Hide and Go Shriek

Plot synopsis:
The film begins with a unidentified man dressed in a suit and tie applying women's makeup in an old and dingy city apartment. The man picks up a prostitute from the street, and while having sex with her in an alleyway, stabs her to death.
Four couples - Judy and David, John and Bonnie, Randy and Kim, and Shawn and Melissa - have just graduated from high school and are preparing to sneak into a furniture store owned by John's father, Phil. Arriving before the store closes, the teenagers hide as Phil closes up. However, the group are unaware that an employee, Fred, is an ex-convict and living in the basement of the store. The teenagers begin to drink beer and party as John gives them a tour of the entire store. He advises them to not move anything and to keep the lights switched off, so as not to get caught. Kim suggests playing hide-and-go-seek. The group agree, but force Kim to be 'it'. John and Bonnie use the game to have sex, unaware they're being watched. Kim eventually finds the two and declares them it. During the second round, Melissa and Shawn decide to have sex. She leaves to change into a negligee which was given to her by Kim. While changing in a bathroom Melissa is attacked by the killer who forces her head into the sink, drowning her. After some time Shawn becomes impatient and goes to find Melissa. A figure dressed in the negligee runs past him in the dark. Shawn follows only to run into the unseen killer, who kills Shawn by impaling him on a piece of spiked decor.
At midnight the remaining six regroup to eat dinner. While at dinner, they inquire about Shawn and Melissa's whereabouts, and become concerned. After dinner the group decides to search for them, but are still unable to find them. The group becomes angered when they find multiple mannequins and furniture disarranged, concluding that the pair are playing a joke. Frustrated with the mess and not wanting to be bothered, the couples decide to go to bed. As John and Bonnie are having sex, a man dressed in Shawn's clothes enters the room. After mooning them, an angered John runs after him. Upon entering the second floor of the building, John sees a man in a blonde wig applying makeup. Not recognizing the man, John confronts him only to spark a fight between the two, eventually leading to John being impaled through the stomach by a mannequins arm, killing him. Bonnie becomes anxious waiting and hides under the bed as she sees a figure entering and then leaving the room.
Meanwhile, Judy decides to lose her virginity to David. As Randy and Kim sleep, Kim awakens and decides to go to the bathroom. However she is quickly attacked by the killer. She attempts to escape in the store elevator, but the killer catches up with her and jumps into the elevator with her. Kim's screams wake up Randy, who attempts to find her, only to bump into a distraught Bonnie who tells her John has gone missing. Randy and Bonnie wake up Judy and David, and they take the elevator down to the ground floor, not realising Kim has been bound and gagged on the top of the elevator. They discover a figure dressed in Kim's clothes, but realize it's not Kim. The group decide to phone the police, but find the line has been cut and all the exits have been chained shut. They begin to panic and attempt to get the attention of a passing cop car, but fail. Judy attempts to turn the lights on to attract attention, but the power suddenly is cut, sending the emergency lights on. The teenagers arm themselves with weapons, deciding to fight back. Bonnie notices a door and believes it to be a way out, only to discover the dead bodies of their friends. Fred appears, but the survivors believe him to be the killer, so knock him unconscious and tie him up.
Believing they have caught the killer, the group go into the elevator, only to hear Kim being beaten on the roof. Kim manages to get her arms and legs free before leaning down from the roof to call for help. The killer holds her head outside of the elevator as Judy tries to stop the elevator. However the button fails to work and Kim is eventually decapitated. Judy, David, Randy and Bonnie retreat to a bedroom. Outside, a man notices the teenagers in the store and calls the cops to report a break in. The killer quickly attacks the group and Randy is slashed across the chest. As the killer attempts to attack again, Fred appears and tackles the killer, who is revealed to be Zack (Scott Kubay), Fred's lover from prison. Zack informs Fred that he killed the teenagers as he thought they were coming between him and Fred. Fred is repulsed and rejects Zack, angering him. Zack attacks Fred and stabs him in the neck with a knife. The teenagers fight with Zack, and Judy attempts to stab him with a knife. Zack leaps back and stumbles over Kim's severed head before falling down the empty elevator shaft. After defeating Zack the police and Phil arrive.
As Phil asks Fred what had happened, Fred finally succumbs to his wounds and dies. The surviving teenagers are checked over by paramedics before leaving the store and getting into an ambulance. However the group do not realise that the EMT has been murdered, with Zack driving the ambulance, having survived the fall. Zack looks directly at the camera and smiles sadistically.

Tags: cult, murder

Review:
I find it to be highly entertaining, original in it's attempts, and decently acted.A group of teens decide to spend the night in a creepy old furniture store, which is owned by one of their fathers, to celebrate their graduation.
So many slasher films released around this time stuck to the "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th" formula of a looming, silent, indestructible killer and a final confrontation between him and the virginal sole-surviving heroine.
Their acting is certainly above average for this type of film and I really thought Bunky Jones (Bonnie) gave a great performance, particularly in the final minutes of the film.The setting of the film is foreboding and the film becomes pretty creepy during the final 10-15 minutes when the survivors are cautiously making their way through the dark corridors of the furniture store, only to bump into some randomly placed mannequins.
The death scenes are quite tame and underplayed for this type of film (particularly considering the time it was released), but they are still effective and the killer never uses the same method twice.
scenes, including one where the virginal, good-girl character is able to launch into a striptease for her boyfriend that rivals anything done by Demi Moore in "Striptease."Overall, though, this is a highly entertaining film which outshines many similar attempts of the 80's because of its subtleness and .
I LOVE THIS SLASHER FLICK,  4 gorgeous young woman and  their dumb boyfriends decide to spend the night at a desolated building, where someone is watching them and killing them one by one.
Atmospheric, and with decent acting (although at many points, over-acted!), this film kept me entertained from beginning to end and had some decent gore effects (including my fave decapitation scene EVER!).
I also like the cheesy 80's musical score, and the claustrophobic feel the film had from being set entirely in a furniture store.
A handful of teenagers sneaks into a furniture store owned by the father of one of the teenagers.An ex-convict,just recently released,has been hired to realize a variety of manual tasks.Because he hasn't had the time to find anywhere to live,he is temporarily living in the building.The teenagers believe they are alone to eat,drink and have sex.However,someone is spying on them from the darkness.As to not be noticed,they leave the lights out.When they understand that somebody is watching them,it is too late:heads start to roll and blood starts to flow.After each murder,the killer steals his victim's clothes and fools the next teenager by making them believe he is one of them."Hide and Go Shriek" is a pretty good slasher.The killer wears his victims' clothing,whether they are men or women and the plastic mannequins look creepy.There is a good amount of violence and gore including memorable death scene where a teenager is attached on the roof of an elevator and the ceiling tears off her head when the elevator changes floors.So if you like slasher films give this one a look.7 out of 10..
(**1/2 out of *****)A group of horny young teenagers (aren't they all?) break into a furniture warehouse for a night of frivolous games and serious sex (or is it serious games and frivolous sex?)  But, wouldn't you know it, a wet-blanket serial killer/madman has to start butchering everyone and spoiling all the fun.
For one thing, the setting is great -- with an old, open elevator and multiple, dark floors full of mannequins and beds, so that the characters never know where the killer is, not to mention each other -- and the survivors are not necessarily the ones you'd expect (you never know who's gonna get it next.)  There's the expected nudity and violence, but the mood and suspense place this one slightly above other teens-locked-in-a-building-with-a-psychopath slashers of its kind.HIGHLIGHT:  One girl waits for her boyfriend to come back to bed, unaware that the killer has messily disposed of him and put on his clothes, setting up a very scary scene of mistaken identity..
Hide And Go Shriek though was one of the last and one of the best titled, even though it is a fun ride there's just not enough of the teens die.A small group of teens have just finished high school and are heading for college and are about to celebrate they're last summer as youngsters, so they get the idea to have a party in a furniture store which is owned by one of the teens father.
From an early and hilarious scene involving two boys working out together before one of them says "see you in the showers," and takes a healthy bite out of a banana to the killer dressing in drag, it's a feast of euphemisms and cross-dressing.It would be easy to say that this movie was oddly cast with untypically regular looking kids with a penchant for dinosaur earrings, surfer shorts and skinny ties, but alas, it was only the end of the 80s where stone-washed was a household word.
In all her banana clip glory, she sneers and leers so much you start fantasizing about her ugly demise.All in all "Hide And Go Shriek" is a fun enjoyable ride, it certainly has it all irritating teens, nudity, bad acting interesting death scenes even though too many of the teens survive adding less tension to the final scenes, a definite must see if you're a fan of the 80's horror scene..
The film features one main suspect throughout, but an interesting twist makes this late eighties slasher very unique and a cut above others made at this time.The filming location of the dark furniture store works really well for a movie like this.
if you want to watch a movie with false scares, creepy environment, creepy music, and entertaining death sequences, then"Hide and Go Shriek" is the perfect movie.The flaws about this movie are bad actors, and a boring plot (8 teens stay in a place and get stalked and killed by someone).
