What’s Aged the Worst?
Knowing the reveal; Steve hitting on the staff; faking a drowning for mouth-to-mouth; 'Settle down, Tonto'; the dark low-budget lighting; the off-screen Brenda kill; Ned; killing a live snake; the Bogart impression; no intimacy coordinator
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- Knowing the reveal makes it a tough watch, along with Steve hitting on the staff, faking a drowning so a cute co-worker gives you mouth-to-mouth, and Settle Down Tonto.
- They had so little money that there was not enough light, which is why the movie is so dark, and with more money the kills would have popped more, joked as Michael Mann redoing it.
- The Brenda kill is not shown: she wanders out to the archery range and then she is dead, maybe for lack of money, as the production seemed able to show a kill or its aftermath but not both.
- Asked for what's aged the worst, the next participant opens with obviously Ned.
- The snake scene, about six minutes long, has also aged badly, and they actually killed the live snake; according to Adrian King in the book Crystal Lake Memories, the owner stood off to the side with tears running down his cheeks.
- The Bogart impression aged badly, and the hosts call this a nipple movie, still basically the 70s, before later 80s horror leaned on gratuitous nudity.
- Kevin Bacon's hands are all over the place in a very long shot, with no intimacy coordinator on the movie.