Rating: R
Genre:
Horror
Release Date: 10/28/2008
Dubbed: English/Espanol
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 99 Minutes
Flags: Not For Children, Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: Synapse Films
Dead Kids, aka
Strange Behavior, is a creepy exercise from director
Michael Laughlin--who conceived this as part one of an abortive "Strange Trilogy" which also included 1983's
Strange Invaders. Although lensed in New Zealand, the film is set in a sleepy American town, in which a series of gory murders committed by local teenagers are linked to a twisted brainwashing scheme by a deranged behavioral psychologist (note irony please). Despite some humorous details (e.g. one killer dons a Tor Johnson mask) and a nostalgia for '50s pulp horrors (not to mention a fondness for splattery death scenes), the disparate plot elements don't come together as well as they should, failing to live up to the premise's potential for guilty chuckles or gasps of horror.
Fiona Lewis is sexually menacing as the mad doc's assistant, but
Louise Fletcher's wasted role may make viewers pine for Nurse Ratched.
~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
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