Night Screams (1987)
2/10
Bad Slasher
6 July 2011
Warning: Spoilers
The plot = David (Joe Manno) is the captain of the football team and is also the most popular guy in school but he has a problem he's on medication to control his violent fits, so what does he do he throws a party for all his friends at his house while his parents are away. But while the party starts going two convicts escapes from a nearby prison and hides out in his basement ready to terrorise the party guests.

The opening scene we get a stereotypical 80's couple snuggling up watching "Graduation Day" and then surprise surprise they both gets killed and the credits come on and the movie starts. After seeing this part I thought that this movie was gonna be quite good but sadly I was wrong.

This movie has very little going for it although there is a big body count and a few fun kill sequences, but when it comes to everything else this movie just simply falls apart and becomes very boring, the acting for one is awful, even for an 80's slasher and the directing is strictly amateur. The last 20 minutes perk up a bit- but considering the unrelieved tedium of what's gone before it'd be a miracle if it didn't. The ending as well was predictable (I figured it out long before) and it well and truly shows that by the late 1980's that slasher movies just became tame and rubbish.

All in all this is a bad slasher with only a few redeeming qualities.
2 out of 7 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink

Recently Viewed