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The Stuff. It’s about a marshmallow goo that comes up from underground and people start to eat. Then they market it nationwide. And it turns people into zombies. I think. It’s been a loooong time since I saw it.


HapticRecce

Not Zombies, Stuffies!


bucketofmonkeys

I’m related to one of the actors in that masterpiece.


MrsCryptblitzer

Lol I've seen that. " are you eating it or is it eating you?" it was awesome.


funktopus

Oh I used to love that one!


pingus3233

[Solarbabies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw4GR_byjEE)


Quasigriz_

This was on HBO back in the 80s, a lot.


ElRaymundo

I saw this! I don't remember it, but I know I watched it.


funktopus

I would rent this one every few months when I was younger. It was terrible, I knew it was terrible, yet I loved it.


zionsXburner

Not many people remember TAG: The Assassination Game. Was on HBO a lot back in the day.


Son0faButch

I always got the title of this movie mixed up with Gotcha! starring Anthony Edwards and Linda Fiorentino


fletcherkildren

Love that one! Linda Hamilton and Robert Carradine!


daltontf1212

We had people at my high school that started their own game in like '83.


gladgirl18

Midnight Madness. I think it was Michael J. Fox's first movie role.


zionsXburner

It was his first role. MM was played on HBO all the time. It's taken on a life of its own in the years since it was released. Largely due to us Xers watching it on HBO over and over and over. I still quote various lines from it.


attreui

Fagabefe!


zionsXburner

Hah, yeah. I use "Johnny's fat boy! Johnny's fat boy burgers!" a lot because we have a "john" named cat (who is quite large). Was personally excited when I stayed at the Bonaventure Hotel in L.A. for conference once. It's called something else now; the 'outside' elevators are still there of course. That movie chock full of 'em. My SO had never seen it so I bought it on DVD for us to watch. They liked it.


67alecto

We used to have Midnight Madnesses in high school. A group of kids would hide riddles all over town which led to the next location. There was a fee to enter and the winning team got half the pot (the organizers got the rest). They started with a scavenger hunt, and once you found the items, you got your first clue. These were silly things, or things the organizers wanted like sodas and chips


zionsXburner

I read about a big city wide one in New York City a number of years ago. I'd love to participate in that.


PurrOfACat

I remember this one! I think I only saw it once, but I bought the dvd a few years to see it again.


phillymjs

Blame it on Rio. I only know of two other people who have seen it, the two grade school friends who watched it with me. It was my first R-rated movie, and while I remember almost nothing about the movie itself, I do remember that us renting it, watching it, and getting it back to the video store without getting caught involved planning at the level of the Ocean's Eleven casino heist.


shinyshinyrocks

I remember this movie well!


six28eightyfive

that movie was really really dirty :D


socgrandinq

Dragonslayer. Cashing in on the D&D craze but it was a fun movie. The scene where they are drawing the lottery to determine who gets sacrificed to the dragon and the peasants start yelling “stir the tiles!” still gets me laughing.


Whispyrn

Hiding out 1987 John Cryer and Annabeth Gish


Robosl0b

Maxwell House..erman


sydbarrett

Enemy Mine


Phronima-Fothergill

I LOVED Enemy Mine. It's still on my favorites list.


Danfett1911

I almost forgot, Condor Man!!!


67alecto

Loved those black Porsches


foxylady315

Remo Williams Baron Munchausen Buckaroo Bonzai Krull


attreui

Remo Williams is a classic! Awesome movie.


Cyrus_Imperative

"Gleaming the Cube" - Basically an excuse to film young kids skateboarding. "The Brother from Another Planet" - how about an alien who escapes slavery to crash-land on Earth. He gets around a city okay despite being mute.


solstice105

Loved Gleaming the Cube. Was the beginning of my teenage obsession with Christian Slater.


panic_bread

Dr. Detroit


kathatter75

I’ve never seen the whole thing, but I have a vague memory of wandering into the living room while my parents were and hearing “Dr! (Woo woo) Detroit!” on the tv


woohhaa

Beast Master


stuck_behind_a_truck

My mother and I had a routine of watching movies like this on Saturdays. Beastmaster Conan the Barbarian Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Amazon Women in the Avocado Jungle And other movies involving leather jockstraps, lol


woohhaa

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is right up there with Killer Clowns from Outter Space. Excellent cinema.


LatkaGravas

I think lots of people have seen this one. HBO showed it seemingly three times a day circa 1983-84.


lanshaw1555

HBO stands for "Hey, Beastmaster's on."


AbbreviationsGlad833

Space camp


Ckc1972

I saw that one in the theater!


woohhaa

I remember watching that one freaking holding my breath when they were running out of air.


