Monster in The Closet (1986) – Bob Dahlin.

The beleaguered citizens of San Francisco reel from a series of horrific, seemingly inexplicable slayings, and a neophyte reporter's (Donald Grant) tentative investigations reveal that the relentless instigator of these savage killings is a...Monster in The Closet!!!!???? An enormously entertaining B-Movie, and next to Toxic Avenger and Tromeo & Juliet, Bob Dahlin's witty, smartly self-aware, amiably quirky 80s Creature feature remains one my favourite go-to Troma releases. I think it is fair to say that you don't always need a magnificent monster to make a watchable B-movie, with the legendary goof-fest Robot Monster, its garish ineptitude was manifestly part of its chucklesome charm. While all the performances are credible, Grant provides an affable hero, Dubarry is appreciably earnest, but Monster in the Closet is resolutely stolen, not for the first time, by the sublimely impish Henry Gibson, bringing his own inimitable magic, to an already monstrously entertaining 80s creature feature! As an especially avid fan of monster movies, be they expertly, or indifferently made, this specific closet-dwelling death-bringer is an ambulatory dream of practical FX wonderment!