A family inherit a large, creepy house which is home to an old book that opens up a world of assorted monsters. Horror comedy that has nothing what so ever to do with the Friday the 13th movies, this is a romp featuring vampires and other beasts, one of which looks like the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Made in 1981 I think this has aged quite well. The family gel well, after all the parents were a real life copy. There's plenty of horror shenanigans and simple comedy, at 77 minutes it runs along at a good pace.

According the movie, "If Friday the 13th is unlucky, Saturday the 14th is the worse". A family movies into a strange house that is inhabiated by many strange, undead monsters. The comedy of this movie is taking a horror scence and putting gags in it. Such as the mad scientist tasting his potion and saying "Not bad, but not good", or a mother finding a six-finger rubber glove. A good movie for the Halloween season.

I decided to watch this movie late at night maybe around midnight at Saturday the 14th (hehe yeah I know very clever) so I was quite tired and maybe should'nt have checked it out at this late hour but I found this movie to be very charming and cosy.

The film is about a family moving into a house which looks like a big dump but unbeknown to them this house has a curse of some sort. The son in the family starts to read and look into a book and as fast as he do this the creatures in the book comes to life! Meanwhile the parents find a note in the kitchen left there by the prievous owner telling them not to open the book but they brush it of thinking it's a different kind of book, (im gonna leave it at that plotwise because I do not want to spoil the whole movie for you).

Something which I really enjoyed about this movie was the numerous references to other horror movies such as Creature from the black lagoon, Jaws, Dracula and perhaps Evil Dead ( I say perhaps because Im not sure if Evil Dead came out before or after this movie). The humour in it was not the funniest ever or so but I would rather call it charming just like all the references and I think this movie makes a great job of that, much better than the movie called Student Bodies (1981) which had way to many jokes in it which just made it annoying after a while.

The acting is ok and I say ok because some of them were good and some of them were annoying or terrible. I Think this movie is more aimed towards a younger audience which maybe explains why this movie was rated PG.

If you wanna have a funny and entertaining movie to Watch on your own late at night I can really recommend Saturday the 14th just don't have your expectations that high.

6/10 stars from me