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Erwin Goldman (writer)
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September 1983 (USA)
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Why are all the boys dying to meet Melissa? more
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A beautiful lonely girl named Melissa tries to make new friends from a town she's currently living in...
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above-average 80's slasher, now on DVD!
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Bo Hopkins | ... | Sheriff Dan Burke | |
| Susan Strasberg | ... | Joanne Morgan | |
| Patrick Macnee | ... | Dr. John Morgan | |
| Don Stroud | ... | Billy Franklin | |
| Dana Kimmell | ... | Marci Burke | |
| Don Shanks | ... | Jason Longshadow | |
| Aleisa Shirley | ... | Melissa Morgan | |
| Steve Antin | ... | Hank Burke | |
| Sharon Farrell | ... | Kathy Hopkins | |
| Logan Clarke | ... | Jimmy | |
| Michael Pataki | ... | George Martin | |
| Henry Wilcoxon | ... | Greyfeather | |
| Larry Storch | ... | Earl | |
| Michael Cutt | ... | Frank | |
| Glenn Withrow | ... | Johnny Franklin |
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Sweet Sixteen (USA) (alternative title)
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Australia:90 min | USA:90 min
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Final film of Henry Wilcoxon.
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Melissa's Theme
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Just for the record, the Code Red DVD contains the original theatrical version, plus the director's cut. The director's cut, however, is kind of "warts and all", being that it was pieced together from various source materials & "is not up to the usual quality" of Code Red, but still, it's watchable. To be honest, I haven't seen the film in so long that I couldn't tell you what's in the director's cut that's not in the "theatrical release" without watching that again.
The story is that of a small Texas town, where people seem to be dying horribly & mysteriously, mostly cut up. Just new to town are an archaeologist (Patrick Macnee), his wife Joanne, and lovely, over-developed, 15-year old Melissa. And is seems as though all this bloodshed has only happened since they've arrived.
There are some local Indians, though, that are blamed for what's going on, and one, Greyfeather, seems to have run afoul of the town's racist rednecks, although the man has never done anything wrong. And Jason Longshadow, nephew of Greyfeather, is a suspect in the killings.
So who is really responsible? Melissa seems to get around a lot, in many ways too. At her 16th birthday bash, things get out of hand and eventually the culprit is revealed.
Also features Bo Hopkins as the sheriff (does he ever play any other roles?). Not that this is necessarily a good thing but he's at least tolerable here.
A decent, above-average 80's slasher that manages to rise above the usual clichés associated with the genre. Not bad, in fact. 7 out of 10.