Twice Dead (1988)
1/10
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15 September 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Is this gonna be like the horror version of Tony Todd's Enemy Territory?

Movie starts off totally unappealing with either Marlon Brando, or Charlie Chaplin, (who's in color for a change,) dancing with some unhappy, terrified looking dame. Bugsy Malone shows up, let me guess, he's packing a Tommy Gun, right? Have no clue what the intro meant?

Movie then jumps to the eighties with the family truckster rolling on another vacation, minus Aunt Edna strapped to the roof.

Don't tell me they're going to move into the Karate Kid's apartment building?

The baddies are introduced and this is the hokiest ring-in Crips gang I've ever seen! It consists of Beach Boys; a Lostboy, a BDSM dominatrix, a Wanderer, and the overweight guy on the motorbike was in Steve Railsback's Ed Gein movie.

Meredith Salenger, remember her, and her cat become the desire of the crip gangs affection, so you know she will become a target later in the movie.

Love the razor blade earring the Halloween 5 punk sports. (He keeps flicking his blade like the baddie from The Wraith.) The baddies blast off in either a Trans-am, or Kit, but it won't be the last time we see the rebels without causes.

Why would a straight-laced cookie cutter family from Palm Springs move Downtown into a dilapitated used dump for no reason? Talk about a transitional change.

The son, Scott, has an unhealthy candlelit relationship with a well used 1930's blowup doll in the attic.

Remember the quarterback baddie from Class of 1984? Well, this pantywaste leader of the Crips in this movie is the anorexic version, even with the 2-tone colored hair.

Scott's in the basement with an unhealthy fetish for coffins now. (We need to talk about Scott.) Told ya, he's now back up in the attic with the out-of-date used blowup doll. The dad even says, "You're spending too much time up there." Scott's new fetish is bondage as he tries to affixiate himself with ship docking rope in this scene. Yeah, the thick stuff. This creepy Scott guy is now in his sisters room. He then gets bashed for meddling with his sister and even his own dad pulls the shotgun out and has had enough.

But conveniently, the parents are written out of the script, leaving Scott and Meredith to fend for themselves.

They probably thought the car chase scene with the hearse would be the bread winner for the movie. But it falls flat. I saw a 70's movie where some creep in a hearse overlap a blonde in a sports car which was farcical, too. Didn't a hearse go over a gravel pit in Nailgun Massacre as well? Then there's the movie The Hearse as well. (Didn't like cemeteries, right?)

Twice Dead has no pulse. Baddies aren't believable. Turkeee from Thankskilling makes a cameo appearance out of the gang leaders guts. Gang leader's name is Silk by the way. What, Sunsilk?

That motorbike kill scene just then is/was silly.

This might have worked in the eighties but in 2021 it's farcical and numb.

There's a dead mosquito on the roof of my room. It's been hanging there going on 2 years now. What's holding it up there, I wonder?

The guy from Alien Resurrection is in this. He gets electrocuted while sleeping with a lady who has a nice body don't mind me saying.

The baddie at the end, Sunsilk, plays charades with a shotgun and puts it in his mouth and mimicks a suicide reenactment. Whoopdedo.

And no, this wasn't anything like Enemy Territory.

Felt more like The Principal meets That Was Then, This Is Now, cross 3:15.

Well, not really.
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