Masters of the Universe

This was the last newspaper movie ad I collected. After ten years of movie ad collecting I think my heart had gone out of it by 1987. Either that or I traumatised myself by cutting out an ad for a Dolph Lundgren movie. But I never lost my love of science fiction (I kept my clippings after all), I just became less obsessed with collecting stuff. At least until my twenties had played out.

The Herald Sept 1987

The End.

The Kindred

Cut from a newspaper July 1987

The Gate

Cut from a newspaper Sept 1987

Ratboy

Cut from a newspaper May 1987

Radioactive Dreams

Cut from a newspaper Nov 1986

Night of The Creeps

Fred Dekker's highly enjoyable horror comedy.

Cut from a newspaper April 1987

Maximum Overdrive

Stephen King's rather awful but funny directorial debut.

cut from the Sun Newspaper Nov 1986

James Bond Festival

The ad says 'important: cut out and save.' I did.. for 32 years.

cut from the Sun Newspaper March 1980

Howard (aka Howard The Duck)

George Lucas' awful disaster of a film (apart from Star Wars I to III). It bombed in the US, so they removed 'The Duck' from the title and the actual image of the duck from the poster in the hope that might help. It didn't.

cut from the Sun Newspaper Dec 1986

Critters

Cut from the Sun newspaper Nov 1986

Creepshow 2

Cut from the Sun newspaper 1987

The Company of Wolves

Cut from the Sun newspaper May 1985

Excalibur

What a great film this was. Mysterious, atmospheric and beautifully shot. For me it became the benchmark for all following medieval, fantasy and sword & sorcery films (Particular losers in my benchmark comparison were Krull and Legend with Tom Cruise)

June 1981

 On the back of the clipping:

Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon was both completely stupid yet highly enjoyable, with a great Queen soundtrack to boot.

April 1981

On the back of the clipping:

Moonraker

Moonraker was criticised as being one of the more silly Bond films but I thought it was the best Bond ever. It was a little bit racy (hey I was fourteen), it had lots of spaceships and explosions and it had Roger Moore. Yes, Roger Moore.

 

On the back of the clipping: remember when shops shut at noon on Saturdays?

Aliens

This was the Empire Strikes Back of the Alien franchise:  an unbelievably good sequel. One of the very few films I went to on its opening day (The others being Star Trek IV and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome)

November 5 1986

On the back of the clipping: Pick up some cheap batteries with your baby clothes and cigarettes

Gremlins

I was never sure what Gremlins was supposed to be: Science fiction? Horror? Comedy? Satire? Dunno. Entertaining? Yes!

December 1984

On the back of the clipping: Brashs audio gear. Wish I'd stocked up on those Sennheisers for $24.95

Android

I didn't see Android at the time. It had a very short run at Melbourne's Roma cinema. Only later on home video did I discover what a good little scifi film it was.

January 5 1984

On the back of the clipping: Showing at the Dromana drive-in was Jaws 3 and Galaxy of Terror...a Z-grade double if ever there was one!

Poltergiest

I took my girlfriend to see Poltergeist in 1982. It was entertaining and just scary enough to keep her nice and close (which would otherwise not necessarily have been a given)

August 1982

On the back of the clipping: a three bedroom house in Footscray $24.500. You could buy at least ten of them at today's prices.

Raise The Titanic

A stupid film but the actual 'raising' was spectacular if you were able to sit through most of the movie to get to it.

May 6 1981

On the back of the clipping: