bfp13108 I was 30 when the movie was made and, then, just starting out on my career. The very first thing to grab my attention was Paul Walker who was obviously a kid back then. I have to wonder if he would have willingly taken the fame ride if he knew, even subconsciously, that it would end when it did. Of course, no one knows the day they will die but it's still a tad bit creepy to me to see this in retrospect. Then, I tried to find out more about Donald Grant online and there is NOTHING. I'm gay. I went through the whole AIDS thing (lived in San Francisco, now a NYer) which surely damaged my psyche and killed so many of my friends. I wonder if this was Donald Grant's fate. If you know otherwise, please tell me. I don't know; I can only speculate.I thought the movie was hilarious. I loved Howard Duff playing a priest! On first viewing I wondered whether the Alien monster copied Troma's monster until I looked it up and found that Alien preceded Monsters in the Closet by 7 yrs. So we know (wink, wink) who was copying who. This movie is very enjoyable and especially if you have Amazon Prime where you can see it for free.....WATCH IT! Luvs all of ya.

Wqdi Some other review mentioned "minor cleavage" in the Stella Stevens shower scene... well on NETFLIX she is shown full nipples and they are huge pre-implant natural breasts worth the price of admission.As a young boy growing up in the 80's Stella Stevens was a staple in many TV movies and programs like "Magnum P.I.". She was certainly an inspiration to more than one young mans lusty thoughts.Like the later deleted topless scene from the movie "Swamp Thing" starring Adrienne Barbeau, where her spectacular assets were displayed in all their glory, this movie contains an historic moment.10 stars just for Stella Stevens glorious orbs in their natural delicious (and wet) beauty.

Woodyanders Meek newspaper reporter Richard Clark (a likable performance by Donald Grant), spunky college biology professor Diane Bennett (a charming portrayal by the pretty Denise DuBarry), Diane's precocious little squirt son (a very young and then unknown Paul Walker), and eccentric elderly scientist Dr. Pennyworth (a wonderfully flaky Henry Gibson sporting white Einstein hair) join forces to figure out a way to defeat an ugly, hulking, and predatory beast (Kevin Peter Hall in a funky rubber suit) that comes out of people's closets and kills them. Writer/director Bob Dahlin neatly concocts a witty and affectionate parody of choice cheesy 50's low-budget creature features that unfolds at a constant brisk pace, maintains an amiable tongue-in-cheek tone from start to finish, and possesses a certain sweet-natured sensibility that's impossible to either hate or resist. Moreover, Dahlin tosses in a pleasant romance between the two appealing leads for good measure and in an amusing twist on the standard genre convention makes the monster gay so it can abduct the male star instead of the female main character. The game cast have a field day with the blithely goofy material, with especially stand-out work from Claude Atkins as the hard-nosed Sheriff Sam Ketchum, Howard Duff as sensitive and devoutly religious priest Father Finnegan, Donald Moffat as the gung-ho, profanity-spewing General Trumbull, Jesse White as crusty newspaper editor Ben, and Frank Ashmore as Richard's slick'n'smarmy rival Scoop. Popping up in nifty bits are Paul Dooley, John Carradine (as a cranky cane-slinging old blind guy), and the ever-lovely Stella Stevens (in a nice send-up of the famous shower scene from "Psycho"). Ronald W. McLeish's polished cinematography boasts plenty of snazzy zoom-in close-ups and smooth tracking shots. Barrie Guard's perfectly cornball hum'n'shiver score does the robustly generic trick. An immensely enjoyable romp.

Backlash007 ~Spoiler~ Monster in the Closet is another dumb horror/comedy that is neither funny nor scary. This one is from Troma, but it looks a little glossier than what the studio normally puts out. I say that because of the cast and the creature design. I've never heard of the leads, but some of the supporting cast are rather famous. Henry Gibson, Claude Akins, John Carradine, Donald Moffat, Paul Dooley, and Stella Stevens are some good character actors to have in a project like this. Also featured are a young Paul Walker and Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson. I bet they don't even remember this one, and wouldn't admit to it if they did. Kevin Peter Hall (Predator) is playing the titular closet monster. The plot is simple: The monster comes out of the closet and kills people and nothing or no one can stop it. There are many attempts at humor, but most of it is just boring. It all ends in a silly finale where the world has to destroy their closets. The movie was apparently filmed in 1983 but didn't get released until 1987. I wonder why?