Italian Action Films

With a name like Atomic Eden, you might expect this film from Nico Sentner to be a Mad Max style adventure through a post-apocalyptic wasteland, but the reality of this 80’s movie throwback may surprise you. Fred Williamson stars as Stoker, the grizzled veteran of many unnamed, covert special ops missions who is assembling the team, one last time. Film buffs will no doubt be aware of Williamson’s fame in the 70’s as the star of many Blaxploitation features like Black Caesar and Hell Up In Harlem with filmmaker Larry Cohen, whom I’ve written about in the past on Popgeeks here. Going into the 80’s, Williamson became a favorite of Italian action directors and starred in overseas productions like The Inglorious Bastards and for fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000, 1990: The Bronx Warriors. Upon first seeing the title Atomic Eden, I was convinced Williamson was returning to participating in a film like Warriors of the Wasteland that would find him clad in makeshift armor driving through a desert to