Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge
Everybody has a favorite slasher they’ll champion to the end. The reasons vary: creative kill scenes, great soundtrack, retro clothes, Pauly Shore, creative use of – wait a second! Pauly Shore?! Yes, 1989’s Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge doesn’t have a whole lot to recommend it beside an early appearance by the Weasel as an ice-cream slinging mall employee who gets caught up in a mall massacre. Director Richard Friedman, whose previous genre films Scared Stiff and Doom Asylum were equally inept, can’t make heads or tails out of the re-jiggered script built around the idea of a burn-victim hiding out in airshafts protecting his true love from a corrupt businessman. While the teens shop, Eric practicing his crossbow and Gymkata skills in the back room hoping for a chance to get revenge…instead of, ya know, revealing he’s actually alive and pressing charges against the guy who murdered him? Phantom of the Mall (the whole Eric’s Revenge thing makes it seem like a fran