{"id":21213,"date":"2014-10-28T01:28:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T05:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=21213"},"modified":"2020-06-25T06:11:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T10:11:01","slug":"hard-to-die-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/28\/hard-to-die-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard to Die (1990)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hardtodie1990\"<\/a>What Jim Wynorski\u2019s \u201cHard to Die\u201d has in common with \u201cDie Hard\u201d is that it features a high rise. And that\u2019s about it. But I don\u2019t blame it for being so shameless in exploiting the aforementioned action film, when \u201cHard to Die\u201d is purposely exploitative and shameless to begin with. 1990\u2019s \u201cHard to Die\u201d also known as \u201cTower of Terror\u201d and \u201cSorority House Massacre 3\u201d is seventy minutes (Well if you cut out the montage from \u201cSlumber Party Massacre,\u201d the film is a cool hour) of goofy ridiculous fun intended to mock the horror genre at every turn. It\u2019s a horror movie, a comedy, a slasher, a demon possession film, and a softcore porn romp all in one. And damn it, it\u2019s still a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s really not much to say about \u201cHard to Die\u201d except that its narrative is nothing but a hodge podge of plot elements mashed together for the sole purpose of featuring our buxom cast run around in lingerie. A group of gorgeous busty women working in a lingerie shop have to pull an all nighter sorting out stock for their sleazy boss. They\u2019re also easily startled by the building janitor Orville, as played by Peter Spellos. He survived the previous confrontations from the past \u201cSorority House Massacre\u201d movies and is still suspected of murdering the poor girls. Deciding to pass the time, they put on lingerie and scamper around, all the while taking showers together, bouncing and jiggling and making pretty funny jokes that reference previous scenes.<\/p>\n

When a pizza delivery girl is called up to the building through the elevator, the mysterious killer of the movie sets her ablaze. Cut to one of the characters moaning \u201cWhere\u2019s the girl with the food already? It\u2019ll be char broiled when she gets here.\u201d Yes, it\u2019s that kind of movie. While \u201cHard to Die\u201d is a loose sequel it\u2019s also very much a horror comedy that spoofs all of the eighties film tropes, right down to the action flicks. Suffice it to say if that isn\u2019t enough, the girls accidentally receive a package in the form of a locked box that unleashes a demonic spirit. When released, the murdering begins as someone is knocking off the buxom troop. Could it be Orville? Or could it be someone entirely unexpected?<\/p>\n

For a movie that doesn\u2019t require much in the way of acting ability, the cast of gorgeous women pull off their performances well, and Peter Spellos is very good as the enigmatic Orville. \u201cHard to Die\u201d has a narrative that\u2019s just absolute nonsense, but I enjoy how it seems aware of that, and uses it to deliver a hilarious and entertaining horror comedy. When the girls happen upon a gun store in their high rise, and one of the characters justifies being able to inexplicably handle a machine gun like a pro by declaring \u201cMy dad was a marine!\u201d you just have to laugh and enjoy the ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What Jim Wynorski\u2019s \u201cHard to Die\u201d has in common with \u201cDie Hard\u201d is that it features a high rise. And that\u2019s about it. But I don\u2019t blame it for being so shameless in exploiting the aforementioned action film, when \u201cHard to Die\u201d is purposely exploitative and shameless to begin with. 1990\u2019s \u201cHard to Die\u201d also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[58,219,274,337,438,477,542,703,793,973,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-21213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-comedy","tag-demon","tag-exploitation","tag-h","tag-horror","tag-jim-wynorski","tag-mystery","tag-possession","tag-spoof","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21215,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213\/revisions\/21215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}