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.
You had me at disco mutants
Multiple references to hardboiled detectives and authors in the character names.
Radioactive Dreams characters:
- Philip Chandler
- Marlowe Hammer
- Dash Hammer
- “Spade” Chandler
Pulp detectives
- Philip Marlowe
- Mike Hammer
- Sam Spade
Authors:
- Raymond Chandler (creator of Philip Marlowe)
- Dashiell Hammet (creator of Sam Spade)
Why is there a double date for the release? Never seen that before.
Some sources I saw said 1984, others said 1985. So I put both :D
It was one very looooong release ;)
Please tell me it’s streaming somewhere!
I just came across a post about the Godard film Breathless https://tess.lemmy.ca/post/lemmy.ca/42133732 that linked to a site called ok.ru.
Out of curiosity, I searched there for Radioactive Dreams and they’ve got it. 480p, original English audio.
Justwatchit says no :(
Yowza sounds great. Here are some promising links I haven’t checked them out yet tho, cc @Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world :
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKLs8MOWfkk
- extended cut, Japanese subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jWuhgIxkKg
- VHS rip: https://archive.org/details/movie-radioactive-dreams-1985-vhsrip
- German dub: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8x6uw2
- Italian dub: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x93zlpi
- adding the one @Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHlP8fZL3J0