Runtime:
85 minutes
Directed
by: Ed Hunt
Starring:
Lori Lethin, Julie Brown (yeah, not Downtown Julie Brown, but the
valley girl one who was in movies like Earth Girls are Easy), Billy
Jayne, Elizabeth Hoy, Andy Freeman
From:
Judica Productions
If
I would have been thinking, this would have been the perfect review
to do this past Sunday, as the important plot point of this motion
picture revolves around a solar eclipse. But as I'm sure that annular
eclipse is still in your mind, it is still OK to do this review now.
This
happens to be an entry in the Killer Kids genre. I've only seen a few
films relating to that but they've been rather entertaining and
well-done. After all, my first-ever review on here was Orphan, and
there's also the quality 2008 film The Children.
This,
while definitely not as good as those two movies, is still
entertaining in its low-budget ways and it's also interesting to see
some old stars in it (like Susan Strasberg and Jose Ferrer) along
with people that became more famous later, like Brown and even
Michael Dudikoff, who has a brief role as Julie's boyfriend.
The
plot is pretty goofy but what can you do... three babies are born at
practically the same time in a small California town; the births also
happen to take place right as a solar eclipse is taking place. This
is later explained as meaning that Saturn is blocked while they were
born, meaning they have no conscious. Really. Don't get me started on
astrology and how it's all nonsense. But, if you can ignore that and
go with the story, then it's OK, I suppose. Anyhow, the kids
apparently decided to be evil bastards shortly before their 10th
birthdays, and they start killing people and create problems for 18
year old Joyce and her little brother Timmy in particular.
Like
I said, the movie's noticeably low-budget and you'll notice if you
watch it on Netflix Instant and hear the audio and the near-constant
hissing. But hey, even though this technically isn't good it is still
entertaining and wildly so at times, and while some of the kills are
standard, the others are a little different from the norm and there
are actually some setpieces that were creative, at least in idea. The
acting wasn't atrocious so that was good, and Joyce and Timmy are
pretty likeable, and that was also a bonus.
Speaking
of bonuses, the best/funniest scene in the movie; there's actually a
nude scene involving Julie Brown, and she doesn't look bad sans
clothing! But that's not the great part; the great part is that her
character's little sister is the girl of the evil trio and she has a
peephole into her room so the evil boys are able to watch her dancing
around sans clothing and change into new clothing. Yep, dancing
around to music and changing clothes, only in 80's horror films...
and the song being played is a totally generic and yet awesome
pop-rock ditty from some random no-name named John G. Jones. I wish
that entire song was on YouTube, but alas... oh, and in her room are
some dope posters for Debbie Harry, Van Halen, Ted Nugent, Roger
Daltry, and... for some reason, Erik Estrada.
So,
if you enjoy the genre and want to see a wacky but still acceptable
example of that, check this out. You definitely get to see the little
brats do some really evil things, if that's what you enjoy seeing.
I'll be back Sunday night.
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