Echo Bridge
1990 Color
92 Mins.
Horror/Comedy
Sean Astin, Clu Gulager, Joshua Miller, Tracy Gold, Kirk Cameron, Suzanne Goddard and James Karen star.
Written and Directed by Brian Peck
Rated PG-13 for language, violence and gore.
Very few people have seen this neat little kiddie horror flick that I grew up on. Released straight to video in December of 1990 the film centers on two brothers and their cousin trying to scare each other while on a camping trip. Their creepy little tales of the macabre are visualized in appropriately campy and fun ways. But what makes this little film stand the test of time is that although the stories center around kids the executions although light are not kiddie like. There's a fare amount of gore and some impressive but goofy practical effects and the culminations of the stories are haunting and kinda scary. The Willies is by no means a perfect film or even a classic but it does hold up pretty well. It's clever and fun and brings you back to a time when the genre was creative and silly. The film is loaded with a bunch of clever cameos most notably from Kirk Cameron before he was a douche and Tracy Gold on their famous TV show. Return of the Living Dead veterans Gulager and Karen show up as well. And with the recent success of the super censored Goosebumps film it's a reminder of how great kid horror flicks used to be. ***.5/5
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