Class Reunion Massacre

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Gochis </B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.....William Vernick</B></div> <div> <B>Music...............Phillip Gallo & Clem Vicari</B></div> <div> <B>Producer........Sheldon Tromberg</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Stephen Trattner</B></div> <div> <B>Make-up by Christine Intagliata & Mary Robinson          </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Cindy..........Jeanetta Arnette</B></div> <div> <B>Terry..........Nick Carter</B></div> <div> <B>Jane...........Nikki Barthen</B></div> <div> <B>Roger..........Michael Hollingsworth</B></div> <div> <B>Kirsten........Gyr Patterson</B></div> <div> <B>The Redeemer...T.G. Finkbinder</B></div> <div> <B>Christopher....Christopher Flint</B></div> <div> <B>Janitor........Eric Kjoenes</B></div> <div> <B>Bible Salesman.Larry Mooney</B></div> <div> <B>Choir..........First Baptist Church</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: It doesn't matter if you've memorized both the bible and Shakespeare, you won't get everything that's going on here. That shouldn't stop you theologians and Shakespeare scholars from trying. It's interesting enough. What's with the appearance and disappearance of the priest's thumbs? Is this symbolic of the "second thumbing"? The Redeemer's sermon serves as an allegory for the very real fight against sin carried out as the body of the movie which gets as many points for literacy as it loses for coherence. If this had been filmed in black and white, it would be a cult classic among the cowards who rave about works they cannot understand. Time to get an editor though. With a few more hints and a bit more organization, this could have been an esthetically pleasing slasher. As it is, it's too frustrating to be fun. For sure, the Christopher figure is intriguing as a god who returns to judge the sinners, but he only gets six of them and all truly minor league sinners from the same high school class? Help!</B></div> <div> <B>How did the killer know to pick such perfect deaths for each victim.</B></div> <div> <B>Does the redeemer do this to every high school class?</B></div> <div> <B>St. Christopher/Giant/Water guy /servant of Christ</B></div> <div> <B>"and return to the watery depths of h?"</B></div> <div> <B>Christians may or may not like the idea that the "Redeemer" helps a priest kill sinners.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>:</B></div> <div> <B>"From out of the Darkness the hand of the redeemer shall appear to punish those who have lived in sin..."  A boy in very 70's clothes rises from a desert pool and appears in the bedroom of a man who grows a third thumb as he sleeps. He next appears at a dessert roadside where he boards a bus. An inspector from Apex Fire and Casual Insurance with a heavy drawl and wingtip shoes arrives at a high school with barred windows for an inspection. While the janitor shows him around, he shoots the janitor into the pool, then lays the janitor on a science room table. As the school bell rings, the strange pond boy disembarks from the bus, takes note of the Insurance/bible salesman's van, and puts on his robe for school with the other boys. Meanwhile, the salesman dons surgeon's gloves, rubs Vaseline on the janitor's forehead, and makes himself a perfect rubber janitor mask. He pulls out an academy yearbook and fingers through it, cutting out six pictures with a knife. Pond boy is threatened with a switchblade when he doesn't laugh at the alpha male's joke, but he escapes when it's time for the boys to sing choir practice and listen to a threatening sermon, which is a parallel narration of the sins of the yearbook sextet. Mr. Pitts tells the secretary that Mr. Sinclair is going to hear from him personally. Creepy, self absorbed Lawyer John Sinclair is going to his school reunion. Lauren Lerou (Cindy) is a dancer at "Buddy's Elbow Room" as well as little Richie's irresponsible mom and Drive in waitress. Scummy car guy and high school boyfriend Terry accompanies her to the reunion. Live pigeon shooting millionaire Jane and anus husband Phillip, narcissistic gay movie star Roger, an awful prima donna, and closeted lesbian Kirsten all head off for the not so big class reunion to complete the guest list. So, the thoroughly appalling class of 1967 rolls in and is greeted by the fake janitor, who leaves them to their party. They find the cafeteria decorated and catered, with music playing but no other guests. Jane and Sinclair make out and try to call other classmates when the phone suddenly goes dead. When Cindy goes to ask a neighbor what's going on, she finds the doors chained. She finds the dead janitor already covered with maggots and the group deduces that he's been dead for a while and that their janitor is a ringer. As they pound at the cages on the windows a grim reaper figure complete with skull mask and scythe laughs at them from outside. Lawyer Sinclair and car guy Terry check out the AV room to find the source of the music. Armed with a crowbar, they find only a dummy, but the dummy has a fiery surprise for Terry. The five survivors try to remember why someone would want revenge on them. They decide a smoky fire will bring help and (wisely) separate to search for flammable materials. Rich Jane discovers an open door and flees alone through the woods where she stumbles upon a duck hunter's tent. As she surveys the camp, the hunter with a wig and fake mustache returns and prattles on about hunting and Shakespeare's love sonnets before blasting her with a shotgun. When the others discover her body back inside the school, they regret having separated and work on their smoky fire. In the auditorium, their tormenter appears on the stage in a cemetery setting with a dagger wielding life-sized harlequin marionette which, as actor Roger arrives, releases another dagger through Roger's platinum blonde head. Sinclair gives chase and discovers the murderer's office and the cut up yearbook while Kirsten and Cindy wash up and exit the girls room. When painted woman Cindy returns to retrieve her bracelets, she is locked in with the killer, now made up like a clown. Clown man washes off her makeup in the shower and sink until she drowns. The killer confronts Law office Sinclair in the office with a gun and Sinclair demands to know why. For sins against people, Sinclair's being avarice. Sinclair wrestles the killer for the gun as Kirsten rushes to help and prevails briefly before his head is blasted through. Only Kirsten remains to face the killer, her sexual orientation and the harlequin.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>  "Guilt a hard edged thing, it rips one like a carrion's beak, examine your soul, it's to blame for the bodies ways"</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Back at the academy, the preacher receives praise for his rousing sermon and wishes the churchgoers goodbye before retiring to lead pondboy off. Christopher tells him everything's going to be all right now and the priest heads inside, where he defrocks himself exposing bandaged wounds and a second thumb.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>