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On This Day in 80s Movies

Step back into the golden age of cinema with our ‘On This Day in 80s Movies’ section. Every day, we revisit the film releases and cinematic events that defined the decade. From blockbuster premieres to groundbreaking achievements in filmmaking, explore the moments that made the 80s a landmark era for movies.

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On This Day: April 25, 1986 - Violets Are Blue Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 25, 1986 - Violets Are Blue Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 25, 1986, the romantic drama Violets Are Blue premiered in theaters. Directed by Jack Fisk, the film starred Sissy Spacek, Kevin Kline, and Bonnie Bedelia. It told the story of a photojournalist who returns to her hometown after years abroad and reconnects with her high school...
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On This Day: April 25, 1980 - Where the Buffalo Roam Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 25, 1980 - Where the Buffalo Roam Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 25, 1980, the counterculture comedy Where the Buffalo Roam premiered in theaters. Directed by Art Linson, the film starred Bill Murray as famed journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, alongside Peter Boyle and Craig T. Nelson. The movie offered a fictionalized and loosely...
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On This Day: April 24, 1987 - My Demon Lover Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 24, 1987 - My Demon Lover Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 24, 1987, the supernatural romantic comedy My Demon Lover premiered in theaters. Directed by Charlie Loventhal and starring Scott Valentine and Michelle Little, the film followed a New York street performer dealing with a strange and unfortunate curse that complicates his love...
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On This Day: April 24, 1981 - The Hand Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 24, 1981 - The Hand Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 24, 1981, the psychological horror film The Hand premiered in theaters. Directed by Oliver Stone and starring Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, and Bruce McGill, the film told the story of a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident, only to believe that the...
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On This Day: April 24, 1981 - Ms. 45 Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 24, 1981 - Ms. 45 Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 24, 1981, the cult revenge thriller Ms. 45 premiered in theaters. Directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Zoe Tamerlis, Steve Singer, and Jack Thibeau, the film followed a mute garment worker in New York City who becomes a vigilante after experiencing two brutal assaults in one...
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On This Day: April 24, 1981 - Cattle Annie and Little Britches Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 24, 1981 - Cattle Annie and Little Britches Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 24, 1981, the western drama Cattle Annie and Little Britches premiered in theaters. Directed by Lamont Johnson, the film starred Burt Lancaster, Rod Steiger, Diane Lane, and Amanda Plummer in a fictionalized tale based on two real life teenage girls who idolized outlaws and set...
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On This Day: April 24, 1987 - Extreme Prejudice Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 24, 1987 - Extreme Prejudice Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 24, 1987, the action thriller Extreme Prejudice premiered in theaters. Directed by Walter Hill, the film starred Nick Nolte, William Forsythe, and Clancy Brown in a gritty modern western about lawmen, drug cartels, and covert military operations along the Texas-Mexico border...
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On This Day: April 23, 1989 - Teen Witch Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 23, 1989 - Teen Witch Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 23, 1989, the teen fantasy comedy Teen Witch premiered in theaters. Directed by Dorian Walker and starring Robyn Lively, Zelda Rubinstein, and Carol Kaye, the film followed a high school girl who discovers she is a witch on the verge of her sixteenth birthday and suddenly gains...
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On This Day: April 23, 1982 - Tag The Assassination Game Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 23, 1982 - Tag The Assassination Game Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 23, 1982, the thriller Tag The Assassination Game premiered in theaters. Directed by Nick Castle, the film starred Robert Carradine, Linda Hamilton, and Michael Winslow. The story followed a group of college students playing a campus-wide game of mock assassination using toy...
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On This Day: April 22, 1988 - The Unholy Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 22, 1988 - The Unholy Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 22, 1988, the supernatural horror film The Unholy premiered in theaters. Directed by Camilo Vila, the movie starred Ben Cross as a young priest assigned to a New Orleans parish where his predecessors have mysteriously died. As he digs deeper, he uncovers a dark, seductive force...
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On This Day: April 22, 1983 - The Deadly Spawn Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 22, 1983 - The Deadly Spawn Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 22, 1983, the low budget cult horror film The Deadly Spawn premiered in theaters. Directed by Douglas McKeown and starring Charles George Hildebrandt and Tom DeFranco, the movie told the story of a group of teens and scientists trying to survive after a flesh eating alien...
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On This Day: April 22, 1983 - Exposed Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 22, 1983 - Exposed Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 22, 1983, the drama thriller Exposed premiered in theaters. Written and directed by James Toback, the film starred Nastassja Kinski as a young woman who leaves her small town life behind to become a successful model in New York. Along the way, she becomes involved with a...
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On This Day: April 22, 1988 - Return of the Killer Tomatoes Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 22, 1988 - Return of the Killer Tomatoes Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 22, 1988, Return of the Killer Tomatoes hit theaters as the follow up to the cult comedy Attack of the Killer Tomatoes from 1978. The film brought back the absurd horror parody style and added a heavy dose of self aware humor, breaking the fourth wall and poking fun at sequels...
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On This Day: April 22, 1988 - Casual Sex? Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 22, 1988 - Casual Sex? Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 22, 1988, the comedy film Casual Sex? premiered in theaters across the United States. Starring Lea Thompson and Victoria Jackson, the movie followed two women who set off for a relaxing vacation at a health spa, hoping to break free from their routines and maybe find romance...
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On This Day: April 21, 1989 - Speed Zone Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 21, 1989 - Speed Zone Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 21, 1989, the action comedy Speed Zone premiered in theaters. Directed by Jim Drake, the movie featured a star studded cast including John Candy, Eugene Levy, Joe Flaherty, Donna Dixon, and Brooke Shields. A spiritual successor to the Cannonball Run films, it followed a group...
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On This Day: April 21, 1989 - Red Scorpion Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 21, 1989 - Red Scorpion Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 21, 1989, the action film Red Scorpion premiered in theaters. Directed by Joseph Zito, the movie starred Dolph Lundgren as a Soviet Spetsnaz operative sent to infiltrate and eliminate an anti communist resistance in Africa. Things take a turn when he begins to question his...
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On This Day: April 21, 1989 - Pet Sematary Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 21, 1989 - Pet Sematary Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 21, 1989, the horror film Pet Sematary premiered in theaters. Based on the chilling novel by Stephen King, the movie was directed by Mary Lambert and starred Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Blaze Berdahl, and Miko Hughes. It followed a young family who move to a rural home in...
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On This Day: April 18, 1986 - Desert Bloom Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 18, 1986 - Desert Bloom Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 18, 1986, the drama Desert Bloom premiered in theaters. Directed by Eugene Corr, the film starred Jon Voight and JoBeth Williams and told a moving story set in post World War II Las Vegas, focusing on the emotional fallout of war, family struggles, and coming of age in a...
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On This Day: April 18, 1986 - Murphy’s Law Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 18, 1986 - Murphy’s Law Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 18, 1986, the action crime thriller Murphy’s Law premiered in theaters. Directed by J Lee Thompson, the film starred Charles Bronson as tough Los Angeles detective Jack Murphy, who finds himself framed for murder and on the run with a rebellious young woman played by Kathleen...
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On This Day: April 18, 1986 - At Close Range Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 18, 1986 - At Close Range Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 18, 1986, the crime drama At Close Range premiered in theaters, bringing together a powerful real life family cast. Sean Penn and Chris Penn starred alongside their mother Eileen Ryan in a story inspired by actual events involving a rural crime family and the tragic fallout...
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