Scary Movie (1991)

Scary Movie: Directed by Daniel Erickson. With John Hawkes, Suzanne Aldrich, Ev Lunning, Mark Voges. A paranoid teenage nerd comes to believe that an escaped lunatic may be hiding in the neighborhood Halloween house of horrors, and slowly starts to descend into madness.

“Nerdy Warren (John Hawkes) is left by his friend to take Barbara into the haunted fun house. People prank on him and everybody including Barbara laughs at him. He overhears a police radio announcing a manhunt for an escaped maniac killer. He tells his friends but nobody believes him. Thereu0026#39;s a spooky fun house, a serial killer on the loose, and itu0026#39;s Halloween. Nothing could go wrong.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhile I like the premise, I never bought the killer. It needs to show someone doing something. Without that, this is just a series of horror rooms with a crazed Warren running away from an unseen boogey man. Hawkes is pretty good and his acting is better than the bad movie production. This idea may work better as a TV episode for Twilight Zone.”