Our movie starts off with a murder in a car wash by a man wearing a mask and brandishing an axe. How did he slip into the car wash? Is this a random victim? If not, surely there must be a more isolated place he can murder her? We shall never know.
Cut to Gerald who is tagging along with Richard on a job. Richard does pest control and the bar has a terrible stench coming from the basement. Is it rats? Nope, it turns out to be the missing bar maid who has been stuffed in a trap door.
Richard complains constantly about his wife. She’s almost twice his age and she treats him like a kid. Then again, he also admits to marrying her for her money and cheats on her with local women his own age. So no sympathy for Richard since he’s kind of a dick and he’s super creepy when he’s hitting on women. Also what did he think was going to happen when he married an older woman for her money? Did he really think he’d enjoy the marriage?
Gerald meets Lillian at the store her father runs. They bond over their interest in computers and video games. Since Gerald has a new computer, he gives Lillian his old one. This allows them to talk to each other. Based on the time period, it would have been better to talk on the phone since they only type one sentence at a time.
As bodies start to pile up in town, Lillian finds a list of the dead women on Gerald’s computer. When she asks him why he has their names and where they died, he says he likes to keep lists of things. Lillian is placated and reveals to him that she thinks the killer may be her cousin Charlie. When he was ten, there was an accident with a swing and no one will tell her what happened to him. She looked him up on the computer and found he was released from a mental institution two years ago.
The red herrings pile up in this one. It’s not a great movie, but it’s interesting enough if you like 80s horror.
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| A view of the victim while inside the car wash. |
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| How did this guy get into the car wash with an axe and mask? |
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| Gerald and Richard the most unprofessional looking pest control worker. |
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| Nooo, don’t ever walk alone in an abandoned area |
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| Scintillating conversation in the early days of online communication |
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| The cool wall in the church |
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| The most minimal news cast ever |
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| Why, keeping lists of local murder victims is a perfectly ordinary thing to do. |
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