Writing this review in 2021 is not ground high enough to look down upon this masterpiece of bad cinema.
It's either the funniest horror movie I've ever seen or the most horrific comedy movie I've ever seen.
But I love the damn thing.
The movie doesn't take itself too seriously and knows that it is having fun.
I must admit, the cover, well....one of the many covers this movie has, attracted me one late night when I couldn't sleep and I watched it. (It's a pretty cool cartoon rendering of the characters in a sordid collage a la the 80s and apparently it is only available for certain copies of the dvd)
The movie has a very simple, if any, plot and really isn't going to matter much once you get into the movie, IF you get into it.
The characters are a homemade stew of cliché 80s personas with different cliché 80s backgrounds that mesh well only in this premise but in real life, I wouldn't see them hanging out in real life since there's not too much chemistry between them or didn't attempt to input any.
That doesn't matter either since the acting is pretty bad, to be nice about it and it feels like they just wanted to finish up working on this halfway through the movie.
The editing...oh man....the editing is terrible and basically uninspired. No fadeouts, no dissolves, which was basic in the 80s. The movie just cuts to different scenes without building any type of development out of the previous scene or the one that ensues.
You gotta love the many sarcastic lines throughout the movie. They clearly wanted to make fun of some of the decade's highest points or popular trends, so that's enjoyable, at least.
I gotta say, my favorite character is the killer.
The guy has such an erratic and wacky demeanor as a serial killer or maybe that's how psychopaths who hail from New Jersey really act.
His delivery and half hearted attempts at being deranged is just hilarious.
His lines are irreparably comical and one of my favorites of his is supposed to have been his Cecil B. DeMille moment but stills falls short of menacing and is just too damn funny.
Every time he laughs in the movie is pretty contagious and you can't help but laugh with him. It almost makes you wanna go hang out with him!
The movie doesn't quite explain his appearance but he apparently is disfigured and he ends up looking like a zombie who likes stand up comedy, with wounds so severe and badly decomposed skin, that I can't tell if he's undead or just hasn't showered during the 10 year timeline he's been on the loose.
He is named Mitch Hansen in the movie but in the credits, he is named "The Coroner", although he was originally a lawyer who I guess went insane after the very ridiculous death of his lover and decided to take refuge in an abandoned asylum, which is a scary place by itself and should've been seen more menacing than it was but the never ending graffiti and prepubescent vandalism that used to adorn it just adds to the funny.
To be honest, the movie makes no real sense and is just too funny to be taken serious. If you like bad horror movies or 80s teen comedy B movies, you should watch this and be amazed at how you never heard of this before.
Once you see the movie, you'll know why.
But you might actually end up liking it for how cheesy and how over the top is with the camp and you'll add it to your really REALLY guilty pleasures list.
Just like it happened to me.
So RELAX....and well, you know the rest.
It's either the funniest horror movie I've ever seen or the most horrific comedy movie I've ever seen.
But I love the damn thing.
The movie doesn't take itself too seriously and knows that it is having fun.
I must admit, the cover, well....one of the many covers this movie has, attracted me one late night when I couldn't sleep and I watched it. (It's a pretty cool cartoon rendering of the characters in a sordid collage a la the 80s and apparently it is only available for certain copies of the dvd)
The movie has a very simple, if any, plot and really isn't going to matter much once you get into the movie, IF you get into it.
The characters are a homemade stew of cliché 80s personas with different cliché 80s backgrounds that mesh well only in this premise but in real life, I wouldn't see them hanging out in real life since there's not too much chemistry between them or didn't attempt to input any.
That doesn't matter either since the acting is pretty bad, to be nice about it and it feels like they just wanted to finish up working on this halfway through the movie.
The editing...oh man....the editing is terrible and basically uninspired. No fadeouts, no dissolves, which was basic in the 80s. The movie just cuts to different scenes without building any type of development out of the previous scene or the one that ensues.
You gotta love the many sarcastic lines throughout the movie. They clearly wanted to make fun of some of the decade's highest points or popular trends, so that's enjoyable, at least.
I gotta say, my favorite character is the killer.
The guy has such an erratic and wacky demeanor as a serial killer or maybe that's how psychopaths who hail from New Jersey really act.
His delivery and half hearted attempts at being deranged is just hilarious.
His lines are irreparably comical and one of my favorites of his is supposed to have been his Cecil B. DeMille moment but stills falls short of menacing and is just too damn funny.
Every time he laughs in the movie is pretty contagious and you can't help but laugh with him. It almost makes you wanna go hang out with him!
The movie doesn't quite explain his appearance but he apparently is disfigured and he ends up looking like a zombie who likes stand up comedy, with wounds so severe and badly decomposed skin, that I can't tell if he's undead or just hasn't showered during the 10 year timeline he's been on the loose.
He is named Mitch Hansen in the movie but in the credits, he is named "The Coroner", although he was originally a lawyer who I guess went insane after the very ridiculous death of his lover and decided to take refuge in an abandoned asylum, which is a scary place by itself and should've been seen more menacing than it was but the never ending graffiti and prepubescent vandalism that used to adorn it just adds to the funny.
To be honest, the movie makes no real sense and is just too funny to be taken serious. If you like bad horror movies or 80s teen comedy B movies, you should watch this and be amazed at how you never heard of this before.
Once you see the movie, you'll know why.
But you might actually end up liking it for how cheesy and how over the top is with the camp and you'll add it to your really REALLY guilty pleasures list.
Just like it happened to me.
So RELAX....and well, you know the rest.