He Knows You're Alone (1980): Every Girl is Frightened the Night Before Her Wedding...

He Knows You're Alone

I missed International Tom Hanks Day on Saturday and I feel shame.  But today I present He Knows You're Alone as tribute to the great thespian because this film, ladies and gentlemen, is his first movie performance, and it is glorious.  No really, the best part of this Halloween wannabe is the ten minutes that Tom Hanks is in it.  I'm not even sure if his performance was supposed to be funny but I laughed like four times because the man is so damn charismatic.

He Knows You're Alone is about a guy who really hates weddings.  At some point in this guy's past his woman left him for a police detective.  He got so pissed that he killed her on the day that she was to marry this cop, and now he goes around killing engaged women... and their friends... and friends of their friends... and people who help plan weddings.  What I'm trying to say is this movie doesn't make any sense.  The guy just kills anybody wedding related.  Anyways, the detective realizes that the guy who killed his fiancee is back in town after several years so he tries to hunt him down and stop him from killing too many more people.  That's the story.

"Want a goober?"

My impression of He Knows You're Alone is that it tries too hard to be Halloween and ultimately fails.  It's not a terrible slasher film but it's certainly not a great one.  Personally, I felt nothing for any of the characters except Elliot (Tom Hanks) and didn't care as they were killed off.  The plot is stupid, the film adds nothing new to the genre and, for a slasher film, the blood and boobies are minimal.  But who knows, you may like it more than I did.  It's not a terrible movie.

Violence Rating:  3.5 out of 5
Booby Rating:  2 out of 5