Tag Archives: 80’s

Don’t Go in the Woods (1981)

Don’t Go in the Woods (1981) had the benefit of arriving at the height of the slasher movie boom, reaching theaters after Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th (1980) and in the same year as The Burning (1981). A nonstop stream … Continue reading

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Blue Velvet (1986)

  In some alternate reality, Blue Velvet (1986) must have been David Lynch’s sophomore feature film, following Eraserhead (1977). That seems most logical in retrospect, given the Lynch we know now. But in the nine years separating the films, Lynch … Continue reading

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Dune (1984)

It’s the 50th anniversary of Frank Herbert’s Dune, the science fiction novel which broadened the scope and ambition of the space opera. Herbert’s novel nudged the genre into new degrees of sophistication with its dense plotting, elaborate backstory, wide cast … Continue reading

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