Written & Directed by: Scott Spiegal Produced & Story by: Lawrence Bender Starring: Elizabeth Cox .... Jennifer Ross Danny Hicks .... Bill Roberts David Byrnes .... Craig Peterson Billy Marti .... Dave Sam Raimi .... Randy Eugene Robert Glazier .... Danny Renee Estevez .... Linda Burr Steers .... Bub Craig Stark .... Tim Ted Raimi .... Producer Joe Cameos: Alvy Moore .... Officer Dalton Tom Lester .... Officer Matthews Bruce Campbell .... Officer Howard Lawrence Bender .... Officer Adams Release Date: Direct-to-video: April 19, 1989 Rating:

A supermarket is closing down for the night but beforehand a troublemaking punk named Craig (David Byrnes) has been harrassing his ex-girlfriend Jennifer Ross (Elizabeth Cox) who works at the store and creates a riot with the other employees eventually being chased out.
What makes things worst is that the head employer named Danny (Robert Eugene Glazier) announces that he is going to be selling his store which upsets everyone including his assistant employer Bill Roberts (Danny Hicks) as he tries to assure the employees that they'll give them referrals to future jobs.
Jen is a little shaken up by all of this and is getting calls from Craig making it worst as well as hanging around the store.
Liz tells her employee friend Linda (Renee Estevez) that Craig and her have been broken up for a year and served jail time for accidentally killing a man.
Suddenly while the employees are clearing things at the store a killer is hacking them away in various gruesome murders and Jen suspects that Craig is behind all of this but again she finds that Bill is still a little disturbed by closing down the store for good as it owned it for years with his partner Danny.

A rather pointless slasher film by the makers of Evil Dead 2. It has many mysterious moments and is very clever to have a killer in a big superstore doing away people there one by one but after watching it all the way through you'll find this piece of garbage a really sad with an awful ending.

The acting is not too bad as we even have a virtual unkown named Elizabeth Cox in the lead role who does quite well with her character as the troubled teen. It's surprising she doesn't get much more work.
We have producer/writer/director Sam Raimi as the main supporting role which is a surprise as he often gets cast having small parts if he ever does get a role.
He breezes his way through well as the quiet butcher but fans of his may be disappointed when they find out what's happened to him halfway through the film.
We have a goofy supporting role by his brother Ted who is unforgettable in his scenes even if he had a few lines.
Dan Hicks as the main creepy character I enjoyed as well proving how deceivingly evil he is.

This is almost as gory as and Evil Dead flick as an employers eye is stabbed through a paper spike
There is an eyeball in an olive jar
A kitchen knife is stabbed on a dweeby employees head
Another employee is stabbed in the stomach with the same kitchen knife
Someone's forehead is smahed off by a machine
A hand is wrapped in a meat packet and then placed in a lobster tank
A butcher is impaled on a meat hook
A nice teen is hit by a meat cleaver and then is head is sawed in half.
A girls throat is slit found dead in a car.
There's a decapitated head of the store owner.
The killer is constantly stabbed with a meat cleaver and a kitchen knife.
Yep everything you want in a slasher film.

Evil Dead 2 writer Scott Spiegal tried to take on this project by working as a director as well as writing it.
He proves to be more worthy as a director for this film than for his story with it.
He makes the film leaving you in wonder at first as you think who is behind all this madness at the supermarket.
Sometimes his direction lacks when he coaches the actors freaking out while getting killed.
But he does show great scenes of them getting hacked away which saves this film from bombing especially showing the shadow of the mysterious killer.

The music is is well composed by Georgia Robertson which is another point for this film as the sound effects are cheesily great for a slasher film with the deep icy sounds of the keyboards and other neat musical intsruments involved with this film.
Some of this was reused in the exploited thriller Bedroom Eyes II

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Canada	DVD
U.K.	DVD

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