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Old man Sinclair has died, but he has given very specific instructions
regarding his funeral, otherwise he has vowed to come back - not entirely
unlikely even given he has suffered from a disease that might have put him
in a death-like coma. The relatives though, a greedy bunch, couldn't give
a ratfart about his instructions, all they want is his money, and fast.
Especially his two sons, self-centered Bruce (Robert Milli) and drunkard
Philip (Roy Scheider) show little respect for deceased father. Then though
people start dying, with Bruce being one of the first, and they tend to be
killed according to their phobias - especially Abigail (Helen Warren), old
man Sinclair's widow, dies a horrible death, being tied into her burning
bed. So could old man Sinclair have returned after all? And who is the
masked and hooded figure prowling the premises? It's only when the
mystery man has already killed his way through most of the family and
drags of Deborah (Candace Hilligoss), girlfriend of rather colourless
cousin Robert (Dino Narizzano) to drown her in the quicksand that Robert
and with him the police catch up with the villain and pull away his mask,
revealing him to be Philip, who has always suffered from lack of
recognition and thus taken his revenge on the world (and especially his
family). In the end, he dies in quicksand in Deborah's place of course ... Today,
this movie is, if at all, chiefly known for being the big screen debut of
Roy Scheider (who is actually pretty good in this one) - but it's actually
a pretty decent movie apart from that: Despite a noticably low budget,
writer/director Del Tenney manages to bring the whole thing - a period old
dark house murder mystery - to life by creating a morbid atmosphere,
filling the whole thing up with macabre to gruesome ideas as well as
unexpected yet not entirely unlikely plottwists and the like. Actually,
one of these genre movies that deserves more attention than it presently
receives.
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