Welcome to an exciting year-long project here at The Nerdy. 1985 was an exciting year for films giving us a lot of films that would go on to be beloved favorites and cult classics. It was also the start to a major shift in cultural and societal norms, and some of those still reverberate to this day.
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We’re going to pick and choose which movies we hit, but right now the list stands at nearly four dozen.
Yes, we’re insane, but 1985 was that great of a year for film.
The articles will come out – in most cases – on the same day the films hit theaters in 1984 so that it is their true 40th anniversary. All films are also watched again for the purposes of these reviews and are not being done from memory. In some cases, it truly will be the first time we’ve seen them.
This time around, it’s Sept. 20, 1985, and we’re off to see Creator.
Creator
Women in the 1980s apparently just fell in love at the drop of a hat.
Dr. Harry Wolper (Peter O’Toole) is the crazy doctor at a hospital/school who drives everyone insane. He lures a new graduate student assistant, Boris (Vincent Spano), by promising to get the name of the woman he is lusting after. Meanwhile, what Harry really needs help with is growing a new version of his deceased wife with the help of eggs harvested from 19-year-old Meli (Mariel Hemingway).
Lets just get this out of the way: Spano’s performance is painful. It is excruciating to watch, to be honest. The ‘love’ story that forms between Harry and Meli, thanks to the wild age difference, feels predatory and as if he is taking advantage of a woman with mental issues.
It is not a good movie, nor even an entertaining one. You wonder why anyone even thought this should exist.
1985 Movie Reviews will return on Sept. 27, 2025, with Invasion U.S.A., The Journey of Natty Gann, and Maxie.
