Sweet Sixteen Movie Review
Just shy of her sixteenth birthday, Melissa Morgan (Aleisa Shirley) arrives in a small town. Soon after, a series of murders begin taking place. Could the mysterious Melissa be behind them? That's the premise of this low budget 1983 film that has a bit more whodunit than the average slasher. In fact, the movie may attempt to go too deep for a slasher, especially one from this time period. We meet a slew of characters, have a few subplots, a red herring or two--of course, we still have what you likely came for, which is the blood. Though the deaths are fairly high, the scenes are rather tame, so those looking for a lot of gore may be disappointed. There's also plenty of the other 1980s horror staple, nudity, thrown in.
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The acting from the primary characters is surprisingly decent--the minor characters, on the other hand, are rough. The rednecks taunting and harassing the...who knows what the politically correct name will be at the time you are reading this, so I'll just say the...not white person subplot had already been done a million times in movies by the time this one came out, but all the actors involved did a good job and it actually tied nicely into the ending--plus, it's always fun seeing racists get their comeuppance. The twists and turns at the end are a bit much, and the slow motion absolutely kills the climax of the film. There's nothing terrific about Sweet Sixteen, but there's nothing terrible about it either--it's a perfectly average horror movie.
On A Scale Of One To Ten: 5
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