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The 80s Movie Podcast

Celebrating both the biggest hits and the most obscure releases of 1980s cinema, focused primarily around exploring the narratives of under‑seen distributors, niche genres, and overlooked classics.

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21:37

Thriller

The 80s Movie Podcast ·

2022/11/30

On our final episode of 2022, we look back at the music video/mini-movie for Michael Jackson's Thriller, on the fortieth anniversary on the release of the album which bore its name. ----more---- Transcript: Hello, and welcome to The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today. If you’re listening to this episode as I release it, on November 30th, 2022, today is the fortieth anniversary of the release of the biggest album ever released, Michael Jackson’s

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18:13

Less Than Zero

The 80s Movie Podcast ·

2022/11/28

This episode looks at the 1984 debut novel by Bret Easton Ellis, and its 1987 film adaptation. ----more---- Hello, and welcome to The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today. On this episode, we’re going to talk about 80s author Bret Easton Ellis and his 1985 novel Less Than Zero, the literal polar opposite of last week’s subjects, Jay McInerney and his 1984 novel Bright Lights, Big City. As I mentioned last week, McInerney was twenty-nine when he published

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21:04

Bright Lights, Big City

The 80s Movie Podcast ·

2022/11/18

On this episode, we travel back to 1984, and the days when a "young adult" novel included lots of drugs and partying and absolutely no sparkly vampires or dystopian warrior girls. We're talking about Jay McInerney's groundbreaking novel, Bright Lights, Big City, and its 1988 film version starring Michael J. Fox and Keifer Sutherland. ----more---- Hello, and welcome to The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today. The original 1984 front cover for Jay

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17:47

Round Midnight

The 80s Movie Podcast ·

2022/11/10

Today's show takes a look at the classic 1986 French drama about jazz, Bertrand Tavernier's Round Midnight.

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10:18

Positive I.D.

The 80s Movie Podcast ·

2022/11/04

This episode, we cover a movie from 1987 which was distributed by a major studio in 1987 but is all but unknown today, Andy Anderson's Positive I.D.

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56:23

Generation Gap: The A Nightmare on Elm Street series

The 80s Movie Podcast ·

2022/11/02

Your humble host and podcasting guru Jeff Townsend talk about the Nightmare on Elm Street series from their different generational points of view. ----more---- On this episode, we are going to complete our miniseries on the Nightmare on Elm Street series with a discussion between myself and Jeff Townsend, the Podcast Father, about the movies. I know how most people of my generation, Gen X, feel about these movies. I was there to see it firsthand, first as a film goer, then as a theatre manager. What

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01:01:01

A Brief History of the Nightmare on Elm Street series

The 80s Movie Podcast ·

2022/10/31

As required by Section 107-14-8 of the Podcast Code, every movie podcast must do a horror-themed show during the month of October. We thus fulfill our requirement by offering this first part of a two-part series on the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. ----more---- The films discussed on this episode include: Deadly Blessing (Wes Craven, 1981) Freddy vs. Jason (2003, Ronny Yu) Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991, Rachel Talalay) The Hills Have Eyes (Wes Craven, 1977) The Last House on the Left

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21:25

Amos Poe Is Our Friend and Needs Our Help

The 80s Movie Podcast ·

2022/10/26

On this episode, we talk about one of the most influential yet lesser known figures of the 1970s and 1980s independent cinema movement, and how he needs our help today. Please allow me to introduce you to Amos Poe, and explain to you why he needs our help today. If you feel like helping Amos Poe after you listen to the episode, you can make a donation through the GoFundMe page set up by his friends.

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15:57

Prince of Darkness

The 80s Movie Podcast ·

2022/10/21

This week, we look back at one of John Carpenter's lesser appreciated works, which was released 35 years ago this week.

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29:35

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th...

The 80s Movie Podcast ·

2022/10/13

On this episode, we dive into the deep end of the 8th Dimension to talk about how one of the best movies of the 1980s was able to escape from the minds of writer Earl Mac Rauch and director W.D. Richter and into our consciousness, 1984's The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.

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27:01

Walker

The 80s Movie Podcast ·

2022/09/29

We complete our miniseries on the 1980s movies of Alex Cox by looking at his most controversial film.

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11:11

Straight to Hell

The 80s Movie Podcast ·

2022/09/22

On this episode, we continue a look back at the 80s movie of iconoclastic British filmmaker Alex Cox with his wacky 1987 movie Straight to Hell.

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12:46

Sid and Nancy

The 80s Movie Podcast ·

2022/09/16

On this episode, your humble host talks about one of his favorite movies of the decade, and apologizes for a chance in plans.

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12:27

Silent Night, Deadly Night: Part 2

The 80s Movie Podcast ·

2022/08/31

On this episode, we reflect on the recent unfortunate late summer release of an Easter-themed movie by looking back to the 1987 unfortunate late spring release of a Christmas-themed horror movie, Silent Night, Deadly Night: Part 2.

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01:13:08

The Cineplex Beverly Center

The 80s Movie Podcast ·

2022/07/16

On this episode, we take a look back not at the career of an actor or director, nor about a specific movie or a distributor, but at a movie theatre that opened forty years ago today, that would change the course of the theatrical exhibition industry forever: The Cineplex Beverly Center. ----more---- The Beverly Center and its flagship movie theatre, the first theatre in America to have a double-digit number of screens under one roof, opened on July 16th, 1982, and the theatre would quickly become

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01:23:28

Ross Melnick

The 80s Movie Podcast ·

2022/07/11

On this episode, we speak with film historian, author and UCSB professor Ross Melnick about his new book, his 80s cinema class, and five films from the decade he thinks you should watch again. ----more---- Ross Melnick was also named as a 2017 Academy Film Scholar, one of only two film scholars who were bestowed this honor by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. His new book, Hollywood Embassies: How Movie Theatres Projected American Power Around the World, has just been released by

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00:28

The 80s Movie Podcast Trailer

The 80s Movie Podcast ·

2022/06/20

From distributors barely remembered and films long forgotten, to the biggest actors and filmmakers of the decade, The 80s Movies Podcast is your ticket to the movies.

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14:41

The Assassination Game

The 80s Movie Podcast ·

2022/06/20

On this episode, your host, film historian Edward A. Havens III, delves deep into the 80s film vault to visit one of the movies from the 1980s he had known about for forty years but had never gotten around to seeing: Nick Castle's 1982 directorial debut, The Assassination Game. ----more---- Castle would go on to a career that included writing and/or directing such films as The Boy Who Could Fly, Dennis the Menace, Hook, and The Last Stafighter, but his first stop as a writer and director would be on

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24:01

Young Einstein

The 80s Movie Podcast ·

2022/06/12

On this episode, we discuss one of the biggest hit films ever in Australian cinema, that was pretty much ignored in the rest of the world, Yahoo Serious' Young Einstein. ----more---- Yes, you read that right. Yahoo Serious was the name of the director of Young Einstein. And its main star. And it's co-writer, co-producer, supervising editor, and he even wrote and sang a song or two on the soundtrack. A true modern renaissance man. We also have a brief history of Australian cinema, the 1970s New Wave

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15:37

Happy Together

The 80s Movie Podcast ·

2022/06/05

On this episode, film historian and host Edward A. Havens III briefly talks about one of the quintessential 80s movies, that didn't actually come out until May 1990. Mel Damski's Happy Together. ----more---- We talk about the creation of the movie, its two lead stars (Patrick Dempsey and Helen Slater), and the one supporting actor who would go on to become one of Hollywood's most successful actors for the next thirty years. Patrick Dempsey in a scene from Happy Together Dan Schneider in a

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