Sweet Sixteen is now available on Blu-ray courtesy of Code Red and their new anamorphic widescreen transfer of the original 35mm negative. Another person is dead? So what! Just blow out the friggin’ candles already! Sooooooo sllllllloooooooooooIt’s got engaging characters in it and the actors do what they can with its controversial themes but, unfortunately, there’s very little that can step in and save this horror title until its final few moments. From birthday parties to “shocking” revelations, the heavy use of the effect grinds things to a halt. My God does it ever kill ANY forward momentum. Too bad the slow motion in this flick is used in the way it is, though. Suddenly, the whole town is against them and Jason must break out of his cell in order to suss out the real killer. Outside of Hoskins easygoing performance, the film has going for it a healthy amount of sexual situations and the inclusion of Don Shanks as Jason Longshadow and Henry Wilcoxon as Greyfeather, two Native American characters who find themselves hostages of a fear that grips this small area when it is thought that they might be involved. I mean, if the family discussion between Hoskins and his two kids - Dana Kimmell (best remembered for her performance as Chris Higgins in Friday the 13th Part III as Marci Burke and Steve Antin as Hank Burke – can spur these amateur sleuths onto the path of the real killer, then why even fill this flick with any amount of bedazzle?

But wait! It turns out that you can’t ask them because they are cold, stiff, and mostly dead all over.ĭirected by Jim Sotos ( Forced Entry) and starring Bo Hoskins as Sheriff Dan Burke – who struggles to keep order over the panicked town and his Nancy Drew-like daughter – and Patrick Macnee as Melissa’s proud papa, Sweet Sixteen is a low budget horror thriller that hunts for clues that are far too easy to find.įrom libraries to school, the trail is a pretty obvious one. Just ask the bad boys who agree to meet with her in the shadows of night. The amount of time she spends staring at herself in the mirror and in the shower is a big clue. And she knows that she is drop dead gorgeous. Her name is Melissa Morgan (Aleisa Shirley) and her touch is an unforgettably deadly one. If only something would happen after the initial kill! Okay, so there are a total of three deaths in this slasher. This is wildly promiscuous territory of Sweet Sixteen, a low-key thriller that has its own sappy theme song with music and lame lyrics by Joel Wertman & Mark Wertman.

What a way to get your rocks off, honey! The bad thing for the boys, though, is that they have a nasty habit of disappearing off the face of the earth in a relatively violent manner after a night with Melissa. She also likes making it with boys on sacred Native American burial grounds in the desert. She’s new in town and she’s all sorts of sweet sixteen.

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