Happy Valentines Day folks!
I rented this from the free 'on demand' station on Time Warner Cable, and boy was I happy with the choice.
It's complete garbage of course. A little gray alien ejects an experiment gone wrong from his spacecraft as it nears Earth, despite the best efforts of his own people to stop him. This experiment is composed of little slugs that enter your mouth, kill you, lay eggs in your brain, operate you as a mindless zombie for a bit, then explode your head and spread more slugs around.
The experiment lands on Earth in 1959, just in time for the estranged girlfriend of a rookie cop to be hacked to death by a serial killer while her new beau is zombie-fied in a field and placed in cryogenic hibernation.
Cut to 1986, when our hapless dork protagonist mistakenly releases the frozen zombie onto the campus of his university as he embarks on a quest to win the heart of the sorority bombshell. With the help of his disabled smart-alecky roommate and that rookie cop from 1959, who's now a bitter detective, Dork and Beauty Queen attack the invasion head on when the sorority house is attacked by zombies.
Hee Hee.
You know why I liked this? Oh, it wasn't the mandatory-for-the-'80's pan shot of the showers in the women's locker room, although that was of course appreciated.
No, I liked it because in spite of the campy situation they played it relatively straight, and there were some bits of great dialogue. Not just the one-liners: "How bout that? Zombies, exploding heads, creepy crawlies, and a date for the Formal." but some fine character motivation and back-and-forth. I looked up the writer on IMDB.com and discovered he went on to write The Monster Squad and some episodes of Enterprise and the Stargate franchise; bits of his talent can be seen here.
Go rent it; you'll have a blast.
Seen it! Love it! :)
ReplyDeleteI just had to write a wee bit to say you will probabaly have noticed I never leave a comment about your film reviews etc. sorry about that however I very very rarely if ever watch films on TV or out at the "pictures" as we used to call them...reason....well it is about 8 miles to the nearest cinema that only plays old movies in a real sump of a place or we would have to go to Bristol about 15 miles away to get a decent cinema to sit in and it costs a FORTUNE these days. as for hiring one I don't actually know where the nearest hire place would be probabaly Bath somewhere...!!
ReplyDeleteStill I always read you comments, and think mmmmmmmm that might be good or mmmmmmmm horrible !!
Hope all is well,
Sybil xx