Scared Stiff (1987)

So let's start with the fact that this isn't a well made movie. It isn't written well (Mark Frost of Twin Peaks had a hand in the writing which is odd) it isn't edited well, it wasn't even thought out clearly in advance, but I love it.It has everything a B Movie gem should have. Terrible Editing, an amazing soundtrack, a story that doesn't quite make sense, and a mind blowing grand finale! The story is about an abusive and evil slave owner in the 1700's who is cursed and now his ghost is haunting the mansion he used to live in. A new family moves into the place in 1987 and is being tormented in each their own way by the "Masterson Curse".This movie actually has great special effects when you finally get to them and the ending is somewhat of an acid trip like experience. Reasons like this, the rarity, and of course the soundtrack are why I love this long forgotten gem.... that nobody seems to like. If you like finding old school B Movies for a good laugh then this is the movie for you. It is a little slow paced but the scary parts to me are rather creepy. Love what they did here.

dumb flick is silly and laughable and poor,y made and written and suffers from all kinds of cliches it has boring dialog way too talky first half laughable scenes that are supposed to be suspenseful but turn out to be laughable and the acting is not all that great Andrew Stevens does okay but is in a terrible movie not much ya can do there Mary Page Keller had awful dialog to spurt out and wasn't all that great we also have a child actor that is ugly and gap toothed i have no problems with that but i have a problem with whiny kids they irritate me which is why i won't be having kids when i get married right away anyway back to the review and plus this has done before lots of times and done better at that! also there is a funny moment where those toy cars come to life and start working and another laughable moment when the kid smashes a light bulb on the Stevens head it looked so fake he hardly even hit him! it also has plenty of gore in fact lots of it but it looks laughable and the finale is way to silly for it's own good overall a cheesy bore not worth it! AVOID!!! BOMB out of 5

Awful film about a family moving into a new house and falling prey to a rubber faced African voodoo monster that possesses Andrew Stevens and forces him to kill his family. The special effects are really that terrible, the entire cast is bland, and the situations that unfold in the film are a laugh riot. Good to watch and make fun of, otherwise avoid this piece of junk masquerading as a horror film. Rated R.

Could it be the workman, hanging undiscovered outside a boy's screenless window? He hangs there by his neck for days, perhaps weeks without being found, despite being in clear view from the outside, despite being less than a foot away from the boy's window; shouldn't there be flies? shouldn't the smell be intense?But no, as you might suspect, it is this movie that stinks - stinks real bad. Whether its Andrew Stevens typical performance as...Andrew Stevens, or the Comic Relief Cop, or the Negroid (!) Slaveowner Werebeast, or the Giant Kitsch Indian Head Lamp, or, or, or...oh man, it's too bad to go on.Miss it, unless you want to kill some time, and have a few (not many) laughs or groans at this painful wreck.