Review of Hide and Go Shriek

Eight teens spend the night in a large furniture store, owned by one of the boy's father, but a cross dressing psycho picks them off one by one. Firstly the good: the killer is pretty creepy, he likes to dress up in his victim's clothes, be they male or female. Mannequins in the store are used to good effect, they certainly add spooky atmosphere. Plenty of nudity, both male and female (I believe in equality!), though no full frontal. Some of the kills are quite inventive. The bad: the acting. We have eight teens (one of the boys looks more like 12, and no doubt some of them are older too), not a particularly attractive bunch and who really can't act. This is quite rather painful to watch at times and I just wanted them to hurry up and get bumped off. The clothes and hair styles are pretty horrific too, but back in the 1980's mullets were the rage. The most memorable death involves decapitation by elevator, sadly the paper mache head looks like it was made by a ten year old in primary school, not Screaming Mad George's best effect! Incidentally this kill is slightly cut on DVD, but this is due to the original source material was too poor in quality to use, not censorship. Hide and Go Shriek is a great title and good to see that some film makers were still making slasher movies after the Golden Age of such movies. However, it is average at best, better characters/acting would have been an improvement. Still worth checking out though.