Top 10 Cult Classic Mid-80s Fantasy Adventure Flicks
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March 7th, 2008 at 13:00 by hecklerspray staff
As any nostalgic 25 - 30 year old will tell you the mid-80s were a truly magical cinematic time for any kid to grow up in. In the wake of George Lucas’ original Star Wars trilogy, we were bombarded with a cluster of imaginative, mystical live-action fantasy adventure films, which eagerly promoted a genuine sense of mischievous fun and adventure.
Tales of typically normal excitable youngsters going on epic adventures that lifted the heart stirred the soul and haunted our dreams. But it was the palpable sense of adventure that really convinced, giving us youngsters an achievable sense of daydream adventure - long before the internet or Xbox-claimed adolescent imagination.
Why the mid-80s? Give us another span of time where there was an equally audacious flux of films that dared to lift the lid on Pandora’s Box to capture our imagination and fiendishly tape into our most primal kiddie fears? So forget the CGI-bloated likes of Harry Potter, Golden Compass and the new Narnia adventures and let us divulge to you hecklerspray’s definitive Top 10 Cult Classic Fantasy Adventure Flicks from the Mid-80s…
1. The Goonies (1985)
How could you possibly compile an ultimate mid 80s film tribute list without including this cult classic from Superman helmer Richard Donner? It’s the tale of a group of young suburbanites going on a (frankly ludicrous) adventure to thwart the council from demolishing their family homes by seeking hidden pirate treasure in booby-trapped underground lairs. But what makes it more believable is its incredibly gifted and likable young cast. Move over Harry Potter, these kids have charisma! With the likes of Mikey, Chunk, Mouth and Data on your team you won’t need magical powers to accomplish a distinguishing characteristic. And yes that’s No Country For Old Men’s Josh Brolin playing Mikey’s teenage brother! And who could forget The Fratellis? The archetypal kiddie movie bad guys, headed by super-bad ass (but sweet as pie in real life - if you believe the cast commentary) old trouper Anne Ramsey. And it’s got Spielberg on executive producing duties and a great cheesy but catchy Cyndi Lauper music video to go with it – what more could your young hearts ask for?
2. Return To Oz (1985)
We weren’t really fans of the original Wizard of Oz movie but when Fairuza Balk came waltzing along with her talking chicken Billina and C3PO-type robot companion Tik-Tok we were overwhelmed by the results. And it was fucking scary too! What with those sinister, sub-Starlight Express Wheelers skirting around, those crumbling and gruesome claymation monsters and that hideous witch Mombi, with her eerie glass cabinet selection of limitless heads. No annoying musical numbers, no cowardly lion or clumsy scarecrow, (well not until later on anyway), just a gothic nightmarish adventure with startling baroque imagery in a mysterious, distant land where you will find ham sandwiches hanging on trees and an old man modelling red slippers.
3. Labyrinth (1986)
In our opinion Oscar-winner Jennifer Connelly was never better than when she played the feisty 15-year-old babysitter Sarah in Jim Henson’s spellbinding adventure. David Bowie camps it up as the glamorous Goblin King, along with a slew of Henson’s imaginative puppeteer creations – and we don’t mind those catchy dance numbers either.
4. Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
Anyone remember the haunting chanting of the Egyptian Rametep? The hallucinogenic stained-glass window knight that suddenly broke away from its frame to demonstrate the impressive power of early CGI? Or the opening shocker where a turkey dinner comes alive to attack its consumer? Well that’s all from this cult special effects Oscar-nominated Sherlock Holmes prequel adventure – which was subtitled (Indiana Jones style): The Pyramid of Fear. Dreamt up by early Harry Potter helmer Chris Columbus, (with Spielberg once again on producing duties), this was a notable highlight for the young cast of unknowns involved and proved a chilling sweeping and deadly adventure, a world away from the archetypal cosy Peter Cushing/Basil Rathbone movie outings.
5. Explorers (1985)
Explorers was the warmhearted tale of a trio of kiddie science geeks who – masterminded by computer whiz-kid River Phoenix, (debuting alongside a painfully young Ethan Hawke) - convert a junkyard carousel car into a floating capsule capable of travelling into outer space. Although looking more like a glorified wheelie bin than anything NASA would conceive the capsule is their gateway to adolescent freedom and they use it like any other teenage kids would use it: to travel the world, explore the universe and of course peep on girlies getting undressed.
