Fatal Pulse

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<B>1988/Color/90 Min./Celebrity Home Entertainment & Great Entertainment Group/Not Rated </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.............Anthony J. Christopher</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......James Hundhausen</B></div> <div> <B>Music................Martin Mayo</B></div> <div> <B>Producer...........Anthony J. Christopher</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer......J. Richard Charbit</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Lisa.......Michelle McCormick</B></div> <div> <B>Jeff.......Ken Roberts (The Great Land of Small)</B></div> <div> <B>Ernie......Joe Phelan (South of Reno)</B></div> <div> <B>Prof.......Alex Courtney (Enter the Ninja)</B></div> <div> <B>Stephanie..Kitty </B></div> <div> <B>Cassie.....Cindra Hodgdon</B></div> <div> <B>Carol......Maureen O'Hanlon</B></div> <div> <B>Brad.......Steven Henry</B></div> <div> <B>Mark.......Blair Karsch</B></div> <div> <B>Ann........Roxane Kernohan</B></div> <div> <B>Karen......Christie Mucciante</B></div> <div> <B>Sheila.....Sky Nicholas</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Why does Mark have a "Peter and the Wolf" leitmotif silly sound that accompanies his entrances? Your jaw will drop when when you hear the boink. Cut out all eight minutes or so of dreadfully inconsistent "comic-relief" "Mark" and this "movie" could pick up a skull or two. One would have thought the elements were there for a serviceable movie. Unfortunately, this didn't happen. The victims in this movie are so faceless and uniform that the only way to distinguish them is by the size and shape of their bare breasts as they prepared to be murdered. The music is a bit abrasive as is, but there are interminable music video moments in this film but they aren't really that much worse than the rest of the movie. The pace problems are severe. The lighting is just oppressive.  </B></div> <div> <B>   </B></div> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: When Jeff tells Stephanie that he must go to the party rather than to stay for what she all too clearly has in mind, she is not pleased. And calls out a few choice epithets at his retreat. However, another fellow is skulking outside. When she opens to his knock he grabs at her. She is pursued up the stairs and strangled. The professor shows up to discuss the stochastic questions on the test. He seems reluctant to discuss his what happened to his wife. Just when Wayne shows up to say that he's interested in getting back together with Jenny, Brad shows up and is belligerent. He tells them that Stephanie was murdered. Jeff then shows up and when he sees its true and runs away making the police suspicious. The girls in the sorority try to go about their business, but someone is still peering in their windows. One of the girls wants to process it but the others seem close lipped. Jeff comes by and Lisa is disappointed in his going to Stephanie. A man is sitting on the stoop having a Vietnam flashback. Carol is next as gloved hands enter her room. Her throat is cut with a record.  At this point Jeff insists that Lisa move in with him. Ernie is shuffling around in the dark and Jeff asks him about the girls that have been murdered. He says he inherited the building and he isn't responsible for anything that happens there. "Why the long face?" The girls engage in some inane grousing about problems with their parents. What about the murders? Jeff and hung over Mark go to investigate the murder site. Meanwhile, Ernie is working in the apartment of one of the girls. She comes out with a towel on offering that if he needs anything he need only ask. One of the girls is Marated by the anti-sororitist. Jeff goes and sees the professor who seems a bit melancholic. Lisa sees Ernie in the dark and tells him it's hot in her room and that she has to take off almost all her clothes to work in there. Ernie comes in looking a bit slimy. The jogger girl is pulled into a place, has her clothes cut off her and is electrocuted. Brad comes by and says that Jeff had an argument with Stephanie was killed. The professional track girl has someone watching her through the window. A skate boarder is followed to her home and thrown out a window. Karen is plastered.  By now a lynch mob led by Brad who feels that Jeff took Lisa away from her. Brad shows up smoking a cigar. A brief struggle ensues and the surprisingly fragile Brad falls backward unconscious. Jeff finds evidence that the murderer is terminally ill, and using hallucinogens to put the disease in remission. Jeff theorizes that in that state, he no doubt commits the anti-sororital activities. Unfortunately, the mob is still out after Jeff.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>