I'm Dangerous Tonight (1990) (TV)

User Rating:

4.3/10   

Director:

Tobe Hooper

Writers (WGA):

Cornell Woolrich (short story)
Bruce Lansbury (teleplay) ...

Release Date:

8 August 1990 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

The Director of Poltergeist brings you a new kind of terror.

Plot:

An ancient Aztec cloth with a curse accidentally finds its way into the possession of a young woman...

Plot Keywords:

Possession | Aztec | Dress | University | Shower Scene

Cast

Mädchen Amick	...	Amy (as Madchen Amick)
Corey Parker	...	Eddie
Daisy Hall	...	Gloria
R. Lee Ermey	...	Lt. Ackman
Natalie Schafer	...	Grandmother
Jason Brooks	...	Mason
William Berger	...	Jonas Wilson
Mary Frann	...	Martha
Dee Wallace	...	Wanda Thatcher (as Dee Wallace-Stone)
Anthony Perkins	...	Prof. Buchanan
Lew Horn	...	Coroner
Stuart Fratkin	...	Victor
Dan Leegant	...	Frank
Jack McGee	...	Landlord
Ed Trotta	...	Joey (as Edward Trotta)

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Italy:T | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | UK:18 | USA:R

Movie Connections:

Version of "The Hunger: I'm Dangerous Tonight (#1.11)" (1997)

Cinderalla Chainsaw Massacre

This is an unanticipatedly imaginative TV terror movie revision of Cinderella, all the more effective for being guided by the same directorial hand that gave us the unrelenting physical horrors of 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' and 'Eaten Alive' in his 70s heyday.

Amick (of Twin Peaks domestic violence 'Shelley' fame), in a standout performance is the lowly collegiate struggling to juggle her studies with the demands of caring for both her home and her decrepit grandmother, whilst her Aunt and cousin live it up night after night. Cue a reversal of fortune when she lands the job of props mistress in a production of 'Romeo and Juliet' and falls under the spell of a sensuous red cloth which, as spooky professor Perkins points out, is an original Aztec witchcraft cloak; and which she transforms into a dress, with murderous results.

Clearly a waste of time for the underwritten Perkins and sad to see such a talented and perennially underused actor ill and jaded in a career on the wane, although far worse was yet to come (ie 'In The Deep Woods'). The film is also bereft of the sort of shock value that one would need to swallow the tall tale being presented at face value. Still, it does sort of work on a surprisingly engrossing level of creepy subtleness, and this is aided by a slinky visual quality and the billowing symbolism of the red dress; captured on film stock in what must have been one of the very last TV movies to be shot this way.