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Timesweep (1987)
TIMESWEEP is a fun rollercoaster ride through Low-Budget Horror Movie Land.
Hang on, don't blink, or you'll miss something in this campy tribute to the genre. It's all here - bugs, boobs, blood, and every monster in every pizza nightmare you've ever had, plus, the fatalistic character who's manta is `We're all gonna die! We're all gonna die!' Throw in some mysterious time travel, and hey, it's covered all the bases.
I suspect some of the cast might have ended up in another line of work, but props go out to Sandra Beer for giving the guys some topless action and being a helluva good screamer. And, kudos to the scriptwriters for giving Miss Shoulder Pads of 1986 what's coming to her halfway through the movie. The foreshadowing of her mirror obsession early on wasn't lost on me.
The movie builds up some very nice momentum with the carnage, beheadings, impalings and your run-of-the-mill bloody demises. The fog is thicker than the plot, but the premise holds its own through the film.
In spite of the bad acting (and isn't that a gold standard in B movies?), the it's-been-done-before monsters and cheesy special effects, for B movie aficionados, this campy tribute to horror movies is pretty damn entertaining.