A protective father
named Guy Nicholas (Will Rand), who's
wife recently passed away from leukemia
has two twin children named Beth (Nell
Regan) and Michael (Patrick Regan III)
with telekinetic powers but their father
tells them to never use their special
powers in public else they'd be taken
away and used for experiments.
A nasty biker gang trespasses on their
property and then kills Guy and takes off
leaving the two children alone and
wondering what to do making them orphans.
They don't tell anyone what has happened
to their father making out that he is
still alive so they use their powers at
full speed to make their father's corpse
move around whenever someone arrives at
their house.
An obnoxious alcoholic named Wally
Stanton (Jon Cedar) arrives at their
house demanding for their father and the
kids use his corpse to kill him.
Then this gives them an idea to take
revenge on the biker gang that killed
their father.
A movie made on a
god awful budget as the picture quality
sucks as it looks like it was shot on a
cheap home video camera. It was obviously
a bad video quality picture which wasn't
surprising that they shelved this film
after making it in 1981 and released it
to video 7 years later.
In 1984 it did show on an Elvira TV
episode of Movie Macabre
showing clips of Fabian's role.
The acting is
terribly stiff and a little wooden but
former 60's hearthrob Fabian
seems to do a fine job with his
performance and yet it surprises me that
he's in this forgettable flick as he
wasn't hurting that bad I thought. He
shows good expressions with his role as
the head deputy.
Marilyn Burns was better off in Texas
Chainsaw Massacre though as she
never topped her career off in any other
film she's been in. She portrays a
different role in this film however
playing a nice and mellow person instead
of shrieking insanely proving she can be
versatile.
Real life child twin siblings Nell
& Patrick Regan don't show
any emotion at all in their roles and
barely show much character either.
Two teenage girls
flash a deputy driving by wearing
bikinis.
A woman biker played by Gay French
is skinny dipping in a tub outside of
Guy's house and then is nude lying at a
beach.
Patrick Regan
doesn't show anything special here with
his direction.
However, he coaches Will Rand
very well at portraying a zombie but he
doesn't make this film the least bit
scary to say the least.
Beforehand we spot a disturbing direction
on Rand when the motorcycle gang
led by the actors Robert Dryer
and Chester Grimes causing him
trouble and then killing him.
He cast his two children Nell and
Patrick but at least make their
characters come to life with his
direction which he doesn't.
There's another disturbing moment with
the people like Dryer and Grimes
about to cause harm to Burns by
cornering her and about to do something
nasty.
David Spear does
wonders on an out of synch synthesizer
but alot of the times he makes it sound
extremely annoying.
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