The Octagon (1980)

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Directed by Eric Karson

Starring Chuck Norris, Lee Van Cleef, Art Hindle, Tadashi Yamashita and Karen Carlson

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Up the Academy (1980)

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Soundtrack: Blow Up - Kickin Up A Fuss


Soundtrack: Nick Lowe - Heart Of The City


Directed by Robert Downey Sr.

Starring Wendell Brown, Barbara Bach, Ralph Macchio and Antonio Fargas

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Beyond Evil (1980)

Directed by Herb Freed

Starring John Saxon, Lynda Day George and Michael Dante

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Without Warning (1980)

Directed by Greydon Clark

Starring Jack Palance, Cameron Mitchell, Martin Landau and David Caruso!

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The Day Of The Cobra (1980)

Directed by Enzo G. Castellari.

Starring Franco Nero and Sybil Danning.

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Hawk the Slayer (1980)

Directed by Terry Marcel.

Starring Jack Palance and John Terry.

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Whoa. Total mind blow.

Palance takes his bad ass Western villain character into the Star Wars inspired Sword and Sorcery early 80's where glowing swords and Tron-like special effects meant box office gold.

Except this British helmed film was only shown in America on television and has managed to become a cult favourite thanks to it's light-hearted take on the genre and some decent F/X and set design despite a typically low budget.

Palance is great fun to watch in everything he did, whether it was Hollywood drek, Italian crime or westerns, or odd one-offs like this one.

Don't Answer the Phone! (1980)

Directed by Robert Hammer.

Starring Nicholas Worth.

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Generally, I'm not a fan of these kinds of films - what you can categorize as the serial rapist/killer plotline. A lot of them are done without humour and can be downright nasty, making the experience both dull and demoralizing.

The first time I saw "Last House On The Left", I felt like taking a shower and watching Bambi or something.

I came into "Don't Answer The Phone" with a certain hesitation but by the end, I was half-won over.

It still is a nasty little film (and a highly inept one) but the performance of Nicholas Worth is so over the top and demented that I was awake throughout and laughing my ass off more than once. The scene where Worth, as the psychotic killer, phones the psychiatric call-in show pretending to be a Hispanic named Ramon has to be seen to be believed.

The film is not especially noteworthy for any real reason but you can waste a couple of hours with this one and get a feel for what it would have been like to see this on 42nd Street back in the day.

Released by drive-in specialists Crown International Pictures, this film knows exactly what it is - a pure "Grindhouse" project - and the reels are just dripping with that kind of atmosphere. You couldn't replicate the feel of this type of film nowadays no matter what kind of skilled revisionist was behind the camera. It's a singular product of its time, a relic of a bygone era.

Not surprisingly, this was the only film that Robert Hammer ever directed. Nicholas Worth went on to have a long and succesful career playing random TV roles and bit parts in films.

Of note, Worth was in 1982's "Swamp Thing" with Adrienne Barbeau (The Fog, Escape From New York, Creepshow) and the legendary sleaze staple David Hess (Last House On The Left, Hitch-Hike). Worth also had a decent role in Sam Raimi's "Darkman" later on that decade. He passed away in 2007.

Humanoids from the Deep (1980)

Directed by Barbara Peters.

Starring Vic Morrow.

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Another bizzare entry from the extensive Roger Corman-produced catalogue that revolves around pollution created fish-men rising from the water to mate with human women!

Barbara Peters, who directed another Cult Trailers favourite "Bury Me An Angel", was fired from this movie by Corman after she refused to shoot additional footage of the monsters attacking some young women in an effort to get more nudity in the film.

Vic Morrow would go on to star in two movies by one of my personal favourite directors, Enzo G. Castellari, in "The Last Shark" and "1990: Bronx Warriors" over the next two years before being killed in an accident on the set of the "Twilight Zone" film during a segment being directed by John Landis.

Dr. Butcher M.D. (Medical Deviate) (1980) aka Zombie Holocaust

Directed by Marino Girolami.

Starring Ian McCulloch and Alexandra Delli Colli.

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Shogun Assassin (1980)

Directed by Kenji Misumi (Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword Of Vengeance, >Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at The Rivery Styx).

Assembled by Robert Houston.

Starring Tomisaburo Wakayama.

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New Year's Evil (1980)

Directed by Emmett Alston.

Starring Roz Kelley and Kip Niven.

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Hot T-Shirts (1980)

Directed by Chuck Vincent.

Starring Crystal Burrell and Licia Colombo.

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The Changeling (1980)

Directed by Peter Medak.

Starring George C. Scott.

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The Fog (1980)

Soundtrack: Main Theme by John Carpenter



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Directed by John Carpenter

Starring Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman and Tom Atkins

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Hell Of The Living Dead (1980) aka Virus

Directed by Bruno Mattei.

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Squeeze Play (1980)

Directed by Lloyd Kaufman.

Starring Jim Harris and Jennifer Hetrick

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Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami. Produced by Roger Corman. Starring Robert Vaughan, John Saxon and Sybil Danning.

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Nightmare City Soundtrack (1980) Music by Stelvio Cipriani

L'attesa


Metropolis


Incubo



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Contamination (1980) Soundtrack - Music By Goblin

Connexion


The Carver


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The Fog Soundtrack (1980) Music by John Carpenter

The Fog


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