Welcome one and all back for Day 4 of
Summer Blockbusters of 1985 and this time around I have us a horror
film. Now while this particular moving pictures got very little big
screen time I wouldn't be appreciating the roots that brought me to
movie review in the first place. Digging through the dirt, raw
sewage and even the horrors of the five dollar Wal-Mart bin (bleh) I
found our little gem of a picture of obscurity as it apparently got
decent ratings in spite of most of them were probably made by drunk
yahoos renting this on VHS. Originally title Fall Break it was
decided that for the video release to have a bit more of a punch up.
This is The Mutilator.
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| Forced laughter says we are ready to die! |
Our paradigm of motion picture opens
with a woman baking a birthday cake and the place looks so slasher
oriented I was surprised that Trevor Moorhouse of Bloody Murder
didn't come in and perform a throat cut because that was only gag
that was in the budget. The young boy is prepping for his dad Ed's
(Jack Chatham of Rockin' Road Trip, The Mutilator and
Eddie)birthday and what better way to surprise him than an 12
year old oiling and cleaning pop's rifles. The plot device rifle
still has a live round in it and mom get blasted in the back never
knowing if Ed liked the cake.
Flash forward to Ed Jr. (Matt
Mitler of Spring Break, Galaxy, Deadtime Stories, Breeders, Basket
Case 2 and Pokemon) age 20 going on 32 as he tells the teen
gang to join him for Fall Break out at the condo because his dad
won't mind if they get sloshed or have premarital sex on his beds.
The lot of them head out in this feel good tune and that always gets
me in the mood for a slasher film. Guess Tom Waits was holding out
for more money. The composer Michael Minard made some happy go
lucky music for this flick and I am just baffled. Am I off to see
gruesome death scenes or on to a picnic?
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| Beer o' clock behind the wheel! |
Written and directed by Buddy Cooper
(The Mutilator) brought us this crowning achievement
that is a gaggle of teenagers head out to one of the teen's seaside
condo because his dad asked him to clean the place up, shut off the
electric, gas and obviously get murdered in a horrific and less than
realistic way. There is no red herring to speak of when clearly Big
Ed as he is referenced is off his meds and has waiting close to 8
years to get revenge for the accidental murder of his wife. Why Ed
Jr.'s friends have to be sacrificed to the madness??? Well... I am
guessing he didn't want witnesses. Will the kids die in ridiculous
over the top fashion? Are the local authorities as useless as they
are in almost every slasher film?
Here are some facts about our magnum
opus now.
In the script Big Ed was supposed to be
killed when he was ripped in two by a turnstile bridge but I guess
the stunt was deemed too dangerous and they had to re-write it from
there. The original title Fall Break was deemed too light-hearten and cutesy so the VHS covers has decent taglines such as: Their
horrifying vacation was no day at the beach and By pick, by axe, by
sword, bye bye!!
Deemed a Video Nasty this film was
released in two versions, the first being unrated and the latter a
solid R rating. Luckily yours truly got the unrated version and soo
thrilled to sat through it. I saw a film of smoke on a car's
windscreen that looked more interesting.
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| Johovah's Witnesses are brutal! |
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