famous and mysterious recluse raymar and who some kind of lethal telekinetic psychic vampire and abruptly dy under bizarre circumstance . nice girl high school student julie well ( a warm and sympathetic performance by the lovely meg tilly ) want desperately to be accept by the snobby clique the sister ( play to sublimely bitchy perfection by leslie speights and robin evans and the ever cuddly elizabeth daily ) and so she agree to spend a night in a creepy mausoleum where raymar body have be inter a part of an initiation rite . naturally and raymar still have his extraordinary power and so it go to be a very long and harrow night of pure nerve wrack terror for poor julie . director or co screenwriter tom mcloughlin ( who later give u the enjoyably tongue in cheek friday the 13th part vi represent jason life ) eschew graphic gore in favor of create a brooding and eerie atmosphere and but fail to pull this particular feat off because the first hour be way too slow and talky and uneventful to be remotely scary or suspenseful . however and i nonetheless still find this flaw fright flick to be oddly appealing and entertain . the big poofy hairdo and a goofy music montage sequence and badly time false scare ( include the ubiquitous hand on the shoulder gag . ) and a scene at a glittery video game arcade and kid gleefully smoke pot and and the hilariously dumb teen slang ( nerdle brain . ) give this picture a certain endearingly quaint 80 period charm . hal trussell handsome and polished cinematography ( i especially dig the smoothly gliding steadicam track shot ) and bob summer spooky and yet funky humn hiver synthesizer score and and tom burman splendidly ghoulish make up f or x be all up to snuff . the ever stolid adam west of tv batman fame merely take up space in a nothing secondary part . the mausoleum make for an impressively vast and unsettling main location . the grand finale with a bunch of ghastly rot corps pop out of their coffin and float about qualifies a a marvelously macabre shock set piece . sure and this baby definitely ain not some unjustly unsung gem and but it still deliver plenty of pleasingly silly and divert cheesy fun all the same .