...aka: Creepers...aka: Creeps
Directed by:
Ed Hunt
What a fun 80s horror! In Meadowvale, California three babies are born simultaneously during a solar eclipse. Years later, the kids (Billy Jacoby, Elizabeth Hoy and Andy Freeman) turn ten and go on a violent killing spree, offing horny teens, schoolteachers, cops and others. It's a pretty sick/tasteless combo of THE BAD SEED, VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED and FRIDAY THE 13TH, and kind of jarring to see these calculating kiddies shooting, stabbing and strangling their victims (making some look like accidents), stalking people with guns, spying on people having sex, pretending to put poison in birthday cake, keeping a scrapbook with obituary clippings and doing all kinds of other horrible things! Name-value stars Susan Strasberg as a stern teacher and Jose Ferrer as a doctor get top billing for bit roles; the real star is Lori Lethin (also in THE PREY and RETURN TO HORROR HIGH) as the astrology obsessed teen who catches on. I don't know where they found the kid actors at, but they're all good. You may also want to catch this for comedienne Julie Brown's topless dance scene. According to some reference books it wasn't released until 1986, but that's wrong. It was filmed in 1980 and released the following year.
★★1/2
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