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'''''Hide and Go Shriek''''' (Also known as '''''Close Your Eyes and Pray''''') <ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095299/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_dt#akas</ref> is a 1987 American [[horror film|horror]] [[Thriller (genre)|suspense]] film. It was directed by [[Skip Schoolnik]], who had already served as an editor on several films, including ''[[Halloween II (1981 film)|Halloween II]]''. Screenplay by Michael Kelly. The film was given a limited theatrical release with an R rating; an alternate video version, containing only a little more violence, was released unrated.
'''''Hide and Go Shriek''''' (released in edited form on home video as '''''Close Your Eyes and Pray''''' in the United Kingdom)<ref name=BBFC>{{cite web|url= https://bbfc.co.uk/releases/close-your-eyes-and-pray-0|title=''Close Your Eyes and Pray'' (18)|work=[[British Board of Film Classification]]|date=February 9, 1988|access-date=March 3, 2019}}</ref> is a 1988 American [[slasher film]] directed by [[Skip Schoolnik]] in his directorial debut, and starring Bunky Jones, Annette Sinclair, Brittain Frye, Donna Baltron, George Thomas, and [[Sean Kanan]] in his film debut. The story details a group of teenagers who celebrate their graduation by staying the night inside a furniture store, where they are stalked and murdered by a [[cross-dressing]] killer during a game of [[Hide-and-seek|hide and go seek]].


==Plot==
==Plot==
Four couples - Judy and David, John and Bonnie, Randy and Kim, and Shawn and Melissa - have just graduated from high school and are preparing to sneak into a furniture store owned by John's father, Phil. The teenagers begin to drink beer and party as John gives them a tour of the entire store. Kim suggests playing hide-and-go-seek. During the second round, Melissa and Shawn are killed by an unknown murderer.
The film begins with a unidentified man dressed in a suit and tie applying women's makeup in an old and dingy city apartment. The man picks up a prostitute from the street, and while having sex with her in an alleyway, stabs her to death.


At midnight, the remaining six regroup to eat dinner, all concerned about Shawn and Melissa's whereabouts. The group searches everywhere, but are unable to find them. The couples go to bed. As John and Bonnie are having sex, a man dressed in Shawn's clothes enters the room and incites John to chase after him. They start a fight, but the killer impales a mannequin's arm through John's stomach, killing him.
Four couples, Judy (Donna Baltron) and David (George Thomas), John ([[Sean Kanan]]) and Bonnie (Bunky Jones), Randy (Brittain Frye) and Kim (Annette Sinclair), Shawn (Scott Fults) and Melissa (Ria Pavia) have just graduated from high school and are preparing to sneak into a furniture store owned by John's father Phil (Ron Colby). Arriving before the store closes, the teenagers hide as Phil closes up. However, the group are unaware that an employee, Fred (Jeff Levine), is an ex-convict and living in the basement of the store. The teenagers begin to drink beer and party as John gives them a tour of them a tour of the large store. He advises them not to move anything and also to keep the lights switched off, so as not to get caught. After a while, Kim suggests playing [[hide-and-go-seek]]. The group agree, but force Kim to be 'it'. John and Bonnie use the opportunity to have sex, not realising an unseen figure is watching them. Kim eventually finds the pair and declares them to be it. During the second round, Shawn and Melissa decide not to play but instead make out. Melissa goes into a bathroom to change into a [[negligee]] dress which was given to her by Kim. However Melissa is attacked by the killer who forces her head into the sink, drowning her. After some time Shawn becomes impatient of waiting and goes to find Melissa. A figure dressed in Melissa's clothing runs by him in the dark. Shawn follows the figure, only to discover it's the killer, who picks Shawn up and impales him on a piece of furniture.


One by one, the others wake up. The group calls the police, but find the phone line cut and all exits chained shut. They begin to panic and try to get the attention of a vagabond, then a passing cop car, but to no avail. They discover the dead bodies of their friends and arm themselves with weapons, ready to fight back. Outside, a shopkeeper notices them in the store and calls the cops to report an intrusion.
While the others finish the game, they sit down to have dinner. After they have eaten, the group become worried about Melissa and Shawn disappearing. The group search for them, but John becomes angered when he finds multiple mannequins and furniture disarranged, concluding that the pair are playing a joke on them. Everyone then decides to go to bed. As John and Bonnie are having sex, a man dressed in Shawn's clothes enters the room. After [[mooning]] them, an angered John runs after him. Upon entering the second floor of the building, John sees a man in a blonde wig applying makeup. Not recognizing the man, John confronts him only to spark a fight between the two, eventually leading to John being impaled through the stomach by a mannequins arm, killing him. Bonnie becomes anxious waiting and hides under the bed as she sees a figure entering and then leaving the room.


