BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Rainey Dawn This one took me by surprise... I wasn't expecting the film to be as good as it is. It is Psycho-ish but not a rip off of Hitchcock's classic but the film does share some similarities with the Psycho films.A young girl goes to stay with her grandmother because her grandfather came up missing. While he was around, he ran a funeral home from the house but now that he's gone grandmother needed some money and she decided to keep the house with running a bed and breakfast from it with the help of her granddaughter. Several people have come up missing from the small tourist town and most of the local police don't give it much thought because they are adults and most of the rumors are thought to be idol gossip anyway - but there is one rookie cop that thinks something deeper is going on but is having problems getting the other cops and some of the townspeople to take him seriously. When more people come up missing the investigations go deeper. The granddaughter is becoming frightened from some of the subtle but odd things going on inside grandma's B&B home.Very good film - I really enjoyed this one!! 8.5/10

Aaron1375 I am kind of surprised to see the score of this film on the plus side of five. I found it to be completely boring as I had the ending pegged about ten minutes into this one. So once you have the twist ending figured out all there is left to do is watch the deaths and hope they are bloody, hope for some nudity or hope they pull a fast one and the ending is not exactly what you are expecting. Well, the deaths are few and far between with only one really good one near the end of the film. The main girl of the piece is cute, but looks too young to show any skin and she doesn't and the one guest at the inn who is having an affair is not someone you want to see naked and thankfully she does not. Then the ending comes and it is exactly what I was expecting. The only thing that was surprising was the end where the police officer basically explained what had happened in what almost seemed like a television show wrap up.The story has a young lady going to her grandmother's place to help her set it up as a tourist house of some sort. Basically a bed and breakfast as for reasons unknown this town is some sort of attraction. Seriously, the only thing of note is a quarry where people go swimming. The inn used to be a funeral home and when we first see it I was thinking that the place was in worse shape than the one in Fulci's The Beyond. Guests actually start staying at the place and an obnoxious couple having an affair begin to get under the skin of both grandma and her helper outside. The young lady begins hearing voices from the cellar and people start disappearing while the local law enforcement with the exception of the newest addition seems to not care that people are disappearing.The film was a complete bore to me, I can stand a bad horror, but I hate boring ones and this was very boring to me. I do not know what others saw in this one, but all I saw was a very poorly done and acted ripoff of Psycho. Like I said, that ending was completely telegraphed right from the get go. Without any surprise you may get from the ending you are left with nothing to enjoy about the film other than the one kill near the end. One kill in an hour and a half movie cannot save or elevate this one all that high. Almost seemed a movie Mystery Science Theater could have riffed as the end scene where the killer was attacking you could not tell where the killer was in relation to the where the girl was. Just bad and boring with an ending that is easily figured out the moment you hear voices in the cellar.

ofumalow This not esp. novel or compelling horror flick has its teenage heroine (not a very good actress) spending the summer at grandmother's country B&B, where some of the less agreeable guests have a tendency to check in and then never be heard from again. Less flamboyant than the similar likes of "Motel Hell," "Eaten Alive" and so forth, this takes a long time getting to any real action, and the climax is not particularly surprising or memorable. Still, it's competently made by its sometimes interesting Canadian director ("House by the Lake"), and mostly decently acted, esp. by Grandma, who is relatively restrained in a role that easily could have been treated as a camp gorgon. Admittedly, I watched a pretty poor-quality online dupe, so it might play better seen on a DVD or whatever. God knows there are plenty of duller or more inept vintage 70s/80s semi-slasher horrors; this one just isn't idiosyncratic or scary enough to leave any lasting impression.

Zeegrade Heather has decided to help her grandmother for the summer who has turned the family funeral home into a bed & breakfast despite the fact that the old bag is about as friendly as a rabid junkyard dog. At times during the late evening hours Heather overhears talking in the basement that her grandma strictly forbids her from entering. Clues abound as the story of her grandfather's mysterious disappearance confronts Heather with an ugly truth she doesn't want to acknowledge. Who can she trust? Will she stay at the creepy house? Who is Mrs. Chalmers speaking to in the basement? How the hell did you not figure it out in the first five minutes?William Fruet is definitely a talented director and he does an admirable job despite clearly not having much of a budget. The acting is also for the most part done well especially Lesleh Donaldson as the conflicted but trusting Heather. You would have to be lobotomized to not know how the story is ultimately going to end but that shouldn't detract from the eerie atmosphere that is prevalent during most of the film. The reason I can't give this a higher rating is the rather slow build-up to the kills which in themselves are rather tame and unoriginal. As a matter of fact I'm perplexed that this movie received an R rating to begin with as there isn't any profanity and absolutely no nudity. This is the second consecutive movie in the "Chilling Classics" collection that has a woman seducing a mentally challenged man. Was there a market for this kind of thing in the seventies? It's creepy as hell. A decent film that's just a little too vanilla for me. Kinda like Canada.