We finish this series with a few more films from 1989 that deserve more love. Or at the very least, I have a burning need to discuss.

Before we begin, some of the write ups have appeared elsewhere on the site.

Johnny Handsome is a solid little noir thriller from director Walter Hill that benefits from a decent script and stellar cast of character actors. Mickey Rourke plays a disfigured petty thief who is double crossed by his partners (Ellen Barkin and Lance Henriksen) and is given reconstructive surgery by a kindly prison doctor played by forest Whitaker. Upon being released from prison, he sets out looking for revenge while falling in love with a young woman played by Elizabeth McGovern and being tailed by a cop played by Morgan Freeman.

Finishing off the year with the conclusion of something I wanted to finish a long time ago. 

Seems like I'm doing one of these every two years (not intentionally) but let's move on from the first two Dirty Harry films which I really, really like to the third which could be alternately called Dirty Harry 3: Contractual Obligation; the fourth which is solid and the fifth and final one which teeters dangerously on the edge of being so bad its good.

Back from the Halloween rush (trying to watch at least one horror movie a day for an entire month can really take it out of a person) and vacation with more from 1989.

John Lithgow, Teri Garr and Randy Quaid star in this endearingly dark comedy about love, murder and adultery. Lithgow plays the co-owner of a meat shop who is in love with the wife (Teri Garr) of his business partner.

Going to pick the 1989 stuff back up after Halloween so for the next few posts, its horror all the way!

Been a while since I did one of these so let's take a look at an 80's monster movie plus some extras.

Let's kick things off with an early adaptation of a Clive Barker short story.

In the 90's, prolific comic book writer Doug Moench teamed with Kelley Jones, John Beatty and Malcolm Jones III to create a gorgeous, gruesome trilogy of horror tales featuring my favorite superhero of all time, Batman. Putting him against Dracula was a natural choice and the first story would be a fascinating blend of classic Batman doing his greatest detective on Earth routine with grim Gothic horror.

It begins with Red Rain as Gotham finds itself with a new problem.

A shorter post today but there's good stuff to come.

Not too many people enjoyed this one that much but I think in some ways its nearly as funny as the original. It's five years later and the Ghostbusters have gone their separate ways thanks to the plot contrivance of the city suing the crap out of them and them essentially being declared frauds.

Even after everyone saw a huge marshmallow man King Kong his way up an apartment building.

Yeah.

This is just a quick post to plug the latest issue of Fangoria which is coming out as this is being written as well as just a general welcome back to the magazine. Regular programming will resume shortly.

A few years ago, I eulogized my favorite horror magazine when it looked like it had gone the way of countless other magazines.

Before I took my break, I was planning to examine 1990 in film month by month. While I still want to do that, along with some studio deep dives, I thought it would be fun to check out 1989 first (it being thirty years ago and all) with 1990, 1991 and 1992 to follow later.

Specifically, we will be examining some of the lesser known films released over the course of the year. The ones you go to see because the big hit is sold out or you're just in the mood for something a little off beat.

Didn't expect to go this long without posting again but a variety of things kept me from being able to keep this darn blog updated. But my batteries are recharged and to quote Aerosmith, I'm back in the saddle again! Let's kick things off with a little gem I found some time back and was going to use in an upcoming piece but decided to expand into its own thing. It deserves it.

This may be the most obscure title I've ever covered.

I hadn't planned on doing a new post until the new year but this morning I saw a horror comedy so genuinely good natured and entertaining that I had to share my thoughts. All the Creatures Were Stirring is a fun, low budget horror anthology from the husband and wife directing/writing team of David and Rebekah McKendry.
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