You Won’t Stop Screaming is one of the most half-assed horror compilations I’ve ever seen. Most of the time with these things, there’s a little bit of narration, text, or even a host to help you make sense of what is going on, or at least let you know what movies the clips are taken from. This one offers you none of that as all the clips are strung together with no rhyme or reason.
There are snippets from House by the Cemetery, Eaten Alive, The Alien Dead, Cathy’s Curse, The Hills Have Eyes, Simon, King of the Witches, Hatchet for the Honeymoon, The Final Terror, Picture Mommy Dead, The Alchemist, and Lucifer. While there are a handful of classics in that line-up, most of the films featured don’t have enough highlights to even warrant showing. House by the Cemetery and Eaten Alive are featured the most, with the entire climax of the former being shown at the very end.
Terror in the Aisles it is not.
As a die-hard fan of horror compilations, even I have to admit this one pretty much sucks. It really needed some kind of framing device to make it all work. Either that, or the clips should've followed some sort of theme. Because it’s all been thrown together so haphazardly, it just feels like you’re watching a bunch of movies thrown in a blender.
Many of the movies featured are quite suspenseful, but you’d never know it while watching this. Stripped of their proper context, they are way less effective when shown in this manner. What’s worse is that most of the time, they don’t even use the best parts of the film. The solarized still images from the old Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors video and clips that play over top a haunted house while distorted “scary” sounds drone continuously on the soundtrack are annoying too.
You Won’t Stop Screaming? You won’t even start! Heck, you’ll probably start snoozing before the halfway mark.
I kinda liked how this played. It reminded me of the homemade comps I used to put together. Though it would've been nice to at least label the films. A few of them, like "Lucifer", I'd never seen and it was a bitch trying to find out what they were when I was making its imdb page.
ReplyDeleteHave you seen "Reel Horror" (1985)? It's the worst comp I know of. It has a framing device...I guess. There are actors anyway. Not sure if there was a cohesive theme as far as what they were doing. It all looked cheap as hell. I don't even remember the films featured. A sequel called "Reel Monsters" was threatened in the end credits but thankfully we were spared.
I've not seen that one, but I'm a sucker for a horror comp, even the bad ones.
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