September 11, 2000
Screaming for Sanity: Truth or Dare 3
1998, Directed by Tim Ritter (who else?)
Starring: Joel D. Wynkoop as Dr. Dan Hess (again), and some
other people, including a horse-mouthed chick obsessed with Mike
Strauber.
J-Rock's Review:
of 5 skulls
Hmm...what to say about part 3 of the trilogy...it's no
Return of the Jedi if you get my drift.
Screaming for Sanity is better than Wicked
Games, but then that's not saying much. They obviously spent all
their money making the first movie, because after that, they just went
down faster than a Poughkeepsie crackwhore. These two were also quite
obviously shot back-to-back, a common money-saving technique, as seen
with Superman and Superman 2.
This one is about a guy who's been in and out of the same mental
facility where Mike Strauber is incarcerated. He is released from the
facility, and then goes on a killing spree, hacking up anyone who is
trying to exploit Mike Strauber or his story to make money, including
a serial-killer memorabilia salesman and Strauber's attorney, who wrote
a book about the case.
The killing scenes aren't that great. Some are downright dumb. The
best one I can think of is...ok, I can't think of any. Even the best
one from the second or third movie doesn't come close to the worst scene
from the original. Even the climactic final scene in the bottled water
warehouse (?) looks more like a WWF hardcore match than something from a
horror movie.
Anyway, this movie isn't horrible, and can in fact be quite enjoyable
if you snort several lines of coke before viewing it.
