I guarantee it.īut before we get there, we, as always, must go back a little further back in time. That was the logo of the disc's distributor.Ī company that went out of business more than thirty years before, that unbeknownst to me had been resurrected by the current owner of the trademark, Lionsgate Films, as a specialty label for a certain kind of film like Ken Russell's Gothic, Beyond Re-Animator, CHUD 2, and, for some reason, Walter Hill's Neo-Western featuring Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe and Rip Torn.įor those of you from the 80s, you remember at least one of Vestron Pictures' movies. That in and of itself wasn't the kick in the butt. You see, Walter Chaw has recently released a book about the life and career of Walter Hill, and this other person was showing off their new purchase. Have you ever thought “I should do this thing” but then you never get around to it, until something completely random happens that reminds you that you were going to do this thing a long time ago?įor this week's episode, that kick in the keister was a post on Twitter from someone I don't follow being retweeted by the great film critic and essayist Walter Chaw, someone I do follow, that showed a Blu-ray cover of the 1987 Walter Hill film Extreme Prejudice. Slaughter High (1986, Mark Ezra and Peter Litten and George Dugdale)įrom Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. The first of a two-part series on the short-lived 80s American distribution company responsible for Dirty Dancing.
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