15 Greatest Guilty Pleasure Movies Of The 1980s

Cinematographer Joseph Mangine is no household name, but he shot more than his share of revered exploitation trash, including I Drink Your Blood and The Sword and the Sorcerer. While he only directed twice, his second and last effort - 1986's Neon Maniacs - is another one you really have to see to believe.

It starts out like any other 80s slasher, with a group of horny teens hanging out partying in downtown San Francisco. Naturally they soon come under attack, but not from a lone psycho in a mask: rather, they have an entire platoon of bizarre, rubber-faced monsters looking like they stepped off a Halloween parade, all of whom apparently live inside the Golden Gate Bridge itself.

These eye-poppingly weird creations include a zombified samurai warrior, Vietnam veteran, Mohawk warrior and surgeon. Credit where its due, these are quite nice practical make-up FX jobs; they're just a very strange combination of characters for what is ostensibly a pretty straightfoward teen-oriented horror.

The fact that it's all played so straight whilst being so flagrantly weird is what makes Neon Maniacs so quintessentially 1980s; that and the almost-equally garish fashions and music.