Boring

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Got this in a double feature movie pack the other being "Mausoleum". I am surprised to see this one has the higher score of the two movies as I thought that one was more entertaining though not necessarily a good movie in its own right. This movie starts out showing a boy who witnesses his father killing his mom and her lover and then himself. Well this kind of makes him mental and suffice to say he will grow up to be our killer. They do not really try to hide who he is during the movie as you see him fairly early in the picture. Well a girl with a bad leg sees visions of him doing his killings and he soon goes after her after she witnesses him disposing of one of his victims. There are a couple of good kills in this one, but for the most part the film is rather slow and a lot of times there is not a lot going on. The film will focus on the girl and her relationships with her father and her boyfriend then cut to a scene from time to time of the mental dude killing someone. Then after she sees him face to face the film is just him stalking her before finally going after her in a very prolonged scene. Just not all that entertaining. The psychic link she shares with the killer almost seems pointless after the initial scenes of her seeing visions of his killing and really added no new dimension to the film other than she should have been a bit more ready for him than she was. So all in all have to say this song had no rhythm and runs way to long at the end. I kept thinking to myself near the end "Shouldn't this be over?"

A lunatic, who watched his father shoot down his mother and her adulterous lover before putting a bullet in his mouth, escapes from a mental asylum after a sneak attack on his doctor who was attempting to retrieve a wooden flute, terrorizing an innocent teenager with a wounded leg who catches him attempting to bury a dead body. As Paul(Frankie Avalon, in a startlingly effective performance) was digging a burial spot for a woman he had recently strangled, troubled teenager, Marion(Donna Wilkes)stumbles upon him in the act. This confrontation was seemingly fated to happen because, strange enough, Marion had been having unpleasant visions/nightmares of Paul and his acts towards people along the way..blood transfusions or not, the idea of being linked to someone mainly due to that is kind of feeble at best.Paul had buried a hatchet into the face of a driver who gave him a ride in his van(..this driver was absolutely tired of Paul's never-ceasing flute playing), picked up a sweet little loose honey who even slept with him(..only to criticize his loud flute music which bludgeons the ears of even the most patient of folks, with a necklace he had bought her used to suffocate her)and plans the worst for Marion, stalking her everywhere she goes. Marion, before Paul entered her life, had been telling others about her frightening visions, including boyfriend/fisherman Joey(William Kirby Cullen)and school gal pal Cathy(Noelle North), and the claims of seeing a psycho planning on burying a victim in a park near a beach without evidence causes them to worry about her mental health. Meanwhile, Paul awaits the moment where he will strike, and somehow Marion must convince somebody to believe her.The film is about as much a melodrama as a psycho-thriller with a sub-plot devoted to the ever-increasing estrangement between Marion and her antagonistic, bullish, drunk of a father, Frank(Richard Jaeckel). Frank's drunkenness was behind the crash which caused Marion's damaged leg. He also is very negatively vocal against her relationship with Joey. Bea(Antoinette Bower), Marion's mother, tries to consistently calm Frank and this tense drama makes up a chunk of the overall film. It all culminates towards the end as Paul attacks Frank with a hatchet in the film's most graphically violent scene which will lead to the maniac chasing after Marion into a darkened sawmill. There's an interesting psychological twist which provides a grim conclusion concerning Marion's state of well being. I think Frankie Avalon's clean-cut, matinée image provides a startling contrast to what hides bubbling under the surface..I think he actually embraces the dark side of this part and with this new freedom, plays the killer to the hilt. I like how he's actually a wimpy child, his mania as a result of temper tantrums when people "hurt him." Thanks to the cinematography which presents Paul in a murky manner, Avalon is often shrouded in darkness, his unsettling grin present until provoked towards violence when you insult him. See, Avalon has this kind and soft look about him, he seems very approachable and charming, and then you flick that switch(..even on accident)with the monster released..that's what I liked best about this little-known slasher. Many slasher faithful will find the home drama perhaps trifling and dull, but I liked the fact that the filmmakers attempted to flesh the characters out. I didn't think the "visions" angle worked, at all really, but the finale(..the chase through the sawmill)was suspenseful and exciting. I have to say, I liked this better than I thought I would. I think it does have a lot to do, though, with the blue collar environment and that the lead actress is normal looking(..the 80's, unlike the films of the last 15 or so years, actually featured female leads which looked like someone you might have actually went to school with)with her own mundane problems to deal with.

Pre-ANGEL Donna Wilkes plays a physically-challenged teen with two off-the-wall parents--one neurotic, the other a tyrannical drunk. As if that isn't enough, a psychotic killer is on the loose and she's Number One on his "hit" parade. Of course, the murderer has to give us our money's worth by slaughtering a few people along the way. There is blood and gore galore including hatchet-hacking, a near-disembowelment and an incredible showdown in a sawmill. The psycho is played by Frankie Avalon! Between this and HAUNTED HOUSE OF HORROR, he must have been trying to shatter his Beach-boy image. They should have thrown in one of his songs somewhere, or maybe a clip from BEACH BLANKET BINGO. Richard Jaeckel is outstanding as the girl's father who, drunk or sober, carries protectiveness a little too far. This darkly-photographed potboiler is no Hitcockian masterpiece but it's never boring. Its characters seem real which is more than can be said for most slasher flicks of that era. This flick was once included in Brentwood's BLOOD BATH DVD collection; it definitely lives up to that description.

The first time I saw this film (1997, on T.V.) it was midnight, and I almost felt really scared the first 20 minutes of the film. It was spooky, interesting... and I think it had a well built psycho-terror atmosphere; but soon it becomes weak... Why? the plot, the music, make this film a mix of "Friday the 13th 5: A New Beginning", "Armageddon" (because of the noise, not the visual effects) and "Striptease" (without the nude scenes and the boring dialogues).This film has other spooky scenes, sort of like "Kalifornia" meets "Friday the 13th" (the first one). And the final scene is one of my favorites.This film would had been a very good terror (series B) flick, but it has much wasted potential. If you liked "American Gothic", I think you'll enjoy this.Barely worth seeing.