Wacko

Come in from the pumpkin patch for HELL-OWEEN MONTH at Mondo Mondays, featuring a gnarly trick-or-treat bag chock full of Halloween-themed B-movies that’ll really make your holiday a scream!

“At last! A motion picture made by, for, and about people … just like you!” Thirteen years ago, at the Halloween Pumpkin Prom, the infamous Lawnmower Killer (decked out in a pumpkin head and carrot nose) went on a brutal rampage, murdering several high school students (with a lawnmower, natch), including Mary Graves’ older sister, traumatizing her for life. Now, 13 years later, after the unexpected escape of a prisoner from the state mental hospital, who may or may not be the killer, it’s up to hard-nosed gumshoe Dick Harbinger to solve the case before the Lawnmower Killer seeks out a new slew of victims at this year’s upcoming Halloween Pumpkin Prom at Alfred Hitchcock High School, that is if anyone is able to survive the hilarious horror hijinks leading up to it! A raucous Airplane!-style parody of horror films and teen sex comedies, predating the Scary Movie franchise by nearly two decades, director Greydon Clark’s (Joysticks) Wacko throws every dumb gag imaginable at the wall and assembles a mind blowing ensemble cast including Joe Don Baker (Walking Tall), Stella Stevens (The Poseidon Adventure), George Kennedy (The Naked Gun), Charles Napier (The Blues Brothers), Julia Duffy (Newhart), E. G. Daily (Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure), and, in his first feature film role, Andrew Dice Clay as high school heartthrob Tony Schlongini!  (Dir. by Greydon Clark, 1982, USA, 87 mins., Rated R)