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Hard Boiled (1992): Action Madness On and Off Camera

Night of the Creeps (1986): Fred Dekker's Cult Classic Horror Comedy

Sid and Nancy (1986): The Punk Rock Love Story Gone Wrong

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980): Seven Samurai in Space, Silly Retro Fun

The Long Riders (1980): The "Green Western" of Dreamlike Violence and Flat History

Near Dark (1987): Kathryn Bigelow's Neo-Noir Vampire Western

Maniac Cop (1988): Tom Atkins and Bruce Campbell in a VHS-era Slasher

Dredd (2012): Could a Reboot Shake Off the 1995 Megadud?

Versus (2000): A Must-See Cult Action Classic From Japan

The Hitcher (1986): How this Road Horror Still Hooks Fans

Thief (1981): Michael Mann's Hyper-realistic Crime Thriller

The Driver (1978): American Action Meets European Minimalism

Atomic Blonde (2017): Cold War Spy Thrills and Devastating Action

Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991): A Video-Store Era Cult Action Pick

Knightriders (1981): George A. Romero Does a Drama

The Hobbit (1977): The Rankin/Bass Animated Classic

Southern Comfort (1981): Walter Hill's Often-Overlooked Action Thriller

The Blob (1988): Mushy Special Effects and 1980s Kickass

Hard Times (1975): Walter Hill's Breezy Action Debut

Scanners (1981): A Cult Classic of Psychic Powers and Conspiracy

Vampires (1998): John Carpenter's Sun-Burned, Bloodsucking Western

Bullet in the Head (1990): Is this John Woo's Melancholic Masterpiece?

Prince of Darkness (1987): John Carpenter Pits God vs. Anti-God

Christine (1983): John Carpenter Adapts Stephen King

Assault On Precinct 13 (1976): John Carpenter's High Energy, Low-Budget Thriller

Escape From New York (1981): Snake Plissken, the Anti-hero for the Authoritarian Future

The Fog (1980): John Carpenter's Small-Town Ghost Story

Subway (1985): Cinema of the Look, Breathless Underground

Silverado (1985): The Breezy Gunslinger Film that Defied the End of the Western

The Shooting (1966): The Criterion Classic Acid Western From Nowhere

Fortress (1992): Christopher Lambert Will Stop Your Baby Theft

Rolling Thunder (1977): The Revenge Film that Sent Test Audiences Away Screaming

Runaway Train (1985): When the Cannon Group Financed a Lost Kurosawa Film

Living in Oblivion (1995): Making Movies is Awful (and Hilarious)

Dog Soldiers (2002): Troopers Vs. Werewolves

Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017): Vince Vaughn is Actually 6'5" and Does Fight Scenes

The Killer (1989): Explosive Gun-Fu and Compelling Melodrama

Year of the Dragon (1985): Michael Cimino's Controversial Chinatown Gangster Tale

The Love Witch (2016): Technicolor Horror Comedy in the 2010s

The Castle of Cagliostro (1979): Miyazaki's Gentleman Thief Adventure

To Live and Die in L.A. (1985): William Friedkin's Scuzzy Neo-Noir

Leviathan (1989): Alien On a Ship

The Raid 2: Now We Fight Inside, Outside, and on the Road

Heathers (1989): the Dark Teen Comedy for Adults

The Green Knight (2021): Old Poem, New Cinema Magic

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984): Weird, Wild, and...Wonderful?

Trancers (1984): the Cult Classic Not Serious Noir Detective Sci-Fi Time Travel Comedy

Fright Night (1985): The Horror/Comedy About the Vampire Next Door

Phantasm (1979): The Tall Man Cometh

The Hidden (1987): An Alien Goes Grand Theft Auto

The Last Dragon (1985): Martial Arts and Motown Music Collide

A Better Tomorrow (1986): the Birth of John Woo's Gun-Fu and Heroic Bloodshed

Lifeforce (1985): Tobe Hooper's Space Vampire Science Fiction Cult Classic

Arena (1989): Let's Punch Monsters in the Face

Robot Jox (1990): Post-Apocalyptic Mecha Science Fiction

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990): Balancing the Darkness of the Comic and the Lightness of the Kids' Show

The Company of Wolves (1984): a Gothic Fairytale for Adults

Westworld (1973): Michael Crichton's Warning About AI

Batman Returns (1992): The Sequel So Dark it Angered Parents and McDonald's

Outland (1981): the Space Western With Sean Connery

Lady Snowblood (1973): the OG Flower of Carnage

Repo Man (1984): Punk Rock Sci-Fi Comedy

Streets of Fire (1984): the Only Action Musical Teen Drama Ever Made

Night of the Comet (1984): Girls Against the Laidback Zombie Apocalypse