Years after his parents are brutally murdered, their son and his wife decide to move into the house with several friends of theirs where they learn about the family mystery involving a sacred bejeweled Aztec mask and have to keep it safe from forces wanting to use it.
As far as cheesy 80s horror flicks go, this is one of them. There is so much cheese in here that it drips off the screen with a lot of ease, including all of the standard hallmarks of cheese. It has everything from corny acting and dialog, scenes that have no sense being there, cheesy jumps, effects, and atmosphere which are all elements here that feature some of the cheese. The way the film plays out is also prevalent in the cheesy style as things in here make no sense from a logical standpoint but do if they're going for this kind of cheesy atmosphere. The sequence involving the dinosaurs emerging from the second story room is the best one to exemplify this, featuring some goofy effects work alongside the silly creature concepts. That so much of this comes off as much an adventure story as a horror film is pure cheese at its finest which makes it a lot of fun to watch. Since this was such a cheesy film, it became very hard to believe what was going on. It was nice to view a lot of the jokes and crazy situations that made the film a lot more fun to watch, but it ultimately made it pretty hard to swallow. The suspension of disbelief required to accept this story is quite large, and the cheese factor is the main cause. Even though they were nice character development scenes, the scenes of Gramps partying were a pain to watch. They weren't really all that funny or creative, as they were the kind of gags that come to be expected from films with that kind of plot device. We've seen it all before in similar types of movies, and it doesn't offer anything new. There really was no use allowing him to marvel at the wonders of technology, which we knew would happen but are so clichéd that it's hard to take them seriously. These lower the fear of this one to such a degree it's possible not to call this a genre film at all regardless of what takes place here.
Rated PG-13: Violence, Language and giving alcohol to animals.
As far as cheesy 80s horror flicks go, this is one of them. There is so much cheese in here that it drips off the screen with a lot of ease, including all of the standard hallmarks of cheese. It has everything from corny acting and dialog, scenes that have no sense being there, cheesy jumps, effects, and atmosphere which are all elements here that feature some of the cheese. The way the film plays out is also prevalent in the cheesy style as things in here make no sense from a logical standpoint but do if they're going for this kind of cheesy atmosphere. The sequence involving the dinosaurs emerging from the second story room is the best one to exemplify this, featuring some goofy effects work alongside the silly creature concepts. That so much of this comes off as much an adventure story as a horror film is pure cheese at its finest which makes it a lot of fun to watch. Since this was such a cheesy film, it became very hard to believe what was going on. It was nice to view a lot of the jokes and crazy situations that made the film a lot more fun to watch, but it ultimately made it pretty hard to swallow. The suspension of disbelief required to accept this story is quite large, and the cheese factor is the main cause. Even though they were nice character development scenes, the scenes of Gramps partying were a pain to watch. They weren't really all that funny or creative, as they were the kind of gags that come to be expected from films with that kind of plot device. We've seen it all before in similar types of movies, and it doesn't offer anything new. There really was no use allowing him to marvel at the wonders of technology, which we knew would happen but are so clichéd that it's hard to take them seriously. These lower the fear of this one to such a degree it's possible not to call this a genre film at all regardless of what takes place here.
Rated PG-13: Violence, Language and giving alcohol to animals.