The group encounters Fred, an ex-convict employee hiding out in the building. Believing him to be the killer, they knock him unconscious and tie him up. The group gets in the elevator but Kim does not make it in time and is decapitated by the moving elevator car.
Meanwhile, Judy decides to lose her virginity to David. As Randy and Kim sleep, Kim awakens and decides to go to the bathroom. However she is quickly attacked by the killer. She attempts to escape in the store elevator, but the killer catches up with her and jumps into the elevator with her. Kim's screams wake up Randy, who attempts to find her, only to bump into a distraught Bonnie who tells her John has gone missing. Randy and Bonnie wake up Judy and David, and they take the elevator down to the ground floor, not realising Kim has been bound and gagged on the top of the elevator. They discover a figure dressed in Kim's clothes, but realize it's not Kim. The group decide to phone the police, but find the line has been cut and all the exits have been chained shut. They begin to panic and attempt to get the attention of a passing cop car, but fail. Judy attempts to turn the lights on to attract attention, but the power suddenly is cut, sending the emergency lights on. The teenagers arm themselves with weapons, deciding to fight back. Bonnie notices a door and believes it to be a way out, only to discover the dead bodies of their friends. Fred appears, but the survivors believe him to be the killer, so knock him unconscious and tie him up.


Believing they have caught the killer, the group go into the elevator, only to hear Kim being beaten on the roof. Kim manages to get her arms and legs free before leaning down from the roof to call for help. The killer holds her head outside of the elevator as Judy tries to stop the elevator. However the button fails to work and Kim is eventually decapitated. Judy, David, Randy and Bonnie retreat to a bedroom. Outside, a man notices the teenagers in the store and calls the cops to report a break in. The killer quickly attacks the group and Randy is slashed across the chest. As the killer attempts to attack again, Fred appears and tackles the killer, who is revealed to be Zack (Scott Kubay), Fred's lover from prison. Zack informs Fred that he killed the teenagers as he thought they were coming between him and Fred. Fred is repulsed and rejects Zack, angering him. Zack attacks Fred and stabs him in the neck with a knife. The teenagers fight with Zack, and Judy attempts to stab him with a knife. Zack leaps back and stumbles over Kim's severed head before falling down the empty elevator shaft. After defeating Zack the police and Phil arrive.
When the killer attacks the group, Fred appears and tackles the killer, who is revealed to be Zack, Fred's gay lover from prison. Zack tells Fred that he killed the teenagers as he thought they were coming between him and Fred. Fred rejects Zack, who attacks Fred with a knife. Judy lunges forward to slash Zack with a razor. Zack leaps back and stumbles over Kim's severed head before falling down the empty elevator shaft. After that, the police and Phil arrive. As Phil asks Fred what had happened, Fred succumbs to his wounds and dies.


As Phil asks Fred what had happened, Fred finally succumbs to his wounds and dies. The surviving teenagers are checked over by paramedics before leaving the store and getting into an ambulance. However the group do not realise that the [[Emergency medical technician|EMT]] has been murdered, with Zack driving the ambulance, having survived the fall. Zack looks directly at the camera and smiles sadistically.
The surviving teenagers are checked over by paramedics before leaving the store and getting into an ambulance. In the final scene, Zack turns out to be driving the ambulance.


==Cast==
==Cast==
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* Bunky Jones as Bonnie Williams
* Bunky Jones as Bonnie Williams
* Brittain Frye as Randy Flint
* Brittain Frye as Randy Flint
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* Robin Turk as the prostitute in the opening scene
* Robin Turk as the prostitute in the opening scene
* Joe White as the man behind the newsstand
* Joe White as the man behind the newsstand
{{div col end}}


==Production==
==Release==
The film was given a limited theatrical release in the United States on November 1, 1988, by New Star Entertainment, which had its violence trimmed in order to receive an [[Motion Picture Association of America film rating system#MPAA film ratings|R]] rating.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}
'''''Hide and Go Shriek''''' was filmed in an abandoned warehouse in downtown L.A. in the early summer of 1987. Filming took about three weeks, and post production took about the same. The film was ready for a brief theatrical release in the fall of that same year. Annette Sinclair, who plays Kim Downs in the film, was asked to do the makeup on the plaster cast of her head used for the decapitation scene so that it would best match her own makeup. The writer of the movie, Michael Kelly, makes a brief cameo in the film as the wino outside the store towards the end of the movie. Screaming Mad George did all the special effects in the movie, some of which had to be cut for the theatrical release due to its graphic nature.

