Debbie Rochon is a defrocked
nurse with a red scarf and a breathy voice who likes to do
imaginative autopsies, in this indie from Fort Worth movie buff
Jon Keeyes. Rochon is the most convincing maniac psycho knife-
through-the-gizzards killer in history, decimating the cast with
over-the-top erotic style. Apparently loosely based on the
infamous San Antonio serial-killer nurse, she uses a late-night
pirate-radio deejay to get her "I'm Killing All Your Friends"
message out to the Halloween-night party crowd, and when that
doesn't work, she uses her laptop to hot-chat the soon-to-be-dead
young people. Add to this that ubiquitous horror device, the cell
phone, and she's really the first Multi-media Serial Killer. This
is one sick party girl. The story runs into a little trouble
about two-thirds of the way through, when the lame love-interest
couple repeatedly do incredibly stupid things--like letting the
killer walk away, not calling the police, and going wherever she
tells them. They could have at least had the obligatory stupid
cop who says, "Aw, you kids, it's just a bunch of trick-or-
treaters!" Instead they set up one killer-confrontation scene
after another, leaving us to savor the style of the psycho while
not quite buying the motivations of the people destined to live
on as the credits roll. A fine debut by a very promising
director. Four breasts. Eight dead bodies. One burial alive.
Corpse-beating. Grave-stabbing. Slicing. Dicing. Filleting.
Multiple stab wounds. Outdoor rave bikini-dancing. Drug-induced
wife-stabbing. Gratuitous shower scene. Gratuitous Brinke
Stevens. Voodoo Fu. S&M Fu. With Brandy Little as the babysitter
haunted by her sister's disappearance at the gruesome campfire
massacre the year before, Chris Ryan (real-life morning deejay at
KEGL in Dallas) as the kinky macabre pirate-radio call-in host
("That's the spirit of Halloween! Kids in the hospital! Hope
there's enough room!"), Johnny Sneed as the shy sensitive
computer-nerd boyfriend hero ("I just know Halloween is a bad
time for her").
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