Review of Haunts

Haunts (1976)
2/10
So satisfied with its style that it never reaches the status of satisfying.
20 October 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Simply just another cheaply made slasher film focusing on psychotic Cameron Mitchell and his niece May Britt and the goings-on of the farm community where Mitchell's murderous antics are just an ugly excuse for a horror film. Films with sound recording this bad are difficult to get into, and once you realize that this is going to be 97 minutes of kitty asleep bad sound and slow-moving Rama when there is nothing going on plot wise.

Soap heartthrob William Gray Espy, character actor Ben Hammer and former film hunk Aldo Ray add nothing to the cliched script that is poorly directed and moves so slow that you wish that the editors had taken the scissors to the print and chopped out a good 20 minutes. I can't even imagine watching this in a movie theater let alone try to get through it with a lot of the hideous sounds that are coming off screen including some wretched singing that sounds like a cat being drawn and quartered. This one deserves to be dipped in a vat of acid and sent to its much deserved reward: obscurity!
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