Neon Maniacs

1986

Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

15
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 35% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 35% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.0/10 10 3307 3.3K

Plot summary

A group of teenagers in San Francisco discover a nest of homicidal monsters living in a tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, but when they try to tell authorities, no one believes them.

Director

Joseph Mangine Photo
Joseph Mangine

Top cast

Marta Kober Photo
Marta Kober as Lorraine
Victor Brandt Photo
Victor Brandt as Devin
John Lafayette Photo
John Lafayette as Thomas
Andrew Divoff Photo
Andrew Divoff as Doc
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
650.32 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 1
1.37 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Wuchakk 5 / 10

Fun, but unfinished flick about deadly ogres by the Golden Gate Bridge

The friends of a high school girl (Leilani Sarelle) are ruthlessly slain by monstrous freaks living under the Golden Gate Bridge, but the police don't believe her outlandish story. Thankfully, her potential beau believes her (Clyde Hayes), as does an adolescent girl (Donna Locke), and they team-up to find the truth."Neon Maniacs" (1986), aka "Evil Dead Warriors," is similar to the contemporaneous "Trick or Treat" except that, unlike Sammi Curr in that movie, the titular antagonists are too cartoonish to be scary in any way, despite their gory slayings. The tone mixes brutal killings with a fun 'kid flick' spirit and it's bewildering.The monsters curiously consist of a samurai, a caveman, a doctor, an Indian, a straight-jacket lunatic and so forth, but what they really are, their motivations and where they originated is never explained. While not noted in the movie, they're rumored to be from another dimension, "the worst killers from across time" mumbo jumbo.Production and budget problems caused expository scenes to either be cut or never shot. Another casualty was the intended final battle between the protagonists and the maniacs, which explains the puzzling abrupt and inconclusive ending. As such, this is basically an unfinished film, but you won't really realize it until the last act.Still, there's plenty to appreciate for people interested in 80's oddities: The likable protagonists have chemistry, Leilani Sarelle is winsome, and the "Battle of the 80's Bands" is cheesy fun (one a lame Rick Springfield knockoff and the other a kick-axx hair metal group).The film runs 1 hour, 31 minutes, and was shot in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Glendale, California.GRADE: C.
Reviewed by a_chinn 6 / 10

Zombie Village People run amok in San Francisco

Oddball 80s horror film about San Francisco teens getting slaughtered by a Village People-like group zombies. There's a biker zombie, an archer zombie, a samurai zombie, a soldier zombie, and a few others. The film is poorly made to say the least, but it does have plenty of nicely gory old school practical special effects, which I do love. Another fun part of the film is when the teens go to a concert at one point, so you get some nice cheesy 80s music and dancing, all dripping in 80s neon, so it has that going for it too. "Neon Maniacs" isn't an 80s horror film anyone should seek out, but if you've already seen them everything halfway decent and are trying to find something you haven't seen before, it's worth a look.
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