Strange Behaviour [AKA. "Dead Kids", "Small Town Massacre"]
Country: USA
Year: 1981
Director: Michael Laughlin
Stars: Michael Murphy (John Brady), Louise Fletcher (Barbara Moorehead), Dan Shor (Pete Brady),Fiona Lewis (Gwen Parkinson), Arthur Dignam (Dr. Le Sangel / Nagel).
Genre: Slasher
Strange Behaviour
I did not have any idea what to expect from this film - I picked it up from Poundland (where, surprisingly it cost a pound!) on a trip to buy batteries and thought it couldn't be much worse than any of the other shit I've seen in my time. A high school student and his slightly thicker friend join a medical study (the kind where they experiment on you with weird drugs and stuff) to make some quick cash to enrol in college. Except these behaviour modification experiments are turning the local kids into homicidal psychos...
And (surprisingly) it's a bit shit! But at least it was only a pound. Wooden acting (particularly by the mayor: "I... just... buried... my... boy..."), odd plot that isn't explained much for a big old tie-up section at the end, poor picture quality... Funniest moment is when they decide that they're going to find the killer by looking through all the college records for "all the fat ones". Generally, it's just nothing special in terms of excellence or shittyness...
Movie Spoiler - If you want to know the ending of the film.
