Simply gory and rarely scary, this collection of four takes of terror has no real shell to hold what is going on in the mind of storyteller Vincent Price. He is visited by an alleged journalist after the death of his daughter Martine Beswicke from lethal injection. Four violent tales of varying tortures follow with Price phoning in his performance which probably took only a few days to shoot.
A married businessman murders the co- worker he is morbidly obsessed with. Then takes the life of his clinging wife. A demon chases him for a grizzly climax. A racist hick is rescued by a black hermit who uses voodoo spells for revenge. The goings on of a freak show leads to a horrific end for someone who wants to get out. Finally, children in the civil war get their own revenge on an army officer.
There are some historical pieces of interest here, but the big one for me was the presence of dwarf actor Angelo Rossito in the third sequence. Having appeared in the original "Freaks" and several films as Bela Lugosi's sidekick, Rossito is unforgettable. Rosalind Cash is also good as the witch behind all of the evil goings on here.
Beware that blood us everywhere here, and the really creepy characters who get away with gruesome killings. It just gets to be a bit too much, and there's really nothing to hold it together. Clu Gallagher plays one of the most vile killers that I had ever seen. Had I not been curious over Price's involvement in this, I would have been done it much earlier. In retrospect, I wish that I had just fast forwarded it.
A married businessman murders the co- worker he is morbidly obsessed with. Then takes the life of his clinging wife. A demon chases him for a grizzly climax. A racist hick is rescued by a black hermit who uses voodoo spells for revenge. The goings on of a freak show leads to a horrific end for someone who wants to get out. Finally, children in the civil war get their own revenge on an army officer.
There are some historical pieces of interest here, but the big one for me was the presence of dwarf actor Angelo Rossito in the third sequence. Having appeared in the original "Freaks" and several films as Bela Lugosi's sidekick, Rossito is unforgettable. Rosalind Cash is also good as the witch behind all of the evil goings on here.
Beware that blood us everywhere here, and the really creepy characters who get away with gruesome killings. It just gets to be a bit too much, and there's really nothing to hold it together. Clu Gallagher plays one of the most vile killers that I had ever seen. Had I not been curious over Price's involvement in this, I would have been done it much earlier. In retrospect, I wish that I had just fast forwarded it.