Take a look back at an old trailer…
Kill a Commie for Mommy… and for McDonald’s.
Ah, the right-wing paranoid fantasies of the 80s were so cute.
Red Dawn is available on DVD in Region 1 from Amazon.com and from Amazon.ca and in Region 2 from Amazon U.K.
Gotta tell you most of the kids I saw this with were chuckling, not taking notes like it was a primer on How To Keel Kommies.
And for all the noise of how this movie pandered to the Bircher paranoia of getting invaded, the movie was pretty even-handed in depicting the Russian soldiers onscreen (most of them clueless teenager grunts themselves), and with the depiction of Howell’s character going batsh-t crazy as a character NOT to emulate.