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From the master of cult British horror: Pete Walker (House of Whipcord, The Flesh and Blood Show) comes this gruesome tale of dark secrets and bizarre realities. Edmund and Dorothy Yates (Rupert Davies & Sheila Keith) were finally pronounced sane after they had spent 18 years in a mental hospital for a series of gory cannibal killings. Now, after their release Edmund s daughter Jackie (Deborah Fairfax), occasionally checks in on them at their secluded farmhouse and everything seems fine... until Jackie's psychiatrist boyfriend, Graham, starts poking around and uncovers the blood-spattered truth. Dorothy is crazier than ever, luring unsuspecting victims to her home for tarot card readings and them massacring them with fire pokers, electric drills and pitchforks! What's more, this grisly craving apparently runs in the family... DVD EXTRAS: Director's commentary, Interview with Pete Walker, Theatrical Trailer, Stills Gallery, Best of British Trailers and Booklet notes.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This slightly bonkers film is a classic of early seventies horror. Not many films feature a murderous, cannabalistic granny weilding a power drill! Much of it is typical seventies acting, which I like and the ending is one that not many would expect.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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As a fan of early 70s British horror I had high expectations and this certainly filled all my graves of deathly infatuation.
The characters are well drawn and develop well through a darkly suspensful and well told storyline. You are genuinly fascinated in the relationship dynamics of the elderly couple and have sympathy for their elder daughter. I especially like the way the film has a depth that constantly questions your responses to each character. You feel thrust into the role of an investigator into its dark heart as opposed to the usual passive voyeurism. The sanity of all characters is in constant question, not just the woman released from hospital.....
The atmosphere created by the script and photography is superb. I find returning to a past era usually helps to evoke a haunting feel anyway but, besides this, tension is carefully built and plotted throughout, culminating in an effective and satisfying closing pay off scene.
Overall this certainly does not disappoint. Its one of those quirky understated horrors that quietly lodges into your brain long after the lights are out and occasionally nudges your unconscious.
Why can't the endless torture and set piece obsession of modern day horror learn from movies like this?
The characters are well drawn and develop well through a darkly suspensful and well told storyline. You are genuinly fascinated in the relationship dynamics of the elderly couple and have sympathy for their elder daughter. I especially like the way the film has a depth that constantly questions your responses to each character. You feel thrust into the role of an investigator into its dark heart as opposed to the usual passive voyeurism. The sanity of all characters is in constant question, not just the woman released from hospital.....
The atmosphere created by the script and photography is superb. I find returning to a past era usually helps to evoke a haunting feel anyway but, besides this, tension is carefully built and plotted throughout, culminating in an effective and satisfying closing pay off scene.
Overall this certainly does not disappoint. Its one of those quirky understated horrors that quietly lodges into your brain long after the lights are out and occasionally nudges your unconscious.
Why can't the endless torture and set piece obsession of modern day horror learn from movies like this?
Format:DVD
Pete Walker's 'Frightmare' is a gloriously gory mix of psychopathic and cannibalistic killings and pretty English cottages, all topped with all those naff '70's fashions, haircuts and British cars.
Walker regular Sheila Keith is the woman sent to an asylum fifteen years ago, along with her abetting husband. He's helpless when her cravings come back and assumed cured, she now reads tarot cards. Their daughter gets romantically involved with a young psychiatrist and when her younger, adopted sister starts going off the rails, the young doctor naturally wants to help.
She's actually helping find feeding matter - and their brains - for her step mother. And step mother uses an array of everyday tools and appliances to get to her subjects' juicy bits. Electric drills, pitchforks, you name it. There's plenty of reasonable looking blood at the right times and some great make up effects of everyday folk with half their heads missing.
Now, nearly forty years on it's more a chiller than a screamer but very effective nonetheless and certainly one of the better Brit horror flicks I've seen.
Walker regular Sheila Keith is the woman sent to an asylum fifteen years ago, along with her abetting husband. He's helpless when her cravings come back and assumed cured, she now reads tarot cards. Their daughter gets romantically involved with a young psychiatrist and when her younger, adopted sister starts going off the rails, the young doctor naturally wants to help.
She's actually helping find feeding matter - and their brains - for her step mother. And step mother uses an array of everyday tools and appliances to get to her subjects' juicy bits. Electric drills, pitchforks, you name it. There's plenty of reasonable looking blood at the right times and some great make up effects of everyday folk with half their heads missing.
Now, nearly forty years on it's more a chiller than a screamer but very effective nonetheless and certainly one of the better Brit horror flicks I've seen.
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