THOU SHALT NOT KILL ... EXCEPT (1985)
Starring Brian Schulz and Robert Rickman
Thou Shalt Not Watch This Suck-ass Piece of Garbage ... except to witness "Evil Dead" director Sam Raimi in the role as the bad guy, a leader of a murderous satanic cult.
Despite what sounds like exciting subject matter—a Manson-like cult pitted against armed Vietnam Vets—this film doesn't match the movies it is imitating, mainly "Last House on the Left" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." Gritty photography and an over the top performance by Raimi (who tells one of the vets, "You can't shoot me, I'm the savior come back from the dead") could not save this Rambo-esque attempt to strike a nerve with Reagan-era America.
"Evil Dead" fans will want to see it as an oddity. It involves many of the same people who crafted that classic, including Bruce Campbell who worked on the technical side of this picture.
Anchor Bay has released a newly remastered version of the film with some deleted scenes, which are nothing to write home about.Pass.