Vinegar Syndrome Cuts #11
Don't Panic (1988)
(8/10): Believe me when I say, it's bad, but with VS that's pretty much par for the course but like many of their releases, it's a special kind of bad.
Don't Panic is a Mexican Nightmare on Elm Street knock off that is a mess but is so weird that it makes me miss the days of ripoffs, as it was a time where when they rip something off the end product can be so radically different than what the source material was that it's almost unintentionally original in its own right.
Anyways it follows Michael, a poorly dubbed character who is celebrating his 17th birthday and his friends get him a ouija board and then after some drinks and a bit of peer pressure he uses it and unknowingly awakens some kind of evil force that possesses his friend and aims to kill the others.
It's complete with a love interest with a unibrow, background music/romance music that sounds like it's either from an eighties commercial or a seventies lifetime show like Little House on the Prairie.
Our protagonist also spends a decent portion of the movie in dinosaur pajamas and if you know your eighties horror well you'll notice a scene where they're watching Cemetery of Terror, another eighties Mexican horror film to also get a release from VS.
The plot completely goes off the rails by the end as I do not know what happened and I was watching it so, what the hell...
Overall, it's a subpar slasher with decent enough gore when you see it, meh on makeup effects but is so bizarre that it can ironically make for a good time.
Don't Panic (1988)
(8/10): Believe me when I say, it's bad, but with VS that's pretty much par for the course but like many of their releases, it's a special kind of bad.
Don't Panic is a Mexican Nightmare on Elm Street knock off that is a mess but is so weird that it makes me miss the days of ripoffs, as it was a time where when they rip something off the end product can be so radically different than what the source material was that it's almost unintentionally original in its own right.
Anyways it follows Michael, a poorly dubbed character who is celebrating his 17th birthday and his friends get him a ouija board and then after some drinks and a bit of peer pressure he uses it and unknowingly awakens some kind of evil force that possesses his friend and aims to kill the others.
It's complete with a love interest with a unibrow, background music/romance music that sounds like it's either from an eighties commercial or a seventies lifetime show like Little House on the Prairie.
Our protagonist also spends a decent portion of the movie in dinosaur pajamas and if you know your eighties horror well you'll notice a scene where they're watching Cemetery of Terror, another eighties Mexican horror film to also get a release from VS.
The plot completely goes off the rails by the end as I do not know what happened and I was watching it so, what the hell...
Overall, it's a subpar slasher with decent enough gore when you see it, meh on makeup effects but is so bizarre that it can ironically make for a good time.