Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Carmen Maura - Carmen Maura plays a delirious feminist housewife in this early black–comic farce from Almodovar, here working at his freshest and most…
Deathstalker: Last Great Warrior King (1983)- Dir. James Sbardellati
Feat. Rick Hill, Barbi Benton, Richard Brooker - Trashtastic sword–and–sandals fantasy sees a chiselled Rick Hill play a warrior who must save the earth (and the girl) from a wicked…
Carry Me Back (1982)- Dir. John Reid
Feat. Grant Tilly, Kelly Johnson - Spirited silliness ensues when plans for a trio of South Island farmers go awry when one of them carks it en route to a Wellington rugby match. Worth…
Creepshow (1982)- Dir. George Romero
Feat. Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeam, Fritz Weaver - Well–spun compendium of five tales captures the intended spirit and ghoulishness of 1950s EC horror comics in an affectionate homage.
King of Comedy, The (1982)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Robert De Niro - Deliciously creepy story of a loser/nerd, who acts out his life ambition; to appear on a TV comedy show with Jerry Lewis. Lewis plays it straight,…
Love Butcher, The (1982)- Dir. Mikel Angel, Donald M. Jones
Feat. Eric Stern - Amusing sleaze/cheesefest about a retarded, sexually frustrated gardener (Eric Stern) who harbours a slick, womanizing alter–ego, not to…
Suite in Two Keys : Come Into the Garden Maud / A Song at Twilight (The Noel Coward Collection - Disc 7) (1982)- Feat. Paul Scofield, Geraldine McEwan, Deborah Kerr
- – Come Into The Garden Maud (82') Dubious comedy centred on a husband and wife keen to get ahead who become entranced by a prince and…
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982)- Dir. Terry Hughes
Feat. Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Cris Groenendaal - TV movie of the 1979 Broadway hit, originally staged by Harold Prince, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Set in London in 1846, where Barber…
Britannia Hospital (1981)- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Leonard Rossiter, Malcolm McDowell, Joan Plowright… - Political allegory dressed as raucous Blighty comedy going all out, but it hasn't quite the magic of cult predecessors IF... and O LUCKY MAN!
Goodbye Pork Pie (1981)- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Tony Barry, Kelly Johnson, Claire Oberman… - This little beauty was the first Kiwi film to make international inroads. An amoral tale about a gang of misfits who travel the length of the country…
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