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I happened to stumble upon the 1987 horror movie "Deadly Love" by random chance here in 2024. And given my love of the horror genre, and with this being a movie that I had neither seen nor actually heard about, of course I opted to sit down and watch it. After all, the 1980s were bountiful with gloriously campy and cheesy horror movies.

The storyline in the movie was not particularly exciting, and I have to admit that I was starting to zone out about one-fourth of the way through the movie. The air was just sort of slowly escaping from the balloon as the movie progressed at a dangerously dull pace. Yet, I managed to endure all 90 minutes of the movie, hoping that it would become better. However, writer and director Michael S. O'Rourke just never did accomplish that.

Needless to say that I was by no means familiar with the actors or actresses on the cast list. And the cast list was rather limited. The acting performances were a bit wobbly from some of the performers.

Visually then you're not in for anything grand. There are far better special effects in many other horror movies from the late 1980s, so not even that was playing out for this movie from Michael S. O'Rourke.

The music in the movie, with the wonderful keyboards, was awfully cheery and indeed rather campy.

My rating of "Deadly Love" lands on a two out of ten stars.

Poor acting, poor lighting, poor sound, poor script. A ridiculous amount of boring flashbacks - this is bad!

I was hoping for an interesting revenge fantasy (biker zombie from hell wreaks gory mayhem). No chance. Who knows what's going on? Who cares? There used to be a time when the low budget film makers seemed to be providing gore and shocks that really worked - films that became instant cult classics for most of the right reasons (alright, we don't necessarily expect the best of acting all the time, but a decent shocker could always help you to forgive that.) These days the big budget horrors hold the cards because they are actually of a decent standard. The late 80s onwards saw a steady decline in the standards of so many independent horror flicks. This would be a classic example - except the use of the word 'classic' regarding any aspect of this film sticks in the throat.

Don't waist your time with this one. Poor wooden acting. Poor executed story line. I feel asleep. And the love song that kept playing intended for the lovesick couple was awful. Deadly love is Deadly awful. Enough said.

This is a great movie. Mr. Oglesby is the best aCtor 10/10 would recommend watching!! It was sOooOooo scARy I laughed so hard

Kinda stupid but sweet low budget late 80's cross between slasher film and sad tragedy. As other reviewers have pointed out the acting is not the greatest. But this movie sticks with you because of its charm, and the song will get stuck in your head I guarantee that :-)

This movie should be considered a cult classic; its combination of its low budget and poor quality script and the great acting from Mark Oglesby and Buddy Reynolds makes this film have potential as a joke to be watched over and over just as The Room is 10/10.

This movie straight slaps. This is the greatest movie of all time. Jr recommends the movie. Russian dubbed version is highly suggested, slaps. AP government rules. Watch out for european stalkers. Big mike and nicholas cage as well recommends this movie. The best movie ever. If you want to watch a great movie watch it.

This has got to be one of the best cult classics. It has a truly interesting storyline and I think it could be compared to some really high class movies. It even stars Buddy Reynolds and Mark Oglesby. These are some truly amazing actors. Although it has a low budget you would never be able to tell. The best scenes include a cool white mustang and the star of the movie, Mark Oglesby, riding in a motorcycle. It really fits the time period, too. Buddy in the movie (Mark Oglesby) has a killer mustache and a mullet. This really should be considered equivalent to Halloween.