Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 02/28/1986(USA)
Release Date: 06/25/2002
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 92 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Anchor Bay
A mild box-office hit for
New World Pictures, this lightweight attempt at
horror parody from
Friday the 13th producer
Sean S. Cunningham stars former
Greatest American Hero William Katt as a best-selling pop-horror novelist
Roger Cobb (à la
Stephen King) who suffers an insurmountable case of writer's block after separation from his
soap-star wife (
Kay Lenz) and the disappearance of their young son. Hoping to purge his personal demons by writing his Vietnam War memoirs, he moves into the massive mansion once occupied by his deceased aunt (who hanged herself in her bedroom), and finds himself surrounded by demons of a completely different kind.
Roger takes the weirdness in stride, attempting to face down marauding monsters, interdimensional trap doors, and other supernatural horrors while concealing his predicament from the neighbors (except for the befuddled
Harold Gorton [
George Wendt], who tries gamely to play along with
Roger's hare-brained monster-fighting schemes).
~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
;)
