BA_Harrison In Destroyer, Anthony Perkins, the star of Hitchcock's Psycho, plays the director of cheesy 'Women In Prison' movie Death House Dolls and utters the line 'Everybody back in an hour. We'll do the shower scene.' That's as clever as the film gets, the rest of the movie being an extremely dumb tongue-in-cheek slasher that offers very little for horror fans to get excited about (except, perhaps, for the aforementioned shower scene, in which several buck naked fitties get sopping wet before having a cat-fight).Beating the similarly themed House III: The Horror Show and Wes Craven's Shocker by a year, Destroyer features a vicious, musclebound rapist and murderer called Ivan Moser (played by ex-NFL linesman Lyle Alzado), who receives the electric chair for his crimes, but who returns from the dead to terrorise the cast and crew of the aforementioned W.I.P. movie (which is being shot in the now abandoned jail where Moser was zapped). For this kind of uninspired trash to work, the killer's quips need to be reasonably amusing (which they aren't: Alzado is no Englund) and the kills both inventive and excessively splattery (which they aren't: the dull deaths either occur off screen or the film cuts away from the gory stuff too soon).Worse still, actress Deborah Foreman, as 'final girl' Susan, puts in a performance almost as irritating as that in her atrocious 1986 'comedy' My Chauffeur. Foreman has proven that she can play cute and sexy in Waxwork (1988) and Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989), and appealing in April Fool's Day, but when she plays overly kooky, as she does here, even her impressive dimples can't win me over. With her horrible hair-do, tomboyish outfits, and supposedly witty banter, Susan is presumably intended to be endearing, but I found her quite the opposite, and would have been quite happy for Moser to have run a few thousand volts through her while he could.3.5 out of 10, rounded up to 4 for IMDb.

Sandcooler For some reason every slasher from the late 80s has to have a quirky, wise-cracking killer, even though a mindless killing machine is usually a whole lot scarier. Our Freddie Krueger rip-off du jour (played by steroid-enhanced NFL star Lyle Alzado) ends every sentence with "bitch", laughs maniacally at his own non-jokes ("I just want to talk you...hahahahaha", did he forget the punchline?) and worst of all is on screen far too long. That whole trope with the villain trying to be funny works when there's actually some decent writing involved and the finale doesn't last forever ("Scream" would be an obvious example of doing it right). In this one the killer plays cat and mouse with the final girl for almost half an hour, the pacing of this movie is very weird. You have a very slow build-up, a somehow even slower third act, and somewhere in between everybody dies (mostly off-screen at that) in a span of ten minutes or so. There's one scene though that almost redeems the film, not too surprisingly it's the one scene that has an on-screen kill. It's the only scene that really warrants the coveted so bad it's good label, and I was hoping to see more of that. Unfortunately, the rest is just stale and generic.

hop21711999 Yeah i love this movie, lots of people will say its terrible but those are also the same people who try to take this movie seriously which you can not. Its funny as hell, now was it meant to be funny? Yes and no i think, i am thinking they were looking for some laughs but not nearly as many as you will get from watching it. My favorite part is where Lyle is dressed as a cop or security guard, something along those lines and this guy comes up to him and asks him about the outfit and Lyle says "its a disguise" and the guy says "disguise from what?" and Lyle says "From You!!" and i think thats the part where this real big jackhammer comes out. Real funny stuff there, also there was a cool part with Anthony Perkins in the electric chair trying to get out before the current cameup to get him. Great stuff, now if only i could find this somewhere to buy since its getting very hard to find now.

FieCrier I thought this movie might be like Shocker or some of the other "electrocuted serial killer comes back to life more dangerous than ever" kind of horror movies, but that's not quite what it was. The "Destroyer", though I don't believe he was ever called that, is electrocuted, and he does seem to come back to life, but since the opening scenes aren't necessarily accurate, what really happened isn't ever clear.What is definite is that sometime after his execution or attempted execution, a film crew directed by Anthony Perkins' character is shooting a women-in-prison type film. Unfortunately for him, there's a killer or killers on the loose. The killer is not a big jackhammer fan as the cover suggests. One is used, though it has a much smaller tip and no scope on it. At least one person is killed with a welding torch of some kind, and there are other sorts of deaths, none particularly memorable or graphic.The movie starts off OK, but it rapidly become boring to me. The special effects guy "Rewire" sounds like the 1980s MTV character "Randee of the Redwoods" and as it turns out, it was him. There's several scenes where characters go into the basement of the prison, and inexplicably it is full of flashing yellow roadblock lights. The explanation is that the prisoners used to make them - OK, why weren't they removed from the prison after it closed and sold? Why are they all on? Just to make the scene more colorful?Perkins has a few marginally funny lines, and he does a good job in his small part.I can't recommend this movie at all.