10 Essential "Retro" Genre Movies You Have To See

7. Kung Fury

While Black Dynamite took an affectionate swipe (and karate chop) at the Blaploitation movies of the 1970s, Kung Fury adopted an altogether batsh*t crazy take on the straight-to-video action movies of the 80s and mashed it up with just about every other b-movie genre of the decade you can think of. Funded via Kickstarter and coming in at a slender 31 minutes running time, Kung Fury sure provided those crowdfunding movie fans plenty of bang for their buck. Featuring everything from a time traveling Hitler (and master of kung fu, hence the alternative name Kung Fuhrer) to Viking gods and dinosaur cops, David Sandberg's blood-stained love letter to the best of the worst from the 80s is completely trashy and stupid, but in the best possible way. Sandberg was hoping to produce a feature film but fell short of his funding budget - it's questionable whether something this anarchic could have held the audience's attention over the duration of a feature film, but if Sandberg steps behind the camera again it'll be a project worth keeping an eye on.
 
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