Death Screams

The older youth (these aren’t teenagers), chatter, chatter, chatter, having fun at the fair like twelve-year-olds, which looks comical, while we wait in vain for the murders to happen. I mean, there is one in the beginning, but you wait half an hour for the next one. It's the only one at the fair and the victim is finished off with a plastic bag... In the evening, the youngsters go to the river to have a camping party, but there is no swimming of naked babes. The rather amusing story about the girl and her dog, told in the cemetery, is one of the few bright spots. There’s a bit of carnage in the ending and, accompanied by dynamic music, is the best part. There is some gore, but it’s nothing to write home about, as the effects are poor. I was most amused by the money to be made at the fair – one girl sells a kiss for 100 (about a cent), but when a guy she doesn’t want to kiss comes, she changes the sign, and suddenly it's a kiss for 500. (2024-11-07)

The American slasher Death Screams is quite rightly a forgotten horror film in its own right, because there's nothing about it that you haven't already seen before and that you haven't seen in better form. The saddest thing is that there is not a single good killing scene. They had a good idea with the bow, but it's also done in a kind of lazy and uninspired way. That's why this horror film will probably pass you by unnoticed. (2018-07-06)