Southern Comfort (1981)
Jan 7, 2006Backwoods Brutality
A beautifully evocative Walter Hill film where National Guard soldiers on training manoeuvres are hunted through the Louisiana swamps after accidentally shooting at Cajun locals
Lewis Smith
The Final Terror (1983)
Mar 10, 2015Backwoods Slasher
Effort from the heyday of the slasher film that seems to have been trying to conduct a slasher movie version of Deliverance. Largely forgotten today and unremarkable in all respects but for an amazing cast of before-they-were-famous faces
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension (1984)
Apr 16, 1999Funky Inventor Hero vs Alien Invaders
An object lesson in how to create an instant cult film – exceedingly eccentric, a commercial failure at the box-office, it instantly receiving a fan clique – all without it ever being a particularly great film
The Heavenly Kid (1985)
Feb 17, 2003Teen Angel
Lightweight fantasy film with Lewis Smith as a 1950s rocker who is sent back from the afterlife to act as a guardian angel to help a nerdy Jason Gedrick stand up for himself