On February 15, 1991, Warner Bros. released the horror-comedy Nothing but Trouble, directed by Dan Aykroyd. The film stars Chevy Chase as a businessman who agrees to drive an attractive lawyer he’s recently met—played by Demi Moore—to Atlantic City for a meeting. After taking a detour through a strange town, they get arrested and held captive by a vengeful elderly judge in a creepy backwoods mansion. Aykroyd plays dual roles as both the judge and his deformed grandson, as does John Candy, who appears as the arresting officer and the judge’s granddaughter.

Despite the undeniable star power involved, Nothing but Trouble was a notorious box office bomb, earning just over $8 million on a $40 million budget. Critics weren’t kind to it, either. Roger Ebert called it “one of the most cheerless a

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