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WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Mabel Munoz Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Coventry Admittedly Michael Winner will probably never win a lifetime-achievement honorary award for his career as a director, but damned did that man ever knew how to make entertaining & hugely exciting movies! Apart from some of the films he shot with the legendary Charles Bronson (the "Death Wish"-series, "The Mechanic"), most of his work sadly ended up in oblivion rather quick, and this "Scream for Help" might even be the absolute most obscure and painfully forgotten movie Winner ever made. Contrarily, however, this one of the trashiest, most uncompromising & outrageously amusing movies of the 80's and it's guaranteed to make your cheer & chuckle from start to finish, unless of course you just finished drinking an entire bottle of the sourest vinegar there is. The plot is pure standard and derivative guff, but Tom Holland's script is unimaginably fast-paced and Winner's tight direction doesn't leave you any time to nag about the multiple shortcomings. Christie Cromwell is a hyperactive & stubborn teenager who's convinced that her handsome but vicious stepfather Paul Fox intends to kill her mother and run off with the family fortune. Christie uncovers his affair with the sluttish Brenda and tries to warn her friends as well as the police about a variety of failed murder attempts, but no one believes her. Even when she can finally prove the murder conspiracy with photographic evidence, the nightmare isn't over yet, as Paul and his psychopathic accomplices return to kill both the mother and Christie! The main storyline of "Scream for Help" is pure gold already (at least, to exploitation/trash fanatics it is) but particularly the sub plots are almost too demented for words. The triangular relationship between the criminals adds up to the suspense and - most of all – the entire film seems to be a very unsubtle campaign to promote premarital sex! Christie's friends Janey and Josh do nothing else than sleeping with each other and, after an unfortunate accident, Josh makes his life's mission to snatch Christie's virginity. "Scream for Help" is stuffed with socially incorrect elements like this (there's also rape, misogynistic violence and the pushing of people in a wheelchair down the stairs), making it easily one of the most genuine cinematic trash-highlights I've ever beheld. The teenage girl is more skilled in preparing booby traps than the entire A-Team all together, Lolita Lorre (as Brenda) is undoubtedly the hottest chick to have appeared in ONE film only and there's a terrifically absurd and implausible "he's-not-dead-yet" climax! Several of the reviews and user-comments I encountered on "Scream for Help" complain that the music misfits the nature of the film and that the camera placements were horrible more than just occasionally. Yeah, so? According to yours truly, this 'ineptitude' only contributes to increase the fun, trash and sleaze factors of the movie. This is awesome, unhinged and derailed 80's entertainment and if I could rate it 11 out of 10, I'd do it.

gennyhardison where do i even begin? this movie, beyond making me pee in my pants from fear, made me question the very roots of humanity. wherever the beautiful christy is now i wish she would come out of hiding and fix all our problems. From the moment the movie begins, you know you're in for something special. between the odd, out of place gore and the gratuitous sex scenes, it was hard to keep in mind the underlying struggle of finding out your stepdad wants to murder your mom. i mean, c'mon, we've all been there. after christy's best friend is gruesomely ran over, i cried when i heard the doctor say, your daughter is dead, until i realized it was the only way to get christy in bed with her dead best friends ex boyfriend. then, how could i cry when such joy was born of her death? wow. all in all this movie left me wondering why anyone ever tried to make a movie again after seeing this one. as the old saying goes, if it ain't broke don't fix it!

lebong-2 Michael Winner again misses actual greatness by a light year, but achieves inadvertent greatness in trafficking crap with his slapdash approach to film-making. The dopey plot involves a high school girl (Rachael Kelly) who believes her stepfather is trying to kill her mom.The dippy sub-Nancy Drew exploits are periodically interrupted by typical Winner sleaziness including completely gratuitous nudity. The acting is uniformly amateurish, as if the cast just memorized their lines minutes before they were shot. As with most Winner movies, it's shot haphazardly and unimaginatively. The over-anxious soundtrack is almost always inappropriate and sounds like it belongs in an episode of "Charlie's Angels". And if you're a fan of bad songs, stay tuned through the credits for "Christy", one of the most laughable themes I've ever heard! Surprisingly sung (horribly) by Jon Anderson of the legendary prog-rock band Yes.All of this is not to say the movie isn't perversely entertaining. Most of Winner's movies are, for me. It's fascinating to watch such slapdash nonsense. This is the kind of movie that has you checking the cast on IMDb just to see if anyone escaped this crap and went on to anything of note. I checked. No one really did. Corey Parker is the only one who had much of a career to speak of following this mess. Though Led Zepplin's John Paul Jones surprisingly is credited for the crap score! This is obviously a travesty, but for ludicrous plotting, inane dialog, brain dead behavior from every character and a handful of sleaze, it's just the ticket.

drgigglesgirl666 i thought this was a pretty good movie for its time. Its about a girl who knows her step father is trying to kill her and her mother for their money but no one will believe her and finally the step father holds them hostage in their house. Its a pretty good movie the ending makes up for the slow beginning.