There's fun to be had in
spotting Udo Kier, Ken Foree, and Brad Dourif in cameo roles (meanwhile, Zombie's standard company returns, his wife Sheri Moon turning in a
wonderful performance as our bogeyman's stripper mommy), but it's distracting as well, almost too much like a rib - chucker (think The Howling — and sure enough, there's Dee Wallace as the adoptive mother of hero girl Laurie (Scout Taylor - Compton, also
attached to an upcoming April Fool's Day remake)-RRB- that only ever really worked when John Landis gave it a shot with An American Werewolf in London.