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A teenage boy (Johnny Dickie) watches a horror videotape he has just
stolen from a local videostore, even if a zombie has warned him not to -
and as weird as it sounds, the zombie was right, because the videotape is
horrible, just a collection of horror mainstays, badly acted and garnered
with cheap but bloody special effects. But it's just like with a car
wreck, our teen just can't stop watching - and thus he fails to notice the
real horror that unfolds in his apartment until it's almost too late.
Because you know, the tape is cursed, and by playing it, the ghost of a
masked serialkiller is summoned to our hero's home and slashes everybody
in sight - and it takes all of our teen's experience with horror films to
not become the killer's next victim ... A movie that looks
exactly like what it is: An hommage to the good old days of low budget
indie straight-to-video horror from yesteryear (roughly the 1980's)
brought to you by a dedicated VHS collector - and thus the film enjoys its
own cheesiness, its over-the-top effects work, its crazy ideas, the
relative predictability of some of its plot ... which is exactly why the
film works and is fun at least to those who have seen more than their fair
share of low budget indie straight-to-video horror from yesteryear. What's
interesting about this film though is that when making it, director Johnny
Dickie himself was in his early-to-mid teens - thus VHS as such was
already on the fade-out when he was born even ...
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