My secret shame...
I know this is a bad, bad movie, but for some reason I've always liked it. I would even buy it if it was available on DVD. Maybe I should be hiding my face in shame for admitting this, lol.
shareHey, you should not feel this way at all! I'd never heard of this movie until earlier this year, when I saw it listed under movies with Halloween themes in a movie review book, but that is very suprising since I have been a big fan and watcher of horror movies since 1982, which was also the very year it came out. We got our first VCR and joined our first video store that November, and it probably came out on VHS in 1983 or 1984, and I wonder why I did not notice it and rent it out then (or atleast later in the 1980s or early 1990s). And I've always really liked Halloween related things as well, which would have made it very appealing to me. But with Halloween upcoming I would really like to see this movie, though from what you wrote it apparently is not on DVD. But I will see it if it comes on it and I get acess to this, and I don't feel ashamed at all to say that (and you should not either). But was it ever on VHS in the 1980s or 1990s, and is that where you did see it (or where did you actually see it), I was just wondering?
"I happen to be a vegetarian". Lex, from Jurrasic Park
I saw this movie at a drive-in double feature with my mom and her boyfriend when I was five years old, and I still remember a lot of it vividly. Not much of a surprise though really, since I saw the deranged killer outside my bedroom window every night for a month afterward. It'd be cool to see this movie again now that I'm an adult, find out just how cheesey it really is, but since this movie appears to be so unpopular, it's highly unlikely that will ever happen. Maybe that's for the best though. The reality of this film will probably never live up to the pants-pisser my five-year-old inner child will always remember it as.
Unfortuantely, I fell asleep shortly after the second part of the double feature began, and I can't for the live of me remember what the other movie was called. What I remember is a couple of teens running through the woods on a sunny day and finding some old shack where they began to make out. There's some sort of monster (at this point you only really see a hairy arm and a long-fingered hand with long claws) watching them from beneath the floorboards. This movie came out at the same time as Trick or Treats, so if anyone happens to be polished up on their obscure 1982 horror flicks and might know what this film is, I'd love some info.
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I do know that this has been out on VHS. I remember seeing it at the Blockbuster, of course when they still carried VHS. I think i can remember the cover showing a bag, with the words Trick or Treats scrawled on the side, similiar to the cover of Chopping Mall. Hope this is some help.
shareIt's been a looooong time since you posted, so you may already know the answer to your second dilemma. If not, I'll give it to you now. THE INCUBUS is the name of the second film, but it's the one with John Cassavetes, NOT the one from the sixties with William Shatner. It is available on DVD, though I am unsure if the disc is still in print. Image Entertainment released it, and I do own it. Solid horror flick.
(This is in response to JeremiahZero.)
I just saw this! I liked it actually. It had it's silly parts but it wasn't nearly as bad as some say it is. An all around fine 1982 slasher lite film.
Could've been better of course but meh. It was enjoyable.
At this actually being in theaters though.
It's on Amazon. You can buy it on dvd now :).
sharehereminton,
Sorry to get back to you so late! I saw the movie on VHS back in the mid-80's. I even dubbed it onto a blank tape, but I no longer have that copy. The movie didn't do too well at the boxoffice, but it was released to theaters.