80s Movie Review - The Breakfast Club

Director: John Hughes
Genre: Drama/ Comedy
Runtime: 97 minutes
Year: 1985
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Paul Gleason, John Kapelos

Description: Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.

Review: “The Breakfast Club” is a high school film with actual characters, a dose of humor and even a bit of drama. For me, a classic.
On a Saturday morning five students of a high school have to stay for detention. The frustrated teacher Richard Vernon tells them to stay in the library, sit still, don’t talk and write an essay about who they are. The five students are all very different and all run in different friend circles: The rebel John Bender, sports jock Andrew Clark, nerd Brian Johnson, outsider Allison Reynolds and princess Claire Standish.
Although the students aren’t allowed to talk or move, they disobey the rules. The five get to know each other better and find out that they aren’t that different after all. The characters have depth and chemistry, you feel like part of the small group. It’s probably the best high school film ever made and it inspired many other movies. In almost every film or TV show the stereotypes introduced in “The Breakfast Club” are used.
“The Breakfast Club” is a great film, that influenced a lot of other movies in the genre.

Rating: 5/ 5

100 Movie Challenge 2016 - # 5: He Knows You're Alone

Director: Armand Mastroianni

Genre: Thriller/ Horror

Runtime: 94 minutes

Year: 1980

Starring: Caitlyn O’Heaney, Don Scardino, Elizabeth Kemp, Tom Hanks, Paul Gleason, James Rebhorn, Patsy Pease, Dana Barron

Description: A young bride-to-be is being stalked upon by a serial killer. She gets help from a former lover, but will they manage to escape?

Review: A man killing brides. That’s all you need to know, because that’s all there is to it. Add some uninteresting characters and scenes that have nothing to do with the plot and you have “He Knows You’re Alone”.

Amy is about to get married and her husband to be is going off to an all guys weekend. Amy starts seeing this guy, a guy that seems to be following her. Nobody believes her and say she is just imagining it.

This is just one of those 80s slasher films, fun to watch but not a lot more. It has Tom Hanks in it, in his first ever role. Only a few scenes though.

If you like 80s slasher pulp it’s a fun time, but also forgettable. It will only be remember as Tom Hanks’ first movie.

Rating: 2/ 5