Horror Extreme Movie Catalog

Well, I worked as Asst. Lighting on this and was dissapointed with it when I first saw the film. You know. It's your first time getting to work on anything beyond you or your friend's videos/films and you are hopeing this will be the 90's "Night of the Living Dead." That was 10 years ago and I've mellowed towards it over the time. If you are throwing a Halloween Party this movie is perfect to throw on and just have playing in the background, sound off. The major dissapointment here is that the actual location was extremely scary. When we would move locations and shoot in another part of the building, all lights went with them and people got sent by themselves with a flashlight to go pick up anything that was left. Trust me going around in that place alone like that was scary!!! None of this is present in the film however and the movie is really bad in all areas. The biggest thing making the film difficult to even sit through is the horrible audio. I would really like to know if [..]the original audio tapes and if there is someway that the sound could be improved. The other thing making the film beyond your normal bad is that many of the shots are out of focus because of the crap lens this ancient 16mm camera had. On a new and ahead of its time note, this movie has an annoying kid get killed and a male be the lead survivor, not just have him be the surviving girl's boyfriend. [..]

This is a very low-budget movie about a haunted house attraction that opens up in (surprise) an old prison for the criminally insane. Predictably, an escaped maniac from said prison returns to the haunted house to kill everybody.

The first 15 minutes or so are all build-up. You see several different groups of people on their way to the haunted house talking about how scary and great it's going to be. My favorite is a mother with two young boys who says twice, very unconvincingly, "I don't know, boys. I don't like this idea". Then she cheers as each of them gets a souvenir picture in the old electric chair (who doesn't want a picture of their kid in an electric chair?)

Just when you wonder if ANYBODY is ever going to actually get inside the place, the action begins. You see some of the customers, as well as the workers, making their way through the haunted prison. One of the customers is a blind woman. When someone asks her, fairly enough, what she gets out of coming to haunted houses, she says she likes the sounds, such as glass breaking (!)

Then the killer appears. He dons several different masks as he makes his way through the prison, slaughtering everybody. I must say, some of the killings were quite imaginative- someone getting drilled to death with a cordless drill, a girl being run through with a chainsaw, a man being set afire.

There is quite a bit of sex and nudity (all female); in between getting killed, these people find a lot of time to screw around with one another.
The acting is beyond awful- only Jason Petty, the star of the film, puts in a decent performance as the director/manager of the haunted house. The sound quality is terrible- you can't even hear many of the conversations, not that it matters, probably. So why did I give it 3 stars? Because it was so silly it was entertaining.