This film is what I'd call a "half-cult classic." If you ask horror fans about it, it gets some 'Oh yeah!'s maybe most people wouldn't know what the hell you're talking about. For me, I remember seeing the VHS cover back when I started roaming around the rental stores in the late 80's with my sister.

We actually watched this quite a while back, but we never added it to the database; I'm glad I revisited it because, yeah, we laughed at it before and had fun, but it really struck me this time how the flick is really kind of a parody of sorts, or at least a send-up.

It's really telling in the characters - the virginal(?) heroine/final girl, the hero guy, the slut, the weirdo, the dipshit, the dipshit, the dipshit...cannon fodder. The heroine even wears a goddamn Alice (as in the one from Wonderland) outfit. One character's last name is Romero. There's an homage to Italian zombie flicks. All sorts of little things just pop up all over. In the right era, too, after April Fools Day and all those other self-referential films were coming out.

By itself, it's a pretty fun ride. The parody bits aren't exactly shoved in your face, and some of the regular conventions are played around with; mainly, the guy you think is the hero turns out to be a huge dick, and the dude that lives is a total puss who runs every chance he gets. Just leaves the girl standing there and crashes through a window, dude does not play around.

Pretty good effects, considering the $50 budget, obviously very 1980's though. Acting is particularly horrid - only Linnea gets it and overacts as much as possible, but that's obvious as she was already a scream queen by this time - everyone else is terrible, but it's already so campy who cares. Just go in for a goofy time with lots of boobs (some that double as make-up kits) and dumb kids dying.

And the bonus ending with the old man - Priceless.

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