Wacko tries to do for the slasher genre what Airplane! did for the disaster movie, but it is nowhere near as clever or as inventive as the Zucker/Abrahams hit comedy. The pathetic plot sees the return of the Lawnmower Killer, who, thirteen years after his last murders, reappears to continue his reign of terror, targeting the teens celebrating the school's annual Halloween Pumpkin Prom.
If you thought that Scary Movie 5 was about as bad as a horror parody could get, you're probably right, but Wacko, from director Greydon Clark (Without Warning, Satan's Cheerleaders), is not far behind, with plenty of laugh-free moments so ill-conceived that it's hard not to feel embarrassed for all involved.
Take George Kennedy, for example: a once great actor reduced to playing a slap-dash surgeon who likes to spy on his own daughters in a state of undress. There's nowt quite so funny as incest, eh? Then there's Stella Stevens, sex symbol days well and truly over, left to languish in z-grade garbage like this - poor Miss Purty! And what about Joe Don Baker? Past his prime, out of shape, and clearly in need of a good agent, I doubt very much if he was Walking Tall after Wacko -- cowering in shame, more like. Meanwhile, stand-up comedian Andrew Dice Clay makes his big-screen debut as a Travolta-style stud called Tony Schlongini; we've all got to start somewhere I suppose.
1.5/10 for obligatory eye-candy Elizabeth Daily (looking good in a sexy Cleopatra costume) and Michele Tobin, but not rounded up to 2 because it really is that bad.
If you thought that Scary Movie 5 was about as bad as a horror parody could get, you're probably right, but Wacko, from director Greydon Clark (Without Warning, Satan's Cheerleaders), is not far behind, with plenty of laugh-free moments so ill-conceived that it's hard not to feel embarrassed for all involved.
Take George Kennedy, for example: a once great actor reduced to playing a slap-dash surgeon who likes to spy on his own daughters in a state of undress. There's nowt quite so funny as incest, eh? Then there's Stella Stevens, sex symbol days well and truly over, left to languish in z-grade garbage like this - poor Miss Purty! And what about Joe Don Baker? Past his prime, out of shape, and clearly in need of a good agent, I doubt very much if he was Walking Tall after Wacko -- cowering in shame, more like. Meanwhile, stand-up comedian Andrew Dice Clay makes his big-screen debut as a Travolta-style stud called Tony Schlongini; we've all got to start somewhere I suppose.
1.5/10 for obligatory eye-candy Elizabeth Daily (looking good in a sexy Cleopatra costume) and Michele Tobin, but not rounded up to 2 because it really is that bad.