Review of Tormented

Tormented (1960)
2/10
Why you don't get mixed up with women named Vi.
20 March 2008
This movie is another could have been tolerable flick with a few less talking scenes and more spook action that did not come off as a bit lame. Or perhaps an even shorter running time could have helped too. There were quite a few shots of the beach that did remind me too of one of those album commercials. The story, a man apparently has moved to an island to get away from some things in his life, unfortunately one of those things finds him in the form of an ex lover who still has a thing for him. Well they argue for a bit on a lighthouse and then her fat butt breaks the lighthouse railing and before Tom can make up his mind to save her, she plunges to her death. Fine by me, she seemed to be a controlling harpy and quite frankly isn't saving someone merely an option. So suffice to say she haunts poor Tom for the rest of the movie, making him question his own sanity at times. Though she is clearly there and not merely a byproduct of his imagination cause she sure caused a stir at the wedding. Well for most of the picture I felt rather sorry for Tom, until the end where he screws up big time and becomes a dumb jerk for what he was thinking about doing. So that is about the sum of the plot, throw in a blind woman with another tale of haunting and a crazy boats man who will go to the ends of the earth for five bucks and you have your movie.
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