It's been a long time since I've seen this 1989 gem from Brian Yuzna. Billy Warlock, fresh from Baywatch and still sporting his trademark near-mullet, plays a Beverly Hills teenager who suspects that there is something not quite right about this family and the society in which they inhabit.
The film is uneven, the acting ranges from the adequate to the atrocious, and for the first 20 min or so you could be watching just about any "alienated teen" movie. That the film works so well is due to the unique combination of sharp social commentary (the rich really do feed off the poor) and an absolutely insane "shunting" SFX finale by Screaming Mad George, a wholly original 30 minutes of celluloid unmatched before or since.
I do love the smell of the shunt!
The film is uneven, the acting ranges from the adequate to the atrocious, and for the first 20 min or so you could be watching just about any "alienated teen" movie. That the film works so well is due to the unique combination of sharp social commentary (the rich really do feed off the poor) and an absolutely insane "shunting" SFX finale by Screaming Mad George, a wholly original 30 minutes of celluloid unmatched before or since.
I do love the smell of the shunt!
