Arizona Daily Star from Tucson, Arizona • Page 13

ntertainment Uje Arizona Uatll! Star TUCSON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1982 TV2C Comics 4C 'Homework' is a formless mess friend, Sheila, and she's some mother. Sheila's friends call her Diane, instead of Mrs. Whats-Her-Name, since she apparently doesn't have a last name. Because the film isn't about anything, it doesn't have a story line in the usual sense. You have to read a lot into "Homework" to make sense out of it, but more or less, the film is about Tommy, a high school kid who complains to his friend, Ralph, that he is still a virgin.

He decides to form a rock group, The Flies. "Like the ones on your pants," he explains. The rest of the movie is spent Review Tommy can't get to first base with Sheila because she spends so much time in the family pool she should be sprouting gills. Her life consists entirely of trying to cut 10 seconds off her "time," so she swims day and night. Sheila's mother (Collins) is just as fascinating.

She spends all her time getting dressed to go out and having conversations with her husband, who never appears on screen. Once in a while she has flashbacks of her youth, which she spent petting in the back seats of lumpy old 1950s cars. After wasting a lot of time with all this garbage, everyone decides to give a party the night before The Flies play at the high school talent show. Everyone has a good time except Tommy, who is depressed, not because this movie has finished his career before it has begun, but because Sheila must continue to swim and can't go to the party with him. Tommy goes over to Sheila's house, watches her swim and then goes inside where her mother (supposedly Collins, but it is a double in the sex scene) seduces him.

The group plays at the talent show. Somebody's parent is dating a big-time agent, but The Flies fail to take off. The next day Ralph and Tommy go to a movie and decide they can make a better film than the one they've just seen. If the movie was anything like "Homework," they're right. "Homework" is playing at the El Con 6, Valencia Vista and Tucson 5.

By Larry Harnisch The Arizona Daily Star In what is clearly a telling moment, the film "Homework" ends as two of its characters walk out of a theater. "We could make a better movie than that," says Ralph. "My dad has a camera," replies Tommy. Ralph and Tommy are obvioi sly high school-age stand-ins for Maurice Peterson and Don Safran, who, along with director James Beshears, concocted this formless mess. "Homework's" ads give the impression that it is a sleazy sex comedy about an experienced older woman giving a teen-age boy his sexual initiation, but the film fails miserably to do even this.

It seems to have been made during off-hours by people whose experience was limited to making films about driver's education or venereal disease. Please accept my apologies for not giving the actor's names. There are never press kits for cheapie films like this. There's no point in berating the actors, anyway. They're non-entities, except for Carrie Snodgress and Joan Collins.

Their presence in the film may be explained by an apparently pressing need for money. Snodgress gets by with two scenes, probably shot in one day, in which she plays Tommy's high school counselor, Dr. Delingua. Collins, though, does not escape so easily. She plays the mother of Tommy's girl fly thrashing around, trying to show the sexual experiences of each band member.

Lisa, for example, plays the electric bass while riding on a skateboard. This amazing talent gets her a date with a rock star, Red Dog, who gives her VD. Cookie's parents go crazy after" she has sex with one of the other band members. Ralph spends his time courting his French teacher, who gives nightly, private lessons to several students. Another of her nocturnal students is the band's drummer, Gilles, who attempts to talk with a French accent.

Tommy spends his time fantasizing about pinup girls. He dreams about getting electroshock therapy because he has never had sex and dreams that as he is about to ride the lighting, the two nurses who are giving him the treatment show each other their breasts. Joan Collins plays a seductive mother in "Homework" -conceived horror film 'Incubus' is a truly horrid artistic effort assorted knickknacks from Galen's past. As in all formula horror, the story begins with a couple, Roy and Mandy, who get romantic in a deserted Review By Larry Harnisch The Arizona Daily Star Incubus is another word for nightmare, and the film "Incubus" is certainly that, although in the artistic sense. The movie has all the elements required of a truly awful horror film: A once-respected actor reduced to making horror movies (John Cassavetes), oceans of fake blood, a dopey monster that has a ridiculous way of killing people, terribly wooden acting and a wildly implausible script that has more loose ends than a plate of spaghetti.

Written by George Franklin and directed by John Hough, the film is set in the mythical city of Galen, a town that has enough spooky old houses, deserted quarries, Gothic buildings and remote farmhouses to make a dozen Hardy Boys mysteries. The local museum even has a torture chamber on display, along with daggers and other needed to follow what passes for a story line. Anyway, the bodies pile up like cordwood. The dead include Cordell's assistant, who hears something strange in his barn and when he investigates is nearly decapitated with a shovel. (Before he dies he blows off his toe with a shotgun, too, just for effect).

His daughter is assaulted while taking a shower and another daughter (who is in a wheelchair for no apparent reason) is also attacked. Eventually, all the necessary parties get together at Cordell's house for the final mayhem. Cordell induces Tim's dream while Jenny is upstairs asleep with Kincaid watching over her. Naturally, the demon appears, looking like the Jolly Green Giant with fangs. I know it isn't cricket to give away the ending, but it is enough to say that the conclusion defies any any sort of logic whatsoever, but then so does the entire film.

"Incubus" is playing at the El Con 6, Valencia Vista and Tucson 5. "a baby's arm with an apple in its fist." Well, whoever assaulted Mandy resembles a -weight lifter palming a basketball, and he has almost raped Mandy to death. BacK at Cordell's house, Tim is telling Jenny about his nightmares in which someone is being tortured. As luck would have it, the scene resembles the Galen museum's torture chamber. This is apt, because the next woman to be assaulted is the librarian.

Just to make the plot totally senseless, the film introduces a reporter, Laura Kincaid, as the new owner of Galen's newspaper. She shows up at all the murder scenes, claiming to be investigating the assaults, although she only takes pictures and never asks a single question. As luck would have it, Kincaid looks like Cordell's dead wife. There is never any explanation of how his wife died, why Kincaid should look exactly like her and least of all why she and Cordell should fall in love. But these are a drop in the bucket compared with the wild leaps in logic place (this time it's a quarry).

Mandy is attacked by something and her boyfriend rushes to help and is killed. Cut to Dr. Sam Cordell (Cassavetes) who is telling his daughter, Jenny, to stay away from her weird boyfriend, Tim Galen. Cordell is called to the emergency room where he finds Mandy, who has been sexually assaulted. This next part is kind of hard to explain.

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