[Killer Pad]
Plot:Three white guys from the Midwest enamored by popular culture, visit Hollywood. While there, they are tricked into purchasing a home in the Hollywood Hills which is also a portal to hell.

Cast:Lin Shaye, Shane McRae, Eric Jungman, Daniel Franzese.

My Thoughts:Yawn.

Review:I am really not sure how many times this formula has been tried. What formula am I talking about? The stoner comedy/horror formula. Where the A-typical stoner comedy about three guys who wanna party and get laid, crosses genres with the A-typical horror film which contains the same old gags, villains, and tired premise. "Killer Pad", Robert Englund's return to the directors chair is just that sort of movie. And that's the reason why it sucks so badly. The film follows three young guys who are looking to leave their parents house, so they pool their cash and move to a large, hip pad in California.

They get sold the place by a creepy Chinese woman who may or may not be evil. Of course the problem is, when she stamps their contract with a stamper that leaves behind a "SOLD" imprint in blood on it, it kind of defeats the purpose of even bothering to set up the surprise that comes later. Upon arriving at their new place, the three are warned via espanol by a Mexican that the devil roams the grounds of their new pad. Of course this language barrier sets up a really cheap gag which becomes a running gag throughout the movie where the boys can't understand the Mexican kid, and therefore do not receive his warnings.

Any film that plays on the "no espanol" joke is headed directly for the toilet. You know your writer sucks when he has to resort to that sort of humor to create a horror/comedy. I mean how many times has the language barrier joke been used in movies....1 trillion? Add to that, the fact that this Mexican kid dies like 12 times through the film but somehow keeps coming back, and there isn't even an explanation for how this is possible. The three morons go to the house anyway, and things go good for awhile, that is until the portal to hell in their basement starts devouring visitors, and doing other creepy shit like setting up empty beer cans in the form of a pentagram.

All things which these three idiots just don't seem to notice. Being that they have this new killer pad, and want to score with hot girls, they throw a party and invite practically the entire neighborhood. Giving the evil forces in the basement the perfect opportunity to wreak bloody havoc upon anyone and everyone they choose. The fact that no one at this party notices the evil forces in the bsement, despite the fact that the portal to hell is a giant red glowing chasm in the floor, is just one of the many retarded things about this movie.

It really is a film that runs on stupidity, and whereas most comedies have or atleast try t have some sembleance of a plot, or tie events together in a slightly sensible fashion, this film makes no attempt to do that whatsoever. People die and come back without explanation, the cameos by Joey Lawrence and Andy Malonokis are totally weak, and the humor is just so "been done before" and juvenile that you'd have to be a total frat boy in every way, shape, and form to even enjoy it just a tad.

The acting is poor as well, and the deaths aren't even creative...and there aren't many of them to boot. "Killer Pad" just fails on every level to be anything other than one hour and 24 minutes of headache inducing, extremely annoying, crap. This is the worst horror-comedy I've seen in quite awhile.

Positives:When the end credits rolled.

Negatives:Tired jokes, tired plot, bad acting, small amount of deaths, uncreative deaths, and an overall lack of entertainment value.

Overall:Horror at it's worst.





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