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Summary: bubble gum for your brain
Review: fun flick especially for younger viewers...
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Summary: Good Movie! Wondering about DVD Aspect Ratio Though!
Review: I first saw this spoof of horror movies when I was a teenager and I thought it was a funny movie and I liked the cast, Richard Benjamin and his wife Paula Prentiss were good and so were Jeffrey Tambor and Kari Michaelson and I recommend this movie! I would like to buy it on DVD but I can't find any info about the aspect ratio. Is it a widescreen DVD or pan and scan?
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Summary: This was a great movie
Review: I first watched this movie when i was about 5. My mom taped it and i have shown it to everyone. I found the movie hilarious. The parents are so dumb to mistake bats for owls. I love it when the dad finds eyeballs in his coffee. The movie just makes fun of horror movies. Niave people inherit a house with a cursed book which releases monsters into the house to destroy the world. It is very entertaining and you will definitely laugh somewhere in the movie.
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Summary: Best Horror Spoof Ever Made
Review: I originally watch this movie on one of the cable channel (HBO, Showtime, etc)when I was sick in bed. I thought well this is going to be a stupid movie but; it turned out to be a great movie spoofing all the old horror classics (Dracula, The Mummy, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, etc.). If you like movie spoofs this is definately worth buying for your collection. I bought a DVD of a fairly recent horror spoof that was the dumbest scarey movie I had ever seen. Thank goodness I got it really cheap and now I know why. Saturday the 14th is a classic and one of my all time favorite movies. It's right up there with all of the disaster movie spoofs on and all of the police movie spoofs. Don't just sit there reading this review. BUY IT NOW!
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Summary: I Hope the DVD is Available in Widescreen!
Review: I saw Sautrday the 14th when I was a teen, I'm not sure though if I saw it in a movie theater or on cable on a movie channel. This was a funny movie that spoofed horror movies. Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss who are married in real life play a couple who move with their son Billy and daughter Debbie into a haunted house. The movie also stars Jeffrey Tambor (Hill Street Blues) as a vampire and Kari Michaelson as Debbie. Kari is best known for playing Katie in the Nell Carter sitcom Gimme a Break. I would like to have this movie on DVD but there isn't really any info on if it's available in widescreen, I would hate to buy it and find out it's an edited pan and scan DVD.
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Summary: Cute Movie!
Review: I saw this horror movie spoof on HBO when I was a teenager and I thought it was funny, it had a lot of silly moments and I really enjoyed the sillyness of it. It was another movie that the critics gave rotten reviews too, mainly because most of them thought it was too silly and sophomoric but I think the sillyness was very enjoyable! It is not a movie I would buy on video for my collection but I would rent it and watch it again.
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Summary: War! Famine! Hate! -- Those we've got...
Review: Not scary at all, but quite fun, Saturday the 14th includes ALL the cliches, from the family (a banal, witty father, an equally banal Mrs. Cleaver mother, a cute teenaged daughter who is just destined for mauling, and a super-smart 10-year-old son) to their newly inherited "house with a curse". The house is as much fun to watch as the characters living in it, with moving-eye portraits, sentient (and carnivorous) bookcases, candles that mysteriously light themselves when light switches are thrown, and a Dark-Shadows-meets-Brady-Bunch decorating scheme. A pair of gothy-looking married vampires are trying desperately to get into the house to retrieve a book, which the boy inadvertently opens to release many evil things into the world. A nutcase exterminator (hired to get bats out of the belfry) seeks to find the book as well, and to foil the vampires. Somewhere along the way there's a house-warming party with a houseful of detestable guests (and the daughter wears a VERY 80s Gunne Sax dress, a cute touch), most of whom deserve everything that happens to them. The monsters are of the latex suit variety and there's mild violence, but nothing here is meant to terrify. It is a parody, short and sweet, with many fun little comedic touches (the TV *only* gets "The Twilight Zone"). Everything you think will happen does happen, right down to the bathtub scene with the teenaged daughter. The acting isn't fabulous, but the casting is good. I'm still trying to figure out if that pizza delivery boy is played by Adam Sandler in a pseudonym. Definitely this is a fun movie to have, and I've already worn out my VHS edition, which is why I've gotten a DVD edition. Incidentally, the DVD includes a few little goodies -- bios of some of the actors and staff (the producer's bio is a hoot -- it's HUMONGOUS), and trailers of various movies the same studio has done including this one.