===Home media===
''Hide and Go Shriek'' was released unrated on [[VHS]] by New Star Video and [[New World Video]] respectively in 1989, as well as on [[LaserDisc]] by [[Image Entertainment]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://vhscollector.com/movie/hide-and-go-shriek|title=Hide and Go Shriek|website=VHSCollector|access-date=March 3, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://vhscollector.com/movie/hide-and-go-shriek-0|title=Hide and Go Shriek|website=VHSCollector|access-date=March 3, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/01211/ID6082NS/Hide-amp;-Go-Shriek|title=Hide & Go Shriek|website=Laserdisc Database|access-date=March 3, 2019}}</ref> In the United Kingdom, it was marketed as ''Close Your Eyes and Pray'' for its home video release, which was shorn of fifty seconds.<ref name=BBFC/>

The film was initially released on [[DVD]] in the United Kingdom by Bellevue Entertainment A/S on July 22, 2004, under its original title.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bbfc.co.uk/releases/hide-and-go-shriek|title=''Hide and Go Shriek'' (18)|work=[[British Board of Film Classification]]|date=July 22, 2004|access-date=March 3, 2019}}</ref> Scanbox Entertainment issued another DVD in [[DVD region code#Region codes and countries|Region 2]], and was included in a 'Platinum Collection' with ''[[Dolly Dearest]]'', ''Inner Sanctum 2'', and ''Dark Breed''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hide-Shriek-DVD-Skip-Schoolnik/dp/B009LQ2AEI/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1444294377&sr=1-1&keywords=hide+and+go+shriek|title=Hide And Go Shriek [DVD]|publisher=[[Amazon.co.uk]]|date=|access-date=October 8, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Platinum-Horror-Collection-Dearest-Sanctum/dp/B001EQXI4E/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1444294377&sr=1-2&keywords=hide+and+go+shriek|title=Platinum Horror Collection: Hide And Go Shriek, Dolly Dearest, Inner Sanctum 2, Dark Breed|publisher=[[Amazon.co.uk]]|date=|access-date=October 8, 2015}}</ref> ''Hide and Go Shriek'' was released by [[Code Red DVD|Code Red]] on [[Blu-ray]] for the first time on December 3, 2016,{{efn|Blu-ray.com noted the release to be December 3, 2016.}} with a remastered 2K scan from the original internegative, and was followed by a DVD release by [[Kino Lorber]] on May 30, 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Hide-Go-Shriek-Jeff-Levine/dp/B06WGNHT8R/ref=tmm_blu_title_2?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1551658878&sr=1-1|title=Hide and Go Shriek [Blu-ray]|website=[[Amazon.com]]|access-date=March 3, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Hide-Go-Shriek-Bunky-Jones/dp/B06XRRF46N/ref=tmm_dvd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1551658878&sr=1-1|title=Hide and Go Shriek [DVD]|website=Amazon |date=30 May 2017 |access-date=March 3, 2019}}</ref> The same year, 88 Films released the film on dual Blu-ray and DVD format in the United Kingdom on July 10, which was subsequently reissued on Blu-ray on February 11, 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hide-Shriek-Dual-Format-Blu-ray/dp/B06Y3KRW8F/ref=tmm_blu_title_1?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1444294377&sr=1-1|title=Hide and Go Shriek [Dual Format]|date=10 July 2017 |publisher=[[Amazon.co.uk]]|access-date=March 3, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hide-Shriek-Blu-ray-Bunky-Jones/dp/B07MX21XF3/ref=tmm_blu_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1444294377&sr=1-1|title=Hide and Go Shriek [Blu-Ray]|date=11 February 2019 |publisher=[[Amazon.co.uk]]|access-date=March 3, 2019}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0095299}}
* {{IMDb title|0095299}}
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|hide_and_go_shriek}}


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Latest revision as of 06:11, 14 October 2024

Hide and Go Shriek
Directed bySkip Schoolnik
Written byMichael Kelly
Produced byDimitri Villard
StarringBunky Jones
Brittain Frye
George Thomas
Donna Baltron
CinematographyEugene Shlugleit
Edited byTim Alexander
Mark Manos
Amy Tompkins
Adam Wolfe
Music byJohn Ross
Distributed byNew Star Entertainment
Release date
  • November 1, 1988 (1988-11-01)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Hide and Go Shriek (released in edited form on home video as Close Your Eyes and Pray in the United Kingdom)[1] is a 1988 American slasher film directed by Skip Schoolnik in his directorial debut, and starring Bunky Jones, Annette Sinclair, Brittain Frye, Donna Baltron, George Thomas, and Sean Kanan in his film debut. The story details a group of teenagers who celebrate their graduation by staying the night inside a furniture store, where they are stalked and murdered by a cross-dressing killer during a game of hide and go seek.

