It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

This might have been a magnificent piece of nastiness. The first half with Mike breakdown creeped me out several times. It's played straight and as brutally as the actors' talents permit. John Brace (Mike) gets better as he gets crazier. Ironically, as soon as the mask goes on, the film goes downhill. The wacky, incompetent cops show up and blow the tone of the film. It feels as if it got a makeover half-way through filming. Example: they walk all over a tense moment towards the end of the film to throw one more quick gag in. As a coup de grace, the end of the film comes with possibly the worst song ever written for film. It sounds like it was written by a social worker bingeing on coke, Quaaludes and Kenny Logins. All told, entertaining at first and then frustrating.

There are good horror movies, bad horror movies, and horror movies that are so bad that they are good...then there's this! A movie so hideously awful that all you can do at the end credits is gawk at the screen in disbelief and ask yourself "Did I really just waste 1.5 hours of my life watching that piece of trash?". The gore effects in this one are not bad at all but unfortunately that does not save this film. It is hideously acted with so many flashback sequences and sequences that are conjured up in the main character's imagination that it tends to make the viewer dizzy. The film is also HORRIBLY edited...actors and actresses are inexplicably cut-off in the middle of their lines! What's even worse is the fact that there was even more time and effort wasted making 2 abysmal sequels to this worthless flick (I HIGHLY doubt that the 'demand' for this one was that high). Sequels that are so amateurish and poorly filmed that a three year old child with a hand held camera could film more compelling stuff! To avoid the stench of this stinker...stay as far away from it as humanly possible!

I rented this movie quite some time ago (I think I was in High School) and watched it by myself and laughed so much I actually got a sore throat. Well, I new I had found a true B movie gem. I instantly had to show it to some of my friends and we all loved it. We still watch this movie to this day. Basically, the story line goes as is, there is a man called Mike Straber who is climbing up the ladder with his job and has a beautiful girlfriend. Well, he comes home one day to find his girlfriend screwing his best friend. This leads up to some classic dialog with his girlfriend telling him "Mike, just find some good friends". All this then gets a little bit sappy when Mike starts wandering around in his car and goes to the beach. It's here that he decides he is going to kill himself. Instead, he thinks back to when he was a kid and how he used to cut his arms up playing truth or dare with the other kids. Well, thus starts something that never stops. After severely mutilating himself he is taken to the hospital and put in an asylum for a year and when he is released the first thing on his mind is to kill his ex. From here on in enjoy the ride. This movie gets so ridiculous and absurd you can't take your eyes off the screen. Although, the gore in the movie is rather low budget I wouldn't have any other way. And the dialog in some scenes are truly memorable. One particular scene in which Mike has been slashed open and some people call the police. A detective comes to investigate and discovers Mike lying on the ground. So the first thing he says to the people who called the police is "He's been cut... badly". Classic trash. Highly recommend. 8 stars

A million dollars... A million dollars... I could have made a better slasher flick with the Blair Witch budget! I was having a pretty peachy day when I found out that my favorite bad movie cost approximately one million dollars to make. What kind of idiot gave this guy a million dollars? And to make thing worst he made two sequels. It is the best worst movie of all time, but it was a lot better when I thought an amateur adult film director made this flick with about the same amount of money his past projects cost. Sorry if I have insulted anyone, but after all my pick for the worst film of all time is not even on a single list.