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This horror/comedy features some familiar faces, as well as a completely laughless and scareless script.
Stanley (Gerrit Graham) has bought a do-it-yourself satellite dish system and wired his garish house with TV from around the world. Swingers Stanley and Racquel (Mary Woronov) depart to meet another couple, and leave Gramps (Bert Remsen) and their son Sherman (Chad Allen) alone. The satellite is invaded by a monster that was being disposed of from the planet Pluton, can turn itself into energy, and travel from television to television. When the monster kills, it can regenerate the heads of its victims, fooling the really dumb members of the cast. Stanley and Racquel return with Cherry (Randi Brooks) and Spiro (an embarrassed looking Alejandro Rey). Soon, the monster is on the loose in the house, and Sherman is tracking it with Gramps' machine gun stash.
John Carl Buechler, the special effects guy, does the monster here. It is terrible. The film was executive produced by Charles Band, who has almost two hundred producing credits, and has completed maybe six good films. The cast is awful and the humor is juvenile, making "American Pie" look like "Twelfth Night," yet the gore and violence are adult in nature. There is not a lot of blood here, every time the monster attacks, the victim oozes green slime- something never explained. Everyone tries to be very funny, but there is not one laugh. Not one guffaw. Not one smile. Not one half-smirk. There is nothing funny in this film. Absolutely nothing. What does that leave? No reason to seek this out.
"TerrorVision" is just that. Eighty five minutes of bad acting, bad special effects, and bad scripting. I find it hard to understand the cult following this has received.
Stats:
(1986) 85 min. (1/10)
-Written and Directed by Ted Nicolaou
-Cast: Chad Allen, Bert Remsen, Gerrit Graham, Diane Franklin, Mary Woronov, Alejandro Rey, Randi Brooks, Jon Gries, Sonny Carl Davis, Jennifer Richards, Ian Patrick Williams, William Paulson, John Leamer
(R)
Media Viewed: VHS
