Ik had m’n afkrakende recensie van Jim Wynorsky’s HARD TO DIE al klaar, toen ik in Joe Bob Briggs’ We are the Weird op een bespreking stuitte van TOWER OF TERROR. Wat blijkt: zelfde film, twee jaar geleden al in Amerika uitgebracht. Dit is Joe Bob territory, so take it away J.B:
‘This is the drive-in version of DIE HARD, with five luscious bimbettes trapped in a high-rise where someone or something is sneaking up on women and planting a meathook in their necks. By a strange coincidence, the five women are all working at Acme Lingerie, and by another strange coincidence, they all get real dirty in the first fifteen minutes of the movie and have to take showers. And by an even stranger coincidence, they discover a box containing the ‘new fall line’ of Acme Lingerie and decide Ðoh, what the hellÐ they should wear it. So by the time the killer gets busy, we’ve got the whole Victoria’s Secret catalogue running through an office building, screaming and spraying machine-gun fire. And every time there’s a moment of extreme danger -when a normal person would say ‘Let’s stick together’- they always say ‘You go that way, and I’ll go this way.’ Sixteen breasts, twelve dead bodies’ etc. Mag ik afmaken? Eén gastrol van Forrest Famous Monsters J. Ackerman, een cameo van Ronald Graven Images V. Borst, een gutbucket. x Copyright Gorehound. Overname uitsluitend na goedkeuring van de rechthebbende. Origineel gepubliceerd in Schokkend Nieuws #13, p13.
