Sunday, June 26, 2011

Screamtime (1986)

Mediocre anthology tied together by the story of two hoods who steal some video tapes and go to a friend's house to watch them on her vcr. The first story involves a couple who return from their honeymoon and the bride, who wears huge Jackie O shades, starts to see murders, blood, and people in the house. The husband soon tires of her hysterics and hires a psychic who declares there is no bad energy in the house. There is a twist ending that I didn't see coming, but it leaves too many questions of how it could actually happen.

Next a motocross racer takes a job as a gardener/handyman for two rich old ladies as he needs money to repair his bike. The ladies tell him not to cross the fairies who live in the gardens as they'll seek vengeance. The racer and his friends decide to rob the ladies and needless to say, it goes poorly.

Lastly there is the sad story of a puppeteer whose wife is leaving him and taking their grown son with her. It's hard to understand why he wants her to stay as she's always yelling at him. Plus their son Damien is a hooligan who sets his father's puppet booth on fire during an intermission. Soon after Damien is beaten with a large stick. Is it the puppets come to life or the puppeteer? Eeek!

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