Director: Rodman Flender

Writers: Terri Hughes and Ron Milbauer

Starring: Seth Green, Devon Sawa, and Jessica Alba

Body Count: 11


Review: Put simply, Idle Hands is another in a seemingly continuous stream of movies coming out to theaters that belong on home video. Seriously, if this movie had been made three or four years ago, there's no way in hell it would have made it to the theaters.
I know that studio executives are stupid, but I really didn't think they were stupid enough to let a piece of shit like this just slip right through their budget-gripping fingers.
All in all, I suppose Idle Hands isn't really that bad if you're looking for a really awful flick--it does have few of the elements that helped define the slasher genre (like terrible dialogue, gratuitous nudity, excessive blood)--but it seems to present them in all the wrong ways. There's only one truly good death scene (I won't spoil it, but let's just say it has a lot to do with the Halloween Dance at the end of the film), and the subject of the isn't even really a character at all. Most of the people who die in Idle Hands are killed off-screen, and Columbia/Tri-Star seems to think that as long as there's lots of blood splattered on the screen, everything will be fine.
Wrong. All of those slasher elements mentioned above are present in Idle Hands but they are done in such an inane, unscary, unfunny way, that you just can't help but dislike this movie.
I can't say it was all bad--in fact, towards the end I was starting to enjoy it a little--but then they blew it with a lame conclusion, terrible "funny" dialogue, and what could have been a beautiful death scene involving a ceiling fan that was completely ruined.
My best advice is to wait until this is out on video, because I truly believe it won't seem so bad on video--especially if you've already seen some of the other flicks mentioned on this site.