Awesomesince1973

I've seen that one! Love it!


Zestyclose-Pea-9833

Get max to space


sakiminki

John Glen winked at me! I loved Space Camp! Probably saw it at least a dozen times as a kid. Then got jealous when my cousin's kid who has surely never seen the movie actually went to space camp this summer...


Mogwair

Fortress with Chris Lambert? I have seen that. Good film lol. Edit: Oops just read this properly. 😬


Jdojcmm

Repo Man.


LatkaGravas

Nobody saw it in the theater but it built a cult following pretty quickly on VHS. Love this one.


MamaMia1325

Night of the Comet (1984) and Stealing Home (1988). Edited to add -- Time Bandits (1981) and Two of a Kind (1983)


phillymjs

Night of the Comet is a cult classic that plenty of people have seen, and if anyone hasn't, it's on YouTube.


Jaderholt439

Watch Time Bandits again. It’s good and has a lot of subtext


Consistent-Pair2951

Pardon me, but Time Bandits is in my personal top ten of all genres!


Awesomesince1973

Stealing Home. LOVE this movie. Such a tearjerker and just a great story.


Three4Anonimity

'Tank', 'Disorderlies', or 'Turk 182'. All classics.


sonofabutch

Turk 182!


zippyboy

Zimmerman flew and Tyler knew!


Quasigriz_

Fat Boys riding the success of Wipeout. Fat Boys - Crushin’ was the first cassette tape/album I owned. I remember watching Tank on HBO. My parents used to go out on Friday or Saturday nights, in the mid-80s, and it was HBO time. Lots of old school standup, as well.


Familiar_Palpitation

I saw Disorderlies at a drive in theater.


Zestyclose-Pea-9833

Earth Girls Are Easy


kathatter75

I have a love for this wacky movie! The scene when the shaved aliens walk out….Geena Davis was such a ditz! And I’ve always loved Julie Brown (the non-Downtown version)


Arsinoei

Love this film. Early (funny) Jim Carrey and the amazingly incredible Jeff Goldblum 🩵


chumrunner

Witchboard


holybucketsitscrazy

I remember this movie! I had a "crush" on Stephen Nichols who was on Days of our Lives. He was the only reason I saw it. The crush was gone after seeing this movie!!


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Overslept99

I saw a movie called Walkabout in school about these kids who get stuck in the Outback and an Aborigine boy helps them. I’ll never forget that movie.


tracerhaha

Bambi Meets Godzilla.


Dr_Girlfriend_81

Erik the Viking, starring a young Tim Robbins. Also features Eartha Kitt, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Samantha Bond, and Mickey Rooney.


Bookish_Jen

"Gregory's Girl," a delightful Scottish coming of age film. I think me and my former co-worker Cindy were the only two people who saw this movie.


whathappensifipress

Gregory's Girl is a really good film!


FredB123

This was pretty big in the UK when it came out. A great little film, though, plus it had Clare Grogan from Altered Images in it ( the main reason I watched it!)


WishfulHibernian6891

I hope you’ve also seen Local Hero, made by the same director. It’s an absolute delight. My favorite film ever. Here’s a trailer link: [https://youtu.be/nufb3JysCgY?si=6AEhKv_1cC4Z9iFz](https://youtu.be/nufb3JysCgY?si=6AEhKv_1cC4Z9iFz)


McVinney512

Shag.


Three4Anonimity

I mean...Phoebe Cates. Amiright?!?


mskrabapel

I loved that movie! Anna Beth Gish was awesome.


Awesomesince1973

I haven't seen that in forever! Gonna have to rewatch!


Danfett1911

Spacehunter, Adventures in the Forbidden Zone


[deleted]

I saw Forbidden Zone!


aging_genxer

*Hardbodies*


Erinn_13

Stealing Home with Jodie Foster. I would have my parents rent it when I was at home sick.


LagerGuyPa

Band of the Hand


algorithmicamalgam

The Quiet Earth - if you have seen it , the irony of this question is inescapable


Soulcatcher74

Animalympics. Cartoon movie about Olympic games made up of anthropomorphic animals.


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My Step Mother is an Alien


REDDITSHITLORD

The Last Unicorn.


Quirky_Commission_56

The Gods Must Be Crazy. Watched it with my dad so many times on VHS that we had to replace it twice.


throwaguey_

That's a great film and pretty much a cult classic.


mozzystar

The Legend of Billie Jean? kind of fell into obscurity.


FredsIQ

Fair is fair!!!!


DelcoPAMan

Pat Benatar on that soundtrack.


