Wacko (1981)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1981
Running Times: 90 mins
Format: colour
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PRODUCTION
Producer: Greydon Clark

SCRIPT
Script: Jim Kouf, Dana Olsen, Michael Spound

DIRECTION
Director: Greydon Clark

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Nicholas Josef von Sternberg

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Earl Watson

MUSIC
Music: Arthur Kempel

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Allan Apone, Kenny Myers

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Joe Quinlivan, Dana Rheaume

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Directors: Jay Burkhardt, Chester Kaczenski

STUNTS
Stunts: Denny Arnold, Mike Tillman, John Moio, Rick New, Buck Allen

CAST
Joe Don Baker (Dick Harbinger)
Stella Stevens (Marg Greaves)
George Kennedy (Dr Graves)
Julia Duffy (Mary Graves)
Scott McGinnis (Norman Bates)
Andrew Clay (Tony Schtonginini)
Michele Tobin (Rosie)
Elizabeth Daily (Bambi)
David Drucker (Looney)
Anthony James (Zeke)
Sonny Davis (Weirdo)
Victor Brandt (Dr Moreau)
Jeff Altman (Harry Palms)
Charles Napier (Chief Patrick O'Hara)
Wil Albert (Dr Denton)
Michael Lee Gogin (Damien Graves)
Claudia Lonow (Pam Graves)
Tamar Howard (little Mary)
Darby Hinton (rookie cop)
Jacqulin Cole (librarian)
Ben Hartigan (doctor)
John Avery (Danny)
Toni Sawyer (Rosie's mother)
Lou Felder (Rosie's father)
Albert Nalbandian (Dale)
Laura Dashosh (Wandering Jew)
Helen Martin (Harbinger's mother)
Fred O. Scott (Harbinger's father)
Karole Selmon (Harbinger's sister)
Pete Robinson (Harbinger's brother)
Michael R. Starita (referee)
Robert Magnus (teacher)
Steve Wagner (orderly)
Mickey Eppes (plain clothes cop)
David Greenwalt (uniformed cop)
M. James Kouf Jr (prisoner)
Joseph Jay Camen (boy in vice)
John Bristole (Driver's Education teacher)
Alex Preisman, Paula Jacquard, Shelley Doig (girls at prom)
Christina Cummings, Larry Wills (prom teachers)
Michael T. Starita (boy with nose)
Dan Frischman, Andrew Lederer, Ronald Kelney (Schlonginni Singers)
Joshua Daniel (well dressed student)
Janice Davie (cafeteria matron)
Katina Gardner (woman in massage parlour)
Erin Halligan (gorgeous young woman)
Suzie Harper (Lola)
Donna Gaff (nurse)
James Gaff (patient)
William Driver, Stephen A. Maginn, Edythe Magnus, Laurie B.McCormick, John Roedell, Mary Ann Roedell, Barbara Starita (prom chaperones)Chris Cote, Richard Neigher, Simon Teolis, Scott Norman, Mike Mirage (Avalon, the band)

In this spoof of slasher movies, teenaged students are being massacred by a serial killer armed with a lawnmower.

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Jensen Farley Pictures
Video Distributor: Vestron Video; Image Entertainment Inc

USA
Rating: PG

The wacky comedy

Wacko... da wackelt die Bude - German title

SEE ALSO
Alien (1979)
The Birds (1963)
Carrie (1976)
Damien: Omen II (1978)
The Exorcist (1973)
Halloween (1978)
The Island of Dr Moreau (1977)
The Omen (1976)
Prom Night (1980)
Psycho (1960)

BOOKS

Psychotronic Video Guide p.607
credits, review (by Michael Weldon)

Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film and Television Credits Supplement: Through 1987 p.630
credits

serial killers, spoof, parody, slasher, stalk and slash, lawnmowers, teenagers, gore, high schools

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008