Sure, there are a few more deaths, but he continues talking afterwards and we never buy his reasons for targeting Maggie, or this film festival itself. It takes a fun flick and drags it kicking and screaming into snooze-ville for the rest of the movie. Then we unveil the killer about halfway through and he begins to try to talk us to death with his endless speech about why he is doing this and some very weak reasoning as to why he holds Maggie and her mother (Dee Wallace) to blame. It’s a shame, as the initial story was working with the whole ‘Phantom Of The Film Festival’ plot-line, as the killer wore the faces of his victims to lure in his next. The film gets a bit convoluted at this point and never recovers as it slowly plods to it’s outlandish ending. Then, about halfway through, the killer is revealed too early and begins a tediously long pontification on his motives and master plan and it stops the movie dead in it’s tracks.
The film cuts back and forth between the audience eating up the cheesy horror flicks, while our film class students are stalked and killed by the phantom-like maniac. Either way, bodies behind the scenes start dropping as the audience enjoys the horror festival, unaware a killer lurks within.Īs directed by Mark Herrier, from a script and story from Todd Hackett and Michael Smith, movie starts out alright with a fun premise of a horror movie marathon stalked by a killer, who may be a crazed filmmaker thought to be dead. As the show begins a Phantom Of The Opera-like killer starts stalking the horror film festival who may…or may not…be that same filmmaker. Things will go horribly wrong though, as young film student, Maggie (Jill Schoelen) is being haunted by dreams of a cult filmmaker who died when he set fire to a theater showing his last film. This 1991 horror starts out with an interesting story, a film class decides to screen an all-night horrorthon in an abandoned theater to raise money for the class’ film projects that their high school can’t afford. (Remember, clicking the highlighted links brings you to other reviews and articles here at The Movie Madhouse!)
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