Monster in the Closet (1987)
Director- Bob Dahlin
Starring- Donald Grant, Denise DuBarry, Paul Walker
A rash of murders taking place in closets has people terrified to look for their own clothes. An obituary writer who wants to get his big break investigates and discovers that a monster is to blame. I cut this movie slack because it's meant to be funny, and most of the time, it is. The monster is actually kind of cool-looking, and I was surprised to find a pre-megadouchebag Paul Walker (remember Fast and Furious?) playing 12-ish year old, oddly named Professor Bennet (that's right his mom named him Professor), boy genius and contributor to the monster's eventual demise.
The movie hits its apex of absurdity when the monster has Richard, Professor and his mom cornered in their attic. As the monster looms over them, Richard's glasses are knocked off, and his handsomocity, which makes Professor's mom turn into a mesmerized idiot, has a paralyzing effect on the monster. The monster then picks him up and carries him off to a closet, which we have by now found out it uses to rejuvenate itself. Unfortunately, they won't both fit, so the monster carries Richard out into the street, where it dies.
The line is then quoted by one of the crowd, "'twas beauty killed the beast."
Rating: That line alone helps to earn this on
e 4/5 Bonedaddies.
Director- Bob Dahlin
Starring- Donald Grant, Denise DuBarry, Paul Walker
A rash of murders taking place in closets has people terrified to look for their own clothes. An obituary writer who wants to get his big break investigates and discovers that a monster is to blame. I cut this movie slack because it's meant to be funny, and most of the time, it is. The monster is actually kind of cool-looking, and I was surprised to find a pre-megadouchebag Paul Walker (remember Fast and Furious?) playing 12-ish year old, oddly named Professor Bennet (that's right his mom named him Professor), boy genius and contributor to the monster's eventual demise.
The movie hits its apex of absurdity when the monster has Richard, Professor and his mom cornered in their attic. As the monster looms over them, Richard's glasses are knocked off, and his handsomocity, which makes Professor's mom turn into a mesmerized idiot, has a paralyzing effect on the monster. The monster then picks him up and carries him off to a closet, which we have by now found out it uses to rejuvenate itself. Unfortunately, they won't both fit, so the monster carries Richard out into the street, where it dies.
The line is then quoted by one of the crowd, "'twas beauty killed the beast."
Rating: That line alone helps to earn this on
e 4/5 Bonedaddies. 
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