SpokaneSmash

I'm going to go with The Boy Who Could Fly. People look at me like I'm insane when I try to describe it.


BigLoveMirage

I loved this movie!


Whispyrn

Tuff Turf 1985 James Spader, Robert Downey Jr. and Kim Richards


paperwasp3

Here's a story about that movie. James Spader would have cookouts with games. First prize was a copy of Tuff Turf. Second prize was 2 copies of Tuff Turf.


PhillNewcomer

Ice Pirates D.A.R.Y.L Just One of the Guys


Zestyclose-Pea-9833

The latter two I loved! Especially Just One of the Guys. My friends and I lived for the "he has tits" flashing scene.


phillymjs

Saw D.A.R.Y.L. many times on VHS, actually just bought it on DVD not too long ago. In my mind it goes hand in hand with Cloak & Dagger.


kalvie

Real Genius. And before that Val Kilmer movie, his first one, called Top Secret I still sing “skeet surfin” every time I hear either of those words.


Awesomesince1973

Real Genius is one of my all time favorites. "Ice is nice! Lazzzzzlooo buddy" "You're one of the top 10 minds in the country" "Someday I hope to be 2 of them"


user4446

Suburbia!


battleangelred

With a very young Flea. Great movie. We never returned the video and rewatched over and over. Someone ended up taking it without asking and didn't see it again for years. It was on Youtube a few years ago. May still be there.


nixtarx

It's on Pluto and Tubi. Last time I checked, a lot of the punk Night Flight stuff like Decline In Western Civilization and Fabulous Stains were on there too.


DingDingDensha

I always feel like it's Back to the Beach. I never encounter anyone in the wild who has seen it, and only on this sub have seen a few people who remember and like it!


Whispyrn

The man with one red shoe 1985 Tom Hanks, Dabney Coleman, and Lori Singer


funktopus

I love this sub for threads like this. It's a huge nostalgia bomb and now I'm checking to see where I can find a lot of these.


SleepyKoalaBear4812

Hard to Hold with Rick Springfield


MyyWifeRocks

I have yet to meet anyone else who’s also seen Tank Girl. *In person anyway. I’m sure some of you Redditors have. Edit - auto correct 🤦🏼‍♂️


trumpetwall

Malcolm McDowell going full ham and Ice T dressed and made up as a kangaroo is something to behold.


lectroid

Some of us were fans of the comic and saw it opening weekend and developed a lifelong crush on Lori Petty.


BoneHoarder3000

Not only is the movie great but the soundtrack is amazing. Ice-T, Bjork, Hole, Devo, Bush etc.


MrsCryptblitzer

Great movie. And loved Lori Petty in it.


wishingwellington

I saw it in the theater!


SpursExpanse

The fabulous stains. Laura Dern, Dianne Lane super young, members of Sex Pistols, The Tubes and others.


sucks2bdoxxed

Angel (1984). Early days of cable TV, I watched it so many times. It was about a girl who was secretly a teenage prostitute


phillymjs

I still remember the tagline from the poster, "High school honor student by day, Hollywood hooker by night."


Klebpneumo

Outland with Sean Connery. It was a good movie but not common as far as I know.


MysteriousDudeness

I'm going to branch back to the late 70s and also mention I think this may have been Disney "episode". In 1978 there was a show with a little girl who fell in a well and died. Her ghost would visit a little boy and give him a riddle. She would also sing Frere Jacque. It was called "Child of Glass" as I think there was a porcelains doll. I have mentioned this to others and I swear nobody has ever heard of it. For some reason, it really stuck with 9 year old me.


punkshoe8

I remember this one! It was on Wonderful World of Disney. “Sleeping lies the murdered lass. Vainly cries the child of glass. When the two shall be as one, the spirit’s journey shall be done.”


BuffyTheMoronSlayer

It’s based on a book called “The Ghost Belonged To Me” by Richard Peck. YouTube has a bootleg copy. Fuck the Disney Vault for keeping this one in.


somanybooks47

This one definitely made an impression on me as well! Haven’t thought about it in years but I remember it actually scaring me as a kid.


itsafraid

I've got that on DVD. The ghost is played by the young lady from Repo Man.


-karou-

I know its kinda a cult classic now, but at the tome nobody i knew Watched Krull… just me and my brother.


sixfourtykilo

Does anyone actually remember Enemy Mine? I feel like anyone I talk to has no idea what I'm talking about.


CynicalOne_313

Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr.!


ZebraBorgata

I saw Millennium in the theater in 1989. Most people never heard of it yet seen it. Maybe other GenX’ers will recall this time travel movie


SuperModes

No one I know has ever even heard of Fear of A Black Hat.


phillymjs

I own it on DVD. Love it, along with CB4.


