Re-Animator, The Terminator, and The Thing are all among the best R-rated sci-fi movies of the '80s.
While many consider the '50s to be the original golden age of sci-fi films, the '80s hold just as much of a claim to the throne when it comes to the sheer quality and scope of movies produced. The rise of the auteur filmmaker in the previous 20 years, the expansion of what the MPAA considered reasonable for an R rating, and Reagan-era politics left filmmakers getting weirder and darker than ever before.
Release Date October 18, 1985 Director Stuart Gordon Cast Jeffrey Combs , Bruce Abbott , Robert Sampson , David Gale , Barbara Crampton 9 Predator Director: John McTiernan Somehow both a top-tier action movie and sci-fi horror slasher, Predator is a movie that accomplishes a great deal within its 107-minute runtime. Released as Arnold Schwarzenegger's popularity was hitting its peak, Predator opens in the vein of any number of Commando-style guns-and-muscle jungle action flicks.
There's so much more at play than slime and vomit: the emotional core of The Fly is the tragic romance between Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis. The film is an unabashed look at the brutal difficulty of watching a loved one degenerate via an untreatable illness, stranded on the outside with no means of helping as the disease consumes their very essence. This particular disease just happens to turn the sufferer into a human-sized fly monster.
Akira A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by a teenager, his gang of biker friends and a group of psychics. Even beyond the pioneering effects work, The Thing is a remarkably well-made film: the airtight script comes to life via career highlight performances from Kurt Russell, Keith David, and Wilford Brimley, and the Antarctic setting adds a thick layer of isolation and cold, desolate hopelessness to the entire situation.
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