Howard the Duck was released 25 years ago today on Aug 1, 1986. Infamously, it bombed at the box office and is widely considered one of the worst movies of the 80s.
Also turning 25 years old today is:
Friday the 13th VI: Jason Lives. Arguably one of the best movies in the Jason Vorhees series.
Happy April Fool's Day! Here's an ad for the 1986 horror movie, April Fool's Day. It stars Deborah Foreman as Muffy St John who invites 8 people to her island mansion to spend the night. At dinner, the attendees discover each other's secrets and suddenly they start dying off one by one. It's a cross between Clue and Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.
This movie is pretty good. I enjoyed it when it was released on video. I even had the poster on my wall growing up. The star, the adorable Deborah Foreman, has been in a ton of stuff including Valley Girl, Real Genius, Family Ties, My Chauffeur and TJ Hooker. Also in this movie was Griffin O'Neal (The Wraith) and Thomas F Wilson (Biff from Back to the Future).
The first and only Go Bots movie, Battle of the Rock Lords, opened 25 years ago today on Mar 21, 1986. Although it opened several months before the original Transformers movie (Aug 8), the latter had been in production for the last two years.
I talk a little bit about the 25th anniversary here.
See the trailer for Go Bots: Battle of the Rock Lords:
Here's the intro to the Challenge of the Go Bots TV show:
This week we are looking at the films of one Charles Bronson.
Here's an ad for Bronson's Murphy's Law from 1986. Bronson plays what he plays best, a cop, who is wrongly accused of murdering his ex-wife. He is taken into custody, but escapes while handcuffed to a foul mouthed car thief. Bronson must discover who the real killer is before the police catch up to him.
Clue the Movie started 25 years ago this week, so to continue the Clue theme here's an ad for Legend which famously starred Tim Curry (Wadsworth the butler) as Darkness.
