The SlayerYear: 1981 Director: J.S. Cardone Written by: William R. Ewing Threat: Mutant Weapon of Choice: Pitch fork Based upon: none |
Other movies in this series:
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The tyranist's thoughts
Of the two of us, Rish has always been the artist. He's loved to draw ever since he
tried to emulate his first Spider-Man comic. Me, I doodle occasionally. And never a lot
when I do. The fact that my notes for this movie are covered in doodles should tell you
something about it.
So a woman and her husband(?) and another woman and her husband(?) are headed to
a basically deserted island with a mysterious past for a weekend retreat. The woman
doesn't want to go. Apparently she sometimes has prescient dreams. Most of these
dreams she commits to canvas. Which disturbs the people around her. Anyway, they
are there and then there's this thing that is never explained and a storm that makes it
so they can't leave (although it only seems to be stormy at night so I couldn't figure
out why they never left during daylight) and people die.
The movie was pretty forgettable. Made on a super-low budget at the beginning of the
'80s, it just doesn't have much to offer. Really, it is too bad that a lot of these movies got
made just to cash in on the horror craze.
I'd skip it if I were you. And if you happen upon the double bill package that also features
Scalps, I'd definitely skip it.
Total Skulls: 18
| Sequel | ||
| Sequel setup | ||
| Rips off earlier film | ||
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
| Future celebrity appears | ||
| Former celebrity appears | ||
| Bad title | ||
| Bad premise | ||
| Bad acting | ||
| Bad dialogue | ||
| Bad execution | ||
| MTV Editing | ||
| OTS | ||
| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
| Wanton sex | ||
| Death associated with sex | ||
| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
| Characters forget about threat | ||
| Secluded location | ||
| Power is cut | ||
| Phone lines are cut | ||
| Someone investigates a strange noise | ||
| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
| Camera is the killer | ||
| Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
| Victim locks self in with killer | ||
| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
| Toilet stall scene | ||
| Shower/bath scene | ||
| Car stalls or won't start | ||
| Cat jumps out | ||
| Fake scare | ||
| Laughable scare | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | ||
| Hallucination/Vision | ||
| No one believes only witness | ||
| Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
| Warning goes unheeded | ||
| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Death in first five minutes | ||
| x years before/later | ||
| Flashback sequence | ||
| Dark and stormy night | ||
| Killer doesn't stay dead | ||
| Killer wears a mask | ||
| Killer is in closet | ||
| Killer is in car with victim | ||
| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unscary villain/monster | ||
| Beheading | ||
| Blood fountain | ||
| Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | ||
| Poor death effect | ||
| Excessive gore | ||
| No one dies at all | ||
| Virgin survives | ||
| Geek/Nerd survives | ||
| Little kid lamely survives | ||
| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
| Unresolved subplots | ||
| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | ||
| Unbelievably crappy ending | ||
| What the hell? |