NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

melvelvit-1 The Animism professor at Tiverton College finds a sacrificial cloak hidden in an ancient Aztec altar and goes on a homicidal rampage before committing suicide. Soon after, a campus co-ed (TWIN PEAKS' Madchen Amick) buys the ceremonial cloth at an estate sale and turns it into a ravishing red cocktail dress that removes sexual inhibition and triggers another murder wave before being stolen from the morgue...The intriguing premise was adapted from a short story by Cornell Woolrich and the movie has horror director Tobe Hooper as an asset but, all the same, it's rather tame and doesn't reely warrant an R rating. Anthony Perkins guest-stars as a quirky professor with an inordinate interest in the apparently inexplicable and Natalie Shafer ("Lovey" on GILLIGAN'S ISLAND) pops up as a wheelchair-bound mute a la William Castle's HOMICIDAL. Not bad, I suppose, but it could have been more with added gore.

Maciste_Brother Tobe Hooper is one of my favorite filmmakers. Even though his track record of churning out great movies is definitely uneven, there's always something about his films, good or bad, that I like. The quirkiness of his characters, the wild situations, or his style of direction. Unfortunately, I'M DANGEROUS TONIGHT has NONE of these Tobe Hooper qualities. It's totally bland and pretty much forgettable. And in my book, this, along with CROCODILE, is probably his worst movie ever. The idea for the story is great and had so much potential but once the fabric is turned into a dress, the story goes nowhere...fast. There's almost no violence in it. The only scene with any interesting action occurs when the woman freaks out and strangles her boyfriend.Anthony Perkins' character is totally useless. He was hired just so they can have his name on the video box. And the scenes with Natalie Schafer are very difficult to watch because it's so sad to see her in such a terrible state. Mädchen Amick is the only interesting actor in this unremarkable "horror" movie, but even her character is bland and wimpy.Even Tobe Hooper completists shouldn't bother watching this.

fgunther OK, to explain how hokey this film is, I've got to include a couple of **spoilers**. When our heroine goes home to her obviously sleazy aunt, who tells her there's no money left in her dead parents' estate, and then tells her to sew a new dress for her in two days - the story was done much better in Cinderella. You just know she's gonna wreak awful vengeance on her evil relatives, as soon as the red cloak takes over. Note to director: this was done much better by Jim Carrey in "Mask".And the "red cloak". A cheesy piece of red rayon, supposedly used by Inca priests? With great magical powers? Where'd they get this prop? Salvation Army?There were some fine actors, eg, Madchen Amick and Anthony Perkins, doing their best with this, and the opening scene wasn't too bad. But, much as I wanted to find good things about this film, it was really disappointing. I gave it a 1.

khaki_dojo Long have I been an Anthony Perkins fan, so I looked forward to seeing this movie when it came on the television in a recent horror-thon. I was left disappointed with his role, but intrigued by the writing and cinematography of the rest.Horror is typically a slice 'em and dice 'em film fest where the viewer doesn't care who lives and who dies as long as the movie ends. "I'm Dangerous Tonight" supplied little in the way of well-known talent, but show-cased some unknown actors that did fairly well despite small, insignificant roles.Dee Wallace Stone had great on-screen charisma in this movie as a woman possessed, proving once again that she is truly the queen of the low-grade horror films. Peter Brooks was mismatched in his role as self-centered football legend; he would have made a better Joker-wannabe in some "Batman" remake. Mädchen Amick, who lost a lot of brownie points when she broke into soft erotica a few years ago, is both innocent and refreshing in her role as Amy, and plays well off of her on-screen love Corey Parker, despite a script which is noticeably weak and shaky.The flaws with this movie remain mostly in the lack of real characterization, and cheap theatrics. A horror movie is supposed to be either so real it scares you to death, or so cheesy you can barely stop laughing. "I'm Dangerous Tonight" manages to fall short in both categories, merely leaving you scratching your head and going, "Huh?" The script bandies around some heavy terms, but doesn't bother to explain them properly, and it's easy to leave the viewers scrambling for a dictionary to figure out what is going on.All in all, the movie rates a 7 on a scale of "good movie VS. bad movie", but only 3 on the scale of "good horror VS. bad horror". Tobe Hooper has directed a number of excellent horrific films and shorts throughout the years, but "I'm Dangerous Tonight" (as well as the 1993 TV horror "Body Bags") is definitely not one of his better endeavors.