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9 out of 10 people found the following review useful:
A refreshing attempt for an 80's slasher film., 8 March 2002
Author:
FrightMeter from FrightMeter.Com
I really like this film. It is probably my most watched 80's slasher
film in my extensive horror movie collection. I find it to be highly
entertaining, original in it's attempts, and decently acted.
A group of teens decide to spend the night in a creepy old furniture
store, which is owned by one of their fathers, to celebrate their
graduation. Of course, a killer shows up, locks them in, and begins
killing them off one by one during a game of Hide and Go Seek. While
this film is far from a masterpiece, I think what I admire about it is
that tries to be different from the other slashers pics that were
released around the same time. It breaks the mold so to speak. So many
slasher films released around this time stuck to the "Halloween" and
"Friday the 13th" formula of a looming, silent, indestructible killer
and a final confrontation between him and the virginal sole-surviving
heroine. This film strays away from that and provides us with a human
killer who, despite is ridiculous motive, is both intelligent and
vulnerable. The fact that more than just the "virginal heroine"
survives is also unique and surprising. And though they may not all
look like they are really teenagers, the characters all act like they
are and engage of some very humorous, typical teenage conversations.
Their acting is certainly above average for this type of film and I
really thought Bunky Jones (Bonnie) gave a great performance,
particularly in the final minutes of the film.
The setting of the film is foreboding and the film becomes pretty
creepy during the final 10-15 minutes when the survivors are cautiously
making their way through the dark corridors of the furniture store,
only to bump into some randomly placed mannequins. The director builds
suspense fairly well in key scenes and having a killer who dresses up
in his victims clothing as a trap to lure his next victim, as this one
does, is chilling even if it is executed kinda silly here. The death
scenes are quite tame and underplayed for this type of film
(particularly considering the time it was released), but they are still
effective and the killer never uses the same method twice. Again, it is
also surprising as to which characters live and die and how
sympathetically the filmmaker obviously feels about his characters.
They are a likable bunch of kids and it is really hard to root for any
of them to die, so even though it will anger gore hounds and people
searching for a high-body count, the result should be appreciated by
those who sympathize with and like these characters.
Despite the many things I like about this film, there are also things
that just don't work so well. The opening scene with the killer picking
up a prostitute is the definition of cheese and really doesn't fit with
the direction of the rest of the film and certainly cannot be explained
once we discover the killer's identity and motive, which is the film's
main problem. The killer is ridiculous once we discover the identity
and completely unintimidatng. Even worse is his motive for the
killings. It sort of came out of left field and I, as a viewer, felt
cheated. The dialog at the end of the film between the killer and his
main quest is cringe-worthy, and it doesn't help that both are pretty
bad actors (luckily, neither are on screen that long). The film, for
me, would have been almost a perfect slasher film, had the ending gone
in a totally different direction with a different killer. There are
certainly some other cheesy, WTF? scenes, including one where the
virginal, good-girl character is able to launch into a striptease for
her boyfriend that rivals anything done by Demi Moore in "Striptease."
Overall, though, this is a highly entertaining film which outshines
many similar attempts of the 80's because of its subtleness and . If
you are any sort of horror/slasher fan, I would highly recommend this
film. It doesn't set out to by an all out slash and gore film (which
will upset some), but tries to be different and presents us with a
group of teenaged victims who we can actually care about and get to
know.
FrightMeter Grade: B
9 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
Impressive!, 13 December 2004
Author:
camporineb1 (boy_toy16@newyork.com) from United States
I had contemplated renting this movie so many times before i finally did, thrown off by the cover and the generic plot summary on the back. But when I finally forced myself to rent it, I was pleasantly surprised with the results. First off, i LOVE 70's and 80's slasher films, and this one is definitely my fave of the latter decade. Atmospheric, and with decent acting (although at many points, over-acted!), this film kept me entertained from beginning to end and had some decent gore effects (including my fave decapitation scene EVER!). I also like the cheesy 80's musical score, and the claustrophobic feel the film had from being set entirely in a furniture store. I gave it 10/10 *'s cuz i think it's way above average for this kind of film.
9 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
Sexy, Fun, Bloody Slasher Flick, 14 December 2001
Author:
JimSthers
I LOVE THIS SLASHER FLICK, 4 gorgeous young woman and their dumb boyfriends decide to spend the night at a desolated building, where someone is watching them and killing them one by one. The scene in which one of the girls is decapitated is so graphic and cool. This has no original plot, but has blood, graphic violence, male and female nudity, lots of screaming and running scared and is well acted, and some scenes are actually suspenseful.
5 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
Okay slasher flick., 13 June 2005
Author:
HumanoidOfFlesh from Chyby, Poland
A handful of teenagers sneaks into a furniture store owned by the father of one of the teenagers.An ex-convict,just recently released,has been hired to realize a variety of manual tasks.Because he hasn't had the time to find anywhere to live,he is temporarily living in the building.The teenagers believe they are alone to eat,drink and have sex.However,someone is spying on them from the darkness.As to not be noticed,they leave the lights out.When they understand that somebody is watching them,it is too late:heads start to roll and blood starts to flow.After each murder,the killer steals his victim's clothes and fools the next teenager by making them believe he is one of them."Hide and Go Shriek" is a pretty good slasher.The killer wears his victims' clothing,whether they are men or women and the plastic mannequins look creepy.There is a good amount of violence and gore including memorable death scene where a teenager is attached on the roof of an elevator and the ceiling tears off her head when the elevator changes floors.So if you like slasher films give this one a look.7 out of 10.
