Why Warlords of the 21st Century (1982) Is a Must-Watch for Mad Max Fans Choke down a shot of high-octane paranoia and head into the desolate, wind-swept gravel pits of the near future, where the catastrophic “oil wars” have left civilization reduced to a lawless heap of scrap metal. This is the staging ground for Harley Cokeliss’ Battletruck (1982), also released […]
The Ultimate Italian Escape from New York Clone Strap into your armored dune buggy and prepare to descend into a radioactive, neon-drenched hellscape in Sergio Martino’s 2019: After the Fall of New York (1983). Set two decades after a nuclear holocaust between the fascist Euraks and the Pan-American Confederacy, the human race is facing total extinction due to global […]
The Ultimate 80s Mad Max Rip-Off? Dive into the sun-scorched, post-apocalyptic quarry of Cirio H. Santiago’s Wheels of Fire (1985), where “there are no rules and no place to hide from the deadly Highway Warriors”. This speed-fueled, hallucinatory piece of Filipino exploitation cinema follows Trace, a stoic road warrior who patrols the barren badlands in a heavily armored, spike-welded, […]
A Post-Apocalyptic Cult Classic Prepare to choke on the exhaust fumes of a dying civilization in David Worth’s Warrior of the Lost World (1983). In this trash-cinema odyssey through a scorched future, the ultimate weapon is not a thermonuclear device, but a nameless, wandering mercenary on a high-tech motorcycle equipped with a chatty, synthesized artificial intelligence named […]
Inside Joe D’Amato’s Brutal Post-Apocalyptic Cult Classic Welcome to the radiation-cooked ruin of the year 2025, where humanity’s last sputtering gasps are broadcast for the amusement of a lobotomized populace in Joe D’Amato’s Endgame. In this brutal, neon-drenched Italian post-apocalyptic nightmare, the ultimate game of life and death is televised, operating under a singular, merciless rule: […]
Why She-Wolves of the Wasteland (1988) Is a Masterclass in 80s Trash Cinema Imagine a feverish, blistering bad-trip landscape where the ozone layer has disintegrated into a toxic vapor and the only currency left is cheap hairspray, gasoline, and the last viable Y-chromosomes on earth. This is the deranged canvas of Robert Hayes’ Phoenix the Warrior—alternatively baptized […]
A Grim, Neon-Drenched Cyberpunk Nightmare Step into the scorched, radioactive colon of the near future, where the sun is a dying orange ember and humanity is just a bad joke waiting for a punchline—the perfect, desolate setting for Richard Stanley’s Hardware. This celluloid fever dream follows Moses, a shell-shocked desert scavenger who brings home a twisted, […]
