54. Silent Scream (1980)
Silent Scream is a 1980 slasher flick. Several college students in desperate need of a place to live off-campus wind up renting rooms at a large house overlooking the ocean. The house is inhabited by a mother and son. Everything seems perfect until people start turning up dead.
This is a fairly typical slasher of this era. Unseen killer knocks off horny college students one by one. It's similar to the movies Friday the 13th and Halloween, both of which preceded this one. It's pretty boring honestly. It takes nearly 30 minutes before the first victim is offed. And from there, it's another 25+ until the next one meets their maker. Chaos ensues in the last 15 minutes but by then, it's a bit late to salvage the movie. The music score in this one manages to make some scenes unintentionally hilarious. The dramatic horror-type music begins leading us to believe something terrible is about to happen. Cut to someone taking a bite out of a sandwich. Silly stuff really.
If you're a slasher fan like I am, this might be worth a rental just so you can say you saw one of the many forgotten slashers from this era.
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