ShockerYear: 1989 Director: Wes Craven Written by: Wes Craven Threat: Psychopath Weapon of Choice: Electricity Based upon: nothing |
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The tyranist's thoughts
When this started rolling through my VCR, my first thought was "God bless the '80s."
Unfortunately, by the end of the movie I wasn't having such a good time.
A psychopath (as always) is slaughtering families and getting away with it until
he starts in on the family of the cop that is chasing him. The cops football star son
starts to have psychic dreams about the killings and the chase is really on.
This one stars everyone's favourite Assistant-Director in a brutal role that is really
well conceived until his transformation into the title villain. I was really enjoying the
movie up to that point in fact. It doesn't help that the transformation didn't come until
halfway through the movie or that the villain is pretty pedestrian after that point. What
was a pretty fun horror flick degenerates into the kind of fantasy that A-Pix commonly
turns out. Cousin Wes let us down here and that's too bad.
I wouldn't really recommend this even to fans of Wes, which is too bad because it
could have been a lot of fun.
Total Skulls: 17
Sequel | ||
Sequel setup | ||
Rips off earlier film | ||
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
Future celebrity appears | Mitch Pileggi | |
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? |