......And it's a total bore.
They had all the ingredients of an entertaining cheesy 80s horror film. But for some reason the mixture came out very lacking.
The movie begins with a doctor at a mental ward killing his colleague after figuring out what he's been doing to patients. Jump twenty years later where we follow some hot bimbo that can't act and bears a similar resemblance to Nancy from Nightmare on Elm Street. She has amnesia and is brought in to the same hospital which triggers the revival of the mad doctor. The main chunk of the movie sees the doc going around killing staff (complete with awful Freddy-like one liners) while our heroine wanders about in her underwear. Towards the end, the movie becomes a zombie movie and it is revealed that our heroine Jane Doe is the evil doc's daughter and (I think) he ends up passing his evil to her.
The premise is interesting. I like that the first two thirds of the film is a supernatural slasher movie and then becomes a zombie movie in its third act. And Cheryl Lawson as final girl Jane Doe is the film's highlight, spending a good chunk of her screen time in a short tank top and tight underwear (why aren't more final girls this scantily clad?). The acting is bad and the film is a chore to sit through. A much more entertaining movie would've flesh out the slasher and what he could do, sleaze it up even more by focusing more on Jane's pants-less peril, removing the weird and overdone family connection, probably a better soundtrack, acting that doesn't make our heroine (who isn't supposed to be crazy, she had her memory "taken from her") look like a total nutcase, and more gore and zombie shenanigans.
A bold late 80s effort that tries to combine so many sub-genres, but fails to be that memorable. Well, except for Cheryl Lawson roaming about in a creepy mental institution.
They had all the ingredients of an entertaining cheesy 80s horror film. But for some reason the mixture came out very lacking.
The movie begins with a doctor at a mental ward killing his colleague after figuring out what he's been doing to patients. Jump twenty years later where we follow some hot bimbo that can't act and bears a similar resemblance to Nancy from Nightmare on Elm Street. She has amnesia and is brought in to the same hospital which triggers the revival of the mad doctor. The main chunk of the movie sees the doc going around killing staff (complete with awful Freddy-like one liners) while our heroine wanders about in her underwear. Towards the end, the movie becomes a zombie movie and it is revealed that our heroine Jane Doe is the evil doc's daughter and (I think) he ends up passing his evil to her.
The premise is interesting. I like that the first two thirds of the film is a supernatural slasher movie and then becomes a zombie movie in its third act. And Cheryl Lawson as final girl Jane Doe is the film's highlight, spending a good chunk of her screen time in a short tank top and tight underwear (why aren't more final girls this scantily clad?). The acting is bad and the film is a chore to sit through. A much more entertaining movie would've flesh out the slasher and what he could do, sleaze it up even more by focusing more on Jane's pants-less peril, removing the weird and overdone family connection, probably a better soundtrack, acting that doesn't make our heroine (who isn't supposed to be crazy, she had her memory "taken from her") look like a total nutcase, and more gore and zombie shenanigans.
A bold late 80s effort that tries to combine so many sub-genres, but fails to be that memorable. Well, except for Cheryl Lawson roaming about in a creepy mental institution.