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Hide and Go Shriek

1988 · 90 min

A cheesy, tense slasher that traps you in a dark store with characters making bad decisions, delivering gory kills and a wild twist.

Directed by
Skip Schoolnik
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Tagline
Close your eyes. Count to 10. And run for your life.
Overview
A group of teenagers spend the night in a furniture shop for a graduation party. When one of them talks her boyfriend into a game of hide-and-seek, a psycho killer starts hunting them down one by one.

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Directed by
Skip Schoolnik
Genres
Horror, Thriller
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • campystrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • survival
  • isolation
  • obsession
  • betrayal
  • death
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror7
Humour2
Realism4
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity3
Emotional weight3

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Genres
horror, thriller
Directed by
Skip Schoolnik
Written by
Michael Kelly
Starring
George Thomas, Donna Baltron, Brittain Frye, Annette Sinclair, Scott Fults, Ria Pavia, Sean Kanan, Bunky Jones
Music
John Ross
Cinematography
Eugene D. Shlugleit
Runtime
90 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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