1980s
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Waxwork (1988) TMDB Douban IMDb
Waxwork
director: Anthony Hickox actor: Zach Galligan / Jennifer Bassey …
other title: Reise zurück in der Zeit / 蜡像 …
Wealthy slacker college student Mark, his new girlfriend Sarah, and their friends are invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museum which displays 18 of the most evil men of all time. After his ex-girlfriend and another friend disappear, Mark becomes suspicious.
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The Fruit Machine (1988) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Fruit Machine
director: Philip Saville actor: Emile Charles / Tony Forsyth …
other title: Wonderland / The Fruit Machine – Rendezvous mit einem Killer
Eddie and Michael are two 16-year-old gay friends from Liverpool. Berated by his father for his camp behavior, Eddie runs away from his Liverpool home and joins Michael, a streetwise hustler, who is also on the run.
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Sexmission (1984) IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData NeoDB
Seksmisja
director: Juliusz Machulski actor: Olgierd Łukaszewicz / Jerzy Stuhr …
other title: Sex Mission: Misión en el futuro / Seksmisja …
Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, World War III breaks out and life has been wiped off the surface of Earth. When they wake up, it turns out that not only 50 years have passed but also that they are the only living specimens of the male sex in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.
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Silver Bullet (1985) IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB
Silver Bullet
director: Daniel Attias actor: Gary Busey / Everett McGill …
other title: 银色子弹 / 狼魔 …
The small city of Tarker's Mills is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears the work of a maniac, but sightings of a mysterious, hairy creature soon spread. People lock themselves up at night, but there's one boy who's still outside…
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The Keep (1983) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Keep
director: Michael Mann actor: Scott Glenn / Alberta Watson …
other title: La fortezza / Die unheimliche Macht …
Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks in an ancient stone fortress. Two of the soldiers unwittingly release a mysterious entity that kills or corrupts those within its influence, drawing the attention of a Gestapo commander, a Jewish scholar and a mysterious traveller.
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Breaking Glass (1980) TMDB IMDb
Breaking Glass
director: Brian Gibson actor: Hazel O'Connor / Phil Daniels …
other title: La rockera
Breaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out in the rock pubs of London, Kate, assisted by her manager Danny, becomes a huge star overnight. Once at the top the pressure is immense as Kate's band are squeezed out and she is left to cope alone in the spotlight.
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Roadgames (1981) IMDb TMDB
Roadgames
director: Richard Franklin actor: Stacy Keach / Jamie Lee Curtis …
other title: Drønhed asfalt / Truck Driver …
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.
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Shocking Dark (1989) IMDb WikiData
Terminator 2
director: Bruno Mattei actor: Christopher Ahrens / Haven Tyler …
other title: Terminator 2 - Shocking dark / Contaminator …
In a polluted future Venice researchers work to improve the situation. One day, unknown forces start killing them. A team of soldiers and a couple of civilians is sent to investigate. Soon, they encounter strange murderous creatures.
April 28, 2026 watched
Blatant Aliens ripoff Shocking Dark is shockingly awful. I'm shocked!!!

Made laughably bearable by watching it in the #MondayActionMovie watch party on Mastodon. Thanks, you guys!
Italy BrunoMattei 1980s SciFi Horror
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Poison for the Fairies (1986) NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Veneno para las hadas
director: Carlos Enrique Taboada actor: Ana Patricia Rojo / Elsa Maria Gutierrez …
other title: Veneno para las hadas
In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica convinces Flavia that she is a real witch and forces her to be her assistant. The children's games gradually become more serious and Veronica demands more from Flavia.
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Family Viewing (1987) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Family Viewing
director: Atom Egoyan actor: David Hemblen / Aidan Tierney …
other title: Black Comedy... / La vida en video …
An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a run-down nursing home. His father depends on phone sex for guidance meanwhile erasing family homevideos of happier times with homemade pornography. Will Van rescue his grandmother and memories of his mother in time?
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Communion (1989) IMDb WikiData
Communion
director: Philippe Mora actor: Christopher Walken / Lindsay Crouse …
other title: Die Besucher
A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.
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The Bodines genre: Rock / Pop
publisher: Magnet Records
The Bodines were a British pop group from the mid to late 1980s that comprised guitarist Paul Brotherton, bassist Tim Burwood, drummer John Rowlands, and guitarist/vocalist Michael Ryan.

In 2023, Mojo magazine ranked the song "Therese" as the 37th greatest UK indie record ever, calling it "a breathless romantic gulp of twin guitar twirl.

The Bodines's debut album, Played (produced by Ian Broudie, later to enjoy success as a recording artist as the Lightning Seeds) scraped into No. 94 in the UK Albums Chart, in the summer of 1987. The "Therese" and "Skankin' Queens" singles peaked at numbers 76 and 89 respectively in the UK Singles Chart. Under pressure for failing to deliver the hit record that their major label backers required, the Bodines split up, albeit temporarily. Rowland went on to play with the Rainkings.