Saturday, October 19, 2013

Grotesque (1988)

Empire Pictures
Directed by Joe Tornatore
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Shout Factory)

Linda Blair and friend visit her parents at their Big Bear Lake cabin. A group of "punkers" break in during the night, murder everyone but Linda, but don't know about the "monster" in a hidden room. Linda runs through the snow pursued by one of the punkers, while the monster turns out to be an idiot man-child who gets revenge. The film comes to a grinding halt when the police arrive to investigate. Since Linda's dad is a Hollywood special effects man, there are numerous fake scares and false starts. I was thinking maybe the whole movie might be one of those fake "this is really just a movie" gags, but surely they wouldn't do that...

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