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starring: Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Gwynne Gilford, Norman Burton, Linda Kerridgedirected by: Vernon Zimmerman
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304235386
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304235380
Label: American Cinema Releasing
Manufacturer: American Cinema Releasing
Publisher: American Cinema Releasing
Release Date: March 27, 1996
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sales Rank: 69906
Studio: American Cinema Releasing
Theatrical Release Date: October 14, 1980
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
'I'm Jarret. Cody Jarret, understand?!' snarls Dennis Christopher (Breaking Away) in his best James Cagney. OK, he's no Rich Little, but as the movie-mad social misfit Eric Binford he makes a convincing media-saturated Norman Bates, and for a while his geeky fumblings and wounded vulnerability keep the film on track. He is a gofer for a B-movie studio, constantly bullied by his tough-guy coworker Mickey Rourke and his aunt, a bitter wheelchair-bound failed starlet who blames the boy for her misfortunes and never lets him forget it. His sanity already precariously close to the edge, he flares up and becomes Richard Widmark in Kiss of Death, shoving dear auntie down the back stairs and forever losing himself in the characters of his favorite movies. It's the first of many movie-inspired murders, but the gimmick becomes repetitive and the film loses its focus in series of pre-Scream set pieces. Better is Eric's deluded romance with an Aussie Marilyn Monroe look-a-like. It's hard to understand what she sees in this jittery nerd who rattles off meaningless movie trivia like it was the meaning of life, but give Eric credit for wooing her as Laurence Olivier in The Prince and the Showgirl. Tim Thomerson gets to play both tough guy and sensitive social worker as the counselor who utters the immortal line: 'Binford's not to blame, he's a victim of society!' --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Horror Of the Film Geek World
I am an actor who is part of the film geek world and not ashamed of it,I proudly worked on this film. I can recommend it as highly entertaining,with a kernal of truth as to what can happen to some of these film afficianados if they lose their minds
Rating: - Interesting
This is a parody of slasher flicks that is also an intelligent horror movie. It shows how the line between fantasy and reality can become blurred and how that can lead to tragic results. Eric Binford was raised under rather bizarre circumstances by an old hag who is determined to make his life a living hell. He retreats to a movie based fantasy world. Combine this with the boss from Hell and a chance encounter with a Marilyn Monroe look-alike, and you have a perfect set-up for a descent into ... Read More
Rating: - Great movie way Underated..................
Really intresting and good movie, I highly recommend this movie as it is really rare...........
Rating: - a twisted little shocker with a sharp,quick wit made even more creepy because your watching the movie also
this is not the greatest movie,but it is fun (in a twisted way) and makes some sharp points(no pun intended) about the amount of time we spend watching movies and how the line between fantasy and the real world can blurr very quickly.
eric binford loves movies,so much so he stays up all night watchingold movies on t.v.(this was before dvds or cable). eric's parents are gone and he lives with his wheelchair bound aunt,a failed star herself,and she blames eric for her problems. eric also gets ... Read More
Rating: - Never ever meet dead stars.
One more film, you may say, on the cinema as a perverted model for young men. It came out in 1981, at a time when the campaign against violence in films and on TV was going on full blast under the accusation that it was the teacher in violence for a vast array of violent teenagers and young men. The film though is slightly more positive than that and critical of this easy and narrow-minded position. It analyzes one concrete case and is very careful to show how the young man has become a film-addict ... Read More
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