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This movie surprised me. The box is misleading, the tagline is misleading and the costumes and tone of the film are misleading. The movie is quite gory, well-acted and beautifully shot. The special-effects are top-notch and seem to be ahead of their time, until you realize this movie came out in 1979, not in 1963 like it's tone would suggest. It is a unique take on the Dr. Moreau story, and one of the better versions filmed. The first fifteen minutes are the highlight and the most shocking, but the film doesn't ever really fall apart. Definitely worth-seeing if you are a fan of dramatic costume/horror classics and gore-fests.

An absolute stunner. Spinell hand-crafted this first-person account of a berserk damage-case prowling for women to abuse. No one chases him, he is never in any danger of being caught, thus leaving him trapped in his dementia but confident that he will complete his mission. Unbelievably gory and artfully disturbing with some obvious low-budget drawbacks, but it plays much more serious and believable than it may have possibly intended to be. Spinell never got the mainstream attention he deserved, though he broke into a number of big pictures (Rocky, Taxi Driver, Godfather II), he was possibly too much of a distracting force on camera. He puts his all into this personal project that he created the story for and gave himself one of his few starring roles in. Spinell rages and quivers straight through this one, so sweaty that you swear you can smell him as victim after victim are BRUTALLY murdered in continuously original ways. Uncomfortably bizarre and bloody, you've never seen an 80's slasher quite like it. Scores have tried to imitate it, ripping it off easily as few have seen or heard of this one. Tom Savini's astonishing make-up FX are more startling when they scream up at you out of a no-budget acid-trip like this , and his cameo is absolutely unforgettable. A small blood-soaked masterpiece of psychosis, murder and sexual exploitation.

An absolute classic of 80's scare flix. This one isn't like any other as it pits pint-size, wild-eyed, psychotic youngsters with an urge to kill against all the grown-ups in town. Bud from JUST ONE OF THE GUYS (80's gold again) plays one of the killer-kids and he's paired up with one of the little girls Jake Blues tries to purchase in the BLUES BROTHERS. There is a third blond boy, but he keeps disappearing from the movie for whatever reason. The violence is hilarious at times and also surprisingly gruesome in spots. The demonic gang of smiling kids, though somehow possessed by extra-planetary means, bear little resemblance to the droid-ish Children of the Damned, who never thought to use pistols, crossbows and shovels to kill those pesky adults. Julie Brown (not Downtown Julie Brown-the other one) shows her rack, like three times, as she dances around in her bedroom. This movie is a rarity that I cannot believe I missed growing up in the 80's. This would have been my absolute favorite movie as a kid if I had seen it. Where is the sequel the ending begs for? This movie is just incredible. Seek it out at all costs.