Style: Slasher Horror
Director: Paul Lynch
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen
Working Time: 93 minutes
Synopsis: Within the prologue, children taking part in a merciless sport of hide-and-seek in an deserted covenant trigger the demise of ten year-old Robin. Six years later within the current, the now teen-aged children are preparing for highschool commencement. Robin’s sister Kim (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her brother Alex are a part of the college group, and their father Mr. Hammond (Leslie Nielsen) is the principal. An escaped convict is stalking the city, an outcast pupil threatens violence, and Kim’s nemesis Wendy has disruptive intentions. Finally a mask-wearing assailant unleashes mayhem.
What Works Nicely: The opening prologue guarantees a degree of gargoylian horror that the remainder of the movie by no means comes near matching, however one late-in-the-day shot that includes a disembodied head deserves credit score.
What Does Not Work As Nicely: This Canadian manufacturing is finest identified for that includes Jamie Lee Curtis in her prime scream queen period, however affords nothing else. The stiff actors all seem a superb ten years older than their roles, the writing is lazy, and the highschool surroundings is a drained re-hash of stereotypes. The horror scenes, once they lastly arrive, are tension-free, filmed in murky darkness, and edited into a multitude. As an alternative of delivering impression, each supposed spotlight is prolonged into boredom. Worst of all is an incessant fixation on disco dancing and unhealthy disco music. Possibly the hidden message was all in regards to the horror of disco’s remaining days?
Key Quote:
Kim: You appear a little bit anxious, Wendy. By the best way, who’re going with tonight?
Wendy: It isn’t who you go together with, honey. It is who takes you house.
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