Written and directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. Starring Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O’Herlihy, Michael Currie and Nancy Kyes.
Plot: A man’s death leads his daughter and an alcoholic doctor to search for answers in a small town eerily controlled by a man with a maskmaking company.
This is a strange little movie. One that it took me and DJ a long time to watch actually. See, we never liked that Michael Myers wasn’t in this one, so we didn’t rush right out to see it. Our mother, however, likes this movie and told us to give it a shot. The story follows Dr. Daniel Challis (Atkins), who teams up with a young woman named Ellie (Nelkin), to figure out why her father was murdered. It all leads to men in suits, major coverups, death, more death and of course, a little sex. I mean, what 50+ year old man wouldn’t stop in the middle of running for his life to get a little something in with a girl about 23? Hmm.
The bad news here is that we do not really like this movie. It’s a little bit of a guilty pleasure for some, I suppose, but we don’t find it very pleasurable at all. Some of it is just frustrating, other parts are disgusting and what tries to be scary is really just hysterical. Lots of children die. A woman’s face gets blown off. There’s fire and there’s robots and there’s worms. And I loathe worms! Plus, the maskmaking company puts out some commercials that are so annoyingly addictive, you’ll be singing the happy, little tune in your sleep.
Eight more days til Halloween. Halloween. Halloween.
Eight more days til Halloween.
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The writing and directina are hilariously annoying. At one point a man is squished by a car that he should NOT have been squished by. It was sort of like watching that Austin Powers scene where the security guard has his hand stretched out in front of him and he’s screaming for Austin to stop driving towards him. Even though Austin is miles and miles away from him at the beginning of the scene, he just stands there and screams instead of running away. It’s funny as hell in that movie, but in this horror film, you just wonder why this man did not move before being hit? He had time damnit!!
Also, can we talk about the dialogue? Let me set this one scene: Daniel and Ellie have been flirting for the whole two minutes they’ve known each other and now they are “forced” to share a hotel room. So, Ellie asks him, “Where do you want to sleep, Dr. Challis?” And he, so coyly responds with, “That’s a dumb question, Miss Grimbridge.” So, they sex. What the hey? And after the sex has already happened, Challis turns to her and asks, “Wait, how old are you?” FOR REAL!! It’s a silly damn scene in a silly damn movie.
It has a great cast though, I’ll give it that. And they really try to pull off the lines they’re spouting, too. I also love how the original Halloween movie is playing on different televisions in different scenes. And the ending, well, it sucks. It’s so, so bad. But it’s so bad, it’s good actually. I dug it. It’s also just fun to watch. Honestly, we recommend watching this. We really do. You must see it at least once. Just watch it with people you like a whole lot and you should have a nice time cracking jokes, at the very least.
Our score: 41.
“Yes kids, you too can own one of the big Halloween three.
That’s right, THREE horrific masks to choose from.
They’re fun, they’re frightening, and they GLOW in the dark.”
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