Curfew

Curfew reminded me of the great slashers of the 80's and 70's. And if you like those movies, you will not like this. Its a movie that presents itself as something that might be cult worthy but curfew is nothing more than some terrible acting and terrible killings that almost seem unessery. When the perkin brothers get out of jai. Were they released or escaped. We dont know as its not clear. As for teenager stephanie she is out and if she skips curfew of 10pm all hell will break loose. As the perkins terrorise the neighbour hood, killing those reponsible for their arrest its never really clear the whole time why they even want to kill them. Overall curfew is still good to watch but is nothing more than that.

I heard nothing but really bad stuff about this movie, the only reason I watch this was. cease I was curious , how bad it was ( the only reason I got this movie is because it had mirror mirror (1990) On the other side , which I think is a great movie ) It a shame I can't say the same thing about this movie, I thought had really strong plot For low budget .

I thought first 30 minutes if the movie was so -what entertaining and not boring for that part.

Even the movie flowed really well However there are times were the scripts is so bad in places , that makes the acting

Look even more worse then It already was. My god the acting in this movie was wooden

I have ever see. From some if cast.

I did not think it was all that bad (not saying it a good movie at all) but I have see. Much worse then this ( you may think that hard to believe but it's true )

I give 4 out 10

The Perkins brothers, Ray and Bobby were sent to prison seven years ago for the brutal rape/murder of a sixteen year old girl. They manage to escape death row, and head back to the town to exact revenge on the psychiatrist, Judge and DA who sent 'em there. During the night, the DA's daughter Stephanie arrives home to meet her curfew, to only find that she and her parents have unwelcome guests wanting to make their night a living hell.

Nasty, quite often sleazy and sometimes effective little low-budget film, without showing a whole lot of explicit images to brew up its sadistic edge. You could say it's more tame then you would expect. Its formula is a typical psychotic madmen wanting revenge in the most deranged way. In saying that the concept has its moments, like the way the captors are slowly tortured and humiliated for basic kicks. The script takes itself rather seriously, although are moments of dark mocking humour or the occasional unintentional slip-up of just trying too hard. The story is made up of bits and pieces, with plenty of clichés tacked on. Director Gary Winick goes about things in a mechanical fashion and can't seem to sustain much suspense, however there's a steady pace throughout and the heartless attacks/killings (some off screen) have a random touch to them. The atmosphere might not be heavy, but there's always a stroke of ominous cruelty in the air and it does seem to get a little tighter when the action centres in the homestead. Wendell Wellman plays the dominating older brother Ray with plenty of grunt, while John Putch is the dim-witted younger brother Bobby. They weren't bad, but still there were scenes, which are quite laughable. Kyle Richards looks stunning, but also manages to provide a savvy and intelligent heroine out of Stephanie. Frank Millar and Jean Brooks were engaging in their strongly fine performances as Stephanie's parents. Peggy Poe and Robert Romanus also contributed to amusing minor support. Cengiz Yaltkaya's music score is very much a bloated clunker of generic cues with the odd quirky lashing. Since it bombards the film, it basically telegraphs most of the action and can annoy. Focused cinematography of Makoto Watanabe fits the grimy style. The editing can get sloppy. Nothing great eventuates, but this psychotic fodder is a decent time-waster.

Young teenager Stephanie Davenport is expected home by 10pm. This is one Curfew she will want to be late for as a group of psychotic brothers are at her house waiting to attack.

The movie starts with the introduction of two brothers (Ray and Bobby) who are serving a prison sentence for murder. They escape captivity and decide to murder all the people responsible for putting them away. This includes the judge who presided over the case, the psychiatrist who declared them mentally sane, and the District Attorney.

We then meet the DA's very beautiful and young teenager named Stephanie Davenport.The movie makes the point to let us know that her curfew is a strict 10pm, thanks to her overprotective father. She does typical teen things like hang out with her friends, play pranks on the adults in town, and disobeys her parents wishes. After dispatching the judge and psychiatrist, the brothers focus their attention on Stephanie's dad the DA. It'll be up to Stephanie to save her parents from the two psychotic brothers while they spend the night terrorizing her and her parents.

I found Curfew to be a very average late 80's horror thriller overall, but one that had a bit of charm to it. It definitely kept my attention throughout. Curfew is a pretty violent movie, even though most of the murders occur off screen. What makes it violent is the treatment that the brothers (Ray in particular) gives to Stephanie's parents. They slap them around a bit, spray paint the mother, really cruel and humilating things.

There are some downsides to the movie like Stephanie's immature friends who are only there to add to the body count and the silly jocularity that these kinds of movies gives. The acting wasn't amazing, but I thought those involved did a pretty decent job for being in such a low budget film. Wendell Wellman who played Ray was effective as the badder of the two brothers, often times being very violent and verbally abusive. I found the performance of the mother very well done, played by Jean Brooks. That character Megan had to endure it a lot of physical trauma at the hands of Ray and I thought Brooks played it brilliantly. Other than that, we get a very young Kyle Richards who played the little child from Halloween who ended up being babysat by Jamie Lee Curtis. Richards did a fine job in the lead role.

All in all, Curfew isn a very skippable late 80's movie in the horror genre. Almost being next to impossible to find on DVD, you'll likely never come across it. But if you do, give it a viewing for it's gritty and violent home invasion vibes and late 80's cheesiness.

4/10

Pretty stupid and totally insignificant no-budget thriller that looks an awful lot like a typical late 80's slasher... but isn't one! Oh sure, high-school jocks and slutty girls are getting killed but that's just pointless padding to increase the body count and sleaze-level. The actual story handles about two criminal brothers that travel towards a little community with the intention to kill everybody that was jointly responsible for their prison sentence: the judge who spoke the verdict, the psychiatrist who declared them mentally sane and – of course – the prosecutor who said all those nasty things about them being evil and such. The prosecutor, along with his wife and yummy Demi Moore look-alike daughter are held hostage and their only chance to survive is for the young girl to set the murdering siblings against each other. The script contains one or two creative ideas, but "Curfew" is overall tedious and without suspense. Actors John Putch and especially Wendell Wellman try incredibly hard to look like genuine bad boys, but they really don't convince and they often evoke unintentional laughs. There's a lot of killing going on, but we're only served a glimpse of the action and all the rest happens off screen. Lame! In my humble opinion, there are much better horror gems from the 80's waiting to get discovered properly, so I have absolutely no idea why this turkey received a DVD-release before any of them. Feel free to skip this one