Movies of the 80s
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We love the 1980s. Everything on this page is all about movies of the 1980s. Starting in 1980 and working our way the decade, we are preserving the stories and movies of the greatest decade, the 80s. https://www.youtube.com/@Moviesofthe80s
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Did Paramount Bury 'Nate and Hayes' to Protect 'Indiana Jones?'
The 1983 Adventure Paramount Didn’t Want You to See In November 1983, Paramount Pictures released an old-fashioned pirate adventure called Nate and Hayes (also known as Savage Islands) on 1,200 screens.
By Movies of the 80s3 months ago in Geeks
How Amityville 3-D Tried to Save 3D—and Ended Up Killing It Instead
How Amityville 3-D Tried to Save 3D—and Ended Up Killing It Instead. A Movies of the 80s Feature There are movies that define an era, movies that reinvent genres, and movies that push technology forward. And then there’s Amityville 3-D — a film that somehow managed to do none of those things, while still becoming a perfect time capsule of Hollywood’s endless optimism about “the next great cinematic format.”
By Movies of the 80s3 months ago in Geeks
Remembering A Christmas Story (1983): Where the Cast Went and the Wild Career Behind the Camera
Remembering A Christmas Story (1983): The Cast, the Director, and the Lasting Magic of a Holiday Classic There are Christmas movies, and then there are Christmas institutions. A Christmas Story (1983) didn’t just become a sleeper hit; it slid quietly into the cultural bloodstream, emerging decades later as a 24-hour-marathon, leg-lamp–selling, endlessly quotable tradition. But behind the nostalgia and BB-gun fantasies are a handful of working actors, a future behind-the-camera pro, and a director whose career ranged from legendary horror to raucous teen sex comedies to one of the most gentle and wholesome films ever made.
By Movies of the 80s3 months ago in Geeks
“Barbra Against the World: The Making of Yentl (1983)”
When Barbra Streisand finally stepped behind a camera in 1983, the world acted as if she was attempting something outrageous. Direct. Produce. Co-write. Star. Sing. And adapt a beloved Isaac Bashevis Singer story while playing a teenage boy? In period costume? In a musical? In Europe? The opinion pages sharpened their knives before she even yelled “action.”
By Movies of the 80s3 months ago in Geeks
Where Did Angela Go? The Strange, Happy Haunt of Felissa Rose of 'Sleepaway Camp' (1983)
If you’re from the generation that remembers calling someone a “total Angela” and meaning it as the creepiest insult possible, thank Felissa Rose. When Robert Hiltzik’s low-budget summer-camp shocker Sleepaway Camp debuted in 1983, it didn’t just deliver a twist ending — it gave the movies one of their most disquieting young performers. Rose was a child actor, spoken about in interviews as being just twelve or thirteen at the time of shooting, and that adolescent stillness in the role — equal parts fragile and uncanny — is the movie’s long, cold aftertaste.
By Movies of the 80s3 months ago in Horror
The Rise and Fall of 'Deal of the Century' (1983): A Timeline of Hollywood Chaos
How Deal of the Century Became One of the 1980s’ Most Forgettable Hollywood Fiascos A fiasco is a funny thing. It takes many shapes. Failure has a million fathers, and that could not be more true of the 1983 feature-film flop Deal of the Century. Director William Friedkin, coming off The Exorcist and Sorcerer, was desperate to break out of the mold he’d built for himself. He envisioned a darkly comic takedown of the military-industrial complex — a thumb in the eye of the money-grubbing war-profiteers who thrived on perpetual conflict.
By Movies of the 80s3 months ago in Geeks
The Lost Fourth Segment of a National Lampoon Film: Henry Jaglom’s Vanishing Act
A Title Hollywood Never Wanted Naming a movie The Bomb has always sounded like inviting disaster. In the film industry, the word “bomb” is shorthand for failure — the kind that wipes out profits and careers. The metaphor has existed almost as long as Hollywood itself, so it’s no surprise studios avoid it like a curse.
By Movies of the 80s3 months ago in Geeks
Cattle Annie and Little Britches: The Forgotten Outlaw Girls Who Became Western Myth
America loves mythology. We especially love creating our own—mythic heroes carved from nostalgia, grit, and the wide-open promise of the frontier. For decades, Hollywood’s simplest path to building larger-than-life heroes was to retell the legends of the Old West. Outlaws became icons; criminals became folk heroes; ordinary lives were inflated into something symbolic, something aspirational, something distinctly American.
By Movies of the 80s3 months ago in Geeks
The Rise and Fall of Lion of the Desert: How an Epic Became a Box Office Tragedy
An Unlikely Hollywood Dreamer In 1981, reporter Bob Thomas of the Associated Press wrote of filmmaker Moustapha Akkad, calling him “an improbable success story.” Akkad spent the first half of his life in Syria before falling in love with Hollywood movies. He went to UCLA, studied filmmaking, and used his Middle Eastern connections to make his feature debut, The Message, about the origins of Islam. The movie never played in the U.S. after a disastrous screening in Washington D.C.
By Movies of the 80s3 months ago in Geeks
The Echo of Tears in Rain: How Blade Runner Still Shapes the Future of Sci-Fi
Blade Runner didn’t just redefine sci-fi aesthetics—it rewrote the philosophical rules of the genre. This Movies of the 80s deep-dive explores how its questions about humanity, AI, and identity continue to shape modern science fiction from Ex Machina to Cyberpunk 2077.
By Movies of the 80s3 months ago in Futurism
Ringo Starr’s Cinematic Side Quest: Caveman (1981) and the Mystery of a Mascot That Probably Wasn’t Him
Ringo Meets the Movies Ringo Starr has always been the Beatle most comfortable drifting into unexpected corners of pop culture. He’s funny, warm, unpretentious, and game for just about anything. So when he took the lead role in Caveman in 1981—a broad, slapstick prehistoric comedy from Jaws co-writer Carl Gottlieb—it felt like Ringo stepping naturally into the movies he seemed destined to make: strange, good-natured, and a little bit shaggy around the edges.
By Movies of the 80s3 months ago in Beat
The Dead Zone: Book vs. Movie — What Stephen King’s Story Gains and Loses on Screen
Some stories feel like they belong to the era that produced them. Stephen King’s The Dead Zone is one of those stories. It came out in 1979, full of post-Watergate disillusionment and a creeping anxiety about how easily a political strongman could rise in America. Four years later, David Cronenberg adapted it into a film starring Christopher Walken, and suddenly King’s sprawling novel became something leaner, icier, and more tragic.
By Movies of the 80s3 months ago in Geeks
