The Outing (The Lamp) (1987)
Directed by Tom Daley
I decided to watch The Lamp AKA The Outing because it looked like a shitty 80's Horror flick. Which in fact was what it was. What surprised me though were the pretty good production values, decent acting (among the leads anyway), and awesome special effects. This is definitely a cheap ass movie, but director Tom Daley made the best of what he had. The result is an entertaining piece of schlock.
See there's this lamp, and it has an evil genie living in it. At the beginning of the movie these redneck robbers break into the house of an old woman who's very rich. They break all her stuff while looking for money, and even hit her in the head with an axe. When they break a hole in the wall of her bedroom, they find the lamp, and unwittingly unleash the genie who murders the hell out of them.
Next thing you know the lamp is taken to a museum where the museum people figure out that the lamp is over 5000 years old. The museum director's daughter puts on the magic bracelet that comes with the lamp and is slightly possessed. She convinces the other 25 year olds that she goes to high school with that they should spend the night in the museum. What she doesn't know is that her ex boyfriend who's a complete scumbag overhears the plan, so he and his scumbag friend also sneak in for the night. If you've ever seen a horror movie you know what comes next.
This film plays it by the numbers, but does it with a certain flair. Like I mentioned the effects look great. Way better than you expect them to. I particularly like the reanimated corpse that looks like Iron Maiden's Eddy. if you turn your brain off then this movie is a pretty good time, and deserves to be better known than it is.
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