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"Whatever you do, don't fall asleep." - Nancy The dream - or nightmare - is a staple of the modern horror movie. After all, even as manipulative as the device is, it's still a proven way to jolt an audience. Filmmaker Wes Craven understood th...
U.S. Release Date: 1984-11-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, ...
John Milius' 1984 action/adventure film, Red Dawn, has long faded from the memories of all but a small group of intense devotees. It is perhaps best remembered, to the extent that it's remembered at all, as the answer to a number of trivia question...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-11-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Dan Bradley
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Brett Cullen, Alyssa Diaz, ...
Over the years since its March 1984 release, Alex Cox’s debut feature, Repo Man, has developed a reputation as a “cult classic.” Unlike many other films to claim that badge, this one deserves it. Largely dismissed by mainstream audiences dur...
U.S. Release Date: 1984-03-02
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Comedy/Science Fiction
Director: Alex Cox
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Tracey Walter, ...
With a film like Sixteen Candles, I find myself wishing I could create my own cut. Some of the material works marvelously well, but the stuff that doesn't takes the movie down with it. For teen films in the '80s, this was a watershed picture - an...
U.S. Release Date: 1984-05-04
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Occasional Profanity, Sexual Situations, Brief Female Toplessness, Brief Female Side Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: John Hughes
Cast: Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, Anthony Michael Hall, ...
With a title like The Search for Spock, did anyone really expect that they wouldn't find the erstwhile first officer? So, with the resolution never in doubt (especially considering that Leonard Nimoy was directing), the real question to ask is...
U.S. Release Date: 1984-06-01
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Cast: William Shatner, Dame Judith Anderson, John Laroquette, ...
Upon its release in 1984, Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense was hailed by many critics as the "greatest concert film of all time." The picture, which captured a live concert performance given by the Talking Heads, used state-of-the-art direct-to-...
U.S. Release Date: 1984-10-09
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: MUSICAL
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, ...
Upon its release in 1984, Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense was hailed by many critics as the "greatest concert film of all time." The movie, which captured a live concert performance given by the Talking Heads, used state-of-the-art direct-t...
U.S. Release Date: 2023-09-22
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: Musical
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Jerry Harrison, ...
Supergirl holds the distinction of being the worst movie made during the Salkind Era of Superman (which began with 1978’s Superman and ended with 1987’s Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, although by then the Salkinds had sold the rights to Gol...
U.S. Release Date: 1984-11-21
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Cast: Faye Dunaway, Peter O’Toole, Brenda Vacarro, ...
The Terminator, the film that catapulted Arnold Schwarzengger into Hollywood's stratosphere, was never designed for more than a niche audience. Indeed, while the film made a nice profit for Orion Pictures (returning grosses about six times its cos...
U.S. Release Date: 1984-10-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/ACTION
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, ...
Terror in the Aisles is a clip-fest. With excerpts from nearly 80 horror movies that run the gamut from classics to long-forgotten duds, the film provides glimpses of cinematic scares and gore covering the period between the 1930s and the early 19...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-02-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Nudity)
Genre: Documentary/Horror
Director: Andrew J. Keuhn
Cast: Nancy Allen, Donald Pleasence