I love halloween because it’s an excuse to dress up as your favorite character from movies, books, or maybe even one just pulled from your imagination. This year, I dressed up as T-800, the robot assassin from the The Terminator. Released in 1984, The Terminator encompasses everything I love about all those R-rated 80s movies I wasn’t allowed to watch as a kid.
The start with, the film is light on CGI so the special effects seem a little more authentic. Fire is actually fire as opposed to computer generated explosions like what you might find in the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy. Sure, the stop motion effects seem dated and wouldn’t wow today’s generation. But what kid growing up in the 1990s wouldn’t be freaked out by the scene where the T-800 mechanized skeleton gets blown to bits only to have it’s robot torso continue the relentless pursuit of Sarah Connor?
What’s your favorite film from the 1980s?