6. The Lost Boys (1987)
“Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It’s fun to be a vampire” went the encouraging tagline to this impressionable coming-of-age puberty flick (masking as a vampire movie). The Lost Boys is about two teenage brothers who rub shoulders with a leather-clad clan of blood thirsty vampires following their relocation to a new town in sunny California. A sequel is currently in the works, (welcome back Corey Feldman as Edgar Frog), but the original still holds up today as an irreplaceable nostalgic horror fantasy adventure… and Kiefer Sutherland is still the cool kid you wanna be when your strange.
7. Dark Crystal (1983)
Set in a dark and vast mystical world this is the penultimate moment when muppet maestros Jim Henson and Frank Oz ventured into the limitless realm of the feature film. It’s a testament to the sheer power of suspension of disbelief that we willingly surrender our soles to a land populated entirely by puppet creations, ranging from the grotesque eagle-like entities of the feared Skekses to the almost sickly sweet Gelfings. It’s not exactly ‘live-action’ but we like it.
8. Flight of the Navigator (1986)
This is the film that embraces the journey of a 12-year-old whizzkid who goes on a bombastic time-travelling adventure when he’s abducted by an alien space-capsule, piloted by a robot that looks bizarrely like your dentist’s examination lamp. But it’s a heck of a lot of fun even 20 years on! Hell, it’s even got a young Sarah Jessica Parker in it as an annoyingly friendly (when hasn’t she been annoying?) laboratory assistant.
9. Highlander (1986)
If you don’t get too distracted by Christopher Lambert’s dodgy Scottish vocals, or the ridiculously complex plot, then Highlander is still a thrilling adventure yarn to rival Flash Gordon. And just like that said sci-fi film it’s got a truly marvellous signature score by Queen. Fuck the sequels, reassert yourself with the masterly original.
10. Repo Man (1984)
Alex Cox’s superb science fiction film stars a young Emilio Estevez as Otto: a punk rocker who becomes the ultimate car repossession professional after helping to steal a wanted vehicle. The twist in the tale is that there’s some strange glowing object inside the boot of the car that’s got the attention of government agents and UFO enthusiasts alike. With classy support from veteran character actor Harry Dean Stanton this was the film that put the ‘punk’ into punk rocker.
[story by Oliver Pfeiffer]
March 7th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I’ve never heard of any of these movies or the people associated with them.
Luckily for me, I spent the entire 80s stoned out of my head on pot.
March 7th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
nice list but where is Krull?
March 8th, 2008 at 6:48 am
Where is ‘The Never Ending Story’?
March 10th, 2008 at 1:37 am
Top 10 Cult Classic Mid-80s Fantasy Adventure Flicks…
As any nostalgic 25 - 30 year old will tell you the mid-80s were a truly magical cinematic time for any kid to grow up in. In the wake of George Lucas’ original Star Wars trilogy, we were bombarded with a cluster of imaginative, mystical live-action …
March 10th, 2008 at 8:22 am
How could you leave out The Princess Bride?
March 10th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
WTF?! Got to agree with Goonies but wheres Back To The Future??? an Iconic classic n all that malarky!
March 10th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
These are supposed to be ‘cult’ classics remember not bona fide successes up there with the likes of E.T and Indiana Jones.
And I knew you would be screaming for Princess Bride, Never Ending Story etc but I was restricted to a top 10 so I had to limit myself a bit.
Any more additions are warmly welcome, but please don’t mention Legend, that was utter pants (with or without a girly Tom Cruise in it!)
March 11th, 2008 at 1:04 am
Loved THE EXPLORERS. Nice pick.
How about TRON? Or THE LAST STARFIGHTER?
Also, not for kids, but when I was 14 I *loved* THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:12 am
Dude…. you misses one big one…… Willow
March 11th, 2008 at 1:12 am
Legend! Where is Legend???
March 11th, 2008 at 1:13 am
You missed several great ones, like “Trancers”, “The Last Starfighter”, oh I can’t think of any more. But you missed these!
March 11th, 2008 at 1:13 am
Where’s Liquid Sky (1982)?
March 11th, 2008 at 1:15 am
1 word
Megaforce
March 11th, 2008 at 1:16 am
Other MAJOR classic that was missed….The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. Excellent film 1984 - http://imdb.com/title/tt0086856/ Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
Peter Weller John Lithgow Ellen Barkin Jeff Goldblum Christopher Lloyd
March 11th, 2008 at 1:19 am
Fun list - good memories - what about Beastmaster? Red Sonja? Legend? Willow? I think you missed a lot of real good ones that failed to make Big Time status.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:19 am
What about Tron or the Last Starfighter?
