Hide and Go Shriek (1988)

A group of teenagers spends the night in a furniture store for a graduation party. A psycho killer starts to hunt them down and kill them off.

Director:

Skip Schoolnik

Writer:

Michael Kelly

Stars:

Bunky Jones, Brittain Frye, Annette Sinclair

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Bunky Jones	...	Bonnie Williams
Brittain Frye	...	Randy Flint
Annette Sinclair	...	Kim Downs
George Thomas	...	David Hanson
Donna Baltron	...	Judy Ramteize
Scott Fults	...	Shawn Phillips
Ria Pavia	...	Malissa Morgan
Sean Kanan	...	John Robbins
Scott Kubay	...	Zack
Jeff Levine	...	Fred
Michael Kelly	...	Wino
Ronald Colby	...	Phil Robins
Donald Mark Spencer	...	Vince
James Serrano	...	Cops in Car
Larry Lyons	...	Cops in Car

Storyline

A group of teens decide to spend a night at a furniture store the father of one of them owns. A homeless ex-con security guard is staying the night too. During the night, someone with a taste for cross-dressing breaks in and begins to pick off the teens during a game of hide and seek.

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Plot Keywords:

furniture | furniture store | game | teenager | hide and seek | 

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Taglines:

Close your eyes. Count to 10. And run for your life.

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 November 1988 (USA)

Also Known As:

Close Your Eyes and Pray

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

New Star Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

When one of the girls trips over a dead body, between three shots, John's dead body on the floor changes the way is it lying.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Zack: THE FUN IS OVER
Female Survivor: [sees Zack racing towards her] He's coming back

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Connections

Referenced in Matinee (1989)

User Reviews

Hide and Go Shriek

Hide and Go Shriek is one slasher film I had always wanted to see, but is so hard to find. It isn't released on DVD and the VHS copies are almost impossible to find at a reasonable price. I managed to see it online recently, and was pleasantly surprised at how good it was compared to other horror films made around 1988.

The movie starts out with the murder of a prostitute. We don't see the full face of the man that kills her, but we do see him putting on makeup just before. Eventually we meet our main cast of eight young characters who plan to have a party in a furniture store after it closes. One of the girls wants to play hide and seek in the dark building. And that is when the fun begins. The psycho killer stalks the floors of the furniture store, murdering anyone he comes across. The film features one main suspect throughout, but an interesting twist makes this late eighties slasher very unique and a cut above others made at this time.

The filming location of the dark furniture store works really well for a movie like this. And the creators of Hide and Go Shriek throw in some mannequins to throw the audience off. Sometimes you'll see a mannequin and for a second think it is the killer, seeing as the killer likes to dress up in woman's and men's clothing. There is also a really cool scene of the characters banging on the glass windows at street level trying to get someone's attention only to find no one is out and about that late at night. The level of gore in minimal but effective, there is plenty of nudity though. The acting is pretty good as well. I strongly recommend seeing this, hopefully one day it will get a proper DVD release.

8/10