Neon Maniacs

12/18/2022

**_Fun, but unfinished flick about deadly ogres by the Golden Gate Bridge_** The friends of a high school girl (Leilani Sarelle) are ruthlessly slain by monstrous freaks living under the Golden Gate Bridge, but the police don’t believe her outlandish story. Thankfully, her potential beau believes her (Clyde Hayes), as does an adolescent girl (Donna Locke), and they team-up to find the truth. “Neon Maniacs” (1986), aka “Evil Dead Warriors,” is similar to the contemporaneous “Trick or Treat” except that, unlike Sammi Curr in that movie, the titular antagonists are too cartoonish to be scary in any way, despite their gory slayings. The tone mixes brutal killings with a fun ‘kid flick’ spirit and it’s bewildering. The monsters curiously consist of a samurai, a caveman, a doctor, an I