History GenreThrowback / Film

* ''Film/BeyondTheBlackRainbow'': MindScrew ScienceFiction movies of the '80s, like ''Film/AlteredStates.''

* ''Film/Venom2018'' is viewed as one to NinetiesAntiHero DarkerAndGrittier Superhero movies akin to ''Film/{{Darkman}}'', ''Film/TheCrow'' and maybe even ''Film/TheMask''.

** ''Film/Thanksgiving2023'' began life as one of the [[RealTrailerFakeMovie fake trailers]] attached to the below-mentioned ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'', where it was meant as a parody of the {{Slasher Movie}}s of the 1970s and '80s. When it finally got turned into an actual movie, it had been sixteen years since the trailer was made, and so the throwback was updated to match: this time, it was an homage to the slasher remakes of the 2000s like ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2003'' and ''Film/FridayThe13th2009''.

* Creator/MelBrooks is known for combining this with AffectionateParody. ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' is a surprisingly faithful spoof of Golden Age Westerns, with multiple scenes shot at [[KirksRock Vasquez Rock]] and a theme song by prolific cowboy movie theme song guy Music/FrankieLaine. ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'', likewise, is a comedic throwback to ''Film/Frankenstein1931'' and its sequels throughout the '30s and '40s, shot in DeliberateMonochrome and even re-using a few of the old lab props.

** ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'', a co-production with Creator/RobertRodriguez, is a double-feature tribute to not only '70s exploitation flicks, but to the general experience of seeing them in a sleazy theater on the [[WrongSideOfTheTracks wrong side of town]], complete with trashy previews between flicks -- two of which [[{{Defictionalization}} became real movies]] that are themselves listed on this page. ''Film/PlanetTerror'', Rodriguez's half of the production, is a throwback to '70s ZombieApocalypse films, while ''Film/DeathProof'', Tarantino's half, is a throwback to '70s car chase movies such as ''Film/VanishingPoint'', ''Film/DirtyMaryCrazyLarry'', and the original ''Film/GoneInSixtySeconds1974'', with a bit of influence from '70s slasher movies, too.

* ''Film/ACountessFromHongKong'': Anybody that has seen a Screwball Comedy from the 1930's will notice that the film is a parody of such films, also there's plenty of Chaplin's jokes from the silent era that many of his fans will notice.

* ''Film/{{Alien}}'' takes cues from a lot of old '50s scifi horror movies like ''Film/NightOfTheBloodBeast'' and ''Film/ItTheTerrorFromBeyondSpace'', with a tone more in line with a CosmicHorrorStory from the '30s. Likewise, ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' mixed in some ''Film/{{Them}}'' influence.

* ''Film/DisembodiedHitman'': This irisj film's tone comes from {{Exploitation Film}}s of the 70s, specifically those in which murder is done with power tools - ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre1974'', ''Film/TheToolboxMurders'', ''Film/TheDrillerKiller'' in particular.

* ''Film/ElviraMistressOfTheDark1988'': To Creator/RogerCorman B-movies of the 50s, 60s and 70s. They even went to Corman's old company, New World Pictures, so they could use footage from some of the movies they had.

* ''Film/HarbingerDown'': 80s monster movies, specifically the original ''[[Film/TheThing1982 Thing]]''.
* ''Film/{{Headless}}'': 70's Horror, even marketing itself as "the lost slasher of 1978."
* ''{{Film/Hereditary}}'' also comes across as a throwback to 70s and early 80s horror, with its slow-burn approach, use of tension and revulsion for horror rather than startles or classically scary settings, and themes of demons and of psychological family fracturing.

* ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun'': Low-budget '80s action movies, of the kind made by Creator/TheCannonGroup and Creator/{{Troma}}. Like the ''Werewolf Women of the SS'' example above, it too began life as one of the fake trailers attached to ''Grindhouse'' (albeit only the Canadian version).