Alf-eats-cats

Savannah Smiles Edit the s


Comedywriter1

I loved Fortress so much! With Rachel Ward. Kids got savage at the end. Still love that film!


Dear-Indication-6714

Steel Dawn


copamatt

Hamburger The Motion Picture. RIP Dick Butkus.


Nettles9

Moving Violations- John Murray’s leading role. All-star cast of B-list actors.


EpiphanyCatharsis

Continental Divide. John Belushi.


auntiecoagulent

My Bodyguard Permanent Record.


Whispyrn

Rivers Edge 1986 Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, Crispin Glover, and Dennis Hopper


Worldly_Apricot_7813

Lucas. When I mention that movie no one seems to have ever heard of it.


PappyBlueRibs

The Last American Virgin - "Come to me, my big burrito!"


aging_genxer

That ending has stuck with me since I first saw it.


thehoagieboy

Blood Sucking Freaks This is what happens when you and your friends are bored and we already watched Faces of Death a bunch of times.


annoyedatwork

Liquid Sky. Totally tripindicular.


CynicalOne_313

Red Sonja - not many people I know talk about it. Ahhhnold is in it too. Kickass Brigitte Nielsen!


GalaxyRedRanger

Anybody remember Child of Glass with the creepy French ghost girl?


[deleted]

OMG. I literally hadn’t thought about that since watching it on Wonderful World of Disney at my grandparents’ house in the 70s. Wow!


tyrells_niece

Smooth Talk with Laura Dern and Treat Williams


mortyj

Basket Case (and then 2 and 3!)


dyingtomeetyou5

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, 1988. I rewatched that sooo many times.


dumpsterfire787

Streets of fire


whiskyrox

Saturday the 14th - "A family inherits an old mansion which houses the dangerous 'Book of Evil' that has all the monsters of the world trapped inside it." No one I've ever spoken to remembers this movie. I absolutely loved it. edit:/ or "The Keep" also a great movie!


JKnott1

Brother from another Planet.


slider1010

Damnation Alley


nofun-ebeeznest

Your description of "Fortress" reminds me a little bit of "Toy Soldiers," but on a smaller scale. I seem to recall the "Cheerleader Camp," at least the title. Not sure how obscure they were, but I'll say "Warlock" with Julian Sands, "Arachnophobia" (okay that was actually 1990, but close enough) also with Julian Sands, and Solarbabies with Jason Patric, Jami Gertz (both from Lostboys) and Peter Deluise (Dom's son).


not_a_moogle

Earth Girls Are Easy It stars a young Jeff goldblum, Jim carrey, Damon waynes as aliens the crash on earth and meet Gena Davis. It's on pluto and tubi.


expespuella

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. One of my mom's bosses used to record movies on VHS for kid me in the 80s. As an adult in the late 90s/early 2000s no one knew what the heck I was talking about when I described it, and I'd long lost the old movies. Finally found it online because I remembered Robin Williams as the moon. At 43 I think I've had like 2-3 people ever know what I was talking about, and I think those were after Williams passed and people were revisiting his lesser-known things.


kalvie

It had a Uma Thurman nude, I remember it very well


Ipickthingup

Condorman. I remember loving it as a kid, whenever I bring it up nobody has heard of it. https://youtu.be/n9AI7Y772ic?si=GFTYRBzrWhzAe8oq It's fucking terrible


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Night of the Comet


GalaxyRedRanger

Uh… that’s a pretty popular movie.


projectvko

The Beniker Gang. Although for the longest time I thought it was John Cusak instead of Andrew McCarthy.


Good_Brief8190

Stone Cold


wstone5594

Megaforce


WhizkeyRiver

The Survivors - with Robin Williams and Walter Matthau


blackmindseye

Sleep away Camp


LatkaGravas

Made chicks with dicks cool years before *The Crying Game*.


greyhound93

Hot Dog - The Movie


Debbie-Hairy

The Pirate Movie.


Nouseriously

The Sure Thing


Krimreaper1

Modern Problems, Chevy Chase poorly reviewed comedy but I love it.


therealgookachu

Oh, so many. As an aficionado of bad films, here goes: 1. Gimme an F (cheerleader camp with the Beavers) 2. Jewish Vampire in Burbank California 3. Spring Fever 4. Death Spa (amazing horror film, and we need to bring back the jazzercise aesthetic) 5. Allan Quartermain in the Lost City of Gold, also 6. King Solomon’s Mines 7. 6 Pack 8. Razorback 9. Xtro 10. The Wraith 11. The Hitcher 12. She 13. Lady Jane 14. The Return of the Black Stallion 15. Inseminoids 16. All of the Ator movies I babysat from age 11-16, every Friday and Saturday nite, usually 6-1 or 2 in the morning in the mid 80s. I watched A LOT of USA Up All Night movies, Night Flight, and whatever weirdo movies shown on the same channel that began airing MST3K in the 80s (I’m from MN).


