Review of Unhinged

Unhinged (1982)
4/10
The forest may be pretty, but stay out of it!
26 June 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Schlocky fun all the way, this cheap slasher film may be poorly acted, cliched and overwrought with silly dialog, but it's a bloody good way to waste 90 minutes. Poor weather strands three young women in the country with a demented old lady who hates all men and her aging spinster daughter (who looks like a young Margaret Hamilton) taking them in, one badly injured and a car that has broken down. The plain Jane daughter actually seems desperate for a man, and her mother admonishes her every chance she gets. The old woman resembles Bette Davis in looks but has a softer voice, closer to Olivia de Havilland, and is delightfully campy, her line delivery the stuff that unintentional laughs were created for. The murders are pretty gruesome, using a reaper as the main weapon. I wouldn't call this a good horror film, but it's deliciously hideous and thus highly recommended for those who can stomach strong gore.
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