Majorthebys Charming and brutal

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Wizard-8 Even though this movie was made back in 1988, when there was still some room for B movies to play in theaters, I am really surprised this was deemed to be worthy of a theatrical release. I am equally surprised that more than 20 years later, this movie was deemed worthy of a release on DVD. Actually, the DVD pairs this with another haunted house movie, maybe because the DVD company thought no one would buy this movie on its own. It's a really dull affair, with scene after scene going by with not only no shocks, but few attempts at giving the audience some horror. Of the cast, Todd Bridges possibly gives the best performance, but his role has such little impact it could have been easily written out without harming the rest of the screenplay. The last fifteen minutes of the movie, when the ghost starts knocking off the punks that have taken over the house, does have a little interest, but it's too little, too late. Definitely not worth seeking out, unless you participated in the making of the movie and you happen to want to be embarrassed.

Woodyanders A family moves into a rundown mansion located in a dangerous urban neighborhood. Teenage son Scott (a solid and likable performance by Tom Bresnahan) and his spunky sister Robin (a winningly perky portrayal by the adorable Jill Whitlow of "Night of the Creeps" fame) are terrorized by a nasty gang of no-count street punks. Fortunately, the ghost of a famous Hollywood actor who hung himself in the house back in the 30's materializes so he can help Scott and Robin bump off said nasty punks. Director/co-writer Bert Dragin whips up a truly odd and campy curio that clumsily mixes elements of street gang juvenile delinquent exploitation movies and standard spooky haunted house fright fare with genuinely ludicrous, but still entertaining and often (unintentionally?) hilarious results: The street gang butchers the family cat and attempt to rape Robin, but our intrepid family decides to stick it out anyway, the parents leave the kids to fend for themselves when they go away to tend to family business, and Scott and Robin stage a fake gruesome bloodbath in an attempt to scare the hoodlums off (!). The whole thing concludes with an inevitable last reel massacre, with the gloriously absurd, yet grisly highlights being a fat jerk getting killed by his own motorcycle and a libidinous couple getting electrocuted while in the middle of doing just what you think. The cast struggle gamely with the patently inane material: Breznahan and Whitlow make for appealing leads, Sam Melville and Brooke Bundy do credible work as the parents, Christopher Burgard sneers it up with aplomb as mean gang leader Silk, Jonathan Chapin is suitably creepy as vicious gang member Crip, and Todd Bridges contributes an appealing turn as nice guy Pete. Busty brunette knockout Charlie Spradling pops her top and bares her beautifully bountiful breasts as horny moll Tina. Zoran Hockstatter's reasonably polished cinematography and David Bergaurd's generic ooga-booga shivery score both do the trick. A perfectly mindless diversion.

helfeleather A preppy brother and sister very stupidly play a prank on a gang of heavies who have been making their life hell. Obviously they didn't take the gang seriously because of their Kajagoogoo hairdos. What they forgot was that this is the eighties, and even violent sadists had silly hair.Naturally, the gang seek their revenge. The leader Silk wants to maim Preppy Boy, and the tough but attractive Crip wants to have his way with the sister. They're aided by a the obese Melvin, who's literally attached to his motorbike, and the stereotypical sex-crazed Latino.The only person on the goody-goodies' side is the bloke who played Willis In Different Strokes. They don't have a chance

uds3 Scott (Bresnahan) is an FX genius (as opposed to an actor) who needs to call upon all his skills and more upon when he and his sister find themselves in their home at the mercy of a group of scumbags who have obviously watched STRAW DOGS once too often!Further help comes courtesy of a resident ghost in this low rent piece of garbage that barely saw a theatrical release. A few fleeting laughs at the occasional fx employed but the highlight of the flick remains the electrocution scene. Warning folks: don't try this at home, it may be dangerous!Mega bomb!