Plot

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Four couples - Judy and David, John and Bonnie, Randy and Kim, and Shawn and Melissa - have just graduated from high school and are preparing to sneak into a furniture store owned by John's father, Phil. The teenagers begin to drink beer and party as John gives them a tour of the entire store. Kim suggests playing hide-and-go-seek. During the second round, Melissa and Shawn are killed by an unknown murderer.

At midnight, the remaining six regroup to eat dinner, all concerned about Shawn and Melissa's whereabouts. The group searches everywhere, but are unable to find them. The couples go to bed. As John and Bonnie are having sex, a man dressed in Shawn's clothes enters the room and incites John to chase after him. They start a fight, but the killer impales a mannequin's arm through John's stomach, killing him.

One by one, the others wake up. The group calls the police, but find the phone line cut and all exits chained shut. They begin to panic and try to get the attention of a vagabond, then a passing cop car, but to no avail. They discover the dead bodies of their friends and arm themselves with weapons, ready to fight back. Outside, a shopkeeper notices them in the store and calls the cops to report an intrusion.

The group encounters Fred, an ex-convict employee hiding out in the building. Believing him to be the killer, they knock him unconscious and tie him up. The group gets in the elevator but Kim does not make it in time and is decapitated by the moving elevator car.

When the killer attacks the group, Fred appears and tackles the killer, who is revealed to be Zack, Fred's gay lover from prison. Zack tells Fred that he killed the teenagers as he thought they were coming between him and Fred. Fred rejects Zack, who attacks Fred with a knife. Judy lunges forward to slash Zack with a razor. Zack leaps back and stumbles over Kim's severed head before falling down the empty elevator shaft. After that, the police and Phil arrive. As Phil asks Fred what had happened, Fred succumbs to his wounds and dies.

The surviving teenagers are checked over by paramedics before leaving the store and getting into an ambulance. In the final scene, Zack turns out to be driving the ambulance.

Cast

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  • Bunky Jones as Bonnie Williams
  • Brittain Frye as Randy Flint
  • Annette Sinclair as Kim Downs
  • George Thomas as David Hanson
  • Donna Baltron as Judy Ramerize
  • Scott Fults as Shawn Phillips
  • Ria Pavia as Melissa Morgan
  • Sean Kanan as John Robbins
  • Scott Kubay as Zack
  • Jeff Levine as Fred
  • Michael Kelly as the alley Wino
  • Ron Colby as Phil Robbins
  • Donald Mark Spencer as Vince
  • James Serrano and Lyons as the cops in the police car
  • Robin Turk as the prostitute in the opening scene
  • Joe White as the man behind the newsstand

Release

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The film was given a limited theatrical release in the United States on November 1, 1988, by New Star Entertainment, which had its violence trimmed in order to receive an R rating.[citation needed]

Home media

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Hide and Go Shriek was released unrated on VHS by New Star Video and New World Video respectively in 1989, as well as on LaserDisc by Image Entertainment.[2][3][4] In the United Kingdom, it was marketed as Close Your Eyes and Pray for its home video release, which was shorn of fifty seconds.[1]

The film was initially released on DVD in the United Kingdom by Bellevue Entertainment A/S on July 22, 2004, under its original title.[5] Scanbox Entertainment issued another DVD in Region 2, and was included in a 'Platinum Collection' with Dolly Dearest, Inner Sanctum 2, and Dark Breed.[6][7] Hide and Go Shriek was released by Code Red on Blu-ray for the first time on December 3, 2016,[a] with a remastered 2K scan from the original internegative, and was followed by a DVD release by Kino Lorber on May 30, 2017.[8][9] The same year, 88 Films released the film on dual Blu-ray and DVD format in the United Kingdom on July 10, which was subsequently reissued on Blu-ray on February 11, 2019.[10][11]

Notes

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  1. ^ Blu-ray.com noted the release to be December 3, 2016.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Close Your Eyes and Pray (18)". British Board of Film Classification. February 9, 1988. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  2. ^ "Hide and Go Shriek". VHSCollector. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  3. ^ "Hide and Go Shriek". VHSCollector. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  4. ^ "Hide & Go Shriek". Laserdisc Database. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  5. ^ "Hide and Go Shriek (18)". British Board of Film Classification. July 22, 2004. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  6. ^ "Hide And Go Shriek [DVD]". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
  7. ^ "Platinum Horror Collection: Hide And Go Shriek, Dolly Dearest, Inner Sanctum 2, Dark Breed". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
  8. ^ "Hide and Go Shriek [Blu-ray]". Amazon.com. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  9. ^ "Hide and Go Shriek [DVD]". Amazon. 30 May 2017. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  10. ^ "Hide and Go Shriek [Dual Format]". Amazon.co.uk. 10 July 2017. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  11. ^ "Hide and Go Shriek [Blu-Ray]". Amazon.co.uk. 11 February 2019. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
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