Uncle Sam (1996) ***

Uncle Sam (1996), William Lustig's final film (to date), is only marginally better than Maniac Cop 3: Badge Of Silence (1993) (where the director took an Alan Smithee credit), which is his worst. The film has a very similar premise to Bob Clark's Deathdream (1974) [review], which is a better movie. That's because Uncle Sam "is incoherent as social satire and perfunctory and routine as a horror film" (to quote the The A.V. Club).

However, it is a lot of fun. The gore is lacking, the acting is not great (despite the presence of a number of solid genre actors), and the logic is mostly non-existent, but there are many laugh out loud moments. US provides the same kind of enjoyment gleaned from 1997's Jack Frost [review], which clashes with the rest of Lustig's oeuvre (where, despite limitations, he made better use of budgets and production values), but this little slasher is a good time regardless.

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