* ''Film/TheLostCity'' is a throwback and AffectionateParody to the action-adventure romantic comedies of the 1980s, especially ''Film/RomancingTheStone'', which it shares a near-identical premise to.

* ''Film/{{Malignant}}'': Horror films of the 70's and 80's, especially {{Giallo}}.

* ''Film/MouseHunt'', while also a BlackComedy, is throwback to classic physical {{slapstick}} comedy bits like Creator/LaurelAndHardy or Creator/AbbottAndCostello especially since the film is set a kind-of 40s RetroUniverse ev''oking the feel of the era.
* ''Film/MrsHendersonPresents'': Late 30's Musicals.
* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muck_(film) Muck]]'': 80's horror films, down to many cases of MsFanservice and Creator/KaneHodder as the killer.
* ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy'': pulp adventure stories of the '30s and '40s. Although ''Film/TheMummy1999'' is ostensibly a remake of ''Film/TheMummy1932'', it borrows more of its flavour from the semi-related ''Film/TheMummysHand'' and its sequels that ran throughout the 1940s.

* ''Film/TheProducers'' (2005): {{Camp}} 50s and 60s musical films.

* ''Film/RunningScared2006'' is one to the gritty-but-stylish urban crime thrillers of the 1970s and 80s.

* ''Film/SkyHigh2005'': Campy [[SaturdayMorningCartoon Saturday Morning Cartoon]] of the 1980's.

* ''Film/{{Terrifier}}'': 80s Slashers

* ''Film/{{Tremors}}'': 1950s/'60s sci-fi horror, only with a more comedic bent. Its desert setting in particular feels like a throwback to things like ''Film/{{Them}}'' and ''Film/{{Tarantula}}''
* ''{{Unknown2011}}'': is almost one to the action-thrillers of the 80s-90s that featured Creator/HarrisonFord running away from his pursuers, such as ''Film/TheFugitive''.

* ''Film/{{Ronin}}'' is essentially a classic '70s era heist film, but made and set in the late '90s.

** The original three ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' adventures (''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', ''[[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom Temple of Doom]]'', and ''[[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade The Last Crusade]]'') were based on 1930s pulp adventures, with ThoseWackyNazis or an [[ReligionOfEvil evil cult]] as the villains, and supernatural, often [[Literature/TheBible Biblical]] forces. ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', meanwhile, was rooted in '50s pulp sci-fi, with the atomic bomb and the UsefulNotes/ColdWar featuring prominently, [[DirtyCommunists the Soviets]] replacing the Nazis, and a plot based around aliens from AnotherDimension. The GrandFinale ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'', however, was rooted in 60's and 70's action thrillers and [[GovernmentConspiracy Government]] {{Conspiracy Thriller}}s including SpyFiction such as Franchise/JamesBond (which inspired the creation of the franchise in the first place and shared its cast members in both franchises) and its [[FollowTheLeader many imitators]][[invoked]] during the decades and post war-Nazi conspiracy thrillers such as ''Film/MarathonMan'', ''Film/TheOdessaFile'' and ''Film/TheBoysFromBrazil'' (which featured Creator/WolfKahler, who played Colonel Dietrich from the first film).

* ''Film/MidnightSpecial'' is a throwback to '80s sci-fi films like ''{{Film/ET}}'' and ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''.

* ''Film/SkyHigh2005'': Campy [[SaturdayMorningCartoon Saturday Morning Cartoon]] of the 1980's.

* ''Film/AWarNamedDesire'': HeroicBloodshed movies, especialy of [[Creator/JohnWoo]]'s earlier career.

* ''Film/ThirteenGoingOnThirty'' is one to [[TheEighties 1980s]] fantasy-comedies in the vein of ''Film/{{Big}}'' or ''Film/{{Mannequin}}'' especially in its soundtrack. It's almost like a film from 1987 (where the movie is partially set) that was released 17 years late.

* ''Film/NunOnTheRun'': Ealing comedies of the 1950s.