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 January 4, 1985, and we’re off to see Too Scared to Scream.
Too Scared to Scream
No one can seem to agree on when this film came out, but this is the date we’re going with, although it feels as though it’s from a completely different era.
Following multiple murders at the Royal Arms condo building, a doorman named Hardwick (Ian McShane) becomes the primary suspect. Lieutenant Dinardo (Mike Connors) and Kate (Anne Archer) are romantically linked as well as working together to try to stop the murderer before anyone else loses their life.
This felt so much like a TV movie or an episode of a 1970s detective show like Colombo that somehow got stretched to a film. There is nothing remarkable here, and it feels predictable up until the final twist that comes completely out of left field and not one clue had ever been dropped about that you just wonder if it was made up on the day.
You very much can skip this film as a detective film, and very much as part of the 80s decade.
1985 Movie Reviews will launch on January 11, 2025, with The Mutilator and Rockin’ Road Trip!
