As a lark before a party on Halloween, two teenagers dig up a gargoyle statue. However, they unleash a murderous demon.As a lark before a party on Halloween, two teenagers dig up a gargoyle statue. However, they unleash a murderous demon.As a lark before a party on Halloween, two teenagers dig up a gargoyle statue. However, they unleash a murderous demon.
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Surprisingly fun cheesy gore-fest!
First off, this is a bad movie, but so bad it's good! The characters are so hilariously terrible, the script so relentlessly boneheaded, that the movie actually becomes enjoyable. This movie has more heart and soul than the last ten Hollywood blockbusters put together. You totally get that the people who made this little SOV horror flick really believed in what they were doing (even if they didn't always know what they were doing).
It's also a really fun time capsule movie that takes us back to a time when everyone had big stupid hair and called each other "Dude!" every few seconds. The gore ain't bad, either, considering the budget. Would have liked a little nudity, but I guess you can't have everything.
If you love cheesy 80s horror, this is pretty much a prime example of it. It gets a solid 7.5 stars from me, and I would definitely call this one of the best shot-on-video horror movies of all time ('cause we all know how rotten most SOV flicks are--especially the ones made back in the 80s and 90s).
The basic plot has two junior high morons dig up a possessed satanic statue. One kid's older metal-head brother and his lunkhead friends (complete with mullets) decide to hold a séance with their girlfriends on Halloween night in a haunted house. Naturally, they call upon the soul of the demon from the statue, who then possesses the little brother. He gets all demonic looking (like a bargain basement Freddy Krueger) and uses black magic to kill the head-banging morons and their girls, but fortunately, he does this without spouting off any stupid one-liners. Who will survive and what will be left of them? Can the soul of the demon be put back into its statue prison?
Typical dialog: A stoner dude goes to take a leak in the woods behind the house (talking to himself the whole way like he just stepped out of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure), and says, "Whoa! This tree looks fine. I think you been drinking too much beer, dude! Oh, man! Smells like some righteous doo-doo, man!" And then the demon kills him. Hysterical!
For all you gore fans, here's the scoop: All but the final death scene are of the black magic levitating object/telekinesis variety. In no particular order: a girl is cut open by a wood saw (from between her legs), girl's eyeball punctured by tree branch (comes out the back of her dead), dude gets his head twisted all the way around to break his neck, girl levitated off bed and ripped in two, dude's head explodes after complaining of headache and nosebleed (which he attributes to all the "rough sex" he's been having, LOL), another dude gets levitated and pinned to a wall then ripped in half so all his guts fall out, and yet another dude gets his spine ripped out and thrown away.
Some of these scenes are more suggestive than explicit (like the wood saw between the legs, although we do get a panty shot), while others (like the girl ripped in half) are quite graphic. But the absolute best, most awesome gore scene (worthy of Tom Savini) is the meat cleaver to the face one girl gets. It cuts the top half of her head off at an angle, gore spews out, then we see her upside-down, chopped off head with its big gold hoop earrings still looking around, just like that one zombie shovel scene in George Romero's Day of the Dead (1985). There are some obvious nods to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead (1981) and Lucio Fulci's Zombie (1979) as well: bedsheets pinning a girl down to be sawed in half and sharp wood slicing through a girl's eyeball. This flick is definitely a cult classic and real guilty pleasure. Well worth hunting down if you're into this sort of thing.
It's also a really fun time capsule movie that takes us back to a time when everyone had big stupid hair and called each other "Dude!" every few seconds. The gore ain't bad, either, considering the budget. Would have liked a little nudity, but I guess you can't have everything.
If you love cheesy 80s horror, this is pretty much a prime example of it. It gets a solid 7.5 stars from me, and I would definitely call this one of the best shot-on-video horror movies of all time ('cause we all know how rotten most SOV flicks are--especially the ones made back in the 80s and 90s).
The basic plot has two junior high morons dig up a possessed satanic statue. One kid's older metal-head brother and his lunkhead friends (complete with mullets) decide to hold a séance with their girlfriends on Halloween night in a haunted house. Naturally, they call upon the soul of the demon from the statue, who then possesses the little brother. He gets all demonic looking (like a bargain basement Freddy Krueger) and uses black magic to kill the head-banging morons and their girls, but fortunately, he does this without spouting off any stupid one-liners. Who will survive and what will be left of them? Can the soul of the demon be put back into its statue prison?
Typical dialog: A stoner dude goes to take a leak in the woods behind the house (talking to himself the whole way like he just stepped out of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure), and says, "Whoa! This tree looks fine. I think you been drinking too much beer, dude! Oh, man! Smells like some righteous doo-doo, man!" And then the demon kills him. Hysterical!
For all you gore fans, here's the scoop: All but the final death scene are of the black magic levitating object/telekinesis variety. In no particular order: a girl is cut open by a wood saw (from between her legs), girl's eyeball punctured by tree branch (comes out the back of her dead), dude gets his head twisted all the way around to break his neck, girl levitated off bed and ripped in two, dude's head explodes after complaining of headache and nosebleed (which he attributes to all the "rough sex" he's been having, LOL), another dude gets levitated and pinned to a wall then ripped in half so all his guts fall out, and yet another dude gets his spine ripped out and thrown away.
Some of these scenes are more suggestive than explicit (like the wood saw between the legs, although we do get a panty shot), while others (like the girl ripped in half) are quite graphic. But the absolute best, most awesome gore scene (worthy of Tom Savini) is the meat cleaver to the face one girl gets. It cuts the top half of her head off at an angle, gore spews out, then we see her upside-down, chopped off head with its big gold hoop earrings still looking around, just like that one zombie shovel scene in George Romero's Day of the Dead (1985). There are some obvious nods to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead (1981) and Lucio Fulci's Zombie (1979) as well: bedsheets pinning a girl down to be sawed in half and sharp wood slicing through a girl's eyeball. This flick is definitely a cult classic and real guilty pleasure. Well worth hunting down if you're into this sort of thing.
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- Logan-22
- Apr 15, 2012
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