Romeo and Juliet with surfboards! Surf battles... TO THE DEATH! Yup, this is another Roger Corman production. Filled with more "bruh" and "bogus" and "gnarly" than you've heard in years. This really isn't too bad. Keith Coogan, just before Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead!
Instead of Montagues and Capulets, we have "Vals" (Valley kids) and "Locs" (Locals). Well, ok. The movie is surprisingly earnest, and straightforward. According to Wikipedia, it made next to nothing ($147,000!) so I can't imagine anyone knows about it. Maybe Amazon Prime will salvage it a little. Wouldn't be the worst thing. Nice little picture.
Tom Hulce, after his huge win doing Mozart in the movie Amadeus... what did he do? He did this: Slam Dance, with a great cast behind him: Virginia Madsen, Harry Dean Stanton, Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio, Adam Ant, and more.
A neo-noir about a man (named after the Dickens character Drood) cheating on his wife with an irresistible hooker... who turns up murdered, and soon the man is on the run. Will he survive? Uncover the truth?? Watch and see! Not a bad thriller, back when Hulce was at his peak. Although it takes a while to get to the slam dancing. Still, worth it.
This is a weird early Nic Cage movie, but a worthy one. A man obsessed with birds crosses paths with Nic Cage in pre-Vietnam NYC... then they get drafted, come back, and the man (Matthew Modine!!) thinks he IS a bird. It's pretty wild.
The soundtrack is entirely done by Peter Gabriel! Although you can't really tell, it's pretty subtle. It's a strange movie, like many early Cage films (or early Modine films). Unsure if I can recommend this one, but it's ... unique.
I remember this, vaguely, from when I was a kid. Monsters (Dracula, Wolfman, Creature form the Black Lagoon, Mummy, etc.) are real, and they want to enter our world in force... but not if these plucky kids have anything to do with it. Everyone has noted this is a blatant ripoff of The Goonies, but that's ok - it's fun anyway. Kids will get a lot more out of this than adults will.
"2000 year old dead guys... do NOT get up and walk around by themselves!!"
My favorite scene is a short one, where the dad surprises the son by meeting him on the roof to watch the local drive-in theater with binoculars. I also like that Frankenstein's monster ends up being benevolent. Great stuff.
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