Rolling Thunder (1977)

A hard Rane's gonna fall.. boom-tish!

William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Luke Askew, Dabney Coleman and Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane. What more do you want?

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Bad Dreams (1988)

A Nancy Reagan "Just Say No" Electric Kool-Aid Acid Death Trip.

A bunch of hippies kill themselves and Richard (has he ever played a goody?) Lynch haunts the dreams of the Gelfling survivor who, post-13-year-coma, is rather inexplicably locked up in a mental ward with various corpses-to-be. The lunatics have indeed taken over the asylum!

Pretty average but +1 for having The Electric Prunes on the soundtrack and one of the most incompetent policemen ever to appear outside of Italian cinema.

"If you want to fit into the 80s, you're two divorces, a condo and a yeast infection behind the times."

Nope-Tober: Random Shit for an Ill-disciplined Mind

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Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

Carpenter's western is a stone-cold classic and that ice cream scene with a wee Kim "Tuff Turf" Richards still makes my blood run cold. Not shy of writing strong parts for women, secretary Leigh (Laurie Zimmer) is probably the toughest female character Carpenter/Hill ever created.

This is the film that Quentin Tarantino has been trying to make for the last 25 years.

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Visiting Hours (1982)

It's... always... a-pleasure-to... SEE... William... Shatner... in-a-non... STAR-Trek... production.

An above average, polished and progressive slasher/thriller starring Michael Ironside as a quietly scary killer with Mummy issues. Lee Grant as the stalked reporter can sometimes come over as a little shrill and Ellen "The Exorcist" Burstyn-like but she carries the moral heart of the film well. Linda Purl provides strong support as a nurse and mother.

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The Howling (1981)

Stuff your CGI werewolves, these are proper lycanthropes.

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The Fog (1980)

I could listen to Stevie Wayne play those smooth sounds all night long.

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