tomsemo92

When our family first got cable this is one of the first movies I watched on HBO. I was 14 or 15 watching an R rated movie and thought it was the coolest thing ever. Nerd from the mid-west trying to fit in with the cool kids. All the cliches are there but worth watching.

You see that criticism a lot with this move. It has been done before. Well, everything has been done before. If you are not going to see something because it has been done before you will never watch a movie again because all movies are reinventions of the same tropes and stories. The question is were they able to do it again in an interesting well executed way. I think so with this movie. The story was interesting, the cast and acting were good, and the cinematography was great. Overall very entertaining.

All these one star reviews and claims of one of the worst movies ever are not accurate. You can go to the horror category at Netflix and Amazon Prime and 99% of those movies are far worse than this. I am not sure what people were expecting. It does borrow a little from poltergeist but so what? Movies borrow from each other all the time. Put Vincent Price with this same script and that alone would raise it two stars. That is how important acting is with low budget movies like Corman's. 4 to 5 stars is about right for this.