Endless Scenes of Dusty Dirty Floors with Broken Toys and Broken Floor-Boards, Tapping on Walls, and While Wasting Name Actors Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, and Joan Collins, Make for a Disappointing, Dull "Haunted-House-Supernatural-Thriller.
The Slow-Slow-Slog that Meanders Along with some Titillation from Joan Collins, Looking Fine at 40, Filmed in a Real-Life Asylum, Never Manages to be Truly "Haunting" or "Thrilling" with the Story of Hidden-Treasure and Insanity.
The Back-Story Revolves Around a British Actor Virtually Unknown Outside the UK, Robert Hardy, Concerns His Early Life and Dysfunction with a Wife and 2 Precocious Children.
It's All Rather Routine and Cliched in the Genre, and the Film Chooses to Let it Slow-Burn for 2 and a 1/2 Acts Before it Spurts an Extended "Money-Shot" of Revelatory Ultra-Violence.
It's Way too Late to Rescue the Boredom of Watching Repetitive Machinations Looking for Hidden Money and Children Giggling from Behind the Walls, that Made and Makes the Movie Forgotten and Forgettable.
For the Miss-Used Cast and the "Real-Life" Asylum Sets, for 15 Minutes of Bloody-Mayhem, and to Ogle the Effervescent Joan Collins...Horror Fans May Give it a Pass,
For Them it's...
Worth a Watch
Others Won't be Missing Much if They Miss this Miss-Fire.
The Slow-Slow-Slog that Meanders Along with some Titillation from Joan Collins, Looking Fine at 40, Filmed in a Real-Life Asylum, Never Manages to be Truly "Haunting" or "Thrilling" with the Story of Hidden-Treasure and Insanity.
The Back-Story Revolves Around a British Actor Virtually Unknown Outside the UK, Robert Hardy, Concerns His Early Life and Dysfunction with a Wife and 2 Precocious Children.
It's All Rather Routine and Cliched in the Genre, and the Film Chooses to Let it Slow-Burn for 2 and a 1/2 Acts Before it Spurts an Extended "Money-Shot" of Revelatory Ultra-Violence.
It's Way too Late to Rescue the Boredom of Watching Repetitive Machinations Looking for Hidden Money and Children Giggling from Behind the Walls, that Made and Makes the Movie Forgotten and Forgettable.
For the Miss-Used Cast and the "Real-Life" Asylum Sets, for 15 Minutes of Bloody-Mayhem, and to Ogle the Effervescent Joan Collins...Horror Fans May Give it a Pass,
For Them it's...
Worth a Watch
Others Won't be Missing Much if They Miss this Miss-Fire.