American action, sci-fi, and horror trash from the 80s

[hot air baboon]

Van Cleef is the image of one of those ubiquitous British character actors who turn up in supporting roles in The Bill and similar shows on a regular basis...I can see him & hear him but can't place his name...

 

[May Kasahara]

The Silent Flute sounds like a Profanisaurus entry.

I am dying with laughter at some of these...ah video days, how I miss you.

 

[Indeliblelink]

How about some Ozploitation.
This one's a cracker.

 

[Sweet FA]

Van Cleef is the image of one of those ubiquitous British character actors who turn up in supporting roles in The Bill and similar shows on a regular basis...I can see him & hear him but can't place his name...

 

[Sweet FA]

How about some Ozploitation.
This one's a cracker.

"The film was released in the UK under the opportunistic title Blood Camp Thatcher[9] referring to the cold camp commandant Charles Thatcher, rather than the then British Prime Minister".

 

[DaveCinzano]

Van Cleef is the image of one of those ubiquitous British character actors who turn up in supporting roles in The Bill and similar shows on a regular basis...I can see him & hear him but can't place his name...

"On my muvver's life, Mr Regan/Burnside/Doyle, I 'aven't got a scooby what this geezer's name is, even though 'is voice is ringin' in me ears even as we speak..."

 

[Nanker Phelge]

This was a cracker...

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Stephen King, Emilio Estevez, AC/DC soundtrack, Killer Trucks....

What could go wrong?

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I can't remember anything about this film....but I saw it...

 

[Nanker Phelge]

...and this was actually quite good, despite the crap cover...

 

[Orang Utan]

Stephen King, Emilio Estevez, AC/DC soundtrack, Killer Trucks....

What could go wrong?

the scene with the coke machine is ace

 

[Nanker Phelge]

the scene with the coke machine is ace

 

[mwgdrwg]

Lol, brilliant!!!

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Lol, brilliant!!!

Stephen Kings one and only attempt at directing...

 

[hot air baboon]

...I was thinking yes! that's him on the left ...

...I can't even remember anything in particular he was in let alone the blokes name - ( Survivors possibly ) distinctive accent - slightly nasal...

.....but anyway I seem to have wandered like a badly directed film-extra inadvertently into shot from another thread ...

Supporting actors whose names you can never remember

( ETA - I don't think I ever saw Tosh Lines in anything else tbh...must try harder )

 

[mwgdrwg]

This guy that's the baddie in "Invasion USA", he was a great 80s baddie!

 

[mwgdrwg]

Btw, Lee Van Cleef is one of the most instantly recognisable Hollywood stars ever. I'm a bit confused as to your discussions here. Maybe it's because my Dad was a big western fan that I know him.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Btw, Lee Van Cleef is one of the most instantly recognisable Hollywood stars ever. I'm a bit confused as to your discussions here. Maybe it's because my Dad was a big western fan that I know him.

He was in lots of euro-westerns, didn't make much in the way of big studio films after a few in the 50s. Did lots of low budget horrors/westerns/actioners....and a classic turn in Escape from New York

 

[hot air baboon]

.....is there anything that provokes quite the same degree of poignant and introspective reflection on the transience of human existence and the ephemeral, ultimately hollow and disposable nature of our mass-culture as the remembrance of crappy sci-fi films past whose once futuristic chronology is even now receding head long ever further into the past.....?

...or is it just that crappy sci-fi films can't be set too far into the future without blowing the special effects and location budget.....

 

[starfish]

When I was about 11 or 12, I started baby-sitting for our next door neighbour. They used to pay me up front so I could get a video from the newsagents; dear god the shit I watched.

Mr. Norris.

 

[mwgdrwg]

.....is there anything that provokes quite the same degree of poignant and introspective reflection on the transience of human existence and the ephemeral, ultimately hollow and disposable nature of our mass-culture as the remembrance of crappy sci-fi films past whose once futuristic chronology is even now receding head long ever further into the past.....?

...or is it just that crappy sci-fi films can't be set too far into the future without blowing the special effects and location budget.....

That's deep, man!

 

[DaveCinzano]

 

[mwgdrwg]

He was in lots of euro-westerns, didn't make much in the way of big studio films after a few in the 50s. Did lots of low budget horrors/westerns/actioners....and a classic turn in Escape from New York

I've just had a flashback to my Dad saying "Lee Van Cleef...good actor, he'a in everything" whenever he was in a film, even if it was a bit part.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

One of the many Idiana Jones rip offs....

 

[Sweet FA]

Mr. Norris.

Strangely British graffiti in the background. Or is bollocks also Canadian?

 

[blairsh]

This thread reminds me of a shelf in my bedroom

 

[Nanker Phelge]

David Keith, an actor always going nowhere....

 

[Nanker Phelge]

The Hoff, Christopher Plummer.....John Barry score....shit film...

 

[Nanker Phelge]

This was one of my faves, The Magnificent Seven in space....featuring Robert Vaughn who was in the Magnificent Seven...also George Peppard...Johnboy from the waltons, John Saxon...

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Saw this in 3D at the cinema....