Waxwork (1988)

"Can't a girl get laid around here without being burned at the stake?"

The beauty of simplicity lies at the heart of many a classic 80's horror film. Take a group of teenagers to an isolated location, pit them against some form of evil; sit back and watch the carnage. There is a lot to be said for an un-convoluted setting up of characters and story, and then throwing you into the madness for the remainder of the 85 minute running time. The Evil Dead, The Funhouse, Night of the Demons and a never ending list of slasher films follow this very basic formula. And you know what? It works, for the most part. The ones that failed badly were the ones that lacked the imagination to find an interesting location or bad guy. The trouble was, by the end of the 80's, they were running out of unused locations, national holidays and masked killers.

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