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Summary: A Thundering Waste Of Time and Talent....
Review: Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss inherit an old house and come across a 'necronomicon' type book. When the book is opened, a series of monsters (resembling the larger Muppets) invade the place. Jeffrey Tambor ("Hank" from The Larry Sanders Show) plays a vampire. I bought this disc because the trailer for it on the "Transylvania Twist" DVD looked like it might be fun. BOY, WAS I WRONG!! Whereas "....Twist" is a very funny spoof on horror movies in the Abrahams/Zucker style, "Saturday the 14th" is distinguished only by the fact that there is not one single solitary laff in the whole mess. Rent before you buy.
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Summary: Nostalgia? Not bloody likely.
Review: Saturday the 14th (Howard R. Cohen, 1981) Veteran Hollywood screenwriter Howard Cohen (Deathstalker, Stryker, Vampire Nurses, and-- I'm not kidding-- Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealers) tookhis first whack at directing with this insanely silly send-up of seventies horror flicks. How a guy who writes B-grade fantasy and softcore flicks managed to assemble the cast he got for this film is beyond me, but to his credit, the cast did manage to pull off something that didn't completely wreck their careers. Waldemar (veteran character actor Jeffrey Tambor, in his second big-screen role) and Yolanda (the late Nancy Andrews, in her last film role) are very interested in buying a dilapidated old house. Problem is, its owner has just died and left it, in his will, to an all-American family: father John (Richard Benjamin, recently seen in the TNT production of The Goodbye Girl), mother Mary (seventies film and TV staple Paula Prentiss), nubile daughter Debbie (Kari Michaelsen of Gimme a Break!), and credulous kid brother Billy (Kevin Brando, for a while the voice of Charlie Brown). Billy finds the book Waldemar and Yolanda are after, opens and reads it, and lets out all manner of evil creatures, making no one happy. John hires an exterminator to get rid of some pests, and finds himself stuck with Van Helsing (the late, great Severn Darden), an exterminator who is more than he appears to be... yeah, okay, it's funny. Kind of. In the same incredibly stupid way that Dark Star is funny, but without the ability and talent both in front of and behind the camera to be found in Dark Star. (And without the beach ball with claws, an unforgivable omission.) Kari Michaelsen's obligatory "nubile daughter taking a bath" scene is worth the price of admission, if you're into that sort of thing, and there are a few chuckles here and there. But for the most part, it kicked my nostalgia trip between the legs a few times. This one just plain doesn't hold up well, and I wonder what I was thinking back in the day when I watched it about a hundred times on HBO. (No, I know what I was thinking. Kari Michaelsen taking a bath.) **
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Summary: Saturday the 14th
Review: Unlike some of extrodinarily expensive spoofs of today that ganish very few to no laughs, and can only be seen by (and basically understood by) the adult population, this movie was really enjoyable. Sure the movie may look like a low budget never was, but it was one of the more honest movies of its day. This movie was designed to be fun (even suitable for the whole family), not to make millions and bore the audience with site gags and sexually lude or crude jokes (that only the person who wrote the movie understands) that have been used time and time again. I think that the actors played their parts very well, and some of the monster designs were amusing. People who only like movies with big budget special effects, and hughely popular stars will probably not enjoy this movie. But for someone who just wants an honest movie with laugh and (believe it or not) an understandable (yet silly) plot will enjoy this movie.
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