Invasion U.S.A.

VHS Screening! Chuck Norris Tribute!

Wrapping up our Cult Classics on VHS program, comes the gloriously over-the-top 1985 Cannon Films classic Invasion U.S.A. Directed by Joseph Zito (Missing in Action, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter) and starring martial arts legend Chuck Norris, the film turns Cold War paranoia into a nonstop barrage of explosions, rocket launchers, and 1980s one-liners that could only have come at the height of the Reagan-era action boom.

When a band of terrorists led by the icy, cocaine-fueled villain Rostov (played with scenery-chewing delight by direct-to-video supervillain Richard Lynch) launches a full-scale invasion of Florida, only former CIA operative Matt Hunter (Norris) can stop the chaos. What follows is a delirious assault of shopping mall shootouts, suburban warfare, speedboats, machine guns, and enough property damage to rival a CAT 5 hurricane.

Co-starring Melissa Prophet (Casino), Billy Drago (The Untouchables), and James Pax (Big Trouble in Little China), Invasion U.S.A. has endured as a beloved cult phenomenon: a loud, unapologetic monument to the anything-goes excess of the VHS era, when iconic action stars ruled the multiplexes, and video store shelves, with maximum force.

_{1985, 107 minutes, USA, In English, Russian and Spanish, Directed by Joseph Zito, Rated R}