Apartment Zero (1988)

Apartment Zero (1988)

[8] Colin Firth and Hart Bochner star in this bold drama/thriller from writer/director Martin Donovan and co-screenwriter David Koepp (who teamed together a few years later on Death Becomes Her). Firth stars as a movie theater manager in Buenos Aires…
Making of a Male Model (1983)

Making of a Male Model (1983)

[7] Joan Collins and Jon-Erik Hexum star in this made-for-TV movie about a young cowboy who moves to New York where a modeling agent believes he can hit it big in ads, commercials, and beyond. Naturally, the cowpoke (the insanely…
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

[7] It's 18th century France and everyone's the Vavavoom de Floofenberg dressed to the nines and powdered like a doughnut. Yes, Dangerous Liaisons is one of those dreaded costume dramas. But like any good one, if you strip away the…
Adventures in Babysitting (1987)

Adventures in Babysitting (1987)

[6] Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas, The Karate Kid) stars as a high school senior who resigns herself to babysitting when her date cancels at the last minute. But when her friend runs away from home and makes a panicked…
The Boys Next Door (1985)

The Boys Next Door (1985)

[7] Charlie Sheen and Maxwell Caulfield (Grease 2) star as high school graduates who take a weekend car trip to L.A. where they start a killing spree. Sheen's character slowly begins to wrestle with his lingering empathy, while Caulfield's grows…
Staying Alive (1983)

Staying Alive (1983)

[3] John Travolta returns under the curious direction of Sylvester Stallone for this sequel to the mega-hit Saturday Night Fever. But whereas Saturday Night Fever was a sincere story about a young man with big dreams and lessons to learn,…
A Little Sex (1982)

A Little Sex (1982)

[3] It's not Tim Matheson or Kate Capshaw's fault. Really, it isn't. Both of them are plenty attractive and charismatic to carry a film like this. The problem is that A Little Sex is a boiled-down reduction of every rom-com…
D.O.A. (1988)

D.O.A. (1988)

[2] Dennis Quaid stars in this remake of a 1949 thriller about a literature professor who has 24 hours to live, and he spends that time trying to figure out who poisoned him and why. I like Dennis Quaid a…
Prom Night (1980)

Prom Night (1980)

[5] A masked killer stalks four teenagers at the prom, six years after they accidentally killed a fellow classmate. Prom Night is part of the slasher boom of the late '70s and early '80s. Jamie Lee Curtis stars as the…
In a Glass Cage (1986)

In a Glass Cage (1986)

[8] In this Spanish film from writer/director Agustín Villaronga, a Nazi child killer is put in an iron lung after a botched suicide attempt. His wife hires a young male nurse to take care of him, but the young man…