The VHS Strikes Back

The VHS Strikes Back EPS36 Dave’s choice this week, he knows Chris hates horror movies so he’s picked Hellraiser (1987). Chris gets his notebook out. Thats not aways a good sign. Plot Summary: When Kirsty's father, Larry, and stepmother, Julia, move into Larry's childhood home, Kirsty and her boyfriend take a room nearby. Unfortunately for all involved, Larry's house is already occupied: before th...

The VHS Strikes Back EPS35 Chris picks a classic from his youth - Over The Top (1987)) starring Sylvester Stallone. This arm-wrestling romp was a childhood favourite of Chris’ but Dave doesn’t remember it as well. Plot Summary: Lincoln Hawk (Stallone) is a struggling trucker who arm wrestles on the side to make extra cash while trying to rebuild his life. After the death of his wife, he tries to m...

The VHS Strikes Back EPS34 Dave ends his trilogy of movies with the Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels comedy Dumb and Dumber (1994). Plot Summary: Harry and Lloyd are two good friends who happen to be really stupid. The duo set out on a cross country trip from Providence to Aspen, Colorado to return a briefcase full of money to its rightful owner, a beautiful woman named Mary Swanson. After a trip of on...

The VHS Strikes Back EPS33 Dave and Chris bring From Dusk till Dawn (1996) to the table with this review. a Culture classic with famous Salma Hayek snake dance that made her a household name. Does it hold up 24 years later? Plot Summary: After a bank heist in Abilene with several casualties, the bank robber Seth Gecko and his psychopath and rapist brother Richard Gecko continue their crime spree i...

The VHS Strikes Back Eps32 Dave gets his wish and brings to the table one of his favourite Kung-Fu movies of all time - Snake in the Monkeys Shadow (1979).  Chris - well I would give the show a listen.... Plot Summary: A snake style expert travels the lands, imposing his mastery on others, until he runs into a monkey expert living on the edge of a small town, who defeats him soundly. The snak...

The VHS Strikes Back Eps31 This week Chris and Dave are back reviewing the 1989 classic - Roadhouse starring Patrick Swayze. Chris has fond memories of this film and many a bad shoulder injury due to some of the memorable scenes. Dave hasn't seen this for years but does it still stand up?  Email: thevhsstrikesback@gmail.com www.twitter.com/vhsstrikesback

The VHS Strikes Back Eps30 Chris and Dave review the absolutely epic Gangster movie - The Godfather (1972). Dave has never seen this classic and Chris ranks it in his exclusive top 5 movies of all time! Plot Summary: The Godfather "Don" Vito Corleone is the head of the Corleone mafia family in New York. He is at the event of his daughter's wedding. Michael, Vito's youngest son and a decorated WW I...

The VHS Strikes Back - Eps29 Chris gets his wish and concludes ones of his greatest trilogies - No Retreat No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers. The guys rip this to pieces but does it turn Dave from being a bad movie to something he liked? Plot Summary: Two feuding brothers (one a policeman, the other a martial arts expert) of different political views, join forces to avenge the death of their father,...

The VHS Strikes Back - EPS28 For our Christmas Day movie review we have gone back to Eddie Murphys breakout role in the 1983 Trading places with co-star Dan Aykroyd. Does this movie stand up and will Chris finally enjoy one of these festive period movies Dave had chosen? Plot Summary: Louis Winthorpe is a businessman who works for commodities brokerage firm of Duke and Duke owned by the brothers M...

The VHS Strikes Back - EPS27 As we are in the middle of Christmas season we continue our reviews on the theme with National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. A movie both of the guys loved but years later does it still hold up? Plot Summary: It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids....

The VHS Strikes Back - EPS26 Dave sets Chris up with a pop culture classic - Gremlins (1984). Having never watched it before will Chris go full on heel with this much loved Steven Spielberg produced monster romp? What do you think? Plot Summary: When Billy Peltzer is given a small creature called a Mogwai by his father, he is unaware of the carnage he is about to encounter. There is a huge respons...

The VHS Strikes Back - Eps25 Chris and Dave are back reviewing the icon ‘Christmas Movie’ starring Bruce Willis - Die Hard (1988). The guys walk through this absolute iconic movie - vest and all. Plot Summary: NYPD cop John McClane goes on a Christmas vacation to visit his wife Holly in Los Angeles where she works for the Nakatomi Corporation. While they are at the Nakatomi headquarters for a Chri...

