John P. Finegan Movies
- 1989
This clunky horror parody opens with a series of lawnmower mutilation murders at the Tall Grass Country Club, days before the opening of a televised Pro-Am tournament. Fearing bad publicity, the club owner enlists the aid of alcoholic pro Roy Kent (Robert North) -- a has-been who can't seem to live down a flub that caused his career to take a nose-dive years ago -- to undertake a very low-key investigation. Roy's chief rival, young Kelly Lange (Victoria Scott), insists they close the club pending capture of the killer. When the murders are pinned on the gruff Deke Slade (Jeremy Whelan), it seems the case is closed... but the real killer is still lurking about. This Troma flavored spoof plays like a scene-for-scene parody of Jaws, especially during the climax when our three "heroes" wage a battle of wills with -- big surprise here -- a demonic lawnmower. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- 1989
Veteran comic actor George Segal plays a wealthy industrialist whose real passion in life is paint-gun war games. In fact, he's so addicted to these quasi-military games that he insists on being addressed as "Colonel." The way to promotion in his company is through these games, rather than through doing a good job. Hard working Ann (Jennifer Edwards) is tired of seeing less competent males promoted because of their war game skills. She joins forces with the Colonel's wife Florence (Sally Kellerman), with whom he's in the midst of a divorce, and the other company wives to form their own war games team. They hire a mercenary (Lou Ferrigno) to train them, leading to a climactic showdown with the men. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- George Segal, Sally Kellerman, (more)
Girls School Screamers is a sleazy, obnoxious, and derivative slasher offering from those purveyors of "Z-movie" schlock at Troma (namely executive producers Lloyd Kauffman and Michael Herz). The story plays the basic Old Dark House riff, involving six curvaceous coeds who plan to spend a weekend taking inventory at a lavish remote mansion left to their school by a deceased millionaire. By the end of the first night, the girls are hunted down and slaughtered by an unseen interloper lurking within the house. That's the premise for what amounts to 80 minutes of naked flesh and hardcore splatter before the killer's identity is revealed in the contrived "surprise" climax, by which time viewers will likely have tuned out. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mollie O'Mara, Sharon Christopher, (more)
