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Home Video | Review by Dan Taylor
Some people should not be
allowed to make films.
This list would include: the
guy that made TRUTH OR DARE (not
the Madonna version); anyone invloved with
ROCK & ROLL NIGHTMARE or MUTANT HUNT;
and the producer, writer, director and stars
of HORROR HOUSE ON HIGHWAY 5. It isn't bad
like R&R NIGHTMARE or MUTANT HUNT, it's
just that – like TRUTH OR DARE – it's
genuinely brain-altering for anyone within
a five mile fallout zone.
Some students are on a trip
to research the experiments of a scientist
who contributed to US rocket technology.
Along the way, one of the students is kidnapped
by the doctor's two sons: Mabusa, an abusive,
unlicensed MD; and Gary, his half-wit younger
brother who falls in love with Sally, the
kidnapped student. The other kids run into
the father... a maggot-infested, supposedly-dead
Nazi psycho who runs around killing people
while wearing a Richard Nixon mask.
Don't these people realize
that there is such a thing as going
WAY over the top? (I think they passed that
point when they focused on the black and
white photo of a woman in a Gestapo uniform
masturbating while squating on a Nazi flag!)
Put this
one in your VCR during your next party and
count the number of people who pass by,
look at the screen and stare back in
utter disbelief. It has the potential for
a ground-breaking number of jaw-droppers!
Best of all, it's the kind of flick where you're
not going to miss any important moments
of dialogue or plot revelations... because
there aren't any!
The flick tries to parody
known genre cliches, and the guy that plays
Mabusa is pretty funny, but it's tough to
recommend this other than to folks who
need to see a flick that simply goes way
over the top (if you saw TRUTH OR DARE you
know who you are).