I knew when I watched this that it was going to be a low budget slasher film but this one was so predictable that the only surprise was that their is no ending! Film crew is making a rock video on a studio lot at night by the house where "Psycho" was filmed. Priscilla Barnes plays the bands agent and Charles Fleischer is the gay director. And of course there is a bunch of very large breasted chicks that get naked at various times during the film. Some of the women are Playboy models. During the course of the night a psycho wearing an Elvis mask starts knocking off everyone. Corey Haim plays one of the band members and he's continuing his great(!) career. Fleischer is actually not to bad. The guys been around for quite some time and I remember his appearances on "Welcome Back Kotter" in the 70's and he seems to do the best job of acting here. Barnes is a good actress and at the start of the film she did a credible job as the bitchy agent but then............****SPOILER ALERT****...At the end of the film she goes completely over the top. And the reason her character did what she did really makes no sense and is totally contrived. Yeah, I know its poking fun at the slasher film genre but "Scream" does it in a more coherent fashion. Then the film just ends! Ambiguous endings are one thing, but this just comes to a screeching halt! I guess it could be interpreted as a send up for a sequel but it doesn't even do that right. No surprises, lots of jaw dropping big breasts and no ending. If you really want to see this, your on your own!
Review of The Backlot Murders
