Midnight Movie Massacre

USA • 1988 • 85m •

• Directed by: Laurence Jacobs, Mark Stock. • Starring: Robert Clarke, Ann Robinson, David Staffer, Tom Hutsler, Margi Robbins, Mary Stevens, Duke Howze, Andrew Goodman, Lori Davis, Tamara Sue Hill, Susan Murphy, Brad Bittiker, Stuart Allen. • Music by: Bill R. Crain.

This story, set in the 1950s, revolves around a group of spectators at a midnight movie in Burbank, California. Suddenly, a flying saucer lands out back and a tuna-scented, multi-tentacled monster proceeds to eat members of the audience one by one.

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In this film you get two films for the price of one - neither of them particularly good. The film-within-a-film, "Space Patrol", is a mildly amusing (if not particularly well thought out) parody of vintage sci-fi serials. That in itself would be reason enough to avoid this trainwreck, but that's not the worst of it.

The wrap around film, "Midnight Movie Massacre", is a collection of ancient gags that would bore a fan of Mad Magazine. Imagine the lowest common denominator for film comedy, then take that down a notch or two, and you've got the level of humor in this putrid little pic. Everyone associated with this part of the movie, up to and including the clapper loader and craft service people, should be beaten unconscious with crowbars and never ever allowed to be within the vicinity of a movie set ever again.

Review by alansmithee04 from the Internet Movie Database.

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