FATAL PULSE
The Van Damme of slasher movies
I say that not because it's bad - which it is - but because the title (like Maximum Risk) is cobbled together from two words which I suppose are supposed to sound pretty cool in the genre the film's in, but don't really have anything to do with anything.
Every woman in this movie takes it off except for the one whose tits we want to see. How's that for disappointing?
This is a pretty stupid and weak, by-the-numbers slasher flick with close to zero surprises. An unseen killer wearing leather gloves (not those thin, girly little Argento gloves, nooo, these are the big thick leather gauntlets you'd use to handle hazardous chemicals and Brittney Spears) is knocking off sorority girls, and...well, that's about it.
Yes, it's a really bad movie, but there's a number of things that I genuinely liked about it. I liked the fact that it actually had somebody getting her throat slashed with a record. It made me wonder just what the bluntest instrument used to slash throats in a movie ever was - perhaps a baseball bat, or the space shuttle.
I liked the relatively novel idea that the slasher's victims actually leave loved ones behind who miss them.
I liked the stoner idiot guy (you can tell he's a stoner because he's always carrying a bong, and you can tell he's an idiot because he's always wearing a backwards baseball cap) who is introduced in every scene with a BOING! sound effect on the soundtrack. When his friend is having the crap beaten out of him by a vigilante mob, he shows up in a superhero costume, proudly proclaims himself "Captain Amazing" (or something like that), and distracts the thugs long enough for his friend to get away. Then he has the crap beaten out of him.
I liked all the nudity, and I liked the box art, which featured one and a half eyeballs where eyeballs have no business being. (but what's with loudly proclaiming that it's a FULL-LENGTH FEATURE FILM twice on the box? Like we thought we were renting a workout video.)
But yes, despite all this, this movie is indeed crap to be avoided, perhaps voided. Watch if as stoned as "boing" guy or not at all.