Or for the record any film that mentions Shermer High?
March 11th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Yes, why weren’t these all just Krull, Krull, Krull, Krull, Krull, Krull, Barry Gordy’s The Last Dragon, and Krull?
March 11th, 2008 at 1:21 am
Oliver, are you retarded? You omitted the Princess Bride and Never Ending Story because you thought those other movies were more popular, those two and the Goonies are more famous and classics than anything else on that list, The Princess bride has 22 times the votes of Return to Oz and is on the IMDB top 250, youve got to be fucking joking
March 11th, 2008 at 1:21 am
I’m with the above:
WHERE THE HELL IS THE NEVER ENDING STORY!?!
March 11th, 2008 at 1:24 am
what about “Time Bandits”???
March 11th, 2008 at 1:26 am
I agree with every one of these choices! What a spot on list.
Excellent job!
March 11th, 2008 at 1:29 am
Where is Legend? Where is Never-ending Story? Where is Princess Bride for god’s sake!?
also i 2nd Krull getting honorable mention on the list.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:30 am
Explorers was IT for me.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:31 am
no Willow, no credibility
March 11th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Haven’t seen Return to Oz…how’d I miss that one?
What about Time Bandits?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXIZktCzG-c
March 11th, 2008 at 1:34 am
Considering this list is missing Back to the Future, Neverending Story, and Bill & Ted, yet leaves in a bunch of other crap that could be left out it fails.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:38 am
what about “time bandits”?
March 11th, 2008 at 1:40 am
nice list, the explorers and return to oz are seriously good. i have to agree with the krull mention though… ladyhawk? maybe.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:41 am
The Neverending Story was definitely not a bona fide success, and clearly it fits the “cult classic” label. I love that you had Goonies at No. 1 (so would I), but I don’t see how Neverending Story got left out.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:47 am
wtf. how did return to oz make this list. that movie was horrible. i knew that when i was 5. btw where is the never ending story? bastian!
March 11th, 2008 at 1:52 am
Hey great list, maybe War Games( it was a bit adventurish) and yeah Princess Bride, Never Ending Story. They were great days alright.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:00 am
where the hell is WILLOW?!!? The greatest swordsman who ever lived is NOT amused.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:01 am
uh…no Time Bandits? Ridiculous.
tb
March 11th, 2008 at 2:06 am
ladyhawke
March 11th, 2008 at 2:07 am
You cant forget staying up late at night and watching ‘Up the Creek’.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:25 am
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March 11th, 2008 at 2:27 am
Cloak and Dagger! That was a classic! Or War Games!
March 11th, 2008 at 2:31 am
where is beastmaster? conan the barbarian? tron? night of the comet? dragonmaster? excaliber? dragonslayer?
your list is weak.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:37 am
No Mazes and Monsters? Fail!
March 11th, 2008 at 2:41 am
How could you forget “The Last Starfighter”?!?
March 11th, 2008 at 2:50 am
Legend? Back to the Future? Princess Bride? Another “Top Ten” list that is probably just the first 10 items the author could think of.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:51 am
No C.H.O.M.P.S or Hawk the Slayer?
March 11th, 2008 at 2:56 am
Where is Buckaroo Banzai?????
March 11th, 2008 at 2:58 am
I am glad to say I own most of those on DVD. I just blogged about the upcoming sequels to a couple of 80’s movies on my site, The Lost Boys 2 : The Tribe which is going direct to DVD. The Last Starfighter is also getting a sequel, but I haven’t heard much buzz about it yet.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:58 am
Better yet.. What about.. ” The Never Ending Story” !!!
March 11th, 2008 at 3:00 am
BEETLEJUICE!!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094721/
March 11th, 2008 at 3:05 am
every good Repo man does Speed son. . .
Harry Dean Stanton at his best
March 11th, 2008 at 3:08 am
How can a 80’s fantasy list be missing these??
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Time Bandits
Beetlejuice
Blade Runner
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
Harry and the Hendersons
Little Monsters
Little Shop of Horrors
Short Circuit
Toxic Avenger (too cheesy?)
Finally, Willow. Where the hell is Willow?
