GMD Social Poll: Top Ten Films of 1985

[Krow]

New improved list. Fair warning, spoilers contain NSFW material

1. Re-Animator

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One of the all time kings of splatter.

2. Fright Night

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That fucking face. Not okay when I as a kid. Scared me fuckshit.

3. Commando

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Please dont disturb my friend....

4. Day of the Dead

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So happy when this guy gets spaghetti'd

5. Phenomena

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Argento.Soundtrack is beastly.

6. The Goonies

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Do i need to say it?

7. The Stuff

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Lets eat weird jizz we found in the ground, what could go wrong, the film

8. House

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Can i just inherit a haunted house please?

9. Demons

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Gross. Almost sexy. spatttttttter

10. Return of the Living Dead

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Sexy, gross, things I wasnt as interested in as a kid as I am now but yeah.

 

[CiG]

Any action movie fans in here like Jackie Chan's Police Story?

Seriously has some of the most insane stunts and action sequences I've ever seen in a movie, and they all still hold up 35 years later!





Ignore the shitty English dubbing in these clips.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

2. American Ninja

damn Americana Ninja came out in '85? That one's definitely top 2 for me.

 

[RadicalThrasher]

damn Americana Ninja came out in '85? That one's definitely top 2 for me.

Yep '85

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Yep '85

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

1. Back to the Future
2. Clue
3. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
5. Silver Bullet
6. The Return of the Living Dead
7. Re-Animator
8. Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird
9. Pee-wee's Big Adventure
10. Rocky IV

 

[CiG]

1. Ran / 乱 (Akira Kurosawa)




2. Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)




3. To Live and Die in L.A. (William Friedkin)




4. Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon)




5. Tampopo / タンポポ (Juzo Itami)




6. Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood)




7. Death Wish 3 (Michael Winner)




8. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader)




9. Commando (Mark L. Lester)




10. Love Hotel / ラブホテル (Shinji Somai)


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11. Demons / Dèmoni (Lamberto Bava)
12. A Time to Live, a Time to Die / 童年往事 (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
13. Code of Silence (Andrew Davis)
14. The Boys Next Door (Penelope Spheeris)
15. Police Story / 警察故事 (Jackie Chan)
16. Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky)
17. O-Bi, O-Ba - The End of Civilization / O-bi, O-ba - Koniec cywilizacji (Piotr Szulkin)
18. Flesh + Blood (Paul Verhoeven)
19. A Year of the Quiet Sun / Rok spokojnego słońca (Krzysztof Zanussi)
20. The Return of the Living Dead (Dan O'Bannon)
21. Subway (Luc Besson)
22. After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
23. Angel's Egg / 天使のたまご (Mamoru Oshii)
24. The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy)
25. Witness (Peter Weir)
26. Lifeforce (Tobe Hooper)
27. Def-Con 4 / Ground Zero (Tony Randel / Paul Donovan)
28. Phenomena / Creepers (Dario Argento)
29. Invasion U.S.A. (Joseph Zito)
30. Mr. Vampire / 殭屍先生 (Ricky Lau)
31. Vampire Hunter D / 吸血鬼ハンターD (Toyo Ashida)
32. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (George Ogilvie / George Miller)
33. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
34. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes)
35. Red Sonja (Richard Fleischer)
36. Teen Wolf (Rod Daniel)
37. My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears)
38. The Stuff (Larry Cohen)
39. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
40. Fright Night (Tom Holland)

 

[challenge_everything]

I'm surprised Scorsese's After Hours isn't getting more love, one of his most under-rated, definitely his funniest, and fucked up enough to appeal to the tastes here.

 

[CiG]

That was one of the few films I considered holding off posting my list to see, but then I thought it was kind of absurd since '85 is a rich year with many long time favourites to bother trying to see too many new things to pad it out. Still wanna see it though!

 

[no country for old wainds]

idk if i'll have time to do a proper list but yeah right now my top 4 would be ran, after hours, to live and die in L.A. and re-animator. commando would probably be up there somewhere after a rewatch as well.

6, 8 and 9 on CiG's list are all on my wishlist. i actually have a huge wishlist for this year lol. i think the movie i most wanna see is crime wave, looks so awesome. still haven't seen come and see either, or mishima: a life in four chapters.

 

[CiG]

I remember O-Bi, O-Ba actually being on Youtube but that was awhile ago, worth a snoop if you're that way inclined. I think you'd like Tampopo, I definitely think Vegard would like it more.

 

[Anom@nder Rake]

1. Day of the Dead
2. Come and See
3. The Return of the Living Dead
4. Re-Animator
5. After Hours
6. Clue
7. Ran
8. The Breakfast Club
9. O-Bi, O-Ba - The End of Civilization
10. Back to the Future

 

[Bloopy]

1. Brazil
2. Re-Animator
3. Come and See
4. Into the Night
5. Better Off Dead
6. Weird Science
7. The Quiet Earth
8. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
9. Back to the Future
10. Fright Night

 

[zabu of nΩd]

1. Brazil
2. Back to the Future
3. Commando
4. The Breakfast Club
   
5. Vampire Hunter D

 

[CiG]

1985 is a big year so I'm tagging some peeps to join in:

@zerostatic @MetalAges @Einherjar86 @Funerary_Doom @Terasophe @Burkhard @rms @Onder @TageRyche @mutantllama @Atomic Tide @Sirjack @Serjeant Grumbles @crimsonfloyd @Krigloch the Furious @Carpe Mortem @Bourbon @I-TEND-TO-DIE @Dazed and Brutal @Draehl @EternalMetal @-CC- @The Butt @Allfader

Remember that even a list of 5 movies works.

 

[Bourbon]

Looking over my letterboxd made me realize how little I’ve seen from this year! Some really good shit from what I have seen, though.

1. Come and See
2. Day of the Dead
3. Ran
4. Re-Animator
5. Return of the Living Dead
6. Clue
7. Back to the Future
8. Commando
9. Fright Night
10. Death Wish 3

Edit: just realized my letterboxd list for this year is missing some favorites, like Thou Shalt Not Kill...Except, which has Sam Raimi hilariously playing a Manson like cult leader. Still, feel pretty good about this list. Might change my mind before this ends, though. Got beer in the fridge and the old lady is going off to do wedding planning shit tonight so who knows how I’ll feel later.

 

[Einherjar86]

Actually a ton from this year I've never seen, including a lot of foreign films.

1. The Quiet Earth (one of my all-time favorite sci-fi films, and one of the most unsettling)

2. Brazil

3. Re-Animator

4. Return of the Living Dead

5. To Live and Die in L.A. (long time since I've seen this, but no time to rewatch anything)

6. The Breakfast Club

7. Clue

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

BttF and Goonies are like 1a and 1b for me. Every single day I quote Goonies.
I never got into horror movies.

1 Back To The Future (full on fucking love!)
2 Goonies (full on fucking love!)
3 Commando (fun as shit action movie with tons of good quotes!)
4 Rambo
5 Rocky IV
6 Silverado
7 American Ninja (this movie made me want to be a ninja when I was a little kid)
8 Teen Wolf

 

[zerostatic]

1) Clue
2) Fright Night
3) Commando
4) Real Genius
5) Back to the Future
6) Just One of the Guys
7) The Goonies
8) Pale Rider
9) The Breakfast Club
10) Deathwish 3

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Loving all the Come and See's and Clues.