Hide and Go Shriek - Additional piece

 I guess a weakness of mine in regards to the slasher genre is the setting. Like The Initiation (1984), I guess if you throw young adults, in their twenties, into an inclosed setting, such as this incredible mall in Dallas or in the case of Hide and Go Shriek (1988), a furniture factory that was an abandoned building in a sketchy part of LA, dressed up by the filmmakers for this particular slasher film, I'm just game for it. The big difference in these films is the cast of characters and twist at the end regarding the killer. An evil twin sister and a spurned lover from prison wanting his cellmate all to himself definitely run totally opposite ends of a slasher twist. Hide and Go Shriek has this minor character, a red herring warehouse worker, ultimately the reason a killer is dressing up like his victims before these two are revealed as former prison lovers...the young people being murdered have really nothing to do with the killer except they were in the wrong place, wrong time. But despite some rough photography, a very low budget economy slasher that was Hide and Go Shriek did keep me interested with that dark multi-floor factory building. If anything, the use of a fully nude Annette Sinclair tied on top of an elevator for effect seems to stand out from most of the film besides the out of left field twist. That boyfriend of Sinclair's who wears the shades and looks like Vanilla Ice drove me fucking crazy...in my slasher movie he would have been the first to go. I get why this film gets lost in the shuffle, similarly to mentioned The Prey (1983), because it just doesn't have any particular style or characters, or even memorable kills, that really reach out and supplant Hide and Go Shriek as a go-to slasher. It's setting and use of mannequins, and the unwashed grunge of back alley late 80s LA, do help for me. I have a fascination with the seedier, less flashy side of LA city and the dark films made in the 80s there.