Maxim XulYear: 1991 Director: Arthur Egeli Written by: Charles E. Rickard, Arthur Egeli Threat: Demon Weapon of Choice: Sword Based upon: Original |
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The tyranist's thoughts
Adam West has become a sort of running joke in modern culture and it would have been hard to pass up a chance to take a
look at him in what promised to be a bad film. I have to give it to him, he was the best thing about this movie.
There are some brutal, gory killings (not that we see the gore, mind you) going on and the police can't seem to figure
out who's doing it. Gradually people start putting pieces together (much slower than you will no doubt) and a final
confrontation happens.
Adam West plays an eccentric professor who seems to understand what is happening from the beginning but doesn't bother
to actually tell anyone else until most of the way through the movie. His enigmatic presence is at least interesting,
while everyone else isn't. The acting and dialogue worked together to make long stretches of this movie almost
unwatchable. The basic premise isn't actually bad, they just can't deliver.
Skip it. Unless of course you're an Adam West fan.
Total Skulls: 11
Sequel | ||
Sequel setup | ||
Rips off earlier film | ||
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
Future celebrity appears | ||
Former celebrity appears | Adam West | |
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 | ||
Music detracts from scene | ||
Death in first five minutes | ||
x years before/later | ||
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 hits camera | ||
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? |