About The 80's Movies Rewind

ere we will give you the inside deal on this site and the people who run it as well as trying to answer some of the questions you ask most often or things that are worth knowing!

Who Are You Guys?

Original Launch Promo

We're 80's Movies fans --Just like You! This site started out as the vision of one guy but became what it is today as a result of fantastic collaboration between many 80's movie fans round the world. Visitors to this site became the authors of new pages to be viewed by all the other visitors.. and so it goes on.

Nick Alaway, the founder and webmaster of fast-rewind.com started his non-commercial 80's movies sites on 6th August 1999 with the multi award winning Karate Kid Website. He quickly followed up with two more sites; one devoted to Breakin' [aka: Breakdance The Movie] and another for The Secret Of My Success.

Nick realised that the whole '80s era needed a proper home on the web, a shameless celebration that would reflect people's fondness for the era, without the mocking and derisory comments that filled the pages of so many of the 'fashionable' movie sites -something different to the commercial sites with their scant info and banner filled pages.

It was a big task, but by the early part of 2000, the lime-green colored '80's Movies Gateway' site was boasting about 40 movie pages and not only a healthy flow of visitors, but soon people were writing asking if they could help.

As the site grew, Nick realised that authoring the site by hand and receiving submissions for pages by email was quickly becoming unmanageable, so set about designing his own content management system that could run the site. You can read more about that here.

Not forgetting his other sites, in June 2000, he added the Last Dragon WebSite.

By the middle of 2001 the site was running in a version that would be much more recognisable today, had attracted a number of regular page contributors and hundreds of updates a week.

And so it has continued to grow. Always maintaining it's non-commercial, fan-based ethos, despite pressures by the costs of running it, we've always managed to keep it 'proudly spam-free'. Now we boast over 500 pages, contributed by dozens of writers and literally tens of thousands of trivia and locations contributions.

For those who are curious about such things, in January of 2000, a few months after being launched, we were amazed and thrilled when the Karate Kid site received over 5,000 seperate visitors...

... In October of 2004 alone, fast-rewind was visited by over 590,000 retro movie fans, generating in excess of 43 million hits! We're very proud to serve so many people the information they're looking for on our favorite decade and even more proud that the feedback you give is so positive.

With the addition of the forums and a new '70s site, this site has become exactly what all of us who worked on it hoped it would be: a genuine retro movie site to enjoy the movies you remember, find the ones you may have missed and talk with others in a relaxed, friendly place that is totally free of commercials, pop-ups, rudeness and other spam.

Our thanks goes out to all of our colleagues, contributors and visitors -without you, none of this would have happened.

From The Archive: Original Site Logo From The Very First Version Of This Site as launched in March, 2000

Writers / Editorial Staff:

Nope! There's enough of that on the web already.

The 80's Movies Rewind is a non commercial partnership between retro movie fans.

Here at fast-rewind.com (also accessable from www.fastrewind.com), we are dedicated to the world of retro film culture and this site concentrates on '80s Movies specifically.

A new site has just been launched exclusively dedicated to '70s movies at 70s.fast-rewind.com. Eventually we hope to cover the '90s too...

But There Are Links To Buy Things On Your Pages? You Get Paid For Those, Right?

This is an important question --and one that we think deserves a proper explanantion.

Originally, with our old design and on our individual movie sites, there was information about the availability of the films or their soundtracks but no links so that fans could actually buy them. We received literally hundreds of emails a week with 80's fans asking where they could buy this movie or that soundtrack. In many cases, they were out of print or only available from certain specialist sites.

We knew all along that when we redesigned we would need links for each movie and looked into providing them. Many vendors offer a commission for affiliate sites that send customers their way, some do not. Unless you are yahoo.com or altavista, typically the amounts earned add up to a few dollars every month.

We have taken advantage of the affiliate schemes where applicable and the few dollars that we might earn from these schemes will be very welcome in going some small way towards paying for the running costs of this site, which up until now have solely been paid for out of the pockets of the 80's fans who run it.

Many of the out of print stuff has to be got from elsewhere and therefore doesn't earn anyone a penny, but hopefully makes the fan who finds that treasured soundtrack or movie very happy.

The important distinction here is the purpose of this site. We are a non profit site run by a bunch of fans who love 80's movies --for the enjoyment of other 80's movies fans. Nearly all the other movie directory sites on the web are commercial companies whose sole intention is to make money by trapping you into buying stuff and by filling their pages with advertising and other pop-up spam.

So, on that note, we ask you to please support us by buying your movie stuff through our links if you were gonna buy it anyway --you'll really be helping us to keep this site going. Otherwise sooner or later it's just gonna be too expensive to run and another real, fan based website will be gone... no doubt replaced with a hundred more bogus "Movies Web Sites" with the words from the back of the video box and a "buy here" button...

From The Archive: Previously Unseen 80s Site Logo Idea From 1999 -- Before Fast-Rewind.Com Was Even Registered...