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Shrieker

(1997)

Okay everyone, I decided that in case your lives weren't complicated enough, I will be referring to the characters of this movie as letter/number combinations as opposed to using their names. See how long you can last before it drives you mad! Well, it starts off with 2 hospital orderlies (HO1 and HO2) checking out a mysterious shriek they hear in an alley. HO1 gets ripped a new asshole by a shadowy, 2 headed figure (1SOB). HO2 goes to investigate, and of course, 1SOB rips him a new... uhm, nose hole... I guess. Next, we get a little narration (no, not castration) as a guy tells us that 1SOB is a dimension hopping creature that serves 5 masters of darkness and it can be controlled if 5 people sacrificed to him bear "the mark of the beast". 50 years later, some college students are squatting (no, not like when you take a shit, I mean like staying somewhere illegally) in the abandoned hospital that 1SOB killed the HOs (stop giggling). There's the Asian "leader" (M1), the closet queer (M2), the hot Commie chick (F1), the freshman babe (F2), the cool guy (M3), and the "mousy" chick (F3). F2 meets some weirdo recluse hiding out in the basement (M4). Soon after, F2 and M4 find some burnt cult equations on the basement floor and M4 just happens to know about this kind of shit. F2 and M3 get "involved", and she finds out about the HO killings from 50 years ago and M2 finds a piece of paper with the beast markings on it and he gets slaughtered by 1SOB! F2 thinks that the symbols are cross sections (cross whats?), not equations and paranoia begins to set in as the kids argue, and M1 gets gun happy. At this point, everyone thinks it's the "outsider" M4, I don't think it's him though, Full Moon movies are low budgeted, but never THAT obvious! M1 "accidentally" shoots M4, the only guy who knows anything about this shit... now I have to believe that M1 is the bad guy. But... he's not. Soon enough, after F1 and M1 (there goes that theory) get their tickets for Satan's subway courtesy of 1SOB, it looks as if F3 was the one all the time... it's always the quiet ones! No, wait... F3 gets slaughtered by 1SOB!? You're probably confused right now, so I'll map it out for you: M4 and F3 were in "cahoots" the whole time, using protection symbols to keep 1SOB off their backs. But, the greedy M4 (M1's gun was full of blanks) put the wrong symbols on F3 and she gets the proverbial "knife in the back"! But, M3 and F2 use their heads for something other than smiling and nodding and stick one of the "mark of the beast" papers on 1SOB and it destroys itself. To wrap it up, M3 shoots M4 for being such a dick head. The End. So, who's gone insane now?

Also Known As: SHRIEK

Sequels: None

If You Liked This Flick, Check Out: RAWHEAD REX or THE TERMINATOR