Favourite 80's fantasy film

[Nobby Nobbs]

I know it's earlier (68) but you can't beat a bit of Barbarella Jane Fonda (oh boy). the part were she's in the big church organ is pure fantasy.

 

[formerly manx toffee]

This. I'm not into the fantasy genre, but how you can you have a list without Dune?

Exactly. David Lynch and Mr. Sting.

 

[TX Bill]

Didn't see many of those but of the one's I did, I went with Highlander.

 

[L4Everton]

Akira was 1988?
Spaceballs has to be 80's.
On a Rick Moranis note 'honey I shrunk the kids' is 80's.
When was the animated LOTR released? Dark was/is an understatement.
Eraserhead
Hellraiser
There's a load of titles from the "video nasty" era. Including some infamous ones.

 

[malcson]

Akira was 1988?
Spaceballs has to be 80's.
On a Rick Moranis note 'honey I shrunk the kids' is 80's.
When was the animated LOTR released? Dark was/is an understatement.
Eraserhead
Hellraiser
There's a load of titles from the "video nasty" era. Including some infamous ones.

NOT Fantasy!

 

[dholliday]

I was talking about acquiring knowledge to this 23 year old Russian bird I met recently. I tried explaining to her how I wished I was like Johnny 5 from Short Circuit. I explained to her that Johnny 5 could read and retain the information detailed within an entire encyclopedia in less than 10 seconds, but she didn't even know who Johnny 5 was.

haha! When I returned to Germany in 2005 after a monster 16-year absence, it took me a while to appreciate that Europeans, and especially eastern Europeans/Russians, have little clue as to the famous films/music/celebrities/politicians we know from the USA/UK cultural axis.

To be fair the Germans know a fair bit, but they know them by the German names, which are often very different to how the movie's called in English.

It was even more extreme before the wall and Iron Curtain fell. People literally had never heard of Western cultural icons like Mickey Mouse, Superman, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Star Wars and what have you.

Eraserhead
Hellraiser

I love Eraserhead. That's more of a psychedelic trip than a fantasy, and it's 70's I think.

Hellraiser has some timeless existential monologues.

Someone do a poll about "favourite 80's horror movies". I'll go with Poltergeist, maybe.