This was definitely a made-for-TV horror flick, which means it's too good to be bad, but too bad to be good. Since it's a horror flick, it has to have some kind of an "angle" nowadays. And what could it be in this film?
Oh, I know! Name the movie after another horror flick, showing scenes from that earlier film inside this film, hey--and let's make the monster sort-a look like the original one, and what about story? Story? Oh, yeah. Gotta have a story, I guess. Well, let's not do a remake of the original film we're calling our film, let's think of something different. Let's make the kid think his daddy's the monster (oh, boy, is that a double entendre in this flick!). And let's end it with one of those close up shots made famous by Anthony Perkins in "Psycho". That should do it. No, no. Let's have a wacky off-the-main-roads town full of wacky hillbilly-types (isn't this a novel idea?) and wacky-type folks, such as a fat nurse who dresses and looks like Divine in this backwoods community (that's novel). Let's make her the elementary school nurse (now that's downright weird). Sounds good. You know, a town full of xenophobic psychos, or seemingly so, and people you'd expect to meet on the streets of Greenwich Village. Yeah, the town sheriff--let's make him a rube. Sounds good! You got some real weird stuff there as well as some stereotypes. Let's make the female lead a mousey type psychiatrist who talks in a stage whisper. Maybe someone in the discerning audience will wonder what her "story" is. And when she comes to town, they treat her like the weird outsider. (Well, maybe if she lives there long enough, she'll fit right in and look like the nurse?????) And what about some sex? Well, we'll throw that in somehow. Back to the story:
Let's have a kid think weird stuff, but let's make some of it real and some of it not real--maybe. Yeah, that's good, after all that's how kids are. And let's have another male lead, Randy Quaid, at least he can act. That makes this project legit. Enough said.
Oh, I know! Name the movie after another horror flick, showing scenes from that earlier film inside this film, hey--and let's make the monster sort-a look like the original one, and what about story? Story? Oh, yeah. Gotta have a story, I guess. Well, let's not do a remake of the original film we're calling our film, let's think of something different. Let's make the kid think his daddy's the monster (oh, boy, is that a double entendre in this flick!). And let's end it with one of those close up shots made famous by Anthony Perkins in "Psycho". That should do it. No, no. Let's have a wacky off-the-main-roads town full of wacky hillbilly-types (isn't this a novel idea?) and wacky-type folks, such as a fat nurse who dresses and looks like Divine in this backwoods community (that's novel). Let's make her the elementary school nurse (now that's downright weird). Sounds good. You know, a town full of xenophobic psychos, or seemingly so, and people you'd expect to meet on the streets of Greenwich Village. Yeah, the town sheriff--let's make him a rube. Sounds good! You got some real weird stuff there as well as some stereotypes. Let's make the female lead a mousey type psychiatrist who talks in a stage whisper. Maybe someone in the discerning audience will wonder what her "story" is. And when she comes to town, they treat her like the weird outsider. (Well, maybe if she lives there long enough, she'll fit right in and look like the nurse?????) And what about some sex? Well, we'll throw that in somehow. Back to the story:
Let's have a kid think weird stuff, but let's make some of it real and some of it not real--maybe. Yeah, that's good, after all that's how kids are. And let's have another male lead, Randy Quaid, at least he can act. That makes this project legit. Enough said.