
A gruesome tale of revenge and bloodshed, from the Shock King of Staten Island, cult director, Andy Milligan. This super-cheap horror film story is set in an eerie Victorian mansion where a family has gathered for a will-reading. Three couples must spend the night there to inherit a fortune according to the will. Then they start dying one by one, as people are impaled with pitchforks, decapitated, dismembered, and have their throats hacked open with knives. There is a lot of ... (Full plot summary below)
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A gruesome tale of revenge and bloodshed, from the Shock King of Staten Island, cult director, Andy Milligan. This super-cheap horror film story is set in an eerie Victorian mansion where a family has gathered for a will-reading. Three couples must spend the night there to inherit a fortune according to the will. Then they start dying one by one, as people are impaled with pitchforks, decapitated, dismembered, and have their throats hacked open with knives. There is a lot of disgusting gore including a scene where a hunchbacked cretin eats live rabbits.
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| User ReviewTimothy ETo give an Andy Milligan movie five stars is to openly admit you're at war with cinema. Milligan's movies are grimier than even the cheapest grindhouse contemporary, slower than Tarkovsky on valium, and make about as much sense as your Uncle Luke when he gets ripped on corn whiskey and tries to tell you about a movie he saw when he was a kid. And yet...they're oddly hypnotic. Not everyone can be sucked into the perverse world of a Milligan movie- I'd say most people would rather watch something with production values and with less of an odious atmosphere of twisted sexuality. The sex scenes won't titillate you; the gore scenes won't horrify you. The Ghastly Ones exists in its own realm. The actual plot- involving murder and inheritance- doesn't really matter. What matters is that Andy Milligan was savaging cinema. |
| User ReviewJason CAwesome Andy Milligan horror with some genuinely creepy scenes-- it looks too cheap to be fake! Probably the best of Milligan's films I've seen so far, not least because he kept it well under 90 minutes. |
| User ReviewPrivate UOpens with a scene that has no bearing on the rest of the film, and it goes downhill from there. The plot twist is ludicrous and the hooded killer would give the killer from Scream a run for his money in terms of ineptitude and sheer ballsiness - the killer actually DUCKS in front of a victim to avoid being seen... stood right in front of them, they DUCK. For that scene alone it gets a four star. |
| User ReviewAl MFun little Andy Milligan film, which features no budget but loads of insanity. Similar in look to Herschell Gordon Lewis films, but Milligan's film features far more plot than any of Lewis's films. Milligan's plot twists and turns as it is revealed by the so horrible its humorous acting. Worth seeing for fans of schlock filmmaking. |
| User ReviewJoe Hanother video nasty, this is just a bit mad really?! |
| User ReviewHaydn WAbsolute rubbish, but has a certain charm to it...RIP Andy! |
| User ReviewTristan PInsanely off-the-wall flick from Andy Milligan, who deserves cult status. It's a bloody and (at least in part) intentionally funny flick, made for (so I read) about $16,000. An acquired taste, but fun for those who like this kind of stuff. |
| User ReviewHolly CNot the greatest. I was disappointed! The only thing that saved it was the pretty decent bloody effects for the time. Lot's of gore! Limbs being chopped off and entrails being ripped out while the victim is still alive. Very gross indeed! Blair Witch Project camera effects like it was a home movie. Obviously low budget. Not for the squeemish! |
| User ReviewPaul JI actually find it difficult to say this film deserves even one star. Hands down, the lamest video nasty I've seen. Despite the story actually being half-decent, it's the direction, writing and cinematography that are dreadful. I suppose for the late sixties, the graphic nature of some of the gore was highly disturbing. Also, suggested animal mutilation and rape are both addressed. With that in mind, it's somewhat interesting to see the gross-out factor. There's even a twist ending that might have influenced Friday the 13th. (The villain is even reminiscent of the Scream baddie.) However, the whole movie drags at a painful pace and the characters are laughable. |
| User ReviewScott JThree couples spend the night in an old dark house so that they can collect an inheritance but a killer is running loose. This is my first Andy Milligan film and it's really no worse than countless other exploitation films that were out at the time. Everything about the film is bad, especially the sex scenes, which are probably the worst I've ever seen in a movie. The director does try to build suspense but this here comes off rather laughable but then again, everything here comes close to laughable. |