today’s ” AR-online” again AR-Online recent issues: May 1999 April 1999 March 1999 February 1999 January 1999 December 1998 November 1998 October 1998 September 1998 August 1998 July 1998 Hollywood once again surpasses itselfApril 30, 1999 “Idle Hands” reviewed by Lawrence Van Gelder If timing is everything, then the recent carnage at Columbine High School indicates that now could scarcely be less opportune for the opening of ” Idle Hands ,” a cheap-thrills
horror film built around a teen-age murder rampage that reaches its climax among panic-stricken students at a Halloween dance in a small-town high school.
Even pretensions toward the humorous and hip cannot save this blood-drenched film from its innate tastelessness, calculated to find its audience among those, like its hero and his friends, whose vapid lives are a celebration of truancy, marijuana and junk food in a virtually parentless habitat that stretches only from bed to television set. .. ‘Idle Hands’ is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian).
It involves bloody murder, resurrected corpses, severed body parts, partial nudity during sexual foreplay, sexual references and coarse language. The above news item is reproduced without editing other than typographical Register your name and address to go on the Mailing List to receive 1999