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Very funny love letter to 80s teen slasher flicks, and still amazingly poignant. Joshua John Miller - son of actor and playwright Jason Miller, best known for The Exorcist - wrote this to deal with his feelings after his father's fatal heart attack.

Young Max (Taissa Farmiga) has been in a daze ever since her beloved mother, former scream queen Amanda, was killed in a car accident. Her friend's geeky stepbrother talks her into making an appearance at an anniversary screening of her mom's one big film. Suddenly Max and her friends are catapulted into the film. While everyone tries to escape the masked killer stalking the woods, Max is connecting with "her mom" in a way she never could before. Can Max save her this time? A real unexpected pleasure.

Everyone in this film totally understands the assignment and is having a good time. The special effects are suitably disgusting. I wish Candice de Visser had been given more to do than just be B-movie Harley Quinn on crack, but she does fine. Has quite a few cute boys especially Matt Angel and Ben Begley. Jere Burns is looking great and being excellent as "Jesus Manson." Definitely written by horror fans with a love and sense of humor about their genre. The dialogue sometimes goes a bit far to get the joke, but overall it's good dumb bloody fun. I liked this more than I thought I would. Happy Halloween!

Clarissa (Liz Carr) can't decide what to do about her mother who's been living with Alzheimer's and now is suffering with aggressive pancreatic cancer. The treatment is making her mum very ill and unhappy, and Clarissa wonders about her quality of life. It's a serious issue many of us may need to cope with, and Liz Carr handles the emotional depths with great aplomb. It's a shame her tour de force performance is wrapped around this bizarre story of baby-stealing, cryogenics, and skeletons walled up in carparks. So sorry, Liz, you deserved a better more serious story to pair with your powerful delivery.