A bunch of teenagers celebrate graduating from high-school by… breaking into and spending the night in a furniture store? But it’s fine, you see, the store is owned by the dad of one of the teens, and they’re just gonna hang out, drink beer and fool around. No harm, no foul. That is, until somebody starts murdering the teens. Could the scary-looking ex-con with a snake tattoo that was just hired and lives in the basement of the store have something to do with it? Surely you jest!
As we’ve seen before, plenty of 80’s slashers are rife with all kinds of trans/homophobia. This movie is yet another example where the murderer turns out to be a confused and psychotic gay man whose motivations for unaliving people are tenuous at best, it’s probably just because he’s queer.
A fun reading of the murders is that the killer is hellbent on eradicating the scourge of heterosexuality, specifically boring, straight couples — which could have been the case if this piece of trash was written by John Waters — although the filmmakers make it pretty clear that they simply see LGBTQ people as demented. Just look at the guy, they suggest — he’s gotta be batshit insane. You do kind of root for the killer though, the teens are all very annoying and they probably deserve to die, all things considered, even if some of them are dressed in nice-looking pastels (my favorite, a multicolor shirt that could be a Marimekko, makes it to the end).
Anyway, always fun when movie characters can go nuts in a big store or a mall — classic kid fantasy stuff — even if this particular movie is never as fun-scary as Chopping Mall, as exciting as Night of the Comet, nor as insightful as Dawn of the Dead. Love a good pun in the title. Dr. Runtime approved (90 mins).
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