LakiM9 So let's start, if you are looking for an average low budget 1980s teenage slasher, you are going to enjoy this movie. Like most teenage horror, this one has an average story, script and acting. A serial killer, nicknamed Basement Jack because of his habit for hiding in victim's basements before crimes is released and returns to Downer's Grove town to continue his massacre. Karen is a girl who escaped when he was killing her family so he hunts her. It is clearly visible that Jack had a problem in his childhood(intercuts from time he was a young boy, and when he murdered his mother at age of 17). Although there are a few beautiful segments, as for example lighting (when thunder), creepy piano score, bad CGI kinda "kills" it. Also there is nice editing when it shows 2 parallel actions. It is also having a lot of gore and blood, pointless camera movement(especially in the beginning) and a little bit longer ending.Whatever, if you are a fan of average 1980s slashers, watch this!

artpf Young man is tortured with a 9 volt battery by mother as a kid and turns into a killer only during thunderstorms.If you buy into that premise, you might also like the bad acting, horrible script, the dead victims whose eyes are literally blinking and moving on screen, and storms without rain.I didn't.Characters actions simply don't make sense. Not sure if you've ever licked a 9 volt battery. I have. It doesn't hurt in the slightest. You feel a dull tingle. That's how we'd test to see if they were good as kids. None of us turned into serial killers.And why do so many of the corpses move when they're supposed to be dead? Didn't anyone see this during the editing? IMDD says this movie had a million dollar budget. Where did the money go?

dave ward I realise it isn't supposed to be a comedy but I pretty much did laugh all the way through this!I won't bore you with the storyline or lack of... just point out the random things that made me chuckle!The acting, especially the cop characters, all of them! The blatant ripping off of several horror films...Friday 13th-machete, Halloween-doll/clown mask and near end scene where Jack falls down and looks dead? Psycho- OK a bit stretched but the shower scene!I as left with more than a few questions as well... why did the fence become electrified at the end? it isn't part of a transformer.Why did the weird apartment owner not die, and was covered in something that looked like blood?Why were all the cops called into the morgue and then shown photos from previous murders?Why in the name of God do people insist on casting really bad Cockney actors with dodgy mullets in anything?!?

mdnobles19 An moody but ultimately lousy slasher flick that had no story we've haven't seen before, very bad acting that will make you laugh and is one of the film's biggest problem and it also had a lame, pathetic killer that bored me to tears. This is kind of similar to the other direct to DVD slasher Frayed but no where near as entertaining and suspenseful as it and is very uninspired. I thought this had poor production values by the cheap effects and the unbelievable lightening and thunder storms and it wasn't smooth or solid about anything and to me it was a waste of money to make in the first place because at least Frayed had some terror in it and was fast paced, this one will slash you to sleep. Overall this is a waste of shelf space and is a not so bright slasher that wasn't slick, scary, suspenseful, entertaining or bloody inventive enough to be worth your time. Not Recommended!