Blades (1989)

Director:

Thomas R. Rondinella

Writers:

John P. Finnegan (story)
William R. Pace (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Tagline:

Golf - A Game of Hooks, Slices and ... Slaughter

Plot:

People are showing up sliced and diced at Tall Grass Country Club. Norman, the owner of the club, wants...

Plot Keywords:

Golf Course | Spoof | Golf | Independent Film

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Robert North	...	Roy Kent
Jeremy Whelan	...	Deke Slade
Victoria Scott	...	Kelly Lange
Holly Stevenson	...	Bea Osgood
William Towner	...	Norman Osgood
Peter Wray	...	Lyle
Charlie Quinn	...	Charlie Kimmel
Bruce Katlin	...	Morgue Attendant
Lee Devin	...	Squire Evans
Bill Kimble	...	Sonny Fagan
Donald Jackson	...	Detective
Hank Berkheimer	...	Malcolm Simpkins
Anne Haddad	...	Mrs. Simpkins
Andy Fertal	...	Bert
Larry Stromberg	...	Don

Runtime:

101 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:M | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:18 | Iceland:16

Filming Locations:

Wildwood, New Jersey, USA

Trivia:

Director Cameo: [Thomas R. Rondinella]the TV director in the control room

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Tromeo and Juliet (1996)

Not a parody, but more of a reenactment of "Jaws".

This movie is basically a parody of "Jaws". It took me a bit to get it, but once they strung up the lawn mower I finally got it. I realized they were doing "Jaws" before then, but not until that moment did I realize it was almost purely a "Jaws" parody. The problem, it takes itself a bit too seriously for a parody. That is why I say it is more of a reenactment where instead of an ocean they use a golf course, instead of a shark you have a lawn mower, and so on. For some scenes this works and I chuckled a couple of times, at other times there are long stretches of dialogue that just do not belong in a parody movie or a Troma movie for that matter. Still, this is a company known for its bad movies, and this one is better than a lot of the movies I have seen from them. I just wonder why they and Full Moon Entertainment have to always make horror comedy movies rather than straight horror. Seems to me a straight horror would be easier to make because lets face it most of the movies that come out of these two companies get really low scores. Though to be fair Full Moon has done a few straight horror movies in their day. I have never seen one from Troma. This one has its moments especially the scenes in the van where they were really spoofing "Jaws" in this case I think they just needed to make this one a bit funnier.