During a scene towards the end of the movie where Conrad is walking up a staircase towards Stu, a hose can be seen spraying fog on the stairs.
Legendary hammy and arrogant horror movie star Conrad Radzoff (splendidly played with wicked sardonic aplomb by Ferdy Mayne) dies of a heart attack. A bunch of drama school students steal Radzoff's corpse from its crypt and take it to a rundown mansion so they can party with it.
This certainly has the elements of gore horror, but it is actually more of a psychological drama with a bit of a horror element than an all-out gorefest. If this is what the controversy over grindhouse horror is, then I can watch individual films once, but unless there's a major star or supporting player in it, it doesn't have much of an interest for me to watch again.
No one who looks like Sheila Keith should seem threatening, but after Frightmare, you might have second thoughts every time you pass by a kindly looking elderly woman. This is what Frightmare does best.
Frightmare is directed by Pete Walker who also co-writes the screenplay with David McGillivray. It stars Rupert Davies, Shelia Keith, Deborah Fairfax, Paul Greenwood and Kim Butcher.
I've always greatly appreciated and admired this film for how utterly dark and hopeless it is. When it premiered on the Horror Channel in February of last year it was the first time it'd seen the light of day on British television in sixteen years.
As you can guess by my rating I really did not enjoy this movie. I would not recommend this movie and perhaps others wouldn't give it such a low rating, but I thought the setup of this movie was bad and not fully realized.
What Pete Walker accomplish in this '70 horror -even exploitation- film is quite impressive. A story about a demented cannibalistic woman and the husband who is madly in love with her sounds a bit crazy on the start, but the way that this story develop itself makes you feel tense and uncomfortable since the very first second of the movie.
If there could be more movies starring little old ladies who secretly like to feast on human flesh, I'd be one happy guy. This is one of the best of that small subgenre (if one of the few?
In 1957 a couple are found guilty of murder are saved from the hangman's noose by reason of insanity . 15 years later they are released but have their homicidal impulsions been cured ?
