Aussie Bloggers

It was with great delight that I discovered that my next posting on the Aussie Bloggers blog would be on the spooky Friday the 13th. Instantly I’m thinking of writing about Freddy Krueger or Halloween and of course Jason and Friday the 13th (duh obvious much). But those are all American films and this is an Aussie blog pertaining to all things Aussie so therefore I must find myself an Australian horror film.

But which one to choose?

Do I go with a giant pig in the outback with Razorback, the marsupial werewolves of Howling 3 or for that matter the nastiness of Saw?

Well I finally figured I wouldn’t bother aiming so high.

Houseboat Horror is a cult film, it certainly couldn’t be classified a good film by any measure! It’s possibly described (probably not best described) as the logical outcome if Summer Bay and Ramsey Street had a horrible slasher film as a child, that child would be the 1989 film Houseboat Horror.

The film is about a band that heads bush to film a music video and are picked off one by one by a deranged killer who was horribly burnt and disfigured on a film set some years earlier. Sounds scary enough? Well don’t crawl under that doona quite yet, whilst there are some gory scenes and the effects are OK by 80’s Australian slasher film standards, the film is more silly than scary (unless you count the acting).

For science fiction / genre fans though (and Ugly Betty fans I guess) look out for our resident “Australian (well adopted Aussie) Neighbours star come good” Alan Dale. I can’t believe the stuff this guy has been in by the way, it’s good to see that Houseboat Horror didn’t sink his career!

So if you want an awful Aussie slasher film this Friday the 13th try and find Houseboat Horror (good luck finding it though!).

Bahahahahaha (picture an evil Friday the 13th laugh)