Okay, Forest probably played a creep in stuff before this. I haven't seen any of his previous IMDB-listed roles. I just remember him as the cloaked Malzor in "War of the Worlds", Nosferatu in "Dracula the Series", Will Swill in "Brisco County", and Sweet Eddy in "The Mask". And he'd go on to play a creepy antique killer in three more episodes of "Friday the 13th: the Series".
Here Forest really cements the role as Eddie Monroe, a... well, creepy obsessed janitor who sweats a lot and laughs manically over photos he's pasted together of himself and his obsession/target, Laurie (Carolyn Dunn).
The episode doesn't do any favors to anyone involved. Micki is an idiot, Ryan comes across as almost as creepy as Eddie (he jokingly suggests using the Cupid on Laurie), Jack doses a fraternity with sodium pentothal to get information, and both Micki and Laurie play love-enraptured idiots. The second murder, with Eddie throwing a hive full of bees at his victim, makes no sense and gives Forest a chance to leer and laugh at the woman as she takes forever to die. Yes, being stung to death by bees (by having honey smeared on your hands, and Eddie just happens to keep a squirt bottle of honey in his glove compartment?) would probably take a while. Still, it's boring. That's why they invented camera cuts.
Most of the people are stupid, particularly the security guard. The guard thinks Eddie is a student, and a frat brother, although he's clearly neither. Shouldn't the campus security guard _know_, or at least check. There's some perv hanging around campus, and the guard just accepts the perv's story that he's a student although Eddie is clearly too old: Forest was 27 at the time. And then the guard just hands Eddie the Cupid on his way to taking it to lockup.
The episode hasn't aged well, either: watching females fall rapturously in love with first Hastings and then Eddie is just creepy and not in a good way. They basically rape the women and then kill them. You also wonder what the appeal of the Cupid is. So it lets you have sex with a woman you picked up in a bar and then forces you to kill her. Maybe if the love spell lasted more than an hour. Then again, Eddie doesn't seem to need much incentive to become a killer: he's already a creepy stalker.
Basically, the Cupid continues the show's early trend of making the antiques nothing more than uber-powerful weapons. You get something, and you have to kill for it. There's no sign of the intricate curses we would get in later episodes. And no corruption either: Eddie is already a creep, and doesn't get pushed into being a creep. The Cupid is just a magical artifact in in his hands.
There's nothing good in this episode. Ryan "defeats" Eddie when Eddie conveniently falls to his death. Laurie, under the influence of the Cupid, betrays the trio but all is forgiven at the end. Maybe the episode would be a little better or at least more imaginative if the genders were swapped. What if Eddie was interested in men? What if "Eddie" were Edwina? Eddie uses the Cupid on Micki, after two other women are murdered. That's typical of the show, abusing its female characters. I don't recall Ryan or Johnny (or Jack *heh*) getting ensnared by an antique, although it happened to Micki over. And over. And over again. Having Eddie be interested in women is not only unimaginative, but makes the women look like dolts.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?
Here Forest really cements the role as Eddie Monroe, a... well, creepy obsessed janitor who sweats a lot and laughs manically over photos he's pasted together of himself and his obsession/target, Laurie (Carolyn Dunn).
The episode doesn't do any favors to anyone involved. Micki is an idiot, Ryan comes across as almost as creepy as Eddie (he jokingly suggests using the Cupid on Laurie), Jack doses a fraternity with sodium pentothal to get information, and both Micki and Laurie play love-enraptured idiots. The second murder, with Eddie throwing a hive full of bees at his victim, makes no sense and gives Forest a chance to leer and laugh at the woman as she takes forever to die. Yes, being stung to death by bees (by having honey smeared on your hands, and Eddie just happens to keep a squirt bottle of honey in his glove compartment?) would probably take a while. Still, it's boring. That's why they invented camera cuts.
Most of the people are stupid, particularly the security guard. The guard thinks Eddie is a student, and a frat brother, although he's clearly neither. Shouldn't the campus security guard _know_, or at least check. There's some perv hanging around campus, and the guard just accepts the perv's story that he's a student although Eddie is clearly too old: Forest was 27 at the time. And then the guard just hands Eddie the Cupid on his way to taking it to lockup.
The episode hasn't aged well, either: watching females fall rapturously in love with first Hastings and then Eddie is just creepy and not in a good way. They basically rape the women and then kill them. You also wonder what the appeal of the Cupid is. So it lets you have sex with a woman you picked up in a bar and then forces you to kill her. Maybe if the love spell lasted more than an hour. Then again, Eddie doesn't seem to need much incentive to become a killer: he's already a creepy stalker.
Basically, the Cupid continues the show's early trend of making the antiques nothing more than uber-powerful weapons. You get something, and you have to kill for it. There's no sign of the intricate curses we would get in later episodes. And no corruption either: Eddie is already a creep, and doesn't get pushed into being a creep. The Cupid is just a magical artifact in in his hands.
There's nothing good in this episode. Ryan "defeats" Eddie when Eddie conveniently falls to his death. Laurie, under the influence of the Cupid, betrays the trio but all is forgiven at the end. Maybe the episode would be a little better or at least more imaginative if the genders were swapped. What if Eddie was interested in men? What if "Eddie" were Edwina? Eddie uses the Cupid on Micki, after two other women are murdered. That's typical of the show, abusing its female characters. I don't recall Ryan or Johnny (or Jack *heh*) getting ensnared by an antique, although it happened to Micki over. And over. And over again. Having Eddie be interested in women is not only unimaginative, but makes the women look like dolts.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?