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The Blue Lagoon 1980 film, The Blue Lagoon 1980 film - Plot summary, The Blue Lagoon 1980 film - Reaction, The Blue Lagoon 1980 film - Trivia, The Blue Lagoon 1980 film - Bloopers, The Blue Lagoon 1980 film - Awards and Nominations, The Blue Lagoon 1980 film - Cast

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1980 Bloody Birthday Cannibal Holocaust City of the Living Dead The Changeling The Fog Friday the 13th The Gates of Hell Hammer House of Horror Happy Birthday To Me Inferno Invasion of the Flesh Hunters Just Before Dawn Maniac! Motel Hell The Other Hell Prom Night Schizoid The S ...

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1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. In the UK the first major 1980s fashion trend was sparked by the arrival of the New Romantics in the popular music charts in 1980. The election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister in 1979 is also considered to be a major turning point. In America, the decade was most poignan ...

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1980s - Films 1980s - Television 1980s - Music

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1980 Christmas Evil Escape from Hell Fist of Fear, Touch of Death Mother's Day 1981 Graduation Day Waitress! 1982 Curse of the Cannibal Confederates Dreams Come True The Fanatic Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters 2 Stuck On You! 1983 T ...

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List of Troma films, List of Troma films - 1960s, List of Troma films - 1970s, List of Troma films - 1980s, List of Troma films - 1990s, List of Troma films - 2000s, List of Troma films - Unknown year, List of Troma films - Future releases, List of Troma films - In Post-Production, List of Troma films - In Production, List of Troma films - In Development

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1980 Altered States Battle Beyond the Stars Galaxina Saturn 3 Somewhere in Time Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back —Academy Awards for Visual Effects (special achievement award) and Sound —Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film —Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation —Highest grossing film of the yea ...

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List of science fiction films, List of science fiction films - Before 1930, List of science fiction films - 1930s, List of science fiction films - 1940s, List of science fiction films - 1950s, List of science fiction films - 1960s, List of science fiction films - 1970s, List of science fiction films - 1980s, List of science fiction films - 1990s, List of science fiction films - 2000s, List of science fiction films - Forthcoming

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In the early 1980s Hammer Films created a series for British television, Hammer House of Horror, which ran for 13 episodes. In a break from their cinema format, these featured plot twists which usually saw the protagonists fall into the hands of that episode's horror. These varied from sadistic shopkeepers with hidden pasts, to witches and satanic rites. The series was marked by a sense of dark irony, its haunting ...

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Hammer Film Productions, Hammer Film Productions - Early history 1935 to 1937 — Hammer Productions, Hammer Film Productions - Resurrection 1938 to 1955 — Hammer Film Productions, Hammer Film Productions - The birth of Hammer Horror 1955 to 1959, Hammer Film Productions - The Curse of Frankenstein, Hammer Film Productions - Dracula, Hammer Film Productions - The Mummy, Hammer Film Productions - Sequels 1959 to 1969, Hammer Film Productions - Market changes early 1970s, Hammer Film Productions - Final years of film production late 1970s, Hammer Film Productions - Critical response, Hammer Film Productions - Television series 1980s, Hammer Film Productions - Recent developments, Hammer Film Productions - Notes and references, Hammer Film Productions - Bibliography

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Nineteen eighty-five proved to be a very active year for Suzanna Hamilton. She starred in British playwright David Hare's film, Wetherby, opposite Vanessa Redgrave. In this film, Hamilton's character, Karen Creasy, is the sullen former friend of a young man who committed suicide: she is meant to be a personification of the emotional void at the heart of contemporary British life with all its repressions, denials, and disaf ...

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Suzanna Hamilton, Suzanna Hamilton - Early Career, Suzanna Hamilton - Nineteen Eighty-four 1984, Suzanna Hamilton - Film appearances in the late 1980s, Suzanna Hamilton - Television appearances and the 1990s, Suzanna Hamilton - Theater Career, Suzanna Hamilton - Current Activities, Suzanna Hamilton - Trivia, Suzanna Hamilton - Personal Quotes, Suzanna Hamilton - Film and Television Credits

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See also: 1979 in music, other events of 1980, 1981 in music, 1980s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1980 in music - Events. 1980 in music - January. January 1 - Cliff Richard is appointed an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II. The only other pop music acts to be created MBEs are the Beatles and Elton John January 2 - At the age of 45, songwriter Larry Williams is found dead in his Los Angeles, California home of a gunshot wound to the head. Investigators are neve ...

