1980s – Page 27

Paradise (1982)

Published on April 28, 2017June 14, 2026 by Geoff ArbuckleLeave a comment

Let’s jump back, for a moment, to 1980. At the time, a young actress by the name of Brooke Shields was considered both a very pretty girl, and an up and coming actress. In 1978, Shields starred in a movie called Pretty Baby which covered the taboo topic of child prostitution in the early 20th century. She was 12 at the time of shooting, and she appeared nude in the film. If you were 10 to maybe 15 years old at the time, you might have thought that was the tits, but if you were older, you’d probably be some sort of sex weirdo if you found any pleasure in that.

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Date with an Angel (1987)

Published on April 21, 2017June 14, 2026 by Geoff ArbuckleLeave a comment

I think I’m going to wish I had picked a different movie to include in Phoebe Cates Month. I mean, Shag is a charming little movie (despite how awkwardly I was turned on by dance numbers including the Confederate flag). Baby Sister was actually much better than I expected a disposable movie of the week to be. Next week’s movie, Paradise, has a whole lot going for it despite it being a pretty bad knockoff of an already bad movie.

But, no, I had to include 1987’s Date with an Angel.

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Baby Sister (1983)

Published on April 15, 2017June 14, 2026 by Geoff ArbuckleLeave a comment

Phoebe Cates Month rolls on with our next movie, the 1983 possibly-sultry-but-maybe-not-tv-movie Baby Sister!

After Cates dove into all our fantasies in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (her second film role, and if you can just hold your damn horses for a couple more weeks, we will certainly be discussing the first film role), she was able to continue to work relatively steadily for the next few years. Later in 1983, she would get another big-time part in the coming of age comedy Private School before returning to TV to deliver this cherry line in the miniseries Lace where she played a sex symbol actress searching for her natural mother.

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Shag: The Movie (1989)

Published on April 7, 2017June 14, 2026 by Geoff ArbuckleLeave a comment

It’s a new month and a new opportunity to have a new theme.

Back in December, I covered Alyssa Milano in a way that only a real creep, or possibly that undertaker character Tom Petty played in the “Last Dance with Mary Jane” video, could. That was a way to look at the body of work of a 90s dream girl who blossomed into a girl who really liked making movies teenage boys liked to watch. For April, I decided to step back to the 1980s and talk about another brunette vixen that boys love to this day – Phoebe Cates.

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Trancers (1984)

Published on February 24, 2017June 14, 2026 by Geoff ArbuckleLeave a comment

Mercifully, Full Moon Fever February is coming to an end.

All month, I had to deal with Charles Band. I thought we started nicely with Puppet Master. Then things went downhill with The Gingerdead Man and Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt. So I spent my birth month begging for sweet release from this cursed existence. Thank fuck it’s here…

In the form of Tim Thomerson…

As Jack Deth.

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Puppet Master (1989)

Published on February 3, 2017June 14, 2026 by Geoff ArbuckleLeave a comment

It’s February, and that can mean only one thing… It’s Full Moon Fever, bitches!

That’s right, for the month of February, B-Movie Enema is getting the Full Moon treatment – which is probably going to be about the same as being perpetually mooned by some fat asshole. But why would that be? What’s with “Full Moon Fever”, anyway? Am I going to be spending a month talking about the marvelous pieces of filmed art that were the videos shot for Tom Petty’s first solo album, Full Moon Fever?

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Deadly Friend (1986)

Published on January 27, 2017June 14, 2026 by Geoff ArbuckleLeave a comment

Just because it seems as though I haven’t had enough of the whole “likable female lead gets killed” theme so far for 2017…

Oh shit, spoilers: Kristy Swanson plays a completely, totally likable character and gets straight murdered in this movie.

Anyway, like I was saying, this week, we jump right into one of the strangest movies I’ve seen in a while. Okay, that’s a massive fucking lie. Mystics in Bali was one of the most bonkers things I may have ever seen ever. Again, let me get back on track here – this week’s feature, Deadly Friend, is strange not because of how the movie itself plays out or how completely, totally 80s it is, but in how it is a terribly awkward follow-up for Wes Craven after his A Nightmare on Elm Street revitalized the horror genre in the middle of the decade.

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Black Roses (1988)

Published on January 20, 2017June 14, 2026 by Geoff ArbuckleLeave a comment

Alright, guys… I need to redeem 2017 in a hurry. Let’s see if enlisting the power of 1980s hair metal rock and roll can get us back on track.

No, really, I mean it. I kinda feel after a particularly strong showing during Alyssa Milano month in December, I have done nothing but stumble out of the gate here in January. So, Black Roses, it’s up to you to save my blog.

1980s horror had a few things going for it. First, it had slashers. Second, it could always fall back on the old, tried and true supernatural. Third, there was an onslaught of new rock and roll bands that stood in direct opposition to the resurgence of Evangelical Christianity of the time. Finally, there was the VHS boom that meant more and more movies could be made cheaply to cash in on those kids who just wanted something easy to watch.

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