Contender for best horror film ending. ever. period. Quite possibly the winner. Quite possibly one of the best film endings. ever. period. Regardless of the budget, and Hollywood snobbery aside etc..Full of real "Oh f*#k.." moments, in key places. The acting isn't Hollywood character development, but it's explanatory, and tonal - This and the films set and atmosphere set a fantastic pace to the story, which I believe is intentional, to establish the ultimate finality in the film clearly - Marion Penrose is a psychopath unlike no other, and no well developed character could possibly compare or stand against her! Hardcore in depth focus and development in characters, would have produced the opposite effect. The cute, sweet, natural, genuine, leisurely, carefree girls (both as actresses, and the characters they portray) just seem to carry along on their own, and then.... get brutally slaughtered and slashed. That would seem to be the ultimate horrifying terrifying point! And that's what helps make this film so nightmarishly impactful overall. Everything seems only somewhat odd, at first - the characters, the location - but ramps up successively, becoming creepier, and creepier, and very, very creepier..Nothing is contrived in this film, it's not trying to be anything at all, and it firmly stakes it's own, untouched, ground - It's 100% unique. If elements of influence are felt, it's particularly from Psycho - In a really good, and innovative way! Few films have what Unhinged has in droves, and none have it the way Unhinged does - true creep factor.The murders are well timed, and have an extremely realistic, and quite very disturbing feel. They're conducted swiftly, and succinctly, with great precision and skill, and with surprising and LEGENDARY daft! Marion Penrose simply establishes "herself" as a seemingly absolutely intelligent successful crazed murderer that tingles inside with nothing but thoughts of killing. The reveal in the shed when Terry tries to escape Carl is grotesque as heck, and disturbingly trippy - One can almost sympathetically feel at this point, that sadly the films protagonist will NOT make it out. These are all victims you feel for, and WANT to survive. But they don't, and it hurts. The strong and righteous female lead is a subtle and sweet presence that could stand side by side with the likes of Sigourney Weaver as Lt. Ripley, Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, or Milla Jovovich as Alice, in it's own right. Terry Morgan (Laura Munson) always did her best, against all odds, and never gave up. Laura Munson's sidekick Sara Ansley is no slouch either, and they both sport out many fun different looks over the course of the movie, and spew out some great one liners. The girl power in this movie is ahead of it's time, and superseding of it's genre - these girls are intelligent, determined, unflinching, strong, and persevering - Considering the circumstances. The girls are also strikingly very beautiful, and cute as friggin beans! You also sense that, meh, they don't care about much - they're having fun doing this! When you love what you do - it shows!😊The storyline is quite airtight, signifying that even though a great deal of money wasn't behind this project, a great deal of intelligence was. As a "low budget" film - It has a whole LOT more to give, and get out of it, than went into the budget - and that's a fantastic thing to see. We're watching what effort, purpose, and labor of love & interest do in Unhinged. We're not watching what the love of a swimming pool filled with money does. Gronquist was extraordinarily intentional, commanding, particular, intelligent, careful, and selective of what he did with what resources he had. Subtly, everything about this film is iconic and legendary - It's something like diamonds in the dark (a film in a low budget), and when glints of light make them sparkle, you know exactly what you've got, and how beautiful and valuable it is.I hope you love the film as much as I do!

Why do we go to horror films? To see a lot of gore and be on edge. What the hell was this writer thinking. We've got three honeys, one at the start, who we are granted with seeing her goodies while taking a shower, going to a rock concert during a rainstorm, which as consequence, they crash their car. They're taken in by a pleasant enough guy who works at this mansion that harbor a terrible secret. There's little suspense, but a lot of screen time wasted with uninteresting activity (chatting). The old woman who owns it, has a real nasty, spiteful nature, and worse, she HATES men, hence the secret. The younger woman, the sister, provides the twist, which I liked. You won't see the twist, so to speak, it's too well covered up. It doesn't look good for three girls, either, as one by one, they're being sliced up, with a sickle in some effectively sick gore. But Unhinged suffers, purely on the lack of suspense and uninteresting prattle, by our three mains who are okay in their roles, plus dialogue from others too, in a displaced horror that could of much better, if not for a lot of nothingness. The unveiling of the killer + murderous, reasons, provide a good backing of the character's motives. Unhinged is a horror movie you'll fee cheated by.

I bought Unhinged because I got suckered by the gory picture on the cover. If you want to see all the good parts of the movie just look on the back of the box. All the kills are shown and I can honestly tell you that they look much better in the still frames than they do in the movie.Having said that, let's look at the plot. A group of college girls driving to a rock concert (by way of the deep, dark woods in one of the longest driving sequences ever captured on celluloid) slide off the road. No visible damage is done to the car but apparently it was enough to put one of the characters in a comatose state for the rest of the film (or perhaps she read the script and was already in a coma before filming began).The two remaining girls wake up in a big, isolated house. The house, by the way, is fabulous and manages more drama just by its presence than any of the actors in the film. For some reason, though, this house has no roads going to it. The only way you can get to the main road is by hiking five miles through the woods. The girls spend the rest of Unhinged sitting around listening to weird conversations between an old rich bitch (who looks like George Washington in drag) and her equally homely, sexually repressed daughter. The girls apparently were in no hurry to get back from that concert anyway being that they packed more clothes than the cast of Gilligan's Island for that three hour tour.By the time we, the viewers, get to the kill scenes, we no longer care. We wish that someone would kill us just to end our suffering . Unhinged finally wraps up with a quite shocking ending that deserved to be in a much better film. It's almost as though the ending, the one good idea in the film, was written first and then the writers tried to make a movie leading up to it.Unhinged is ultimately a boring film with bad acting, inept directing, and a plot with more holes than a leper in a porno film (sorry. I'm not sure where that came from). You will get an idea of how bad this movie is during the opening credits when, for some reason that is never explained, the screen goes black for about two minutes while the characters talk about nothing worth remembering. Don't waste your time. You'll just feel Unhinged and want your time and money back.

This video nasty slasher film directed by Don Gronquist, was banned in Britain for 20 years because of violence and nudity.It may have been nasty in 1984, but it is certainly tame by today's standards. That doesn't mean it is not worth watching, but it certainly does not stand up next to today's slasher films.First, I have to be careful and cannot fully review it as it would spoil it for anyone wanting to see it.I can say that the two shower scenes were nice, but nothing special.I can also say that there were three slasher scenes, but only the last one was special.It is worth the time, but it is certainly not anything excessive.