I'm still in the mode of "let's get back to the core of the blog" which is also coupled with "I just broke up with my girlfriend and started a new job, I need some escapism".
Sweet Sixteen was stylized as Sweet 16 on Tubi, which despite having advertisements has overtaken Amazon in terms of horror for me. They have tons and a lot of it is 70s, 80s, 90s, foreign, and super unheard of. Hey guys, you're attracting some customers with that lemme tell ya.
It's 1983 and Friday the 13th part 3 had come out in the previous year. So they grabbed one of the girls from that film and put her in this, which is yet another 80's slasher for all y'all. The plot involves a young girl named Marci who is having her sweet 16 pretty soon. She lives in a small town where there's some racial tension involving two Native Americans and the white people, and early on she is flirting with a guy that is then killed. As the plot goes on, every man that hits on her is killed, the Native Americans are blamed, and tensions all around rise to a boiling point.
We also follow fellow young girl classmate Melissa and her brother, and overall there's a lot of likable characters in this film. There's not a lot of intricacy to the plot, and there's only about three kills, but the focus on the interactions with decent acting and decent writing make the movie feel good enough to watch.
I guess we're flipping the script with having the man be hunted, and spoiler alert a female killer who is the main character's mom I think (I don't remember), and that's enough to differentiate this one, right! It is the 8-s and we need slashers after all.
Sweet Sixteen is another one to watch when you need some basic slasher, and it functions in this form to a average degree. 3 stars
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