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Am I the only person who thinks this movie was atrocious? I just saw thisfor the first time on cable. The only reason I watched it is because Terry O' Quinn, currently of "Lost" fame, was in it. I thought it would be interesting to see him in something much earlier.
The problem lies not in his performance but in the terrible writing, and the wretched score. With a better script, O' Quinn could have really mined his character and shown us the layers to his insanity. Instead we are given a two note performance - creepily fake stepdad and totally crazy stepdad. A rather weak effort from Hack has as its only highlight a great slap across her daughter's face about 30 minutes before the end. Schaekel fares a little better as the daughter although she too seems limited due to the insipid lines she was given.
I usually love bad, campy movies but this was just wretched. The whole thing has the feel of an 80s detective TV drama. I can't believe there were actually two sequels made...I can't even imagine how terrible those must be.
A friend recently told me he loves this movie because in the 80s when he was in the navy and stationed in the middle of nowhere in Scotland, this was the only movie they had on tape so they watched it incessantly...
unimaginable....
The problem lies not in his performance but in the terrible writing, and the wretched score. With a better script, O' Quinn could have really mined his character and shown us the layers to his insanity. Instead we are given a two note performance - creepily fake stepdad and totally crazy stepdad. A rather weak effort from Hack has as its only highlight a great slap across her daughter's face about 30 minutes before the end. Schaekel fares a little better as the daughter although she too seems limited due to the insipid lines she was given.
I usually love bad, campy movies but this was just wretched. The whole thing has the feel of an 80s detective TV drama. I can't believe there were actually two sequels made...I can't even imagine how terrible those must be.
A friend recently told me he loves this movie because in the 80s when he was in the navy and stationed in the middle of nowhere in Scotland, this was the only movie they had on tape so they watched it incessantly...
unimaginable....
- Socket_Seven
- 6 ott 2005
- Permalink
Terry O'Quinn plays one of the more colorful psychopaths to appear on the screen in recent memory, a perfect husband and family man whose house is always in perfect order, with only one detail out of place: the mutilated bodies of the wife and kids he just murdered. The character's history of periodic serial killing is supposed to reflect the rotten core of the American Dream, but underneath the sociological pretensions is a routine slasher movie, written with tongue-in-cheek humor (says O'Quinn to his suspicious new stepdaughter, "honey, let's bury the hatchet") and punctuated by moments of appalling and gratuitous brutality. The film presents something of a paradox: a cynical and sadistic little thriller meant to be enjoyed as escapist entertainment.