2/10
What a howler!!
4 August 2013
Warning: Spoilers
You will have to use a lot of "willing suspension of disbelief" to get through this turkey. Prequel shows two of the oldest "teenagers" you ever saw being stalked in the cleanest uninhabited castle on film. Rats are played by guinea pigs. The girls are tortured on the rack and killed but when their bodies are found on the castle grounds, town constable Barney Fife pronounces them dead of exposure. There is a deformed (bad Don Post mask) guy named Hugo who wonders around in a tattered three piece suit, chuckling a lot. His performance makes Tor Johnson seem like Dustin Hoffman. Add in an evil Indian (caucasian in brown greasepaint and turban), a nosy reporter who after giving the heroine a ride is ready to spend his life with her, and a housekeeper who goes by Elizabeth but everyone knows her as Betty!! The soundtrack is a mash-up of Addams Family organ and Tom & Jerry cartoon bassoon music. Where is the hidden diamond? Is Anna the reincarnation of Irene? Where is Irene's body after 20 years? Why is there a screen credit for "Trick Photography"? Watch this turkey and find out. A real howler!!!
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