` neon maniac begin interestingly enough . a narrator grimly inform the audience that and ` when the world be rule by violence and and the soul of mankind fade and the child path shall be darken by the shadow of the neon maniac . wow . what a really uh and bold statement . can anyone tell me what on god green earth the narrator meant by that . be he portend some horrible apocalypse . perhaps he be predict the olsen twin rise to power . i do not know . the film plot have promise . a band of festively costume and water phobic monster and live under the golden gate bridge be traipse around san francisco brutally butcher horny teenager . two high school senior and a grammar school special effect make up enthusiast join force to battle the murderous beasties . unfortunately and writer and mark patrick carducci never really develop his premise while too many question be leave unanswered . for instance and why would a cabal of creature who be only vulnerable to water choose to reside under the golden gate bridge . and how do a hangman and a samurai and a one eye meatball and a bowman and a zombie native american and a psychotic surgeon and a deformed knife wield maniac and a feral man ape and a fall soldier and a dead motorcyclist meet and decide to cohabitate and and form a pact to murder innocent san franciscan . do one of the creature place a personal ad in a local newspaper . if so and which one place the ad . my guess be that it be the one eye meatball . despite the mystifying plotline and the film have it good point . alan hayes and leilani sarelle and donna locke be likeable a our three monster buster . director and joseph mangine manage to craft some memorable scene of horror ( the runaway train sequence and the attack at the dance be stand out ) . and the special effect make up . oh and the make up . the monster be appropriately grotesque and there enough death and dismemberment to satisfy the most jaded gore hound of the household . unless of course that gore hound happen to be into hardcore german zombie movie .