Joseph Alan Johnson Movies
- 1988
This plodding, amateurish horror film is basically a snow-capped variation on the standard stalk-and-slash killer formula. Six vacationers check into a posh ski resort where they are systematically slain, apparently in retribution for the accidental death of one of their friends years before. Despite a few inventive death scenes (by icicle, ski pole, snowplow, etc.), slasher-movie buffs looking for genre staples of bare nubile flesh, gushing gore and a high body count will be left out in the cold, as this is yet another late-80s exploitation thriller that contains no thrills (unless one counts the frequent ski footage) and hardly bothers to exploit anything. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Debra A. Deliso, Doug Stevenson, (more)
- 1987
A cluster of unappealing college students (of the Friday the 13th variety) on a camping trip in the mountains of Utah find themselves stalked by a "berserker" -- a ferocious and legendary man-beast known to ancient Viking lore as a kind of cannibalistic shock-trooper who was kept in a cage, dressed in animal skins and brutalized until he became psychotic enough to strike fear into the heart of an enemy in battle. What exactly this devilish warrior is doing so far from the fjords is never really explained to anyone's satisfaction -- some kind of ancient Nordic curse is mumbled about, but that's it. Not much different than the standard slasher fare, even down to the masked killer who wears a huge bear-snout. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Joseph Alan Johnson, Valerie Sheldon, (more)
