Tom Jolliffe looks back at a couple of video era films about nefarious hitchhikers, The Nature of The Beast and Midnight Ride… ‘My mother told me never to do this.’ Words of wisdom foolishly ignored by Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) in the 1986 Rutger Hauer classic, The Hitcher. Halsey picked up a hitchhiker and […]
Forgotten Action Heroes From the Golden Age of VHS
Marvelous Videos presents a selection of underappreciated action heroes from the golden age of VHS… There’s a reason everyone misses the 80s- it was a golden age for cinema. No seriously, not only did you have a sci-fi revolution with the likes of Terminator, Aliens, and Back to the Future, but you also had a rebirth in the […]
90s Video Action Stars Part II – Jeff Wincott, Michael Dudikoff, Mark Dacascos and Cynthia Rothrock
Tom Jolliffe continues his look back at 90’s video action stars (read the first part here)… As I continue on with my 90’s action rampage, revisiting those VHS purveyors of fisticuffs and footicuffs (footicuffs?), I find myself already suffering brain degradation. Some films I revisit have blurred in my memory and re-watching only confirms what […]
Navy SEALS vs Zombies coming to DVD in February, watch the trailer here
Icon Film Distribution has announced the February UK DVD release of Navy SEALS vs Zombies, which does exactly what it says on the tin as America’s elite special forces unit goes up against the walking dead. Eighties action legend Michael Dudikoff (American Ninja, Olympus Has Fallen) stars as Commander Sheer, the leader of a crack […]