[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The New Kids (1985)

An excellent thriller from Friday the 13th's Sean S. Cunningham in which newly orphaned brother and sister Shannon Presby and Lori Laughlin move to a small Florida town and an amusement park run by their aunt and uncle. However it's not long before they fall foul of James Spader and his local street gang.

I'd not seen this before Christmas Eve and really enjoyed it. It's fast paced and hugely satisfying, the levels of threat from Spader and co escalate as the film progresses, starting with mild high school flirting with Laughlin to out and out murder and destruction at the finale as the gang hunt down the kids in the amusement park as the film moves away from frat boy hi-jinks to sheer terror and horror.

The limited edition 101 Films release of this had been in my possession a while and was a great blind buy.