And I enjoyed the heck out of Star Wars- Battle for Endor
March 11th, 2008 at 3:22 am
why only limit this to 25-30 year old, I’m 33 and I remember all of these…
March 11th, 2008 at 3:28 am
The Never Ending Story ? back to the future ? The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ? you miss very good ones
March 11th, 2008 at 3:30 am
dude, buckaroo banzai
war of the worlds part 2, starring the fly, third rock, robocop, rev jim, mr vargas …. i mean c’mon
March 11th, 2008 at 3:38 am
THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI?? Hello??
March 11th, 2008 at 3:53 am
What about “Monster Squad”? That movie kicked ass. “Wolfman’s got nards!”
March 11th, 2008 at 4:07 am
Okay, I see your point about “bona fide”. How bout this then.
Krull (so had to make this list, easily should have won over Sherlock), Ice Pirates, Time Bandits, Monster Squad, Clash of the Titans (70’s-esque but an ‘81 movie), GI Joe: The Movie, Howard the Duck, Masters of the Universe, Condorman (good god this movie was the best), Last Starfighter, Buckaroo Banzai (my god, man!), Adventures of Baron Munchausen, D.A.R.Y.L.
Man there are so many more. But good god man! No Buckaroo?
March 11th, 2008 at 4:08 am
How can you leave of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension?
This is the ULTIMATE cult classic of the 80’s
March 11th, 2008 at 4:10 am
It should also be noted that the UFO’s voice is different in this trailer for Flight of the Navigator.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:18 am
A nice oversight is War Games, Talk about a classic!
March 11th, 2008 at 4:19 am
ok so its just at the end of the 80’s…but what about Little Monsters?
March 11th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Laborinth was one of my favorite movies as a child. Where is the Neverending Story?
March 11th, 2008 at 4:21 am
Neverending Story was a great one… where is it!?!?!
March 11th, 2008 at 4:23 am
What about Rocketeer? Jennifer Connely at her most wonderful.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:24 am
How about “Froggy Dreaming(a.k.a. The Quest)”, “Cloak and Dagger”, or “flight of the Navigator” All of which I believe stared the kid from ET.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:40 am
I used to be into Mid-80’s Fantasy Adventure Flicks when I was a homeless rodeo clown but not anymore. Now I am a world class magician !
March 11th, 2008 at 4:41 am
Umm.. The Repo Man is no fantasy adventure flick. It is a great film from the 80’s, but definitely doesn’t belong in the list.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:45 am
What about that movie called “My Science Project” about this school kid that finds a energy core from a UFO and it gets misused or something and then it creates a portal in the high school and these dinosaurs come out…..it was super cool.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:58 am
Dune. Kyle MacLachlan & Patrick Stewart. ’nuff said
March 11th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Short Circuit and Cocoon….dummies.
March 11th, 2008 at 7:59 am
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March 11th, 2008 at 8:31 am
What about Leonard Part 6? That was the best 80’s movie. Maybe best movie ever. Period!
March 11th, 2008 at 8:59 am
What about “Batteries not included” ?
March 11th, 2008 at 9:05 am
And where o where is the Greatest movie of all time (drum roll)…..
Big Trouble in lLttle China?
March 11th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Have you never actually seen any non-mainstream films?
March 11th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Howard the Duck!!!! that was a classic!
March 11th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Who said *batteries not included?! In the kennel for you, sir! Right now.
March 11th, 2008 at 10:02 am
beetlejuice def should’ve been on there but also i havent seen anyone mention LITTLE MONSTERS.. def an 80’s classic
March 11th, 2008 at 10:09 am
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March 11th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Most def. needs The Neverending Story!
March 11th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
You eat alot of acid, Miller? Back in the hippie days?
March 11th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Um? Idiots!
How about The Neverending Story?!?!
Better movie than all of the above put together!
March 11th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
what about lord of the rings??? paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalease
March 11th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
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March 11th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
That trailer for the goonies is terrible. Especially as it was and still is a brilliant film.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
HEY!!!!
Where is Jack F’ing Burton!!!!!
And His twin Snake Pliskin?!!
March 11th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Highlander? Young Sherlock Holmes? GTFO.
The rest of the list is spot on, but missing The Neverending Story.
March 11th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
OKAY list, in general… but as mentioned earlier, to have a Mid-80’s Fantasy Adventrue list not include NeverEnding Story, Buckaroo Bonzai, Time Bandits, Highlander, BladeRunner, or Willow is simply wrong…
March 11th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
not to mention that paul reubens is the voice of the ship in flight of the navigator.
nothing like a ship that sounds like pee wee herman.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
But what people really want to know is, where is the torrent pack of the movies?
