My review was written in November 1989 after watching the program on Studio Entertainment video cassette.
This compilation of two occult horor films on one video (each feature tuncated to about an hour) delivers one goodie and one stiff for genre fans.
First segment, "Fright House", toplines Al Lewis, restarateur of "The Munsters" tv show fame. Film's title is a pun on frat house, and pic is set at a mansion inherited by a college fraternity. Lewis is a police captain whose detective (Paul Borgese) is investigating suspicious suicides on campus, including that of Borgese's brother.
Upshot is that college psychologist (lovely Jennifer Delora) turns out to be hypnotizing the kids, in service of her satanic master.
This feature is an okay mixture of sexploitation and gore, though its climax is hurt by the editing.
Second half of the doubleheader is a mess, simply because the source feature film, "Abadon", was itself a confusin mishmash: in complete form it was releaed under the title "Vampires". The late Duane Jones toplines as an obsessed figure trying to settle a 75-year-old score with Abadon (Jackie James), in a story set at a Connecticut art school.
Retaining the original's awkward voice-over exposition and closeups of tarot cards substituting for scenes that were never shot, the shortened "Abadon" is incomprehensible. Only link between the two films is that Kit Jones, who plays Borgese's blonde girlfriend in "Fright House", has a small role as young Abadon in second pic's flashbacks.
