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| APRIL FOOL'S DAY ----------------------------------------- This was one of those movies that viewers had seen time and time again...just with different names. This one for example is about a girl who invites her college friends to her parent's somewhat secluded island home and some psycho starts killing them off one by one. No great mystery and no real plot...at least none we haven't seen time and time and time again AVOID |
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| ASYLUM ------------------------------------ For the 70's, this was a movie to finally bring some decent horror/suspense to the viewer. It was directed by Roy Wade Baker and was released in 1972. Though no longer in print, this movie is an absolute must see if you want old time classic horror. Robert Powell stars as he plays a psychiatrist who is interviewing four inmates in an insane asylum. he has been challenged into finding out which of these four were once the head of the institution. Anyone who knows anything about horror movies knows that one of the biggest horror movie production studios was Hammer films. This movie was not from Hammer but was just as good as any that Hammer put out in the same time era. Other cast members such as Peter Cushing are brilliant in their roles. For example Cushing plays a former tailor who had been hired to create a magic suit to help bring back the dead. Britt Eckland plays an invisible imaginary friend who is rather real and very homicidal. Herbert Lom portrays a former doctor who now builds robots, the robots however have real insides which are portrayed when one of the robots dies underfoot and his guts are smashed out. This movie has no real gore to it, in fact it did very well in the wake of a few gore movies released around the same time, and it faired quite weel up against them. The eerie part of this movie comes towards the end when a killer is stalked by his victim's severed body parts, all wrapped up in newspaper. Sound weird? Watch the movie, it isn't as weird as it may sound, in fact it gives creedence to the name of the movie and leaves you thanking God you aren't craxy and locked away in one of these places. Also, fans of Author Robert Bloch will appreciate his handywork in writing the screenplay. This was just a very good movie |
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