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Somewhere in New Jersey, a killer lawnmower stalks a small town's golf course.Somewhere in New Jersey, a killer lawnmower stalks a small town's golf course.Somewhere in New Jersey, a killer lawnmower stalks a small town's golf course.
Jon McBride
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- TriviaThe shot where the camera quickly zooms in on the couple was actually done in reverse. A camera was attached to a truck and driven in reverse, starting from the couple until they can't be seen anymore.
- GoofsWhen the couple are lying on the ground kissing in the opening, they both turn their heads to look (her to her right and him to his left) when they hear the lawnmower. But when the scene cuts to the POV of the mower heading towards them, they're looking in the opposite direction.
- Crazy creditsAfter the closing credits there is a scene in which a hedge trimmer starts up on its own. And then the words: HEDGES Just when you thought it was safe to trim.
- Alternate versionsThe German video version (rated 'Not under 16') released in 1989 by UFA Video omits 7 seconds of violence.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Tromeo and Juliet (1996)
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Idiotic 'Jaws' ripoff
My review was written in June 1990 after watching the film on Media Home Entertainment video cassette.
"Blades" is one of the dumbest horror films yet. This untenable "Jaws" ripoff received token distribution by Troma last year and currently is on video store shelves.
Filmmakers John Finegan and Thoma Rondinella have concocted the least likely (and most ridiculous) variation on the Peter Benchley horror formula: a monster in the form of a large, runaway lawnmower chewing up victims on a golf course.
Slavish send-up is never funny, despite repeated references to the Zanuck-Brown/Steven Spielberg original, including its music, a teaser opening with teens, a coverup to protect an upcoming tournament and two leads uniting with an older expert to hunt down the monster.\ Flat acting (particularly by lead Robert North) doesn't help this straight-faced farrago. Like most Troma releases, this pickup (lensed three years ago in Pittsburgh) is intended to simultaneously insult and amuse. Nadir comes when seasoned expert Jeremy Whelan (in the Robert Shaw roel form "Jaws") spins the senseless, illogical tale of the lawnmower's genesis.
Credits included plenty of middle initials to puff up filmmakers, even pointlessly crediting one acting role to fictitious Alan Smitheee. Promise of sequel "Hedgers" about crazed hedge trimmers is par for the course.
"Blades" is one of the dumbest horror films yet. This untenable "Jaws" ripoff received token distribution by Troma last year and currently is on video store shelves.
Filmmakers John Finegan and Thoma Rondinella have concocted the least likely (and most ridiculous) variation on the Peter Benchley horror formula: a monster in the form of a large, runaway lawnmower chewing up victims on a golf course.
Slavish send-up is never funny, despite repeated references to the Zanuck-Brown/Steven Spielberg original, including its music, a teaser opening with teens, a coverup to protect an upcoming tournament and two leads uniting with an older expert to hunt down the monster.\ Flat acting (particularly by lead Robert North) doesn't help this straight-faced farrago. Like most Troma releases, this pickup (lensed three years ago in Pittsburgh) is intended to simultaneously insult and amuse. Nadir comes when seasoned expert Jeremy Whelan (in the Robert Shaw roel form "Jaws") spins the senseless, illogical tale of the lawnmower's genesis.
Credits included plenty of middle initials to puff up filmmakers, even pointlessly crediting one acting role to fictitious Alan Smitheee. Promise of sequel "Hedgers" about crazed hedge trimmers is par for the course.
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