Why does everyone take this film at face value?

I just discovered this movie a few days ago....where has gold like this been my whole life!

You ask why, I say because just buzz

"My mind is a machine gun, my body is the bullets and the audience...is the target." - GG Allin

I loved it. I loved it so much that I paid $39 for a copy on DVD. It's such a ridiculous movie yet it's very entertaining. If people go into this movie all serious, they're going to hate it.

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I don’t think most of the viewers missed the more than obvious fact that this film was a parody of horror films – as were many other horror films of that period, including The Return of the Living Dead, the Night of the Demons series, etc. That the film was a parody, however, does not in itself make it a good film. I regret to say that in this regard, those IMDb users that gave an average rating of just over 3 points might have been more perceptive than some of the posters in this thread.

The film was poorly scripted and the characters were poorly acted too. Until the killer came out – which meant all but the last 20 minutes or so – you simply see Courtney having one dream or hallucination after another. All these have been done in numerous horror films – and much more effectively. Also, those scenes gave away rather early the fact that (regardless whether there was a real killer or not) Courtney was clearly nuts.

The Elvis lookalike with the guitar-drill was fun for a while, but it got tiresome soon when we see him chasing his victims for some fifteen minutes and all the while singing rock maniacally.