In this movie some teenager who was murdered by some gang scum comes back from the dead as my man Jake Kesey played by legend dude Charlie Sheen to take his revenge on those ridiculously looking jerks led by the extraordinary uncharismatic Packard Walsh aka Nick Cassavetes

The Wraith aka Il Replicante in Italy, Turbocop in Mexico and Phantom in France is an american independent action horror romantic movie released in 1986 directed and written by Mike Marvin. My dude Mikey was a big shot in the 70s in the sport movie scene, precisely he mad a bunch of ski movies during the birth of the extreme skiing movement. He’s mostly a legend for writing those 2 movies called Hot Dog the movie & Hamburger the movie.

Few words about the cast, first of all you have my man, the legend who almost made a trash tv show like 2 & a half men funny (i said almost), probably in my top 10 just because of the ridiculous amount of times i watched the Hot Shots VHS in the 90s, Charlie Sheen.

Then you have probably the ultimate crush, i’ve been in love with her since when i tried to watch Twin Peaks to look cool and edgy, Audrey Horne aka Keri Johnson in this movie aka Sherilyn Fenn.

Get a load of this girl, she probably smells like peach, i do not know how to make heart eyes emoji on tumblr
The rest of the cast is not that noticeable, the bad guy looks ridiculous and the chief of police is that drunk dude from Independence Day with Will Smith who possibly gave his life to save the planet, Randy Quaid.

Yes those 3 dudes form the most feared gang in Arizona
This is by far the best movie about a dude returning from the dead in the shape of a different dude just to take his revenge on a bunch of other dudes who absolutely don’t look dangerous by street racing them to death with a magic ghost car while getting his old girlfriend back in the process. Parts of it look cheap, the cast is weird, Randy Quaid as the big deal cop is less charismatic than Paul Blart the mall cop, the bad guy looks like a dude from a surf movie about buddies smuggling booze into the school campus and there’s no obvious limit to what this ghost dude can do but apparently he can live a normal life and move to california like any other douchebag around.

This movie was released as Phantom in France and is about revenge what else do you need
But this movie has cars and some of the best car chases scenes ever, not kidding. Jake Kesey drives the Turbo Interceptor which was actually a real car, the Dodge M4s prototype, then you have the bad guy old corvette, the dodge daytona turbo z, the pontiac firebird, the plymouth barracuda, the triumph spitfire 1500, if you’re into old cars you will dig.



I don’t think the soundtrack is that good, classic 80s corny stuff but it could have been better, one of those time when i wish i could get my hand on the movie with the just the dialogues and fx tracks so i could re score everything. It really looks amazing tho, the movie has been filmed in Tucson, Arizona (big up Go Go Bizkitt, Richie and Jose, throwback to a El Paso - Las Vegas road trip 4/5 years ago with a stop in Tucson) so many stills worth a screenshot and i really wish the Big Kay’s Burger joint was real.



Apparently there’s only one road leading in and out of the place
Of course you can cut the sound and pair this movie with your favorite synthwave mp3s.

No one can say “you’re pathetic !” like keri johnson, classic 80s bad guy knife action + real fuckboy move

This is the bad guy the entire town has been fearing, seriously this is the gang leader, no jokes, oooor theory this is future Steve Harrington from Stranger Things
Special shout out to this asshole cop who didn’t get charged for this burger because he’s the big police dude around and who shows a really despicable attitude regarding the planet and the big kay’s burger staff, fuck you Randy Quaid.

Decomposed Artichoke rating : 94 %
In this movie my man Michael Brace played by legend dude Christopher Walken (and really i could just stop right here because like me you might just watch it because of the guy) and his lab buddy Lillian Reynolds - whose main character thing is to smoke around 178 cigarettes - are 2 genius scientists who are working on a device that can record people’s feelings, thoughts and make a videotape of it so other dudes can experience it all, you would need to wear a special science helmet and then you can see, feel and taste what someone else saw, felt and tasted. It’s like the ultimate VR experience from the eighties (yes of course you can use it for porn, it’s not a 80s movie without a boobs scene). Of course the military had to get their nose in this project after a big breakthrough from our 2 scientists, as they see in this device a cool new fun way to torture people and that’s when things started to go nuts, specially when someone decided to record their own death.

Brainstorm aka Proyecto Brainstorm in Colombia is a science fiction movie released in 1983 directed by Douglas Trumbull and written by Bruce J. Rubin. Douglas Trumbull is a legend in the visual effect field who also directed a few movies, he’s know for his work on 2001 a space odyssey, Close encounter of the third kind or Blade Runner and this is why this movie is visually striking. Bruce J. Rubin wrote stuff like Ghost with my man Swayze, classic Deep Impact but his best work was possibly when he wrote Stuart Little 2, i mean come on a talking mouse who gets in the local soccer team, you can’t make this stuff up but he can.

a really poor choice of font
This movie is a mess but it looks great. The plot doesn’t make much sense, it doesn’t really go anywhere but yeah it looks really cool. Part of it can be explained because the main actress Natalie Wood died before the end of the filming on some sort of boat accident, supposedly after that the movie company tried to kill the movie and to cash some insurance money, the regular corporate bullshit, Doug Trumbull had the final word and decided to finish it but he also decided he had enough of those corporate sharks and decided not to direct anymore movie.

Few words about the cast, CHRISTOPHER FUCKIN WALKEN, that’s about it. But well yeah probably not his best gig, he doesn’t really look like he gives a shit but like always he looks like he could be that dude who go get some milk for the family at 10 and then proceed to shoot all his coworkers with a sawed shotgun at 11.
So yeah i wouldn’t say it’s a great movie but it looks really cool, my hombre Douggy used this cool trick i’ve never seen before where the “dream” sequences inside the device are played widescreen while the normal ones are different. That’s the thing about this movie, it could have been so much more. There could have been confusing scenes where it appears to be a normal scene but it plays out widescreen like a dream sequence so you don’t know what’s real anymore in some sort of end of Inception type deal. Also they barely tap into the potential of the device, like this short scene where Mike (Christopher Walken) can play the piano just because of a sequence recorded on the device by his wife playing the piano, some “i know kung fu” Matrix type scenario. But yeah i guess it’s easier to write about a mouse who’s playing soccer with regular size kids.

Justice new cover art
Of course it’s hollywood so it had to end up like a classic science gone wrong and the government wants to use my shit to destroy people’s mind and guide death projectiles from a distance but i’m gonna stop them story. But anyway the concept is really interesting, they filmed this in 1981 and it just blows my mind how they could come up with all that at the time, there’s some hacking involved too, i don’t understand the technology behind it but it’s there.

When you’re playing somewhere and they didn’t get you the Tim Tam on your rider
The soundtrack is good, thanks to the work of James Horner, huge resume but if you need to remember only 1 thing remember he worked on cult classic Commando. Nothing crazy though it’s pretty classic and i’d recommend playing this movie without the sound while you’re having a couple of friends over to get rekt on your substance of choice while listening to some chaotic anthems. What makes this movie great to me is the visual effect, photography and the amazing editing from Freeman Davies (who worked on The Warriors).

I’m a sucker for very obvious product placement and coke is life and so is Ruff potato chips (feel free to send me a box of those as we don’t have it in France)


Special shout out to this dude for this impeccable acting

Forgotten cucumber rating : 86 %