Many movies from the 80s gave us memorable openings. Can you recognize these seven movies just by their very first shots? Up to you !
It has now become a rule that knows very few exceptions, a film that is very successful at the box office will have a good chance of giving rise to one or more sequels. There is no shortage of examples, and one only has to take a look at the ranking of the best entries made in France in 2022 to see that nine films in the top 10 are sequels with Avatar: The Way of the Water, Top Gun: Maverick and The Minions 2: Once Upon a Time Gru.
If we had already been able to experience this phenomenon during the 1970s with Planet of the Apes released in 1968 and its four sequels that appeared during the following decade, or even with The Godfather II following on from the cardboard made by the first film by Francis Ford Coppola, it was especially during the 1980s that sequel films became a real social phenomenon.
From the year 1980, the Star Wars saga initiated in 1977 with A New Hope gave rise to a first sequel, The Empire Strikes Back. These were only the beginnings of a concept that was to enjoy great success during this decade with sagas such as Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Lethal Weapon, or Mad Max. .
The horror genre will not have escaped this new trend, with many horrible characters constantly returning to commit new and bloodier murders. We could include in this happy family Jason from Friday the 13th, Michael Myers from the Halloween saga, or even the bogeyman Freddy Krueger born from the imagination of Wes Craven.
It’s not sequels from the 80s that we’re going to play today, but introductions to movies from that decade. Can you recognize these seven movies just by the very first shot?