Wonky 80's Movies

<p>Lee and Jeff from the MEGA and Tirekicker podcast talk about 6 Wonky 80's movies they know you will like. </p> <p>Full show notes listed below</p> <p>----more----</p> <p> </p> <p>Fortress (1985) </p> <p> An Australian school teacher and her students are kidnapped. She and the children fight for their lives and try to escape from their captors. </p> <p></p> <p>Loosely based on the 1972 Faraday School kidnapping of a teacher and her class by Edwin John Eastwood and Robert Clyde Boland. Eastwood later escaped from prison and repeated the crime with another teacher and her class in 1977. The Faraday kidnapping was in turn a real-life copycat crime based on a scene in the Clint Eastwood film Dirty Harry (1971) where the Scorpio Killer holds a bus driver and several schoolchildren hostage.</p> <p>        </p> <p style="text-align:right;"></p> <p>The Faraday School kidnapping occurred on 6 October 1972 at a one-teacher school in the rural town of Faraday in Victoria, Australia, where two plasterers, Edwin John Eastwood and Robert Clyde Boland, kidnapped six female pupils and their teacher for a $1,000,000 ransom. The Victorian government claimed it would pay the ransom. The victims escaped and the criminals were captured, tried and convicted. Eastwood escaped and later kidnapped a teacher and nine pupils. He was again captured, convicted and sentenced. While in prison, Eastwood strangled convicted rapist Glen Davies in what was ruled self-defence. He was eventually released, having served his sentence.</p> <p style="text-align:left;"></p> <p style="text-align:left;">The film was initially released directly to cable television by the HBO channel in the United States on 24 November 1985.It contains scenes of graphic violence unusual for TV productions of the time. It was released to cinemas in Australia on 26 June 1986. Played for years on HBO</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Megaforce (1982)</p> <p>The story involves two fictional countries, the peaceful Republic of Sardun and their aggressive