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A scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers.A scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers.A scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers.
Billy Al Benston
- Felix Rowe
- (as Billy Al Bengston)
Nicole Massie
- Flying Nun
- (as Nicole Anderson)
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- TriviaThe mask that the killer wears in the film is of wrestler/B-actor/(Edward D. Wood Jr.-regular) Tor Johnson.
- GoofsWhen Ollie and Pete drive past Lucy's house, the Steadicam shadow can be see passing the house.
- Alternate versionsAlthough the 1986 UK video version was uncut the 1993 Vipco release was cut by 26 secs by the BBFC to remove shots of Pete Brady vertically cutting his wrist with a knife, as this was classed as an imitable suicide technique. The cuts were expanded to 41 secs for the 2004 DVD release though the 2008 Optimum DVD restores around 14 secs via a different edit.
- SoundtracksJumping out a Window
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Strange Behaviour (aka Dead Kids) revolves around a mad doctor, who is running an mkultra-style experimental program, at a small college in fictional Centerville, Illinois.
They have been recruiting high school and college kids by offering them $100 per session.
Then using mind control techniques to make them kill their friends.
One of these boys is the son of the chief of police, whose wife had previously worked with this same doctor, before dying, herself.
And he never got a chance to pursue justice...which he has never lived down.
Now his son, who is trying to earn money for his college application, has also joined the program.
Recruited by his best friend, who ends up murdering a boy at a party, before being killed himself.
The scientists involved think that this will be a revolutionary treatment that will change the world.
But that doesn't really explain why they'd have to resort to murder in order to prove it.
In most cases, they are clearly just trying to remove an enemy of their program from the equation, or trying to cover their tracks, by tying up loose ends.
Which, in the end, may come back to haunt them.
For the most part, this is a relatively low budget- and all around- cheesy film.
But there's a bunch of gore, and the special effects are actually not that bad.
Making it a pretty fun little slasher flick, with a bit of a twist.
It was meant to be the first instalment of a trilogy.
But it only ever spawned a sequel- Strange Invaders (1983)- which was so ill-received, that they cancelled production of the third film.
Which is unfortunate, because this one is certainly worth checking out.
6 out of 10.
They have been recruiting high school and college kids by offering them $100 per session.
Then using mind control techniques to make them kill their friends.
One of these boys is the son of the chief of police, whose wife had previously worked with this same doctor, before dying, herself.
And he never got a chance to pursue justice...which he has never lived down.
Now his son, who is trying to earn money for his college application, has also joined the program.
Recruited by his best friend, who ends up murdering a boy at a party, before being killed himself.
The scientists involved think that this will be a revolutionary treatment that will change the world.
But that doesn't really explain why they'd have to resort to murder in order to prove it.
In most cases, they are clearly just trying to remove an enemy of their program from the equation, or trying to cover their tracks, by tying up loose ends.
Which, in the end, may come back to haunt them.
For the most part, this is a relatively low budget- and all around- cheesy film.
But there's a bunch of gore, and the special effects are actually not that bad.
Making it a pretty fun little slasher flick, with a bit of a twist.
It was meant to be the first instalment of a trilogy.
But it only ever spawned a sequel- Strange Invaders (1983)- which was so ill-received, that they cancelled production of the third film.
Which is unfortunate, because this one is certainly worth checking out.
6 out of 10.
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- Nov 18, 2020
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