Radioactive Dreams

40s private eye pulp enters a lucid, nuclear 80s neon synth dream world of what I can only reductively describe as Walter Hill's Mad Max. A ("post-nuke") rock opera noir filled front-to-back with beautiful girls, smoking guns, mutant cannibals, vulgar armed child gangsters,…

Josh Lewis

Warning. Film may be dangerous to your sense of solid narrative and could leave you disorientated and nauseous from plot holes and poor narrative structure. If Potassium iodide tablets are not available consume a large amount of alcohol to push away mental issues of lack of…

pirateneckbeard

This is probably more about Albert Pyun than this movie, so uh, skip it if you don't care: Part of the Albert Pyun legend is that when he was in high school in Hawaii, Toshiro Mifune saw one of his short films in a student competition and whisked him away to Japan to…

laird

The great directors are the ones who give you moments and moods that you can't get anywhere else. Albert Pyun is a great director.

Will Sloan

After reading about Albert Pyun's passing yesterday I thought it would be a good idea to revisit my personal favourite movie of his. Radioactive Dreams is still great. It's basically a 90+ minute music video about two Raymond Chandler-obsessed dudes trying to survive in a…

Lou (rhymes with wow!)

one man's post-apocalyptic wasteland is another man's new beginning, or, when god closes a bunker he opens a garage door

sydney

If you enjoy this review, check out my book RADIOACTIVE DREAMS: THE CINEMA OF ALBERT PYUN. I reviewed every one of Albert Pyun's films and interviewed some of his closest collaborators. RADIOACTIVE DREAMS is a goofy 80s comedy, a post-apocalyptic adventure, a 40s…

Justin Decloux

once again just needed to remind myself that if pyun can combine the angry nihilism of noir and punk and stick them in a nuclear wasteland in order to tell a funny coming-of-age story about refusing to give in and participate in the cruelty and sadness of the world, then…

sydney

With possible exception of Hill's Streets of Fire (which might had played a role on getting it greenlighted anyway), the most mid 80s film ever right down to half of the budget been spent on fog and neon lighting. It is also the most Pyunesque Albert Pyun film imaginable,…

Filipe Furtado