Joe Dante was ideal to direct this combination of horror, fantasy, comedy and mystery about neighbors who are convinced a newbie is a killer. It's directed with typical Dante skill and enthusiasm and the cast can't be faulted - everyman Hanks, Carrie Fisher in a weirdly suburban role as his wife, Bruce Dern having fun as a nutter married to hot Wendy Schaal, a big role to vaguely familiar Ric Docummun.
The main problem with this is it didn't have enough story for a feature. It felt like an hour long TV ep. I think it we'd found out Gibson was bad at say the end of act two it would have hade more stakes more menace.
Characters feel as though they duplicate functions. There's nothing for women to do. You could have consolidated the chaacters
Still I acknowledge this is a cult movie that people like and it may benefit from re-watching.
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