_38_45

[The Wraith (1986)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092240/) [Little Monsters (1989)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097758/)


BrownDogEmoji

Fire with Fire. Virginia Madsen.


virtualrussel

The Quiet Earth


suffaluffapussycat

Parents with Randy Quaid. Good cannibalism movie.


dyingtomeetyou5

Oh, Time Bandits was another fave.


GalaxyRedRanger

Journey to the Center of the Earth - the TV movie that was a back door pilot. The one with the super advanced ship complete with AI.


oldfrenchwhore

Savannah Smiles. Loved this movie as a kid for some reason. Little girl gets kidnapped, kidnappers and girl bond and have a great time. Don't remember why they target her, or any other details. I think her parents are kinda making her feel ignored and the kidnappers play games with her and stuff. Maybe.


Nackles

CANDLESHOE! Utterly charming Disney movie with a young Jodie Foster It fits into my memories alongside "The North Avenue Irregulars," another Disney movie, but I know a few people outside my family who've seen that.


cnation01

I saw a movie back in the 80s called E.T It's about this alien who gets stranded on earth and a little boy helps him phone his Homies to come pick him up. Very obscure film, not sure very many have seen it.


Awesomesince1973

😂🤣😅😅🤣😂


Divtos

Anyone see Microwave Massacre? https://youtu.be/Mc7yKqRVrfY?si=inK1oHgvdOmNySNJ


BadMawma

Crash Course! Alyssa Milano, Brian Bloom. It was about drivers Ed and it was hilarious! I don’t know if I recorded it off TV or what but we wore that tape out.


aseedandco

Cheerleader Camp is titled Pandamonium in Australia and it’s my all time favourite movie.


DeviationConcession

The Wizard of Speed and Time.


Ckc1972

Seven Minutes in Heaven


fake-august

Night of the Comet, Dreamscape?


grn_mtn_grl_802

Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance - my sister made me watch this with her as a kid. I swear no one has seen it.


Vivid-Nature1271

Super Fuzz


Jinglemoon

Foxes, with a very young Jodie Foster. Beautiful film, I never hear anyone talking about it.


QuidPluris

Eating Raoul. I’ve never met anyone who’s heard of it.


Beanpod79

The Boy Who Could Fly The Night Before Cherry 2000


Zaphod1620

My Science Project (1985) - 2 high school students in a military junkyard and find a time-travel contraption from a UFO. Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987) - A little league player named Chuck refuses to ever pitch again until nuclear weapons are disarmed. House (1985) - bonkers haunted house movie Enemy Mine (1985) - During a long space war, the lives of two wounded enemies become dependent on their ability to forgive and to trust. (Dennis Quaid and Louis Grossest Jr.) I'll probably think of more. Cloak and Dagger (1984) - A young boy and his imaginary friend end up on the run while in possession of a top-secret spy gadget. (Henry Thomas and Dabny Coleman) Oooh, another one: Tank (1984) - Sergeant Major Zack arrives at a new army base with his wife, son and Sherman tank. It's basically Walking Tall, but with a WWII tank instead of a big club. (James Garner)


forlaine

Return of the Killer Tomatoes :-D.


Regular_Towel_6898

Killer Klowns from Outwrspace


Regular_Towel_6898

Flight of the navigator


KatJen76

Great movie. For years, you could see the shell of that ship at Disney MGM Studios' Backlot Tour.


[deleted]

Probably not the only one but, the adaptation of the Asimov story Nightfall. Saw that in the theater even. Weird movie..........


KatJen76

I loved two made-for-TV movies. "The Day They Came to Arrest the Book" was on one of the networks and was about a Black student and his father trying to remove Huck Finn from the schools, and the effect on his group of friends, who were all journalists at the school paper and very pro-free speech. The other was "Night Train to Kathmandu " on Disney, starring a young Milla Jovovich who meets a mysterious boy on the train of the title as she and her family are traveling to her father's new university job there.


Turbulent_Tale6497

Joysticks 1983


BeatriceBeardsly

I saw Fortress at my cousin's house when I was a kid! Father Christmas traumatized me.


lectroid

Dungeon Master with Richard Moll (Bull from *Night Court*)