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      Junior

      1985 1h 25m Horror List
      Reviews 27% Audience Score 100+ Ratings A Southern mama's boy (Jeremy Ratchford) with a chain saw gets mad at two ex-hookers (Suzanne DeLaurentis, Linda Singer) just out of prison. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member I had wanted to see Junior since I originally spotted it @ Canadian Tire for rent when I was 12. Look @ that box art. It looks like a cross between The Texas Chainsaw Massacre & Pieces. Sadly that's not the case. Junior barely used that chainsaw. Exploitation marketing @ its finest though. This isn't much of a horror movie & I would actually classify it as hickploitation. Even a taste of Mother's Day as Junior needs the approval of dear ole ma. Actually didn't see this under the title Junior but under Hot Water where it derives its title from a terrible theme song. Slipped through the cracks of time & is probably virtually unheard of now Im glad I finally saw it just to satisfy the 12 year old in me Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member absolutely no story....worst slasher villain ever. If you're looking for a body count....dont look here! There is no suspense nor is there any attempt at creating any. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Combine Dennis the Menace with "Dukes of Hazzard" and add a cruel streak, and you have "Junior" in a nutshell. For an 80-minute film, this might be the most exhausting, repetitive flick ever. The plot is carried not by character development or rising/falling action but by progressively more violent setpieces that, apart from more grislier props, remain essentially the same: Junior (Jeremy Ratchford) terrorizes town newcomers K.C. (Suzanne de Laurentis) and Jo (Linda Singer), the tough broads scare the giblet-head off, Junior returns to his creepy husk of a mother to dream up another stupid plan. The entire movie is an exercise in lethargy, a faux-Hatfields vs. McCoys storyline underdone by lazy plotting and (who could have guessed?) wooden acting. I remain a fairweather horror (especially slasher) fan not because of the bloody content (beyond a puritanical few, what member of the 4Chan generation could?) but because the genre's component films seem -- ironically -- so gutless. Rather than finding new ways to tell stories; new menacing antagonists; and, most vitally, protagonists you can actually give a damn about before they (usually) meet their gruesome ends, those who dabble in this field are far too content to hitch onto what works for dear life, throwing innovation hastily into the crypt beside their generic onscreen fodder. "Junior" is like a cautionary tale of what can happen when horror filmmakers just copy the genre's tropes and allow the stagnation to continue. The front box blurb contains references to "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street." Unfortunately, the bland killer in "Savage Weekend" makes a bigger impression than the titular villain here. The creators' biggest mistake, though, is trying to reshape characters who appeared as third-string henchmen in flicks like "In the Heat of the Night" as the primary antagonists. Junior is certainly big, but he's such an unimposing dunce of a backwoods hick that his every appearance is more obnoxious than menacing. If Sheriff Buford T. Justice would have little problem bringing down this hulking, delusional man-child, why the hell would an audience be frightened? Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie was really funny. Great tits and ass. Not really a horror movie, more like a really cheap dark comedy with a lot of horny rednecks and hot chicks. It gets kinda weird and violent at the end. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member This is the best horror movie of all time. A-Junior! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A Southern mama's boy (Jeremy Ratchford) with a chain saw gets mad at two ex-hookers (Suzanne DeLaurentis, Linda Singer) just out of prison.
      Director
      Jim Hanley
      Genre
      Horror
      Original Language
      English
      Runtime
      1h 25m