“The 1980s, forever recalled with a mixture of fondness and regret as that spandex-clad, white glove, tufted hair and jumpsuit riddled decade taste forgot, was as much a transitional period for special effects cinema as it was the fleeting fashion for which it is best remembered.”

In the latest edition of Australian online film journal Sense of Cinema, contributing to their series Key Moments in Australian Cinema, I wrote about the iconic final sequence from director Brian Trenchard-Smith’s 1986 magnum opus Dead End Drive-In. Head over here to read it.