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1980 in music - Grammy Awards 1980 in music - Country Music Association Awards 1980 in music - Eurovision Song Contest
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The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934. Academy Award for Film Editing - 1930s. 1934 Eskimo - Conrad A. Nervig Cleopatra - Anne Bauchens One Night of Love - Gene Milford 1935 A Midsummer Night's Dream - Ralph Dawson David Copperfield - Robert J. Kern The Informer - George Hively Les Misérables - Barbara McLean L ...

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A comedy film is a film laced with humor or that may seek to provoke laughter from the audience. Along with drama, horror and science fiction, comedy is one of the largest genres of the medium. A comedy of manners film satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters. The plot of the comedy is often concerned with an illicit love affair or some other scandal, but is generally less important than its witty and sometimes bawdy dialogue. This form of comedy has a long ancestry, dating back to ...

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Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film and television production company that is part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, which in turn is part of Japanese electronics giant Sony. Columbia Pictures - History. The predecessor of Columbia Pictures, CBC Film Sales Corporation, was founded in 1919 by Harry Cohn, his brother Jack Cohn, and Joe Brandt. The company's reputation was so low that some joked that "CBC" stood for "Corned Beef and Cab ...

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Japanese cinema (映画; Eiga) has a history in Japan that spans more than 100 years. Cinema of Japan - Genres. Anime: Japanese animation. Jidaigeki, period pieces featuring samurai, also known as Chambara (onomatopoeia describing the sound of swords clashing). Horror films such as Ringu, also known as J-Horror Cult Horror, such as Battle Royale or Suicide Club Kaiju: monster films, such as Goj ...

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Battlestar Galactica is a series of American science fiction films and television programs, first appearing in 1978. Initially, Galactica was a TV movie project which grew to include a foreign theatrical release. It was produced by Glen Larson which starred Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict. This movie was recut as a pilot for the ABC television series that ran from September 1978 and was cancelled after one season. It was reimagined in 2003 by the Sci-Fi Channel with Edward James Olmos stepping into Lorne Greene's role of Commander Adama. A week ...

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This page is intended to be a list of computers in fiction and science fiction. See the List of fictional robots and androids for all fictional computers which are described as existing in a mobile or humanlike form. Computers have often been used as fictional objects in literature, movies and in other forms of media. Fictional computers tend to be considerably more sophisticated than anything yet devised in the real world. It is interesting to note that while science fiction writers have anticipated many of the advances in tec ...

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1980 in Australia - Unknown Dates. Victoria decriminalises homosexual acts between consenting adults. Contsrution begins on New Parliment House, Canberra ACT. ...

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1980 in Australia, 1980 in Australia - Incumbents, 1980 in Australia - Events, 1980 in Australia - Unknown Dates, 1980 in Australia - Arts & Literature, 1980 in Australia - Film, 1980 in Australia - Television, 1980 in Australia - Sport, 1980 in Australia - Births, 1980 in Australia - Deaths

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1980 in music - Grammy Awards. Grammy Awards of 1980 1980 in music - Country Music Association Awards. 1980 in music - Eurovision Song Contest. Eurovision Song Contest 1980 ...

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1980 in music - January. January 1 - Cliff Richard is appointed an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II. The only other pop music acts to be created MBEs are the Beatles and Elton John January 2 - At the age of 45, songwriter Larry Williams is found dead in his Los Angeles, California home of a gunshot wound to the head. Investigators are never able to determine whether his death was a murder or suicide. January 13 - The Beach Boys, Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Starship perform at a benefit concert a ...

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1980 in music - A-C. Super Trouper - ABBA Back in Black - AC/DC I'm a Rebel - Accept Greatest Hits - Aerosmith Crimes Of Passion - Pat Benatar The Birthday Party - The Birthday Party Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath Live at Last - Black Sabbath Autoamerican - Blondie Eat to the Beat - Blondie Kurtis Blow - Kurtis Blow Scary Monsters ...

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"Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" - Rupert Holmes (2 weeks in 1979 + 1 week in 1980) "Please Don't Go" - KC & The Sunshine Band (1) "Rock With You" - Michael Jackson (4) "Do That To Me One More Time" - The Captain & Tennille (1) "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" - Queen (4) "Another Brick In The Wall, Part II" - Pink Floyd (4) "Call Me" - Blondie (6), best selling single of the year "Funkytown" - Lipps Inc (4) "Coming Up" - Paul McCartney (3) "It's Still Rock And Roll T ...

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