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KUNG FURY is a 2015 Kickstarter-funded short film produced and directed by David Sandberg.

It's an over-the-top 80s-themed satire that follows a laudable B-movie plot that includes the likes of time travel, dinosaurs, and Adolf Hitler. Sandwich all that between a faithful synthpop soundtrack and mindless Robocop-esque violence and you have what is perhaps the greatest 80s dick flick that never was.

Watch it here:

And don't forget to listen to the absolutely fantastic credits theme, True Survivor.

Performed by David Hasselhoff himself, which seriously kind of blows my mind.

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Fuck yes.

I've been loving the resurgence of 80's inspired aesthetics in terms of both visuals and music. Kung Fury is one hell of a crazy amalgam of all of that. As over-the-top as it is I still enjoyed it for the short film it set out to be, and most of it only feels like it isn't serious because it combines everything that used to be taken seriously into a fun mess that they clearly had too much fun doing.

The fact that they got Mitch Murder to compose the movie's score is also fucking awesome since he's basically my favorite musician right now in the genre. Of course, major props to David Hasselhoff for doing the fantastic theme tune which is the most genuine track of this particular subgenre that has come out. It feels wholly authentic and straight out of that particular era, right down to the vocal performances and the instruments.

People who like this might also want to check out Danger 5 which is a similar parody of 80's pastiche. Also, supposedly the team wants to turn Kung Fury into a feature length thing and I wonder how that's going to work out - this only really works because it's a short film. If it's stretched out any longer it runs the risk of getting old fast, but I imagine that a movie would take itself a lot more seriously.

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My advisor showed the first few minutes of this to me a couple days ago. It's over the top and a brilliant parody of 80's action/buddy cop film cliches. My favorite line so far is "I got the mayor up my ass like a fag on viagra!" I gotta get to finishing this thing sometime.

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Hasselhoff thing is so fantastic and makes me smile everytime I see. I really love it lmao. Kickstarter money spent in the most perfect way possible. It really feels like those shitty/awesome singles that almost every single movie seemed to have to promote them back in the day. (What ever happened to doing that? Why did they stop?)

 

I really need to set aside 30 mins and actually watch kung fury. 

 

People who like this might also want to check out Danger 5 which is a similar parody of 80's pastiche

 

Danger 5 is sooo good. I think I like season 1's 70s schtick slighter better than 2's 80s but there are still some fucking amazing gags the second time around. Makes me proud it's australian D':

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This movie is so retardedly stupid that it's amazing. Love the uber 80's stylings, and I loved the OST as well. Movie of the year, lol. 

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