Watched: 03/14/2024
Format: Criterion
Viewing: First
Director: Thom Eberhardt
Selection: me
Apparently this one is a bit of an 80's horror-kid cult classic. I can see why - it has a good mid-80's trash cinema vibe, and pits the teens against the adults in a sort of classic 1950's manner but with a Valley Girl-meets-punk vibe.
The movie stars two people I like off the bat: Catherine Mary Stewart, who may have the best 80's-hair of anyone who ever 80's. And Mary Woronov as a scientist who cannot believe this shit is the end of the world (you will know her from Eating Raoul, her time with Andy Warhol and/ or possibly as Mike's mom who would not give him a Pepsi). It's also got fellow Eating Raoul alum Richard Beltran as Hector, the last eligible dude in LA.
I don't actually have much to say about the movie. It's... fine? I liked it well enough. It's definitely got some funny bits in a dry, 1980's indie vein. Catherine Mary Stewart is actually really good in this, riding the line between camp and not dipping into a schtick, while still managing to remain a young adult with other priorities than the end of the world.
There's something about this movie that it's fine on it's own, but feels like connective tissue between something like Return of the Living Dead and something punkier like Repo Man. And certainly part of the continuum of youth-oriented horror flicks of the 1980's, including stuff like Night of the Creeps. Anyway, fun horror-comedy!
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