Tim Dirks

Director/scriptwriter Alex Cox's off-beat debut cult film Repo Man (1984) - a hybrid sci-fi black comedy crime story told about car repos in LA & possible radioactive aliens in the trunk of a car (the film's MacGuffin); see Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/mVMVXM0E7M https://t.co/007eHGlov0

In writer/director Wes Craven's horrific teen slasher film A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), a demonic, vengeance-crazed, sadistic dream-world character terrorized sleeping teens in the small town of Springwood, OH; see Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/12A8W7S9qE https://t.co/hMUzD6ikHw

Joe Dante's and Warner Bros.' mischievous, PG-rated fantasy horror-comedy Gremlins (1984) told about a small town at Christmas-time besieged by malevolent reptilian creatures unleashed when rules about their care were neglected; see Filmsite's review: https://t.co/qvSBgaSXR1 https://t.co/YUBr4wQh45

In director W. D. Richter's PG-rated, wacky, pulpy B-movie sci-fi parody and space saga The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (1984), BB and his crime-fighting team attempted to save the world from alien Red Lectroids; see Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/XroHXyqWHE https://t.co/5XjI8JWyhA

Writer/director David Cronenberg's terrorizing, disorienting and shocking Videodrome (1983) - an hallucinatory thriller-tale of erotic sci-fi and "body horror," prophetically predicted that TV would replace 'real-life' see Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/gTLS3sTNtJ https://t.co/ixkooxyIaC

Alan Parker's and MGM's cultish, downbeat rock opera in 1982 was a re-imagining of the 1979 Pink Floyd album "The Wall" - a remarkable descent into insanity via rambling music video segments; see Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/vUgKBkCa3A https://t.co/7P5BqiABpJ

Director Amy Heckerling's and Universal Pictures' R-rated cult teen, low-budget, coming-of-age sex comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) is the quintessential teen comedy and seminal high-school film of the 80s, see Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/Wdo7IGNpDT https://t.co/QLL0OInsxB

Director Jim Sharman's and Fox's bizarre, satirical comedy-musical Shock Treatment (1981), a follow-up to The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), spoofed reality TV shows, studio execs, and mental health treatments. See Filmsite's (illustrated) review at: https://t.co/6sowYR2gsP https://t.co/JZJupoO2Lx

Director Abel Ferrara's low-budget, grindhouse, exploitational cult classic and urban NYC thriller Ms. 45 (1981) told about female rape-vengeance by a meek and mute young seamstress (named Thana); see Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/x6godB38SS https://t.co/0ic676s8DO

Heavy Metal (1981) is an amazing, animated, exploitative pop-cult film; rebellious, influential, and dystopian, its sci-fi fantasy graphics in an adult-oriented story told about an evil green-glowing orb (the Loc-Nar); see Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/K2yhjI257t https://t.co/EofnfEtq9b

Director Robert Zemeckis' raucous, bawdy and satirical R-rated black comedy Used Cars (1980) hilariously portrayed the rivalry and nasty competition between two twins - used car lot owners with lots facing each other; see Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/mTXTq00o3C https://t.co/7TEbNLIvsh

Director George Miller's low-budget, independent, post-nuclear, action-adventure cult favorite Mad Max (1979, Australia) was about a lone cop patrolling the dystopian, outback countryside ruled by maniacal bike gangs; see Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/oIYi0YXlBQ https://t.co/eN7ahUbazy

In the successful low-budget, anarchic buddy comedy Up in Smoke (1978) - the late 1970s 'drug humor flick' was filled with funny stoner incidents and dialogue between potheads Pedro (Cheech Marin) and Stoner (Tommy Chong); Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/2QAaIyIad8 https://t.co/5ha0PhyzsY

Director John De Bello's genre-spoof comedy - the low-budget, cheesy, crude and silly Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978) was "so-bad-it's-good"; about efforts of incompetent authorities to fight off the red invaders - see Filmsite's (illustrated) review https://t.co/uqBpetB77I https://t.co/GRIvtpditZ

Director Roger Vadim's psychedelic cult classic Barbarella (1968) was an infamous sci-fi fantasy-comedy and sexual satire about the space exploits of a female adventuress (Jane Fonda) in the 41st C.; see Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/XtqY6qjs9T https://t.co/VEJAsW3i9A

Director Roman Polanski's offbeat horror comedy The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) told about two odd and hapless vampire hunters in mid-1800s Transylvania who attempted to destroy an undead Count and rescue a maiden; see Filmsite's (illustrated) review: https://t.co/BsVa2rlINN https://t.co/WYCuHx0Egw

Director Philippe De Broca's cult classic sleeper King of Hearts (1966) was a satirical, quirky anti-war fable set at the end of WWI about the insanity of war - see Filmsite's (illustrated) review at: https://t.co/DaFh4oqO9v https://t.co/k6pcSvrRtM