Letterboxd — Your life in film

This may be the only '80s slasher I've ever seen where there is absolutely no motive or explanation for the killer at all. We don't know who he is, we don't know why he's doing what he's doing, we don't know where he came from, we don't know a fucking thing about him.

It also doesn't help that apart from the pre-credit scene, there isn't a kill in this movie until around the 1 hour mark. They literally just needed to shoot two or three extra scenes to make this somewhat decent, but they couldn't be bothered.

Easily one of the most blatant rip-offs of Halloween ever, although not quite as bad as Sorority House Massacre. It's fine, if unremarkable for the '80s slasher trend.

This movie's got a little bit of Herschel Gordon-Lewis in the special effects, and a lot of low budget cheapness that's charming.

Probably the weakest viewing I've had of this movie, but I'm chalking that up almost entirely to the fact that I was pretty wiped out by the time I was watching it

Not quite on the level of Who Killed Captain Alex, the damn if it isn't still entertaining. I actually started wondering why it isn't a more common thing to just have someone dub a VJ track over a foreign language film instead of doing all of the dialogue.

I swear I wasn't that drunk by the time I was watching this on New Year's Eve.

The MaCallister family are a miserable bunch of bastards.

I watched a YouTube video of some guy ranking all 60 plus Disney animated movies over the course of over two hours, and I was happy to see that this was ranked as number one (I share the same opinion). It gave me the urge to watch it again after all these years, and damn, this is one effective movie.

On the plus side, I love how sleazy this movie is, it's got some good kill scenes, and all around it's pretty fun.

On the minus side, there are moments in this movie where the editing is really choppy and it couldn't find a rhythm if it's life depended on it. On top of that, it gets really difficult following what the hell's going on at some points, and it gets pretty convoluted and nonsensical.

Fuck it, good enough.

I don't think there's any other sequel out there that you can not only watch without having seen the first one, but also kind of eliminates the PURPOSE of even watching it.

I've seen thrillers that filled me with WAY less suspense than when I watched an old man in a shitty Santa suit wander around a nature preserve, trying to pet bobcats and pumas, waiting for him to say "uh-oh".