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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
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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
Mr. Abernathy: Hold hands,
you lovebirds!
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