'Class of 1984' (1982) - Mark L. Lester.

Like a vast number of disaffected teenagers, I was yet another permanently beer-soaked, dope-dazed, conspicuously be-mulleted, heavy mental/punker misfit who, perhaps, somewhat inevitably, became utterly obsessed with 'Class of 1984', frequently hiring it on home video, and, happily, the withering passage of time hasn't tainted my overwhelmingly positive appreciation of, Mark L. Lester's triumphantly teen-raged terrorama one tinniest iota! 

Recently rewatching the spanking Blu-ray edition, it felt somehow different, dare I say it, being 'smarter' than I recall; feeling almost like a boldly revisionist western!!?? The reluctant, pure-hearted hero music teacher, Perry King, must Stoically resist the rapacious proclivities of sociopathic, ivory tinkling terror-thug, Timothy Van Patten's outlaw gang in an increasingly volatile, and seemingly lawless High school, indifferently run by a cold, calculating, if not-entirely corrupt Headmaster (sheriff). The innocent sacrificial lamb, sweetly played by an endearing, Michael J. Fox, cherubically channelling, John Boy Walton, adding yet more verisimilitude to the pleasing idea of, Mark Lester's histrionic High School headbanger being a western in dayglo drainpipes!!! Hey!!!! no matter how you may interpret, 'Class of 1984', it excitingly remains a bona fide 80s cult classic wholly deserving of its exalted status!