rating: **1/2
starring: Bunky Jones, Brittain Frye and Annette Sinclair
Hide and Go Shriek. A slasher entry that I paid no to little attention until I decided one day, out of no reason, to watch it out of the unexplained reason to complete experiencing every 80s slasher title made. The final verdict: mixed results.
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But someone is inside the furniture store with them. Someone angry. Someone homicidal. But who could it be? One of the boys? one of the girls? The ex-convict hired as a security guard who just so happens to be living in the building's basement? Or maybe its...
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It runs slow at first, jam packed with muy macho-sex crazy teen talk and pointless tour scenes that are frustrating to watch, but when the murders starts and people start to die one by one in fairly bloody ways, it kicks off the adrenaline and had us back to our familiar grounds no sooner.
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The finale can be a mixed bag of sorts; while I do find the twist clever, though out of the air, some may find it homophobic. It is, actually, but not as shocking or deep as that of Dressed to Kill or Silence of the Lambs.
So is it good enough for a watch? I would say yes, but keep in mind that it ain't all that great either.
Bodycount:
1 female gutted with knife
1 female drowned in a hand basin
1 male impaled to spikes
1 male mannequin arm to the gut
1 female decapitated on elevator
1 male kitchen knife to the neck
1 male killed
total: 7
Yeah, saw this on VHS a long time ago. Reviewed it for a review newsletter I was mailing out to my friends at the time. Didn't give it a positive review.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't blame ya at all, mate!
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