Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Mario Bava slasher that took some five years to finally be released in the US has this very disturbed young man John Harrington, Stephen Forsyth, trying to find out the reasons behind his mother and step father's brutal murder when he was a young boy. John in fact witnessed the murders but has since totally forgotten who committed them. Now a young man John ruining a wedding dress shop in Italy is out to murder, with a hatchet or meat cleaver, young couples in order that it, the murders, would restore his memory of that tragic event!As we soon find out it's John's wife Mildred, Laura Betti, whom he's really out to knock off or hatched to death in that she's become a royal pain in his butt and keeps him from doing what he loves to do most, romance and murder beautiful brides, in getting in his s his way from doing it. Mildred also has control of the fashion design business, left to her by her mom, that makes John's sick dreams of murdering young brides possible. When John finally put an end to Mildred's pestering him by hacking her to death that his troubles, which he thought would now come to an end, began to intensify!Mildred instead of being dead pops up everywhere John goes and is seen by everyone but himself. This slowly drives him so mad to the point when he starts making mistakes in his murdering young brides that has the local police in the person of inspector Russell, Jesus Pvente, notice. It's the inspector planning a mole in Roy's wedding design shop that in the end leads to his downfall. Something that couldn't, where he'll be treated for his mental condition, happen soon enough for John's sake. In that by getting caught he'll finally get, in a prison psycho ward, that mental help & therapy that he so desperately needs!****SPOILERS*** After doing away with Mildred instead of having her dead and buried she became a bigger problem dead then alive to him. As for John himself his life long quest to find who murdered his mom and step dad came to and end with his last murder. Now completely and hopelessly insane John is condemned to spent the rest of his life in a mental institution and after that in when the sun don't shine and it hot all year around together with his murdered wife Mildred for all eternity. A fate that I wouldn't even wish on my worst enemy!

MartinHafer Stephen Forstyh plays John Harrington (and he looks a LOT like the French actor Alain Delon). John is a real screwball. He's married to a woman who hates him and vice-versa but she won't divorce him. Obviously he holds A LOT of hostility towards her and their marriage, as for kicks he dresses up women in wedding gowns (and, later in the film he himself wears a cute bridal outfit) and hacks them to pieces. All the while, he talks to the audience and admits that he's crazy and is having a dandy time.I am sure since this is a Mario Bava film that it's SUPPOSED to be a horror film, but I swear it felt like a comedy. This is because the dialog is so laughably bad it seemed as if they must be trying to make us laugh. Now this might not be completely the fault of the writers or Bava. Since the movie is dubbed into English, perhaps the translation is horrible because the dialog sounds so ridiculous throughout the film. Or, perhaps the movie just sucks. All I know for sure is that it sure takes him a long time to start the killings and the film had some horrible music. In fact, I think the music actually was pushing John to kill--I know it almost did that for me!! It's a shame, actually, as some of the ideas in the film (especially John's hallucinations late in the film) were quite good and this should have been a very scary and tense film.My advice is to see the film. The die-hard Mario Bava fans love everything he does, so they'll be happy. As for the rest of us, we could all use a good laugh--and this one's full of them.

bunion_bill This was the worst thing I have seen in a very long time. Really a complete waste. It was not a horror movie, it was not a thriller, it was not gore - but it tried to be a little of everything, and it turned out it didn't succeed in any of those ambitions. The acting was poor to say the least, the sound was terrible, not to mention the non-existing lip sync. Already half way through the film you feel you've had enough of the close ups of Stephen Forsyth's face and eyes. It's not even thrilling, since you in the first five minutes get to know who the killer is. The only positive thing to say about this film is that it contained a few groovy outfits and sets but nothing worth to waste an hour and a half on!

Boba_Fett1138 This movie really isn't the greatest one around but it surely is an entertaining one, which still makes this movie perfectly watchable.Guess that this movie is a Giallo but it's different than usual. Although the movie is basically shot as a Giallo, it's story is quite different from what you would expect and takes some different approaches with its genre. Not necessarily great ones but it nevertheless still makes the movie somewhat original.It's certainly quite a creative movie, that takes some odd angles and approaches at times. Still it's a perfectly accessible movie really, so don't let some of the odd sequences scare you off.It certainly isn't the movie tense movie due, which is mostly due to its different approach. Unlike other Giallo movies, in this movie we know from the first sequence on who is the killer. All that the movie tries to answer is why does he kill off young girls, who are about to get married. This is were the movie its twists are supposedly are supposed to come from but there really isn't that much mystery or tension present in this movie though. That doesn't mean that the movie isn't taking some unexpected but also yet unlikely approaches with its story.The movie also isn't anything gory really, which will probably disappoint a lot of genre fans. Despite the killings in this movie, there isn't anything shocking to see in this one.Still the movie at all times remains perfectly watchable due to its pleasant style and pace. The movie is a really entertaining one, that compensates itself for its obvious and apparent more weaker points.7/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/