The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 & Missouri Comic Con's RAD Movies or BAD Movies

<p><a href="https://letterboxd.com/catbusruss" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>CatBusRuss</strong></a> presents the <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/0WtYMpBXE5rQNLgw1drhzV?si=f3bb4f8327e54b1c" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>1986 RAD Movies or BAD Movies</strong></a> as a TEDTalk to <a href="https://www.missouricomiccon.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>Missouri Comic Con 2026</strong></a>.</p><p>The punch and pie helped draw in a fair-sized crowd of dedicated movie nuts who were very patient and involved with Russ&#39;s conversation about 1986 movies that may have been green lit to either counter program another studio&#39;s release or just capitalize on what was going to be hot. In a time before the dominance of home video, movie studios were doing their best to beat each other to the punch when it came to a film premise. Our host is not interested in who landed the first strike, but who had the knock out blow.</p><p>&quot;Top Gun&quot; may have made the most money in 1986, but is the story about an arrogant pilot going to dogfight college truly better than a high schooler and Louis Gossett Jr. stealing fighter jets for a rescue mission? Eddie Murphy may have saved the world from Chinese black magic, but was he cooler than Kurt Russell?</p><p>Along with these conversations, CatBus does go on some tangents about how Joe Pantoliano could have probably made all of these movies better, how he missed on a 1996 version of this panel that he would call &quot;HOT Movies or NOT Movies&quot;, and his classic belief that movies should kill more dogs. The latter argument is probably why &quot;Mars Attacks&quot; is superior to &quot;Independence Day&quot;.</p><p>To gain a better understanding of 1986 knock off cinema, Russ finally got around to <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001361/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>Tobe Hooper</strong></a><strong>&#39;s &quot;</strong><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092076/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2</strong></a><strong>&quot;</strong>. His first feature with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cannon_Group,_Inc." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>Cannon Group</strong></a>, &quot;Lifeforce&quot; is one our host constantly recommends. Does the return of the Sawyer Family live up to naked space vampires?</p><p>If you need certainty when it comes to a healthier snac