A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

[8] Teenagers are hunted in their dreams by a murderous burn victim. But unlike normal nightmares, if the kids die in their dreams, they also die in real life. Writer/director Wes Craven (Scream, The Hills Have Eyes) works from a…
Hardbodies (1984)

Hardbodies (1984)

[6] Three older men rent a fancy house on the beach and plan to spend the summer in the company of lovely young women, but they need the help of a young surfer dude (Grant Cramer from Killer Klowns from…
Blind Date (1984)

Blind Date (1984)

[6] Joseph Bottoms (The Black Hole) stars as a blind man who receives experimental surgery allowing him to 'see' sonar images with help from a device. As he's getting used to being blind and using the new machine, a taxicab-driving…
Firestarter (1984)

Firestarter (1984)

[7] A father and daughter are on the run from a secret government group that experimented on them, giving them frightening powers of telekinesis and spontaneous combustion. David Keith (An Officer and a Gentleman) and Drew Barrymore (E.T.) play our…
Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)

Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)

[3] Pia Zadora and Craig Sheffer star in a no-budget sci-fi rock opera that's so abominable, it's almost charming. When a bunch of space dudes in pink costumes land on Earth looking for the source of rock music, they find…
The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)

The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)

[6] A 1943 Navy experiment to cloak a ship from enemy radar accidentally sends two sailors forty-one years into the future. Once they arrive in 1984, they are pursued by the military and begin suffering a mysterious illness that threatens their…
Razorback (1984)

Razorback (1984)

[6] Razorback is a passable midnight horror movie from Russell Mulcahy, who would go on to direct the cult fave Highlander a few years later. Razorback is about a giant boar that terrorizes the Australian outback. After an American reporter disappears,…
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)

Revenge of the Nerds (1984)

[7] Once they're displaced from their dorm by the college's alpha-male fraternity, a bunch of science geeks take it upon themselves to create a new fraternity and challenge the college's preferential treatment of jocks. Revenge of the Nerds contains its…
Footloose (1984)

Footloose (1984)

[8] At first sight, you might mistake Footloose for just another teen rebellion movie, but Herbert Ross' (Steel Magnolias) sensitive direction and committed performances from John Lithgow and Dianne Wiest help the film transcend its genre. The story about a town…
The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)

The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)

[6] Intentionally bizarre and overwrought, I'm not sure what to make of this adaptation of John Irving's novel about an extended, eccentric family that moves into a down-trodden hotel. I liked a previous Irving adaptation, The World According to Garp,…