A film crew hoping to complete an unfinished, notorious horror flick, with a reputation for anyone's seeing it being killed, is hunted and killed one by one thanks to the psycho from the film. I didn't stutter..that's the ridiculous premise. A character in the film informs us that the killer is the sum total of all the creative energy that went into the making of "Hot Blooded", the slasher flick being helmed by a stern female director who was murdered by her actor donning the psycho's mask. Okey dokey. So we watch as this supernatural slayer from a film strip slaughters the young student crew, newly removed from the film school ready and ripe for being sliced & diced. There's an assortment of bloody violence on display as the killer uses his garden shears to behead and stab. He doesn't just use his shears..he often burns people with lit petrol and even uses a meat cleaver at one point.
Molly Ringwald, out of all people, is the name carrying the picture as a bitchy lead actress who orders everyone around while griping and complaining endlessly. Why is Ringwald in this tripe? Is it a sign of a career on the skids, coming off the rails? Nah, this is merely a hiccup in her career, but one that really echoes loudly. This slasher flick, besides it's laughable premise, is just a mechanical kill movie parading out cliché after cliché, just a bit more gory than the Scream/I Know What You Did Last Summer flicks populating the cinemas at the time CUT was made. Only exception besides a decent performance from Jessica Napier as the young female director Raffy, motivated to finish the film because of who her mother was, and some good melting effects at the end, can not compensate the by-the-numbers screenplay or a terrible twist which makes little sense if one questions just how the person was able to find a rare print if all the others were possibly destroyed.
Molly Ringwald, out of all people, is the name carrying the picture as a bitchy lead actress who orders everyone around while griping and complaining endlessly. Why is Ringwald in this tripe? Is it a sign of a career on the skids, coming off the rails? Nah, this is merely a hiccup in her career, but one that really echoes loudly. This slasher flick, besides it's laughable premise, is just a mechanical kill movie parading out cliché after cliché, just a bit more gory than the Scream/I Know What You Did Last Summer flicks populating the cinemas at the time CUT was made. Only exception besides a decent performance from Jessica Napier as the young female director Raffy, motivated to finish the film because of who her mother was, and some good melting effects at the end, can not compensate the by-the-numbers screenplay or a terrible twist which makes little sense if one questions just how the person was able to find a rare print if all the others were possibly destroyed.