Runtime:
97 minutes
Directed
by: Larry Stewart
Starring:
Daphne Zuniga, Vera Miles, Clu Gulager, Hunter Tylo
From:
New World Pictures
To
start off, I have to say that once again I am using Netflix for the
next month, so expect various oddities to pop up here for the near
future. I don't quite know how I'll handle all I plan on watching,
except that at least one entry will likely be several films reviewed
at once.
I
picked this out of the giant pool of Instant titles via a
recommendation on a messageboard. It made things clear this wasn't an
undiscovered classic or anything but instead a random forgotten 80's
slasher that wasn't bad at all. The cast of a few old pros and some
people who would later become more famous was also enticing.
The
plot: Kelly (Zuniga) is a girl with a troubled past: an incident
happened when she was 9 and it resulted in her having amnesia and
forgetting everything that happened before 9 and she also has a weird
nightmare which keeps on occuring. Kelly is in college and weird
things start happening as she tries to join a sorority and the last
thing to do before she's accepted is to break into the mall that her
ultra-rich dad (Gulager) owns, while having drama with her mom
(Miles). She tries to get help from grad student Peter (James Read)
As
described in that messageboard post I read, the movie isn't awesome
or anything. Rather, it's one of the many low-budget slashers that
came out during the 1980's. Yet it's still fun to watch. The topic is
about certainly is different from the norm (at least outside of the
Nightmare on Elm Street movies) with the talk of dreams and
interpreting them. The kills aren't anything special but the cast is
fine and as it's the 80's, there's full-frontal nudity and well,
grooming wasn't like it is now... it is Tylo (billed as Deborah
Morehart) who is entirely naked.
The
musical score is the typical use of synthesizer to make low and
brooding tones. It dates things... but also makes it awesome. There
are plenty of creepy scenes, which helps make this an
entertaining-enough ride for those of you who like watching slashers.
If
you do watch it you'll get such great moments as one of the sorority
girls having a giant poster of Tom Selleck in her room and a terrible
new wave band playing at a costume party and one guy showing up
wearing... a giant penis costume. True story. Yep, this is a movie
from the 80's where there's a good amount of goofy humor like that.
I'll
be back Wednesday night.
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