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Written
& Directed by:
Bruce R. Cook
Starring:
Clayton Rohner .... Jack
Alisha Das .... Kim
Jack Starrett ....
Professor
Robert Tessier ....
Stanley
Elizabeth Kaitan ....
Donna
Artur Cybulski .... Bill
Brian Thompson .... Dean
Tom Dugan .... WendallRelease
Date: 1989
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A
group of graduate students with a
Professor (Jack Starrett) go to a
crumbling mansion so they can
investigate paranormal activity
and try to summon up the entity
inside the house as it's
apparently posessed by demons.
However, the Professor with his
assistant named Stanley (Robert
Tessier) tortures the students
and keeps them as prisoners to
continue exploring the mansion.
One of them named Kim (Alisha
Das) manages to escape and
discovers that the Professor and
piossibly his students are aliens
and use the mansuion as a
breeding chamber and using people
for food.
This film is off to
a great start but yet it seems
like a typical low budget horror
flick that goes nowhere which it
does.
Good performances by cast and
interesting direction saves this
film from bombing along with neat
cheesy effects too.
Skip this and watch
Invasion of the Body Snatchers instead
of this bland ripoff.
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Lead actress
Alisha Das does a splendid
job with her role as a college
graduate and does well ast being
spooked too.
Jack Starrett
knew his stuff as the serious and
evil Professor leading his
students to danger.
Robert Tessier was
perfect a the Professor's ogre
with his menacing actions.
Temporary
scream queen
Elizabeth Kaitan does well
with her role as a nice girl in
the film.
Brian Thompson played a
perfect typical sarcastic ass in
the film and it's not surprising
he carried on with his acting
career.
Supporting actor Tom Dugan
is the best in this film although
he only has a few scenes in the
film as he lived to play a
mentally challendged one who is
the keeper of the mansion.
Some interesting
horror violence in this film.
Theres a chopped off hand
A finger is cut off
Slimy corpses are in a nest for
breeding
A cut off arm
A head is smashed open
A corpse is hung with the back of
his flesh torn off
A slimey body with legs and arms
are torn off
Elizabeth
Kaitan has a wet see through
shirt and her breasts are
exposed. She takes off her shirt
aftwerwards asd well. During a
nother sequence she has a see
through bliouse with her breasts
totally revealed.
Alisha Das feels herself
and unbuttons her shirt exposing
her breasts
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Bruce
R. Cook is quite a good
director (Better than his
writing) and makes his work very
smooth with his cast for a bad
movie like this.
He almost
made this promising when he
directed Elizabeth Kaitan
duriong the beginning of this
film walking through a dark
alleyway and discovering
canniballistic zombie's which is
of course a dream.
We have a perfect dialogue
sequence between Thompson
and Tom Dugan as asshole
and mentally challenged person
when they first meet and it works
great. He knew how to direct Dugan
with his speech diosorder
and expressions making it seem
almost real.
He shows a great camera shot on
the cast handcuffed together on
wooden rails to try asnd summon
up a demonic force. There's a
perfect green light setting to it
with all sorts of cheesy effects.
During this moment he directs Jack
Starrett well by hosting all
this.
He made Robert Tessier
convincingly hulkish by torturing
some people which looked
cringing.
We also have a good scene with
him chasing after Alisha Das
as she knopws how to keep up the
pace with everything.
He also made the breeding chamber
convincingly dark and creepy with
the slimey corpses surrounding
it. During this moment there's
perfect shocked expressions on Das
and knew how to make supporting
actor Artur Cybulski
act very strange, not himself and
quite deadly too during this
situation with Das.
The ending is very twisted saying
it's a dream (No it isn't. this
is the real thing)
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There's a cheesy
rock n roll songtrack
"Nightwish" performed
by Mark Ryder and Phil
Davies during the closing
credits and also composed creepy
and dark keyboard sounds to the
film.
(Phone
rings)
Wendall: Ring,
ring
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