” …there was an okay mystery movie lurking somewhere within the confines of Sweet Sixteen, but the producers decided to retool it to fit within the slasher formula the Native’s involvement is more of a strung-along red herring than an earnest attempt at racial harmony. “Muscular cast brushed aside, Sweet Sixteen is a real struggle from start to finish, a mess of odd pacing and cringe-inducing dialogue, with no vibrancy commonly found in early 80s death-to-teens movies. Macnee looks like he’d rather be anywhere else most of the time, and I doubt he hung around for the wrap party once his check cleared.” Mad Mad Mad Mad Movies The acting is pretty bad across the board too. ” …by piling on one red herring after another, Sotos attempts to generate tension but in the end just succeeds in generating apathy. “The only ways it really stands out from the rest of the pack is the fact that the victims at the end of the killer’s knife are all male the murders themselves are pretty bland- quick, badly handled and almost impossible to see as they take place at night and, let’s just say, the lighting man on this probably didn’t expect a call from the Academy that year. Director Jim Sotos does a perfectly acceptable job, keeping everything restrained until we get to the inevitably busy grand finale…” For It Is Man’s Number “The script by Erwin Goldman does well when it comes to the characters and their interactions, although it might disappoint people wanting a higher bodycount. Working with a script that had yet to be completed when camera’s started to roll, Patrick and Bo’s performances are all the more impressive given that their final scenes together where more or less ad-libbed, on the spot.” DVD Drive-In “Patrick Macnee’s screen time is sparse, but he uses it wisely, as the frustrated and easily agitated father of the licentious Melissa.
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Character actor Patrick Macnee plays a very Patrick Macnee part in the film as the intellectual archaeologist (and in being a “name”, also a potential suspect).“There’s a lot going on for a slasher film, there’s tension between the locals (lead by Don Stroud in redneck mode) and the Native American population, TV movie of the week popular high school girls ostracizing the new kid, family tension, a godawful 70’s throwback theme song, suggestions of the occult what with the burial ground and Melissa’s set of Tarot card…” DVD Beaver Hopkins does a fine job with the role, but it feels like the slasher film should revolve around Aleisa Shirley’s Melissa or at least Burke’s children played by Dana Kimmell and Steve Antin. The movie is largely about Sheriff Dan Burke played by Bo Hopkins. The movie loses a bit of its steam in how the cast is used. The mystery was relatively easy to figure out, but the ending is a little understated (including Patrick Macnee not really being shocked and horrified that his wife is a crazed murderer).
The film is filled with many red herrings…including focusing the movie around Melissa (including with the title). There are some murders (largely off camera), but the identity of the murder is unknown. The movie starts rather jarring and feels like you picked up a story midway before the plot and characters are established. The movie is built like the original Friday the 13th in that it is largely a mystery.
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Due to the style of the movie, a ******spoiler alert****** is in effect for the rest of the film.Ī potential serial killer? Let’s go skinny dipping! Watching Sweet Sixteen, it was a better movie than I expected because it wasn’t a typical slasher type of movie. I remember the cover of the VHS movie in our local video, but it didn’t look like it had a Jason, Freddy, or even a Tall Man so it didn’t interest me.
The film was met with reasonably positive reviews and gained a cult following over the years. Melissa is turning sixteen and the killing has just begun.ĭirected by Jim Sotos, Sweet Sixteen is a slasher mystery horror movie. Sheriff Dan Burke (Bo Hopkins) worries that he has a serial killer in town and local anger toward Native American Jason Longshadow (Don Shanks) could be justified. First a boy named Johnny (Glenn Withrow) she spent an evening with and then another teen named Tommy (Tony Perfit). Unfortunately, people around Melissa begin to show-up dead. John Morgan (Patrick Macnee) who is researching the local Native American burial ground and her mother Joanne (Susan Strasberg). Melissa Morgan (Aleisa Shirley) has moved to town with her father Dr. Tommy…can you hear me? Tommy, can you see me?
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