80s, Drama, Movies, music, Western

Border Radio (1987)

L.A. musician Jeff is hounded by some thugs and flees to Mexico, leaving his family behind and his wife alone to try to figure out just what the hell made him run off. Border Radio can’t seem to figure out what it wants to be. It’s sprinkled with little bits of noir, western, crime, mystery […]

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80s, Action, Drama, Mook, Revenge

Black Rain (1989) — Movie Reviews by a Mook

Let’s be honest. If you looked that good sitting on a motorcycle while wearing shades with a bunch of Japanese signs behind you, you’d probably pose like this too. Michael Douglas knows. Shoot, he’s probably somewhere doing this right now. Damn right, he is. Nick Conklin is a New York City cop on the edge. […]

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80s, Dead Things, Demons, Horror, Movies, Zombies

Dead Pit (1989)

The brilliant Dr. Colin Ramzi has turned fiendish, deciding that it makes more sense to use the patients at the mental hospital where he works as test subjects, rather than bothering to try and heal them. His colleague Dr. Swan disagrees, and the resulting showdown in the basement leaves Ramzi dead amongst his pile of […]

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80s, Horror, Horror?, Movies, Slasher

The Last Slumber Party (1988)

Yes, I know, it’s in Spanish. No me importa. A trio of teenage girls decide to have a slumber party at one of the girls homes. A couple of guys decide to party crash, including a recently escaped mental patient armed with a scalpel. The Last Slumber Party feels less like a movie and more […]

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80s, Dead Things, Horror, Monsters, Movies, Mystery

The Strangeness (1985)

A small group consisting of scientists, explorers and journalists enter an old, previously closed off mineshaft to see if it’s suitable to resume mining. The mine had been closed off and sealed decades before, due to a series of suspicious deaths and very strange stories coming from the surviving minors. But a recent earthquake has […]

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80s, Action, Dead Things, Drama, Horror?, Martial Arts, Movies

Silent Rage (1982)

BS. The only thing you destroyed was a bar. Somewhere down in Texas, a mentally ill man, John Kirby, brutally kills two people. A scuffle breaks out between him and the police and Kirby is shot. Kirby is on the verge of death, with nothing any known medical science can do to save him. But […]

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80s, Action, Dead Things, Horror, Movies, Mystery

Beaks (1987)

AKA: Beaks: The Movie AKA: Beaks: The Birds 2 AKA: Birds of Prey AKA: Evil Birds AKA: Falco Terror Television reporter, Vanessa, and her cameraman boyfriend, Peter, are sent out to cover what they believe to be a cheesy story about a farmer who was one day inexplicably attacked by his chickens. But to their […]

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80s, Aliens, Horror, Movies, Sci-Fi

Inseminoid (1981)

AKA: Horror Planet A group of scientists are on a distant planet doing an archaeological expedition involving the study of a long extinct species. Everything seems perfectly under control, but as with all movies like this, inevitably SOMETHING GOES HORRIBLY WRONG when an explosion of unknown origin kills one of the crew and injures excavator […]

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80s, Action, Mook, Revenge

Massacre in Dinosaur Valley (1985) – Reviews by a Mook

If you’re hoping to actually see dinosaurs in this movie, then I have to apologize now. Dinosaur tracks? Yes. Dinosaur bones? Sure. But actual dinosaurs? God no. A paleontologist, his attractive daughter, and an American adventure seeker/archaeologist/two-fisted tough guy decide to make an illegal flight to the dinosaur valley, a protected area of the Amazon […]

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