Hide and Go Shriek (1988) *** (out of 4) Eight teenagers decides to stay in one of their father's furniture stores after hours so that they can have fun, drink beer and have sex all night.
If you're looking for an art-house film then this here is certainly not that but if you enjoy the slasher genre then there's a lot of really good stuff here.Director Skip Schoolnik and writer Michael Kelly certainly know what a genre fan would want and they deliver it here.
You've got a pretty good mystery as to who is doing the killings and finally we have some clever death scenes and blood.All of that stuff adds up to one of the better horror films of the genre.
But "Hide and Go Shriek" is rough going for a while, as it is boring and inane in equal measure.If you're a devoted aficionado of all things slasher related, you'll want to see it for completions' sake, but don't get your hopes up high.Four out of 10..
But a cross-dressing killer has arrived to crash their party game of hide and go seek.Drawing on pre-established slasher traditions that were honed by many films in the early–mid-eighties, "Hide and Go Shriek" doesn't really get any points for originality.
As is the case with the majority of the film, the last act isn't particularly fresh or interesting, but the reveal at the end is definitely unorthodox in the slasher world.Overall, "Hide and Go Shriek" is not bad as far as eighties slasher films go, especially those from the latter half of the decade, a time when the well seemed to have run dry.
Hide and Go Shriek is probably a slightly better than average slasher movie.
The plot revolves around a group of eight teenagers, four couples, who decide to have a post-graduation party in the furniture store, which is owned by the father of one them, one night.
I initially thought that there would be some kind of twist revealing the identity of the gender confused killer given they make such a point of not giving us a good look at his face but nothing like that happens.
Playing hide and seek (Twice- once would have seemed a strange thing for a group of supposedly seventeen year olds to be doing but twice, even stranger), splitting off to have sex and looking for the missing members of the group once the killer finally starts to pick off some of their number.
It actually takes a while and the kills are fairly thin on the ground as the killer spends a lot of time hanging around and acting creepy and menacing in the shadows watching the teens.
He is certainly one of the more memorable killers from a generic eighties slasher.To the films credit once it hits the fan and the teens realise what is happening they act in a reasonable manner for this kind of movie.
Hide and Go Shriek has a lot in common with other 80's body count films like Chopping Mall and The Initiation, so if you enjoyed those, you might get a kick out of this.
Four teenage couples sneak into a large furniture store after hours for a wild night of sex, booze and errr hide and go seek.
As they roam around the darkness, pausing occasionally to make good use of the shop's many beds, a killer proceeds to bump them off one-by-one, dressing up as his previous victim in order to fool the next one.Late 80s slasher Hide And Go Shriek is, for the most part, an extremely predictable horror, with the usual assortment of dumb, oversexed teenage victims-to-be and a mysterious killer with the apparent ability to be in many places at once.
With the plot calling for the store's lights to be off the whole time, the film is extremely dark for much of the action, making most of the kills rather disappointing (low lighting saves on decent effects I suppose); however, director Skip Schoolnik does at least ensure that there is adequate lighting whenever the actresses take their clothes off (three out of the four girls get their norks out; the fourth strips to her underwear).Where the film does score points for originality is with its killer: I'm not going to spoil it for you, but the true identity of the maniac is most unexpected, and the reason for his reign of terror absolutely hilarious.5.5 out of 10, rounded up to 6 for the cool elevator decapitation scene, and the surprisingly hot striptease by the supposedly virginal Judy (Donna Baltron) which makes me believe that she hasn't been entirely truthful about her lack of experience..
Unsurprisingly, the VHS was distributed by New World Pictures, who distributed some of the most eighties movies ever to see the light of day (1985's GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN, anyone?).A group of fun-loving and very horny teenagers decide to stay the night in one of the teens' father's furniture stores.
A certain habit of the killer's does make for some creepy scenes as well, and there's a good sense of isolation in the furniture store.Like in TERROR TRAIN, the killer here takes the costume of his recent victim in order to lure other victims to him when they think it is that person.
Aside from the cross-dressing killer, there's an implied relationship between two male characters, as shown in the beginning when the two are lifting weights and one tells the other to meet him in the shower, then gives him a seductive look as he chomps on his banana.The gore in HIDE AND GO SHRIEK isn't much, but we do get an absolutely fantastic elevator decapitation (try to tell when the real head of the actress is replaced by the fake one) and a few more somewhat bloody deaths.
