch of stupid B movies, but we knew when credit was due & "The burning", "Night of the comet", "near dark" or "Halloween 3" certainly aren't classics by any means.
0:53 The Thing (1982)
2:36 Possession (1981)
3:47 Lifeforce (1985)
5:10 They Live (1988)
6:35 The Burning (1981) *
7:36 Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
8:53 Reanimator (1985)
10:23 Night of the Comet (1984)
11:49 Invaders from Mars (1986)
13:24 Day of the Dead (1985)
14:50 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
16:19 Near Dark (1987)
17:51 The Blob (1988)
19:38 The Keep (1983)
20:52 Scanners (1981)
22:06 The Monster Squad (1987)
23:26 Leviathan (1989)
25:07 Cutter's Way (1981)
It's not about when the movies were mae it was when the're in theatres. Monster Squad came out after Lost Boys while lost boys was still hot. Leviathan came out as the same time as the Abyss (James Cameron) Peter Weller is not a box office draw despite Robocop.
The Burning has a great performance from Jason Alexander. I was about to turn it off untill George saved the day.
How the fuck is Cutter's Way a horror movie?? You can't even bring yourself to call it horror in the clip, but rather a thriller which is what it is.
The Keep is awful. It's only being praised because Critics have started pretending Michael Mann is a great Director - he isn't.
Invaders From Mars and Night of the Creeps are both meh.
Lifeforce is enjoyable if you're a teenager - Re-animator is enjoyable if you're not!
The Blob and The Thing are probably the best 2 of your picks.
The Burning gave my friend's 14 year old brother nightmares - he screamed as we watched it. The SFX are excellent.
The Thing is one of the best if not THE best sci-fi horrors of all times, it's a masterpiece of paranoia, isolation and tension!
Maybe because I was a teen in the 80s... I loved some of these movies... And my friends and I rented VHS tapes on the weekend to binge-watch... That we knew would be B-movies... To give us something to laugh at... While eating pizza and subs...
Initially turned off by its grossness, I've come to love Halloween 3, Season of the Witch.
Tommy Lee Wallace does a great job, bringing us a very intense child murder at the hands of a popular pumpkin mask, and who doesn't love Tom Atkins man-stash?
A perennial favorite!
THESE movies are what are called "cult films" in a very true sense of that term, meaning that they might not have been your box-office mega-"blockbusters" upon their immediate release, but had gradually attained a kind of popular or classic status over the interim of time since. They're reputations sorta SNOWBALLED to use an analogy there.
"The Keep" aged well? I wouldn't put that or "Lifeforce" on the same list as "The Thing". Don;t get me wrong, I keep going back to all those movies, but they're not even in the same league. "Thing" is a masterpiece of editinmg, acting and cinematography, and a time capsule of 1980's electronic music. I love Lifeforce, it's not a bad movie, but its practical effects don't hold up as well. "The Keep" just shows bad editing and storytelling - watching it I can imagine all these scenes that were filmed or planned, but were definitey needed, but just didn't get into the final cut. I keep imagining the crew watching the movie for the first time, and sniping about those missing scenes. "What about that scene where Molasar is shown killing all the Germans that Gabriel Byrne finds in his last scene", and the other guy is going "Molasar? Who the heck is Molasar".
I don't remember if Lifeforce appeared on HBO, Cinemax, The Movie Channel, or Showtime in late 1985 or early 1986, but my teenage self fell in Love with Mathilda May. I watched it every time it came on that month. I think it was after the fifth or sixth time that I watched it that I actually started paying real attention to the story. But today it is among one of my all time favorite movies, even if it's a little cheesy, especially the acting of "Carlson" and Patrick Stewart.
They Live, Night of the Comet, and Cutter's Way are good movies, if you don't take them as high value works of art. "I came here to chew gum and kick a$$ and I am all out of bubble gum." is a line that still crops up from time to time. Describing a gun as "Ok for date night in the barrio." lives rent free in my head, and "What if it were?" was the perfect ending to Cutter's Way.
The Thing doesn't seem like it belongs on this list as it's a sci-fi horror masterpiece right behind Alien. LifeForce was a hot mess but a visually engrossing watch. They Live is an absolute B-movie classic and one of my favorites; the fight scene is one of the best brawls out there - Roddy and Keith beat the absolute piss out of each other. Invaders From Mars and The Blob were both critically touted and vastly better than the originals. Near Dark was garbage; only thing memorable about it was Bill Paxton's over the top performance. Scanners was entertaining but is one of Cronenbergs weaker movies imo. Leviathan was decent, very derivative but a lot better than Deep Star 6 and Deep Rising imo. Halloween 3 was completely off the wall and is basically the red headed step child in the series; it really shouldn't be called a Halloween movie.
Zombie Bub is the hero of "Day of the Dead", and would be justification enough for it, though it has lots of others (That bleak, eerie opening is as good as any in the series - "It's a dead place. Like all the others, you know. Listen. You can hear it over the engine." Cue shudders...)
Halloween 3: Season of the Witch was a good movie!! It just threw everyone off, because it was not about Michael Meyers!! It was a thought to make other movies about Halloween that were totally different stories! The public could not understand that, and rejected it, because they expected another Michael Meyers movie!
Critics never enjoy movies the the masses do! they think they are highly sophisticated in their taste of genres. Look at Siskel & Ebert in their day. They panned STAR WARS for being too sophomoric, but yet it went on to be the biggest money maker of the year, and won many oscars for special effects, score, and more. shows you the critics only have a biased opinion. it's what they like individually not what the masses would like. We just want to be entertained. especially when it comes to Sci-Fi or Horror movies
Goes to show how practical effects almost always top CGI. Near Dark didn't even have that much in the way of special effects. It was great story, great acting, great writing and great directing. Even a soundtrack by Tangerine Dream!
Most of them weren't flops. Other than that, I've got 10 of them on DVD/Blu-ray.
Cutter's Way and Leviathan are the only ones I don't remember seeing.
Hmm...so if these were considered "bad" or "weak" let's compare them to the forgettable (said) "Horror" tripe pushed out within the past 10 years?!
These descriptions sound like they were written by an AI. Inaccurate and ridiculous.
Some suggestions would be. Cemetery man, Brain Damaged, the Brain, Equilnox.
I LOVED Night of the Comet and Near Dark has a better cast and is a better movie than The Lost Boys in absolutely every way, IMHO. 💯
Watched the blob recently. Great movie. Leviathan i believe came out alongside Deepstar Six? Both ocean set monster movies and in 98 Deep Rising rocked up
Save Army Of Frankensteins Meet Abraham Lincoln for another video.
Lifeforce and The Burning are hidden gems? I don't think the writer actually watched these movies but instead scraped them from other lists...
One of the main reasons why The Burning bcame popular was because Jason Alexander (George from Seinfeld) stared in it.
Marvelous movies 💎💎💎