March 11th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Only a fool would leave out: (in addition to the films already mentioned)
Weird Science
Real Genius
Starman
Red Sonya
and dont frickn forget about Enemy Mine….
March 11th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Ahh damn missed adding
D.A.R.Y.L
Splash
Cocoon
March 11th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Hey everybody, I’d like to take this opportunity to mention all these terrible movies that probably everyone saw, and no one liked. In addition, I will refuse to read any of the previous suggestions in an attempt to maximize duplication.
I will then proceed to criticize your list for its omissions, as well as calling into question your intelligence, hygiene, and parentage, my post liberally sprinkled with nearly unrecognizable typos, AOL-style acronyms, and endless self-promotion.
March 11th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Salute of the jugger
Juggers are comin’
March 12th, 2008 at 12:15 am
CULT classics. CULT. As in, not mainstream, not $100 Million blockbusters, not huge in the theatres, possibly even flops in the theatres. But found a CULT following, through VHS/DVD, secondary releases, whatever, and somehow became more than what they were originally.
And as the guy said, he limited himself to 10, and when you do that, you are going to pare it down to your personal faves.
These just happen to be his faves, and I agree with a lot of the list, and makes me want to rewatch some of these that I do own.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Rocky Horror Picture Show!!!
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March 12th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
WTF, where’s Legend?
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March 14th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Gotta add BLADE RUNNER to the list!
March 28th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Glad to see so many Krull addicts out there, it’s my all-time most-watched movie… as of this writing, I have so far watched it 135 times, can recite the entire dialogue by heart, and hum the entire fantastic soundtrack by James Horner; his Magnum Opus.
The best bit is the back-and-forth between Lyssa and the Beast:
“You have chosen a paltry kingdom on an insignificant planet!”
“And Love!”
“Love is fleeting. Power is eternal.” (My favourite movie line!
…etc
Every one of these cheesy old movies, both the ones in your list and all the ones in the comments, I remember fondly from my younger days. Some uber-geek mentioned Hawk The Slayer (a TRUE cheese classic!) but I’ll go you one better for pure cheddar: remember Star Crash? Yes, the ultra-cheap Star-Wars ripoff featuring Christopher Plummer, with MUCH better female costuming than the prudish Star Wars, tacky lines, spray-painted Airfix-model spaceships, Christmas-tree-light stars, the works!
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April 6th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Amazing list.
April 9th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Hey I wonder if anyone could help me. I’ve been racking my brain trying to remember the title of this movie. ALL I CAN REMEMBER (when I watched it as a child) were lizard/dinosaurs attacking a city made of stone, and hundreds of people throwing rock boulders off the top at the ‘beasts’ that were climbing up the walls of the city. It was an old movie in the same vein as Jason and Argonauts etc. stop motion etc. if anyone knows the title please tell me as its driving me crazy.
April 10th, 2008 at 11:15 am
sorry just a question if anyone can help im trying to find out a family fantasy movie’s name. their was a brother and sister in it the find a midget who has special powers he brings them back to his plant they have to help him do something, the people on his plant are mystical and magical some are dressed in white and doing circus acrobatics if anyone can help i know its not a lot to go on but if yo could i thank u so much
April 21st, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
May 10th, 2008 at 8:50 am
whats that 80’s movie ”Nouki” or something? it was about these two little aliens. i cant remember the name! argh… Nooki … Noukki… Nuki…. argh, its not on IMDB
May 17th, 2008 at 1:42 am
ok i am glad to see someone gave mention to masters of the universe heman was great for my brothers and i to play growing up and i am sad to see no one gave mention to EXCALIBER one of the greatest king arthur stories there was but everybody pretty much covered the best movies in the 80s but u know i also gotta give mention to Conan u gotta give it up to conan remember the cartoon on tv my brother and i used to play that all the time and there were quite a few japan anime like one of my all time faves Vampire Hunter D and then there was Ninja Scroll but u know i tell people all the time and always complain that they dont make good movies like back then and u cant forget the Ninja Turtles and im surprised i didnt see too many people give the hobbit propsbut im glad to see labyrinth made it on there and remember the Ewok movies ive been looking for those everywhere
theres several movies and i love just sitting and talking about movies im a movie buff movies and fantasy world was our lif growing up im glad to see other people around my age bringing me back to the day man those were the days no worries only how i was gonna kill the bad guy tomorrow or if we were gonna be robots flying in space or fighters and wizards on a quest