Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Director: Steve Barron

1990 / 93min / 35mm

The live-action feature adaptation of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird’s cult comics that, along with the animated series which had begun airing a few years previous, launched an IP empire. A co-production between New Line Cinema and Hong Kong’s Golden Harvest, Barron’s film is a jocular knockabout kung fu actioner featuring the sewer-dwelling Heroes in a Half Shell, superbly costumed by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, a new jack swing and hip-hop-heavy soundtrack that spawned the hit single “Turtle Power,” and Elias Koteas giving a disarmingly committed performance as vigilante Casey Jones. A bodacious, bitchin’, gnarly, radical, wicked, hellacious, and even totally tubular good time.

Introduction from Matthew Schuchman (Den of Geek) on Sunday, October 27th