My review was written in March 1989 after watching the movie on Academy video cassette.
This British horror spoof (going direct to video Stateside) is on target with its script's satirical barbs, but is not well realized as a feature. Gore content of unrated version marks it for a specialty audience.
Filmmakers Anders Palm and Mark Cutforth are poking fun at the endless string of imitative Yank shriekers such as "Friday the 13th" and "Halloween" series that substitute cliches for creativity.
Antihero Gregory Cox wear a Jason-esque goalie's mask and is given to slaughtering people in gruesome fashion until he meets kindly but kinky blind girl Fiona Evans. She befriends him and beds him, even getting him to remove his mask, revealing a hideously deformed (but subpar makeup effects) face.
In striving for black humor, pic gets bogged down in some silliness, tastelessness and pretentious writing. Reflexive material as folks recognize he hero "from his movies" is overdone, climaxing with him aghast at a theater marquee hawking the 26th film in the series. Yucky gore doesn't sit well with what is basically an intellectual exercise.
This British horror spoof (going direct to video Stateside) is on target with its script's satirical barbs, but is not well realized as a feature. Gore content of unrated version marks it for a specialty audience.
Filmmakers Anders Palm and Mark Cutforth are poking fun at the endless string of imitative Yank shriekers such as "Friday the 13th" and "Halloween" series that substitute cliches for creativity.
Antihero Gregory Cox wear a Jason-esque goalie's mask and is given to slaughtering people in gruesome fashion until he meets kindly but kinky blind girl Fiona Evans. She befriends him and beds him, even getting him to remove his mask, revealing a hideously deformed (but subpar makeup effects) face.
In striving for black humor, pic gets bogged down in some silliness, tastelessness and pretentious writing. Reflexive material as folks recognize he hero "from his movies" is overdone, climaxing with him aghast at a theater marquee hawking the 26th film in the series. Yucky gore doesn't sit well with what is basically an intellectual exercise.