a motley bunch of garishly make up malevolent and misshapen and murderous subhuman mutant monster ( biker and surgeon and native american and green beret and other such grotesque beasties ) prey upon various hapless folk in sunny and rainy sweet old san francisco . naive and virginal teenager natalie lawrence ( the comely and but extremely vapid leilani sarelle and who go on to portray sharon stone mannish possessive lesbian lover in basic instinct and married character actor miguel ferror and who she co star with in the first rate south of the border film noir thriller the harvest ) survive a socko sanguinary park slaughter in which six of her friend be brutally butcher . natalie team up with handsome and but insipid hunk steven ( the bland allan hayes ) and spunky horror movie love adolescent misfit paula ( the perky and likable donna locke ) to kick some serious creature keister . this thoroughly stupid and but amuse and enjoyable fiven noten cent gremlin rip off boast a hefty corpse tally of 24 ( . ) and plentiful outburst of gory violence ( a grisly gamut from disembowelment to an arrow through the neck to a throat slice to a hanging to a decapitation to . well and you get the basic wall to wall nonstop graphic bloodshed idea while this baby anything but dull and uneventful ) and painfully crummy blurt the line and grimace pseudo act from a non star cast and many uproarious obvious lapse in logic ( e. g. and the horrible thingofabobbits can be kill with mere water and yet reside under the golden gate bridge and live in frisco and a city which isn not famous for it dry and arid weather . ) and righteously gruesome make up f or x and and hopelessly inadequate direction by cinematographer joseph ( alligator and alone in the dark ) mangine . screenwriter mark patrick carducci and who presumably write the senseless dead simple script in about two hour ( probably with magic marker and no less ) and later pen the glorious pumpkinhead and which only go to show that one can really get up from off the floor . hell and this gut bustingly asinine fright flick clinker even come complete with plenty of cheesy rock song and one of those oh so 80 it ain not over yet . sequel set up anti climactic ending and but ala say follow up never get make . man and now isn not that just an honest shame .