Houseboat Horror

1989

Peppie D'Or, Katherine Hill, Christine_Jeston, Sandra Scarlett Wilson film clips

Johnny's comments:

Hey guys, girls, it's party time. Come up here, the view's magnificent, you'll bar up!

It's about time this cult classic terrible movie turned up. Houseboat Horror is a slasher horror movie where a hot young band go to Lake Infinity (actually Lake Eildon) to film their next video clip with a small film crew including the hottest music video director Evans (Alan Dale) and it triggers bad memories for a local who was burned badly the last time a film crew came to town to shoot something. After killing a young couple camping and an overanxious park ranger, he starts on the interlopers as they shoot the video and party at night. Technically the second Australian movie shot of video after the 1986 movie Marauders, the movie gained a cult following based on its absolute shittiness, but on rewatch, I don't think it's the shittiness that stands out. It's actually a fairly boring slasher movie. There's long sequences where not a lot happens and there's very little tension where the murders happen that not only are the deaths not scary, they're also not funny because of their incompetence because one of the few good things in the movie is that the low-fi special effects are actually pretty competent. I'm baffled by it's cult status, it's a terrible movie with a few decent lines from Gavin Wood, a strangely decent casting of well-known Neighbours actor Alan Dale, who gets a fairly decent death scene. It's shittiness is what makes it a cult classic but the movie may be not shit enough to deserve it.

D'Or

Hill

Jeston

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