The VHS Strikes Back - Eps24 Dave and Chris review the classic comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles starring Steve Martin and John Candy. Chris gets teary at the end of this movie every time and Dave gets R-Rated.  Plot Summary:  All that Neal Page wants to do is to get home for Thanksgiving. His flight has been cancelled due to bad weather, so he decides on other means of transport. As...

The VHS Strikes Back - Eps23 Dave and Chris are back reviewing: Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) This is a dual show review across both of their podcasts - The VHS Strikes Back and Comics In Motion For this special episode the guys are joined by two podcasting friends and more importantly Star Wars fans/nerds Mike Burton from the Genuine Chit Chat Podcast and Scott Weatherley from the 20th Century Gee...

The VHS Strikes Back - EPS22 Chris and Dave are joined by Max Byrne. Max is a reviewer of various Comic book based media. As the guest he has chosen Terminator 2: Judgment Day to review.  Arnie in his absolute prime.  Give Max a follow on twitter: https://twitter.com/maxybyrne and follow the various links to see his work.  Plot Summary: Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor...

The VHS Strikes Back - EPS21  Chris gets to review one of his Mount Rushmore of films The Cannonball Run. Starring another of Chris' man crushes - Burt Reynolds. Dave goes in on some of the dated jokes and especially the way the women are portrayed in this movie.  Plot Summary:  IMDB: 6.3/10  Rotten Tomatoes: 30/100%  Metacritic: 28/100%  If there are any movies you w...

The VHS Strikes Back - EPS20 Chris gets Dave back for all the terrible movies he has made him sit down and review. No Holds Barred is a WWF produced and created action movie starring one of Chris' wrestling heroes Hulk Hogan. There is not much positive to talk about but its Hogan at his best.  Plot Summary: Rip is the World Wrestling Federation champion who is faithful to his fans and the net...

The VHS Strikes Back EPS19   Dave introduces Chris to another Horror movie - Poltergeist (1982) but does it live upto the hype? Dave recalls some memories of this movie.  Plot Summary:  A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorise the...

The VHS Strikes Back E18 Dave gets Chris to watch a movie that scared him so much he couldn't sleep as a kid if he saw the movie at his mates house. Does it stand up and will Chris still be as scared?  Plot Summary: On Elm Street, Nancy Thompson and a group of her friends (comprising Tina Gray, Rod Lane and Glen Lantz) are being tormented by a clawed killer in their dreams named Fred Krueger....

The VHS Strikes Back E17 Dave and Chris review the 1984 pop culture classic - Karate Kid starring Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita and Elizabeth Shue. Chris calls out the terrible martial arts moves by some of the cast and Dave throws in some questions about Mr Myiagi Plot Summary: A boy and his mother move to California for a new job. He struggles to fit in, as a group of karate students starts to bully...

The VHS Strikes Back E16 Chris and Dave are back reviewing one of Chris' favourite movies of all time Lethal Weapon (1987). This movie means so much to Chris he digs his heels in when Dave has him at it within the review.  Plot Summary: Martin Riggs is an L.A. cop with suicidal tendencies and Roger Murtaugh is the unlucky police officer with whom Riggs is assigned. Together they uncover a hug...

The VHS Strikes Back E15 Chris and Dave are back reviewing the sequel to the hugely successful No Retreat No Surender. This is the sequel in a trilogy of films which do not actually follow the same story. Jean Claude Van Damme and Jason McKinney from the first film pulled out after Van Damme got scared that if they went filming in Cambodia they may get some male attention from the local pirates.&n...

VHS Strikes Back E14 Dave and Chris are back reviewing the cult classic First Blood starring Sylvester Stallone.  Originally a novel written by David Morrel. Morrell stated he was inspired to write the novel by hearing about the experiences of his students at the University of Iowa who had fought in Vietnam. The author also said "When I started First Blood back in 1968, I was deeply influence...

The VHS Strikes Back E13 Mashups aren't a new thing and it was at the comic publisher Dark Horse where they first came up with the idea to put together the Fox properties of Alien and Predator together in the 1990's, and which provided the inspiration for this movie. With a promising idea to have Predator's hunt Alien's as a rite of passage, Chris and Dave look at whether this movie lived up to in...

The VHS Strikes Back E12 Chris and Dave review the 1984 Blockbuster - Ghostbusters. The nostalgic memories are still there but the guys have a big issue with  Peter Venkman. What made the film such a classic and how the sequel may play out.  Plot Summary:  Three odd-ball scientists get kicked out of their cushy positions at a university in New York City where they studied the occult...