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For the reading of the will f their father, sisters Victoria (Anne
Linden), Elisabeth (Carol Vogl) and Veronica (Eileen Hayes) and their
respected husbands Richard (Fib LaBlaque), Donald (Richard Romanus) and
William (Don Williams) have to spend three nights at their former family
home on an island just off New York City, where apparently the plague has
killed all the inhabitants since they were last here, all but the servants
of their family home, Hattie (Maggie Rogers), Martha (Veronica Radburn)
and Martha's hunchbacked brother Colin (Hal Borske), who is highly mad and
tends to have violent outbursts - why the servants have stayed in the
house for all the years with noone there to serve is left at anybody's
guess.
But even the first night they stay at the house is overshadowed by
gruesome events, first Veronica finds a dead rabbit in her bed, then
Victoria and Richard find their door marked with an X - written in blood.
And when Richard goes investigating, he sure enough ends up dead, hanging
headfirst from the ceiling.
Someone strong must have done this, think the others, and they first
suspect violent Colin, but Martha vouches for him, claiming that he was
chained up all night. Then it sems the others do not even think about it
anymore - until Martha asks Donald to go to the cellar with Colin and help
him cut wood. In the cellar, Donald is brutally attacked and cut up.
With Donald gone too, the others do get slightly worried, but still
decide to have their dinner at tghe set time ... to discover that instead
of the promised turkey, they are served Donald's head.
Now it's William's turn to go to the cellar and investigate, and he
finds clues to a decades-old secret ... but before he can spill the beans
to anyone, a pitchfork ends his life.
Soon it becomes clear that Hattie is indeed the killer, as she is the
daughter of Victoria's, Elisabeth's and Veronica's father and his first
wife, but the mother of the girls has treated her cruelly over all those
years, and demoted her to servant status ... and now she wants revenge. So
she now stabs Martha and sets fire to Colin, then approaches the girls,
menacingly wielding a knife - and in the end, it's mad Colin, who wasn#t
quite killed by the fire, who saves the girls when he jumps Hattie from
behind and pushes her down a staircase, letting his own life in the
process.
This film is pure Andy Milligan ! The film is full of unnecessary
subplots, stilted and uninteresting dialogue, unbelievable characters and
unbelievable reactions of the characters to the film's goings-on,
unattractive and wooden actors, indifferent and amateurish camerawork
(which at times doesn't bother to much with keeping anything at all in
focus), unconvincing period costumes (where there is no reason for having
a period film at all) and a badly written script based on a tried and true
formula. You might hate this movie, and have every right to do so, but
(like me) you might watch this picture in awe, just because of the sheer
madness going on on-screen.
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