A group of young people take refuge in an old, deserted mansion. Soon the members of the group start turning up dead and they realize that they're not alone in the mansion.A group of young people take refuge in an old, deserted mansion. Soon the members of the group start turning up dead and they realize that they're not alone in the mansion.A group of young people take refuge in an old, deserted mansion. Soon the members of the group start turning up dead and they realize that they're not alone in the mansion.
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- TriviaFilmed in upstate New York at a house that was set to be demolished.
- GoofsToward the end of the film, when one of the characters encounters Amanda in the bedroom it is dark outside. As the character runs out seconds later and into the arms of Albert downstairs, it is now daylight.
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Tony: This could be a lot of different things, you guys. Maybe it's a collector.
Peter: A collector? Tony, people collect stamps, baseball cards, ancient Incan artifacts. No one collects scalps!
Jack: No-one normal.
Susan: Peter, take it easy.
Peter: Take it easy? Take it easy? There's a smashed car outside, coffins in the basement, and scalps in the closet, and you're telling me to take it easy? What's next, Uncle Fester on the patio?
- ConnectionsReferences Dracula (1931)
That's the clichéd characters established, the creepy setting all done and dusted (well, maybe not dusted: the place is covered in the stuff), and at least one likely suspect once the killings begin. All we need now is for the couples to wander off to have sex, and the grisly killings to start, with lashings of juicy gore effects to keep things interesting. Except that this isn't quite how things pan out. As expected, Larraz delivers some gratuitous nudity, albeit in a sex scene that turns out to be a dream (or a wet dream, more likely), but when the bodies start to pile up, nearly all of the killings happen off screen, or with minimal need for special effects (just a splash of fake blood here and there). And what is a generic slasher without inventive, gory deaths? Disappointing, that's what!
Eventually, in tried and tested fashion, the not-so-happy campers are whittled down to the final girl, at which point we learn who has been committing the murders and why -- and the reveal is particularly daft (I won't spoil it for you: it's one of the few fun moments in the film). Larraz wraps things up by having the police turn up in the nick of time to save the sole survivor and cart off the killer. No reasonable explanation is given for the two coffins in the basement, the collection of scalps in a closet, or the bodies walled up next to the fireplace.
- BA_Harrison
- May 6, 2020
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- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1