The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
Synopsis: A mute black man from outer space (Joe Morton, Terminator 2: Judgement Day) crashlands his spaceship into the Hudson River, New York, and somehow ends up in Harlem. “The […]
Category Archives: 1984
Stephen King’s Children of the Corn (1984)
Synopsis: A young couple (Linda Hamilton, The Terminator, and Peter Horton, TV’s Thirtysomething) gets stranded in a small rural town in Nebraska, where its population consists only of children and […]
The Evil that Men Do (1984)
Synopsis: Charles Bronson (The Great Escape and Death Wish) plays an ex-hitman who comes out of retirement in order to avenge the murder of an old friend. His mission takes him […]
Director’s Spotlight: David Lean’s A Passage to India (1984)
Synopsis: Eager to see her fiancé, Ronny Heaslop (Nigel Havers, TV’s Downton Abbey), who works as a city magistrate in British India, Adela Quested (Judy Davis, Husbands and Wives), travels […]
A Soldier’s Story (1984)
Synopsis: Howard E. Rollins (Ragtime) is Captain Davenport, a black Amy officer assigned to investigate the murder of a black Sergeant (Adolph Caesar, The Color Purple) in the Deep South […]
Mrs. Soffel (1984)
Synopsis: In 1901, at a Pittsburgh prison, the warden’s wife (Diane Keaton, Annie Hall) falls in love with a convicted killer (Mel Gibson, Mad Max). As the affair intensifies, the […]
Blood Song (1984)
Synopsis: Blood Song has two independent storylines that collide half way through the film. The first story deals with a vicious psychopath (Frankie Avalon, Beach Party) who escapes from a mental institution. The […]
Thief of Hearts (1984)
Synopsis: A professional burglar (Steven Bauer, Primal Fear) who robs upper class houses accidentally steals a married woman’s (Barbara Williams, Watchers) secret diary. After reading the diary, the thief becomes […]
The Nightmare Series: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Synopsis: A teenager, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp, Shocker), and her High School friends are having nightmares about a disfigured psychopath named Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund, The Mangler). When one of the […]
