There are a few decades in film history that have been as scrutinized as the 1980s, but to really understand the decade and its movies, it's going to take a couple of someone's who were there for it the first time around.

Drew McLean and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade, one month at a time. The look at what worked then, what endoers now, and how it felt to be there when it all went down. Turn back to calendar with us. It's the 80s all over. I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel.

I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel.

I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel. It's the 80s all over. The first confirmed diagnosis of a sexually transmitted disease causing carpocy's sirchoma was made by Dr. John Gullet in San Francisco. The first reusable spacecraft, the Space Shuttle Columbia, was launched from Cape Canaveral at 7 o'clock AM Eastern Standard Time, and John Kennedy O'Toole won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the amazing remarkable at Confederacy of Dances 12 years after he killed himself, despondent that he couldn't get the book published. Also the very first test drive of Bigfoot, the very first monster truck took place in a field near St. Louis, Missouri. So, oh yes, shit was crushed. And forget all of that because we're here to talk instead

about the eclectic lineup of movies that came out in April of 1981. Hi, this is Scott Wyberg. I'm the co-host of 80s all over. I'm Drew McQueenie. This is one of those months. It is all over the place. And half this stuff I've never heard of, not even when it originally came out. For the most part, you and I are rediscovering a lot of these movies and it's both a joy and occasionally a real freaking chore. Well, look, one of the things that I, one of the things that I personally am worried about is making sure that we get everything right and it is really tricky with release dates because of the way regional releases and things work back then.

So once again, we're gonna do a real quick run through of... See whoops, upside-the-head, say whoops upside-the-head. Say whoops, upside-the-head. We pulled a boner because... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Listeners should get an example of like, like, I mean, for example, Porquies, Canadian film, opened in South Carolina in late 1981, in one city, in South Carolina, in 1981. But the wide American release of Porquies was 1982. So that's the kind of hairs we're splitting here. Do we include the original South Carolina one city release from 1981? Or do we do the wide release from 1982? It's so, ugh. It is. As a result, there are many mistakes that are made or many things that are mentioned at a certain point, and it really does end up after a while feeling like I'm just pulling boners non-stop. So, what I think we may actually do is start saving up the films that we miss. And then now that we're doing special episodes for Patreon subscribers, I think a really great one that we can do from time to time will be just a we pull the boners special where we just go back and catch up on some films that we rolled right through the first time. Also, if you are a fan of 80s all over, I hope that you are a Patreon subscriber at this point. And if you're not, let me tell you why you should be. Patreon is a chance for you to pledge a certain amount of money each month to the podcast. That money then goes to Scott myself to keep this thing going and to rent movies and to pay for whatever we need to do for the show. Patreon supporters are coming in at any decent level or higher. We'll now get full access to all of our bonus audio. That's $5 a month. Wow. So far, we put out a special hour long interview with Nancy Allen.

I'm about to put one out with Leah Thompson

that we recorded last week. That's great. And who else do we have coming up? Pretty soon we'll be interviewing the lovely Miss Amanda Whist from Nightmare on Elm Street and Better Off Dad and many, many quality 80s movies. The fantastic character actors Bill Sadler and Zander Berkley and the fantastic screenwriter, Steven DeSouza, who once wrote a little film

called... actor actor Bill Sadler and Zander Berkley and the fantastic screenwriter, Steven DeSouza, who once wrote a little film called Die Hard. So far the first two that we did, I really, really enjoyed the conversations and what I thought were great about them is how old game Nancy Allen and Leigh Atomson both were for talking about everything. There was nothing that felt like it was off limits with them. And I think there really fun conversations with these actors. This is what sticks out in my mind about the wildlife. They cut my boobs out of it. They made me take a flip off a matte movie in a scene with hard rock. No, we made the scene really, really sexy. And that was stupid. It was like, I think it was written on the script like, her boobs pop out like donuts. So I was like this sucks and her partner was my neighbor. He lived literally next door to me. We were like, if we had to do this stupid scene, let's make it sexy. So we did. During the preview of the movie, I was sitting next to my boyfriend, Dennis Quaid, and Sean Penn, Penn whose brother was in the movie we got there and the whole audience was like oh And they got to that scene and that was dead silence you get your pin drop the scene just stopped the movie from its Yuck-yuck-yuckness and they cut it out they caught my boobs out of a teen Exploitation movie which it was great, great victory of mine. We're also going to start doing full-length audio, commentaries for films. Now if you come into the Dabney Coleman level, which is $10, you'll also get access to the behind-the-scenes glimpses of the 80s all over books that we're working on. If you pledge to become a Thai web-level supporter at $15 a month, you may even join us on the air for a special episode in the future. Stop thinking, let things happen and be the ball. So please guys, take a look at the Patreon page, consider it, sign up, and for those of you already have, thank you so much, and we hope that you feel like the bonus content is worth it. And Drew, we do have a pretty fun month. We do, and there are so many little films up front, like Bloody Birthday. Yeah. Bloody Birthday, the overwhelming horror. Bloody Birthday. It is a night that no one will survive. Drew, something about this stupid, cheap little movie that I have to admit, I kind of like

it's a little dopey and it's really cheap, but it's kind of fun about it. It's about three homicidal children. That's it. It's just killer kids. Alright. There's some cursory explanations to why they might be evil. It doesn't matter. These three kids, two little boys and a little girl are gleefully, blissfully evil. trash but man I did man, I did have fun for most of it. It is like a puppy, it just wants to please you. It's like, look, kids killing people. And they're shitty kids. Yay! And that's all it is. I'll say this, I respect a movie like Bloody Birthday that at least has fun with what it is, as opposed to this next one, the last chase. ["The Last Chase." ["The Last Chase." ["The Last Chase."

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