1/10
Just Bad. I can't think of anything witty or pithy - it's just bad.
30 April 2007
A 1978 portmanteaux 'Horror' film made in Oklahoma. However bad that sounds to you - the reality is worse.

This is, apart from anything else, a very dull film. Highlights included the longest (pointless) slow zoom in on a radio sat on a toilet ever committed to film as a bad actress exited frame, got undressed off screen, put on a dressing gown and reappeared. It's pure pointless padding. You could almost hear them discussing this shot in the editing suite:

"This is a hell of a long pointless shot, I think we aught to cut away to something and cheat her coming back in."

"Are you crazy? That will be over far too fast, leave it as it is. It's filling up 45 seconds of screen time - leave it, we'll get a feature out of this yet..."

The dialogue is dreadful: leaden, repetitive, and pointless (what could hear of it - the copy I watched came as part of the 50 DVD box set called Nightmare Worlds and the print - or the transfer - is dreadful. The sound is muffled and for great periods the colour alternates between being totally washed-out, or so incredibly dark you cannot see anything on the screen. This combined with the dodgy sound did not make for easy watching.)

The whole movie has the feel of a bunch of student/ amateur shorts nailed together with a framing device to make a feature.

Don't bother.
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