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A producer/director, Mike (Ray Brooks), and a group of actors - film star Julia (Jenny Hanley), Carol (Luan Peters), Carol's boyfriend Tony (Tristan Rogers), her best friend Jane (Judy Matheson), prankster John (David Howey) and Angela (Penny Meredith) - are hired by a mysterious production company to put together a mostly improvised play at a long abandoned seaside theatre - a creepy place in its own right. And since the production's not exactly well-funded, our actors have to sleep at the premises as well - and wouldn't you know it, after the first night, Angela's gone. Mike is sure he has stumbled upon her severed head though, but once he wants to show it to the police, it's gone, with a goodbye letter from Angela appearing in its place. Soon after, Carol has a big disagreement with Tony and storms off onto the pier to almost be killed by a stranger. She's saved by the other castmembers - safe for John, who appears to have disappeared as well, and soon the others decide it was just one of his pranks that went too far, and maybe beheading Angela was a prank as well - should she really have been decapitated that is. Rehearsals resume with newby Sarah (Candance Glendenning), which soon enough attract the attention of war veteran and former amateur actor Major Bell (Patrick Barr), who time and again tries to barge in on our thespians. However, things get out of bounds when John's dead body is found and then Carol is brutally killed - and it's now that police inspector Walsh (Raymond Young) zeroes in on the theatre group. Also there's an urban legend surrounding the theatre - only the truth is even grimmer than the legend, and it soon catches up with our heroes ...

Well, this is not a "great" film by any stretch of imagination. but on the other hand it's a prototype for slasher cinema (a term not coined until years later) in pretty much all aspects, from the mysterious killer to the macabre killings to the pretty young girls to many topless scenes to sexual undercurrents to the urban legend backstory to the rather silly resolution to the mystery. And no, Pete Walker sure isn't the greatest of directors, but he knows when to go for suspense, when for shocks, and he sure makes the most out of the limited locations. And as long as you're not taking this movie too seriously, it can be lots of fun, too.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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