That “better than average” acting? Yeah, it’s okay. Too many characters survive and the identity of the killer pretty much pops up as an afterthought.

Sadly, in the final act, the film collapses into a downright strange propagandic, homophobic and rather wasteful piece of work. But there are a couple of creepy scenes: the cover gives away one such scene where a walking-bouffant hides under a bed as a scary pair of feet stride by and the decapitation-by-elevator is well done. There are some gory murders but dim lighting becomes irritating as it grinds on, along with some of the surviving characters – FOUR of them in this film – all of whom have undergone personality bypass procedures. Teens are drowned, stabbed with mannequin limbs and tossed on to sharp arty thingies. Well, they had to pay homage to that deliciously pun-tastic title some way, right?Īmidst the games, jokes, and eventual sex-centric encounters, they begin to get wiped out by a shady killer who dresses up in the clothes of his most recent victim.

Once covertly therein, the kids regress in maturity and decide to act like pre-schoolers and have a game of hide and seek. Once, anyway.Įight teenagers with assorted sizes of hair – but in the XL range – celebrate the end of high school by partying after hours …in a FURNITURE STORE. In the end, it falls somewhere in the middle. I first read about Hide and Go Shriek in a film almanac that said it was better than most of its ilk due to “better than average acting” and then in another book that said it was worse than most of its ilk with “dreadful acting by a bunch of deserved unknowns”… “Close your eyes, count to ten, and run for your life!”ĭirector: Skip Schoolnik / Writer: Michael Kelly / Cast: Bunky Jones, Brittain Frye, George Thomas, Donna Balton, Annette Sinclair, Sean Kanan, Scott Fults, Ria Pavia, Scott Kubay, Jeff Levine.īy 1987, any surprises in the slasher movie were long dead and buried.

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