7 out of 9 people found the following review useful:
Exclusively for fans of the genre., 28 June 2004
Author:
insomniac_rod from Noctropolis
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
*SPOILERS* The film opens with a "dramatic" sequence where a tranvestie
man is raped (or at least that seems) by another man. After the tragic
event the opening credits roll, and you have a peculiar opening
sequence for a slasher movie.
In the next scene eight friends plan to celebrate their high school
graduation in a furniture store at night, owned by the father of one of
these kids. Before the teens arrive, the owner of the furniture hires
an ex con to take care of the store at night. Apparently, the ex con
tries to start a new life and follow the right path. Unknown to him,
the teens sneak into the store at night and start their party. As the
night passes, one by one these teens are brutally murdered by an
unknown killer that has a wicked concept of fun. After killing them,
this killer wears their clothes. Yes, he even uses the women's clothes.
The main suspicious is Fred (the ex con) but apparently he's not behind
the murders. When the other 4 teens discover the dead body of their
friends, they start a hunt in order to find the killer. From out of
nowhere, Fred appears and asks them "what are they doing here?" only to
be physically beaten down by one of the boys. They think they found the
killer when suddenly, the real killer makes a frightening and weird
introduction. Who will survive? What's the identity of the killer? and
what's his relation with Fred?
I had the chance to watch this little known slasher for the first time
two years ago on late night cable. After watching it, I thought that
the premise was interesting (highly based on Chopping Mall from 1986).
I thought that this was a recommended slasher, better than the average.
I've had the chance to watch "Hide and Go Shriek" 3 times in the past 2
years and my opinion has changed. This is an average slasher, it has
the elements that made the genre popular, but clearly it's not one of
the bests out there. There's decent gore (the decapitation is the best
kill), and a creepy atmosphere (the mannequins added a touch of
uncertainness and fright). O the bad side, the acting is terrible, the
score is boring and repetitive, and the plot turns boring and tedious
after the first 30 mins. Bunky Jones is hot! she's candy for the eye.
The best about the film is the ending which is truly shocking, not
because it's great or innovative, but it's something you don't expect.
Disgusting. This is just a film for slasher fans, those who enjoy the
greatness of this genre. Not for everyone!
Anyways, give this slasher a try only if you are a die hard fan of the
genre. Watch it with low expectations. 5/10. I have warned you!
5 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
Actually delivered more than I expected..., 27 May 2003
Author:
BillyBC from Vancouver
(**1/2 out of *****)
A group of horny young teenagers (aren't they all?) break into a furniture
warehouse for a
night of frivolous games and serious sex (or is it serious games and
frivolous sex?) But,
wouldn't you know it, a wet-blanket serial killer/madman has to start
butchering everyone
and spoiling all the fun. This looks even more low-budget than most ‘80s
slashers, but I
actually enjoyed it, once things got going. For one thing, the setting is
great -- with an
old, open elevator and multiple, dark floors full of mannequins and beds, so
that the
characters never know where the killer is, not to mention each other -- and
the survivors
are not necessarily the ones you'd expect (you never know who's
gonna
get it next.) There's the expected nudity and violence, but the mood and
suspense place
this one slightly above other teens-locked-in-a-building-with-a-psychopath
slashers of its
kind.
HIGHLIGHT: One girl waits for her boyfriend to come back to bed, unaware
that the
killer has messily disposed of him and put on his clothes, setting up a very
scary scene of
mistaken identity.
2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
Hide and Go Shriek what a great title, 27 August 2007
Author:
acidburn-10 from United Kingdom
"Hide and Go Shriek" came out towards the end of the 80's where the
Slasher Genre was going stale and many of them going straight to video.
Hide And Go Shriek though was one of the last and one of the best
titled, even though it is a fun ride there's just not enough of the
teens die.
A small group of teens have just finished high school and are heading
for college and are about to celebrate they're last summer as
youngsters, so they get the idea to have a party in a furniture store
which is owned by one of the teens father. Unbeknownst to them, a
tattooed ex-con, who works at Fine Furniture, lives in the back. The
teens set up shop and begin a night of trysts and games of Hide and Go
Seek. But someone else has stayed after hours and they begin playing a
deadly game of dress-up and die.
Hide and Go Shriek plays its hand with an unusually sleazy manner. Not
that the murders are particularly graphic, but there's enough
homoerotic subtext to keep even the most practiced film geek on their
toes. From an early and hilarious scene involving two boys working out
together before one of them says "see you in the showers," and takes a
healthy bite out of a banana to the killer dressing in drag, it's a
feast of euphemisms and cross-dressing.
