This movie starts out with what seems to be the perfect prologue to a Valentine's Day-themed slasher flick but from there we venture off into a hospital for the rest of the film. This hospital might be the most desolate one ever depicted in any movie even more so than that one in HALLOWEEN II. I mean there's whole long scenes where our killer is chasing people down hallways and no one ever comes along or notices besides his very stupid victims. Not just the victims but everyone in this thing seems either really dumb or stoned or just doing a really strange over-acting job. Former Playboy playmate Barbi Benton is our main character and luckily she has no problem getting nekkid because that's one of the few highlights(along with the flaming dummy thrown off a building ending) you get here. Besides that there's a bit of bloodshed from some pretty typical slasher movie-like kills and a lot of head-shakingly stupid things that happen including doctors that act like the hospital is a concentration camp where patients can't ever leave, equally Nazi-istic nurses and a silly reason that the killer is on a rampage in the first place. There's lots of better slasher-flicks from this era that you should check out before this one. AKA X-RAY
Director Boaz Davidson did go on to make one of my favorite 80's teen sex comedies THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN(he also made the original Israeli version of the film LEMON POPSICLE) so I will cut him some slack for this crap.
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