Eighties Horror Retrospective #1
Boardinghouse (1982)
(7/10):Quoted as being the first shot on video movie ever made, Boardinghouse is a surreal slasher comedy that it's closest comparable experience is like dropping acid after you've already eaten mushrooms.
By no means a good movie it has had a strange allure to it that has to do with its incomprehensible nature that consists of shotty editing, poorly written dialogue, a ominous synthesizer score, often unfocused camera angles, a plot that is nearly impossible to follow and constant use of lights and I believe filtered imagery that is hard to explain.
It's often said to be comparable to a cross between The Amityville Horror and a Playboy Playmates Video, which is not too far off the money but still there's something missing from that description as it really downplays exactly everything that you will experience from watching Boardinghouse.
The Killer is unlike any other killer I've seen in a slasher, he's a literal special effect that messes with their minds causing them to hallucinate.
It's impossible for me to describe it and do it justice but I say give it a watch, it might be bad but it's far from boring.
Boardinghouse (1982)
(7/10):Quoted as being the first shot on video movie ever made, Boardinghouse is a surreal slasher comedy that it's closest comparable experience is like dropping acid after you've already eaten mushrooms.
By no means a good movie it has had a strange allure to it that has to do with its incomprehensible nature that consists of shotty editing, poorly written dialogue, a ominous synthesizer score, often unfocused camera angles, a plot that is nearly impossible to follow and constant use of lights and I believe filtered imagery that is hard to explain.
It's often said to be comparable to a cross between The Amityville Horror and a Playboy Playmates Video, which is not too far off the money but still there's something missing from that description as it really downplays exactly everything that you will experience from watching Boardinghouse.
The Killer is unlike any other killer I've seen in a slasher, he's a literal special effect that messes with their minds causing them to hallucinate.
It's impossible for me to describe it and do it justice but I say give it a watch, it might be bad but it's far from boring.