Two 19-year-old guys, Phillip Chandler and Marlowe Hammer, have been locked in a bunker since the nuclear war of 1986 but finally break out into the post-apocalyptic world of 2001, armed with little more than their naive horniness and their love of 1940s hard-boiled detectives, and promptly get caught up in a struggle over the keys to the last remaining nuke on Earth. Dealing with girl biker gangs, “disco mutants”, cannibals, punk singers and, naturally, femmes fatales.
Fallout meets The Wonder Years meets The Maltese Falcon!
Featuring Michael Dudikoff, star of the American Ninja franchise and 20% of all 90s straight-to-video action movies; but the comic relief here. And John Stockwell (Christine, directed Into the Blue, Kickboxer:Vengeance). Cameo from George Kennedy.
A sci-fi horror comedy detective musical, written and directed by the late, great Albert Pyun, who somehow did not put cyborgs in it?!?!
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_Dreams
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091818/
- https://letterboxd.com/film/radioactive-dreams/
- Review https://www.videoreligion.net/2018/11/radioactive-dreams-1985.html
Not available on the usual streaming services, but… it’s out there.
“Radioactive Dreams” is also the title of the book about the cinema of Pyun, written by Justin Decloux.
Multiple references to hardboiled detectives and authors in the character names.
Radioactive Dreams characters:
Pulp detectives
Authors: