HOMOEROTIC HUMPDAY: HIDE AND GO SHREIK

HIDE AND GO SHRIEK
New Star
1988 Color
90 Mins.
Horror/Thriller
Bonnie Williams, Randy Flint, Kim Downs, George Thomas , Sean Kanan and Scott Fults star.
Written by Michael Kelly
Directed by Skip Schoolnik
Rated R for language, violence, gore, sexuality and nudity.

From the opening moments of Hide and Go Shriek you can tell that the proceedings are going to have a queer edge to them. As a mysterious man puts on lipstick and mascara to ominous foreboding music before dressing in a trench coat, picking up a prostitute and murdering her. After that we are introduced to a group of one dimensional friends as they talk about sex and graduating. Eventually they make their way to Johns Fathers furniture store to sneak in an all nighter to celebrate graduation. To their dismay our target madman seems to have made his way in and is looking to dispatch them in increasingly grisly ways one by one. Now what makes this one such an undeniable gem for homoerotic humpday really lies in the films unexpected finale. But there are still moments scattered throughout to make it worthwhile. Most of the guys on display are way more attractive than the girls. They also wear much tighter clothes. And when you first meet the group there seems to be a secret unrequited love between two of the boys as they wrestle themselves out of the car. 

And as for that finale which I simply won't ruin but I will say that it's definitely worth the wait. The villain is unintentionally funny and couldn't be less intimidating. Most impressive is the root of the film's plotting which is intriguing and maybe slightly offensive by todays standards. The stand out bad performance of the film goes to the young lady with the extraordinary large mane of tassled hair. Her sassy attitude and constant over acting needs to be seen to be believed. 

None of them of course are believable as high school seniors on the cusp of their graduate in true 80's horror movie fashion. But like every homoerotic humpday movie there are quite a collection of hunky hotties on display. George Thomas and Sean Kanan are especially impressive and still working those smoldering good looks into their 50s.
***.5/5