Crinoline Head
Director: Tommy Faircloth
Writer: Tommy Faircloth
Starring: Colleen Fitzpatrick and Tommy Faircloth
Body Count: 7
Review: Crinoline Head is a totally independent, low-budget feature, and it shows. Made in 1995 and shot on cheap film with cheap actors, it attempts to be a sort of homage/spoof of 80s camp slasher flicks, but fails to be anything but absurd.
A bunch of the most annoyingly poorly acted college kids I've ever seen spend a weekend at a lake house, where years ago Crinoline Head (a guy with a skirt on his head) terrorized the area. Low and behold, it's not too long after this "spooky" tale is told that good old Crinoline Head is at it again, offing the college kids (thankfully) one-by-one.
The problem is that it takes forever for this to happen. Once the killings start, they seem to come at warp speed, one right after another (though none of the deaths are very interesting--mostly stupid, actually). The first hour of the flick is filled up with useless exposition and bad "drama" that nobody cares about. It's alright to put expostion in a movie (Final Exam was almost all-exposition throughout the first hour, but that movie did it right), but the audience has to care about it for it to work; all I could think of while watching Crinoline Head was how piss-poor this movie compared to those "cheesy 80s slasher movies" it so arrogantly attempts to mock with its crappy campy style.
