Someone leaves three high school kids dead, another wounded. It could be the runaway mental asylum female mainstay on the loose in the area somewhere, barefoot and in her gown. Or it could be someone else entirely...
Slow moving and not particularly extraordinary, The Rockville Slayer features a lot of melodrama, moving at a turtle pace, and it all really adds up to nothing that particularly spectacular or noteworthy. I wasn't exactly keen on watching this again because I thought it was crap the previous time I watched it back in about 2005.
Circus-Szalewski (no, seriously, that's his name) is deputy sheriff of Rockville, a small town in rural America. Joe Estevez (Martin Sheen's brother) is the town's sheriff. Nicole Buehrer is the lead detective working the case. I returned to this movie as part of the "A Little Quigley Goes a Long Way Series", and she has a minor part, but her character is important to the plot as far as Charlie is concerned. Bob Farster plays Charlie's crippled widower father (his son is the football jock murdered at the beginning of the movie with the two cheerleaders). The *sins of the father* theme plays a major role in why the killings take place. Charlie learns of an unpleasant truth about his past with his father revealing a painful secret. Robert Z'Dar of Maniac Cop fame shows up mainly at the end, related to Quigley and with a certain reason for being a bit pissed off at her. None of the cast really lifts the material past its mediocrity.
To be honest, this movie drags and crawls to the finish and the plot really isn't that interesting enough to maintain your attention. Quigley shows her naked body on top of a guy for about three seconds and shows up at the end in a rather awkward scene with Z'Dar which spells out why the murders take place.
This seems designed (just look at the art work...) as a body count rural slasher, but it never cashes in what it promises. The opening deaths aren't on screen, the escaped mental patient (*yawn*) lasts about ten or so minutes and ends, and Charlie spends a lot of the rest of the film coming to grips with what he learns about his heritage. Scenes feel like they last five, six minutes longer than needed and the real plot of the film could have really been set in about sixty minutes time. The cliches are in abundance; nothing new here to speak of. Quigley has one memorable scene with blood and a bathtub, a nightmare of Charlie's.
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