Horror Extreme Movie Catalog

This one was a staple of the horror sections in video stores back in the '80s and '90s, and one of the few of its type that I never saw -- the cover makes it look like Troma Z-Grade T&A, which I usually avoid, but Netflix mailed it to me last year by mistake. Despite my utter annoyance, I didn't have anything better to do, so I watched it.

The story is a routine rip from both HALLOWEEN (psycho escapes from asylum and starts killing teens) and ELM STREET (bizarre nightmares of the killer), but it's surprisingly well executed. There's some really good cinematography, some genuinely cool scare/dream sequences, and a complimentary musical score. Of course, there's some obligatory bad acting, a pointless montage that exists solely for gratuitous nudity purposes ("let's get naked and try on our best friend's clothes while she's not home!") and some other typical '80s idiocy. But all in all for its genre, there's a whole lot worse out there.

This is one of the many low- budget slasher flicks I saw probably back in high school that i forgot about , but having seen it a few times I have included it in my collection of favorite slasher movies. I agree that originality is not what the makers of this film had in mind ,and the plot centers on a girl in her mid teens named Beth who went by the name Laura back in her childhood who is now living in a sorority house with several other females and having nightmares about a man who was her brother that murdered her family, and she was the only survivor who managed to escape in a small opening in the house where he tried to get to her , but than buried the knife in a fireplace before police finally came. Now, some 13-14 years later her brother is starting to sense her presence in the house and having spastic fits manages to assault a staff member in the mental institution and escapes to come for her. Throughout the movie there were some influences of both HALLOWEEN/ THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE , so I could understand the reviewers crying halloween ripoff while viewing this movie , but most slashers never really are original and this is worth adding to a collection of slashers.