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1986 - 87m.

Tongue-in-cheek slasher has a killer with a really dopey laugh killing off some medical students who are off at the house one of their friends bought for the weekend in order to fix it up and clean it.

Starring, co-written and co-produced by Scott Baio's brother Steven; this starts with an okay opening murder and plays agreeably for most of its running time but eventually fumbles under too much weak dialogue and a finale that's particularly weak as co-star Kim McKarny overacts fear quite badly.

Generally this is a slice 'n' dice that's pretty well-shot by debuting director Brascia, has a likeable enough cast (with one character who pre-dates Scream by being steeped in "horror movie elements") and has its now infamous "microwave" scene to make it recommendable if you want to see a good effort that just doesn't pan out as well as it could have due to the aforementioned problems and its standard set-up (which even includes the overdone "dancing while cleaning" moment).

Gets it's "Fango Moment" out of the way early on.

Visit Program Power Entertainment to get this.

Directed By: Dominick Brascia.
Written By: Steven Baio, Dominick Brascia.

Starring: Steven Baio, Kim McKarny, Tony Griffin, Jody Gibson.


DVD INFORMATION

Picture Ratio: Full Frame.

Picture Quality: Program Power brings us a print that has some grain evident but is a mostly clean picture.

Extras: For a low-budget semi-cult film this gets some nice extras including a commentary track by Baio/Brascia, a photo gallery, an overlong but informative interview with Baio/Brascia and DVD-rom features such as the script, photos and ad copy.