Bought this on a visit to Florida this year for $9.99. I can't recall going to see this at the cinema (1984) but I remember its release and seeing it on video soon after.While revisting this again for maybe only the 3rd time in my life, it suddenly sprung to me that this shares a lot of similarity to Michael Bay's "Transformers" series. Not that it has giant robots, but because it seems to completely miss its target audience (under 10's).
There are x2 "Oh shits" (nearly 3), a 9 year old who collects Playboy magazine, and one over the top moment that would freak out any child (the creature under the bed covers was wayyyy OTT to make the point). Which leads me to question, like Transformers, who was this film ultimately made for? Pre-teens, teens? or under 11's?
Its hard to think it fits any of those catagories really well, its a mish-mash of all. Maybe that was the point, something all ages would enjoy certain elements of. Of course back in the 80's it was more of an innocent time of being hightened by parental issues, what a difference a decade or so makes!
Anyway its a pretty enjoyable, fairly non-eventful yarn (when it ends you will be amazed how little components there are to the film) with naive elements (a "likable" trailer park, it looks like the perfect place to live, in reality it would be the worst of the worst). Even more naive are a group of people crowded around one person playing a videogame going for the high-score and getting excited, it would never of happened then, never mind now! **
The Blu-Ray version is very good though, especially the sound. I may even say that the main title sequence is a great demo sequence for high resolution audio. The timbre of the music really shines and is outstanding.
** with the exception of this exceptional clip!
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