Hello Friends,
Grab your popcorn and pull up a stool, its Movie Night again on Vinyl in the Valley!
Tonight we're watching the 1982 cult classic about High School kids-gone-bad, Class of 1984 and its pretty f'ing AMAZING...
Brilliantly weird & violent movie in the same vein as Warriors & Over the Edge. Class of 1984 takes place at Lincoln High, your average American high school in the early 1980's (Actually, this was filmed in Canada, but you get the gist!) Gangs of punks and thugs roam the hallways. There's metal detectors at the entrances (can you imagine?) Drugs are ingested and dealt right out in the open. Students and teachers go to school in utter and absolute fear of these drug-addled marauders!
Enter Perry King as Andrew Norris, the school's newest music teacher. He has no idea what he's in for, but he's not going to take any shit from anyone!
The film features Roddy McDowall as a jaded and disgruntled biology teacher; Timothy Van Patten as the gang's ringleader; and even a young Michael J. Fox in his first movie roll as Arthur, a do-gooder whose best friend gets hooked on heroin and plummets to his death after climbing to the top of the school's flagpole!
Directed by Mark Lester, who would later direct the Schwarzenegger-classic, Commando, and Stephen King's Firestarter, crafts a cynical, violent & dystopian not-so-distant future. The great Lalo Schifrin created a haunting, synth-heavy score and Alice Cooper even lends his talents to the movie's theme song, the awesomely-terrible, "I Am The Future" (here). L.A. punk band, Fear, contribute a couple of songs to the soundtrack as well!
They don't make them like this anymore kids! We give this one two raised cocktail glasses!
Brilliantly weird & violent movie in the same vein as Warriors & Over the Edge. Class of 1984 takes place at Lincoln High, your average American high school in the early 1980's (Actually, this was filmed in Canada, but you get the gist!) Gangs of punks and thugs roam the hallways. There's metal detectors at the entrances (can you imagine?) Drugs are ingested and dealt right out in the open. Students and teachers go to school in utter and absolute fear of these drug-addled marauders!
Enter Perry King as Andrew Norris, the school's newest music teacher. He has no idea what he's in for, but he's not going to take any shit from anyone!
The film features Roddy McDowall as a jaded and disgruntled biology teacher; Timothy Van Patten as the gang's ringleader; and even a young Michael J. Fox in his first movie roll as Arthur, a do-gooder whose best friend gets hooked on heroin and plummets to his death after climbing to the top of the school's flagpole!
Directed by Mark Lester, who would later direct the Schwarzenegger-classic, Commando, and Stephen King's Firestarter, crafts a cynical, violent & dystopian not-so-distant future. The great Lalo Schifrin created a haunting, synth-heavy score and Alice Cooper even lends his talents to the movie's theme song, the awesomely-terrible, "I Am The Future" (here). L.A. punk band, Fear, contribute a couple of songs to the soundtrack as well!
They don't make them like this anymore kids! We give this one two raised cocktail glasses!
We'll see you next time, friends, until then the Tiki Bar is closed*.
(* not really)
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