It would be easy to say that this movie was oddly cast with untypically
regular looking kids with a penchant for dinosaur earrings, surfer
shorts and skinny ties, but alas, it was only the end of the 80s where
stone-washed was a household word. With a mixture of good acting and
bad acting, the killer and the bimbo (Annette Sinclair) stand out as
the most interesting and talented of the bunch. But Rebunka Jones
(credited here as Bunky!) comes across as the most memorable character
in the film. In all her banana clip glory, she sneers and leers so much
you start fantasizing about her ugly demise.
All in all "Hide And Go Shriek" is a fun enjoyable ride, it certainly
has it all irritating teens, nudity, bad acting interesting death
scenes even though too many of the teens survive adding less tension to
the final scenes, a definite must see if you're a fan of the 80's
horror scene.
4 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
Great horror fun!, 8 August 2000
Author:
EA2JCWHO from LA, Cali
I really liked Hide and Go Shriek... It was very entertaining and scary! See it if you are a horror fan! Slasher films around the late 80's were cheesy anyway...but this one stands out. The only thing that was weird was the killer...
5 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
This movie is a nice try!, 4 May 2002
Author:
Insomniac_moviefan
This movie has it's good moments... It has scary scenes, scary music, gore,
original killings, and an original killer.
Give this movie a try.
If you feel scared during the movie, I bet that at the end of it you'll
feel
like an idiot because the killer is VERY... Ok, you'll have to find it out
heh heh.
1 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Ready or not, here I come., 8 August 2007
Author:
Skutter-2 from Perth, Australia
Hide and Go Shriek is probably a slightly better than average slasher
movie. Kind of damning with faint praise really but it does what one
would want from a slasher movie and doesn't really excel or stand out
in any particularly negative or positive way. The plot revolves around
a group of eight teenagers, four couples, who decide to have a
post-graduation party in the furniture store, which is owned by the
father of one them, one night. Unfortunately for them there is a killer
in the building along with a scary looking ex-con who is an employee of
the store and living there temporarily who might have some connection
with the killer. Naturally they get up to the usual slasher teen
hijinks and are picked off one by one.
It would kind of redundant to go into a detailed plot description of
Hide and Go Shriek as it follows the standard formula or the slasher
pic with little straying from the formulas. It begins with a
pre-credits sequence in which we see the killer, a dude in cruddy
tenement slum putting on a suit and liberally applying makeup to his
face, although we don't actually see a proper shot his face, before
picking a prostitute and knifing mid-coitus. I initially thought that
there would be some kind of twist revealing the identity of the gender
confused killer given they make such a point of not giving us a good
look at his face but nothing like that happens. After this we are
introduced to our leads before they move quickly to the slaughter
point, were they are to be locked in for the night and are slaughtered.
There're a fairly unremarkable bunch, complete with eighties big hair
and styles, all quite bland and whitebread- there are no token dorks or
ethnic minorities and are conceivably a group of individuals who might
actually hang out together. I will give the director credit for casting
a slightly hotter than average group of actresses and for getting three
out of the four naked during the movie, with the fourth coming close. I
think he should have, purely for the completion's sake.... no other
reasons, honest.
For the first two thirds of the movie the plot seems to revolve around
reason for the group of characters to split up. Playing hide and seek
(Twice- once would have seemed a strange thing for a group of
supposedly seventeen year olds to be doing but twice, even stranger),
splitting off to have sex and looking for the missing members of the
group once the killer finally starts to pick off some of their number.
It actually takes a while and the kills are fairly thin on the ground
as the killer spends a lot of time hanging around and acting creepy and
menacing in the shadows watching the teens. The setting is actually
quite good but the building seems like an odd choice for a furniture
store- multiple stories, a seemingly labyrinthine layout, a clunky
service life. The cat and mouse stuff is kind of fun. The killer has a
penchant for disguise, namely dressing in the clothing of his victims
in order to lure the others to their deaths. He particularly favours
the woman's clothing, making use of the wigs from the store manikins,
and at one point puts on the lacy black lingerie one of the girls had
brought to surprise her boyfriend. Needless to say he is surprised.
Just another thing you will never see Jason or Michael ever doing. For
the most part he keeps to the shadows and when we do get a good look at
him in the climax he is again wearing a lot of makeup and in S&M getup.
He is certainly one of the more memorable killers from a generic
eighties slasher.
To the films credit once it hits the fan and the teens realise what is
happening they act in a reasonable manner for this kind of movie. They
actually stay as a group and don't split up, even the more panicky ones
don't completely spaz out and run off on their own at any point, and
try to get out of the building. Despite a few bad decisions they do
behave in a fairly rational manner for characters in this kind of
dreck. The conclusion is over a bit too quickly and there is a very
predictable 'twist'.
On the whole Hide and Go Shriek is an amusing runaround if you're in
the mood for a cheesy and derivative eighties slasher. It has all the
components you could ask for- gore, cheesy synth music (Reminded me of
the works of John Carpenter), bad acting, gratuitous nudity, eighties
fashion victims and a memorable and hammy bad guy.
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