Blast from the past: 15 movie gems of 1985

Beyond the blockbusters: This watch list has something for everyone over the long holiday weekend.

Peruse a list of films released in 1985 and you’ll notice a surprisingly high number of movies that have become classics in the ensuing 40 years. Sure, there were blockbusters like Back to the Future, The Goonies, Pale Rider, The Breakfast Club and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, but there were also critical arthouse favorites like Kiss of the Spider Woman and Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece, Ran. Since we’re going into a long Thanksgiving weekend, I’ve made a list, in alphabetical order, of some of the quirkier gems from 1985 that have stood the test of time. (Some of the films first premiered at film festivals or in smaller international markets in 1984, but they were released in the US in 1985.)

(Some spoilers below but no major reveals.)

After Hours

young nerdy man in black shirt and casual tan jacket looking anxious Credit: Warner Bros.

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Four-inch worm hatches in woman’s forehead, wriggles to her eyelid

The parasite, typically found in dogs, was visibly moving under her skin.

If you need some motivation to keep from eating too much this Thanksgiving, here it is: Doctors in Romania pulled an 11 cm (4.3 inch) living, writhing round worm from a woman’s left eyelid.

According to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine, the worm likely hatched from a hard lump in her right temple, which the woman recalled first spotting a month beforehand. She also noticed that the nodule had vanished just a day before the worm apparently made a squiggly run for her eye.

When she went to an ophthalmologist the next day, doctors immediately noted the “mobile lesion” on her eyelid, which was in the suspicious shape of a bunched-up worm just under her skin with a little redness and swelling.

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Octopi Launcher für Android im Test: Dieser neue Android-Launcher schlägt den Nova Launcher

Es gibt einen neuen Stern am Launcher-Himmel: Der Octopi Launcher gehört zu den besten Launchern, die es derzeit für Android gibt. Ein Erfahrungsbericht von Ingo Pakalski (Software, Smartphone)

Es gibt einen neuen Stern am Launcher-Himmel: Der Octopi Launcher gehört zu den besten Launchern, die es derzeit für Android gibt. Ein Erfahrungsbericht von Ingo Pakalski (Software, Smartphone)