A lot of the teenagers end up surviving, but I think this is to leave room for a sequel that, sadly, never was.Some laughs are to be had at the wonderfully dated fashions and hairstyles, including the ever prevalent mullet (one character gets teased throughout the film for his short hair).All in all, a fun movie that actually got rid of a lot of the gripes I have with stupid characters.
A cast of unknowns (both then and now) play a bunch of horny teenagers who hit on the idea of spending a night in the huge furniture store owned by the father of one of the boys.
However, while they're busy getting their jollies and playing hide-and-seek, a deranged killer is finding grisly  if relatively unimaginative  ways of knocking them off.It's obvious the makers of this film were working with a budget tinier than the brains of its teenage characters, so Hide and Go Shriek earns some plaudits for holding its own in an overcrowded genre.
The version I watched on the Horror Channel is a bowdlerised version, I think, as one of the scenes immediately following the murder of the store-owner's son makes no sense at all, and the gore factor is pretty low.
Hide and Go Shriek will probably entertain those undemanding fans who like their horror cheap and dark and regularly interrupted by naked teenage girls; anyone else will probably lose patience with both the one-dimensional characters and the film long before the killer is unmasked..
Four teenage couples throw a graduation party in a closed funiture store after hours, but an unknown killer shows up and locks them in the building.
As he kills each person during a game of hide and go seek, he disguises himself by wearing whatever clothing his victims were wearing.Sometimes creepy, sometimes fun slasher flick is no Citizen Kane, but is entertaining on its own terms.
A bunch of teenagers decide to sneak into a furniture store for an after hours graduation party, but a killer shows up and locks all the entrances.
Not bad for the slasher genre, the acting is above average, and it's entertaining for most of its run time, but the ending is weak though.
Six teenagers decide to have their own private graduation party by sneaking into a giant furniture store, owned by one of the kids parents, before it is locked up for the night.
The stupidity of the characters is not amazing, and not even the gore (which is tame by slasher movie standards) does not save the film.
the late 80s were the last of the horror films until the late 90s, when they started back up again.good thing this movie did not have a sequel.
8 teenagers decide to spend the night in a furniture store, and a psycho shows up to stalk and kill them all one at a time.
Bad acting all the way around, but the killer is a little interesting to watch because you don't know who it is.
After the tragic event the opening credits roll, and you have a peculiar opening sequence for a slasher movie.In the next scene eight friends plan to celebrate their high school graduation in a furniture store at night, owned by the father of one of these kids.
I thought that this was a recommended slasher, better than the average.I've had the chance to watch "Hide and Go Shriek" 3 times in the past 2 years and my opinion has changed.
This is just a film for slasher fans, those who enjoy the greatness of this genre.
This 1988 horror film features 8 friends who decide to spend the night in a furniture store owned by one's father where they celebrate graduating high school and play a game of hide and seek, but a killer decides to change the rules.
This starts off OK, but falls flat because the characters are unlikable, it's over a half hour until the killer strikes and most of the film is too dark.
They're all planning on spending the night at John's dad's large furniture shop, so they can make good use of the fresh double beds and get up to the things that seem to p**s off so many psychopathic serial killers.
Talk about bad luck!Unfortunately, all those above average moments are completely ruined as soon as the MALE killer is revealed and he says things like, `A housewife's work is never done.!' Dressed in bondage gear and full make-up he reveals his motives for murder and ruins the entire movie.
Looking for an uninterrupted sex romp, a gang of teens head to the furniture store owned by the father of one of their group.
The film isn't terribly original, but the idea for the killers was something fresh, and in the end, it turned out to be a slightly above-average teen slasher worthy of a look for fans of this subgenre.If you're looking for an easy 80s slasher with a bit of a twist to it, give it a look.
Group of teens(forming four boyfriend-girlfriend couple), just recently graduated from high school, decide to stay overnight in a furniture store to have a little sex, but have no clue that a killer awaits them..a transvestite psycho at that!
They decide to play a game of hide-and-seek within the furniture store while also taking time out to have sexual relations in the numerous beds on the different floors available to them.
This furniture store becomes a playground for the killer as he can come upon them unannounced, often hiding within the mannequins in the darkness.
Four couples sneak into a closed furniture store for a night of partying and sex.
When a group of hormonal teens decide to party in said furniture store after hours, (one of them is the son of the aforementioned stupid owner and has a set of spare keys) they're in for trouble when the homicidal transvestite ex-con lover of the ex-con living there comes calling to strike up the Brokeback relationship, in this horribly dated late '80's slasher horror film.
"Hide And Go Shriek" is by no means a good slasher film.
These teens celebrate their graduation spending the night at a furniture store.