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Stupid Teenagers Must Die!
DVD/APPROX. 80 MINS/2007/USA UNRATED
DVD/APPROX. 80 MINS/2007/USA UNRATED
The 80’s were awesome... greed, corruption, big hair, cocaine… but best of all, great horror movies. Stupid Teenagers Must Die! pays homage to
that most decadent of decades by poking fun at the conventions of the 80’s horror film. While this idea hasn’t always worked well in the past, as in
the hugely uneven Student Bodies, I was willing to give STMD! a chance.
A group of friends have decided to have a séance in a house where a very bad man slaughtered his whole family, while it was meant to be nothing
more than an evening of scaring each other for a bit for shits and giggles, the night turns deadly when the stupid teenagers start dying. Naturally,
the dead murderer’s spirit has come back from beyond the grave, and he begins possessing the youths. Once he has one of the teens in his
control, he makes them attack the others.
STMD! is meant to look like a cheap 80s horror film, and they got the cheap part down. Unfortunately, the film doesn’t really look like it was made in
the 80’s at all. I think this is because the film is shot on video, and any shot on video film from the 80’s would look like Woodchipper Massacre or
Shreck, not like the higher quality video of today. The print is also a bit dark, but that may be fixed with a proper release.
Anyway, STMD! features your standard cast of 80’s characters. You get the nerd, the tough guy, the bimbo, the freaky girl, the girls just there for
gratuitous nudity, the outsiders, and the token black dude (complete with Michael Jackson Thriller gear). The outsiders are by far the funniest
characters, though some of the others get very amusing moments. A few good lines are hurt by the thespians, but overall the performances are
fine and suit the material.
The score’s overbearing, and the film takes awhile to get going, but it’s not a bad homage to the beloved years of lore (the 80’s, I mean). I actually
found myself more interested in the film when it was played more straight, so like it was just a bad 80’s horror flick, but some of the outright satire
moments, like the gratuitous nudity, were very funny.
For a low budget horror comedy, STMD! is quite entertaining, and fans of 80’s horror should get a chuckle or two from it.
that most decadent of decades by poking fun at the conventions of the 80’s horror film. While this idea hasn’t always worked well in the past, as in
the hugely uneven Student Bodies, I was willing to give STMD! a chance.
A group of friends have decided to have a séance in a house where a very bad man slaughtered his whole family, while it was meant to be nothing
more than an evening of scaring each other for a bit for shits and giggles, the night turns deadly when the stupid teenagers start dying. Naturally,
the dead murderer’s spirit has come back from beyond the grave, and he begins possessing the youths. Once he has one of the teens in his
control, he makes them attack the others.
STMD! is meant to look like a cheap 80s horror film, and they got the cheap part down. Unfortunately, the film doesn’t really look like it was made in
the 80’s at all. I think this is because the film is shot on video, and any shot on video film from the 80’s would look like Woodchipper Massacre or
Shreck, not like the higher quality video of today. The print is also a bit dark, but that may be fixed with a proper release.
Anyway, STMD! features your standard cast of 80’s characters. You get the nerd, the tough guy, the bimbo, the freaky girl, the girls just there for
gratuitous nudity, the outsiders, and the token black dude (complete with Michael Jackson Thriller gear). The outsiders are by far the funniest
characters, though some of the others get very amusing moments. A few good lines are hurt by the thespians, but overall the performances are
fine and suit the material.
The score’s overbearing, and the film takes awhile to get going, but it’s not a bad homage to the beloved years of lore (the 80’s, I mean). I actually
found myself more interested in the film when it was played more straight, so like it was just a bad 80’s horror flick, but some of the outright satire
moments, like the gratuitous nudity, were very funny.
For a low budget horror comedy, STMD! is quite entertaining, and fans of 80’s horror should get a chuckle or two from it.
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