Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Conquer Hollywood and then the rest of the world! Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus had great ambitions when in 1979 they bought the insolvent Cannon Films. In the following decade, the Israeli cousins built a veritable B-film factory, releasing a film almost every week. Regular ingredients: explosions, plenty of female nudity, wafer-thin plots and minimal budgets. While Cannon also acquired artistic success with, for instance, the Oscar-nominated Runaway Train, the name is synonymous with the kind of action films that dominated video stores in the 1980s.
Using an up-tempo montage, in Electric Boogaloo dozens of screenwriters, producers, editors and actors – from Bo Derek tot Dolph Lundgren – talk about the rise and fall of Cannon. Golan and Globus did not cooperate on the film. As an answer to this documentary, in which they are portrayed as bruisers with no scruples, but also as enormous film-lovers, they produced one of their own. As befits them, they managed to get their film premiered at Cannes three weeks earlier.

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