ThiefHott Too much of everything

GamerTab That was an excellent one.

PodBill Just what I expected

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

MartinHafer For many years, my wife has marveled at my ability to finish any movie I watch...even if they are really horrible. Well, truth be told, I've met my match with "The Dungeon of Harrow" as I found myself unable to finish it, as the movie is just amateurish and stupid. I can clearly understand why they allowed this film to pass into the public domain.The film was made in the filmmaking Mecca, San Antonio, Texas and is about a family of weirdos that our boring hero meets after becoming shipwrecked. From the second he and the Captain of the ship land, you hear the hero's thoughts...and they sound EXACTLY like a 12 year-old trying to write a Gothic horror story...and a not particularly talented 12 year-old at that! The film is incredibly talky and has some of the worst narration and dialog I can recall. It comes off, like the acting, as very amateurish and silly. In fact, that is about the nicest thing I can say about the film...amateurish and silly. Not especially frightening...just boring and very poorly made in every possible way.

Scarecrow-88 Two survivors from a ship that crashed in the rocks wash ashore on the island of a count going mad (his madness "manifests itself" in the form of a devious fiend prone to histrionics), captured and at his mercy. The performers in this cheap Gothic dreck are a cast of zombies, as lifeless and tedious as the pacing of the film itself. Not one performance distinguishes itself enough to awaken the audience out of their slumber, and the subject matter doesn't help, either. There's a castle within the island setting, but due to a lack of skill in the direction, hardly any atmosphere is established (there are a couple of good moments, like a grim dungeon and certain cob-webbed rooms lit by torches), so therefore nothing can salvage this hokum or rescue it from the doldrums. Like a slow-moving poison, the pace is excruciating to the point of agony. Certain dialogue scenes between trapped hero Aaron Fallon (Russ Harvey, zero charisma and one giant bore of an actor) and the miserable Cassandra (Helen Hogan) stretch on and on to infinity, while William McNulty's deranged, sadistic Count Lorente de Sade fails to muster enough villainy for us to really enjoy his lunacy. The film has one GREAT sequence, however, when Fallon is chained to the castle's major dungeon as a maniacal leprous hand of the imprisoned Countess de Sade (Eunice Grey) frees herself from the room holding her at bay, slowly creeping towards him, so diseased she frightens him to the point his hair turns gray. Other characters include tormented mute servant girl, Ann (Michele Buquor) and black man-servant Mantis (Maurice Harris), both having endured Lorente's constant belittlement and mistreatment for quite a length of time under his rule. One thing this film has going for it and that is the bleakness of the setting under Count's demented supervision, his madness deriving mainly from the belief that pirates are certain to rob him. Mantis obeys Count practically all the way to his unfortunate fate. One scene that bugged the stew out of me was Aaron's disinterest in helping his ship's captain in a fight with Mantis, resulting in his own imprisonment in the castle dungeon. Cassandra has been Count's "companion" over the last few years, and the film tries to show the burden she has been under, but, like all the performances, she seems too bored to summon up the emotion to grip the audience. This film might've been a bit better had it been directed by someone more talented, but as is, "The Dungeon of Harrow" is a chore to get through, and I was delighted as it ended.

stephen-duffy2 Words fail me – well nearly. Never heard of this one but it could well be a contender for one of the worlds worst movies – yes, it's that bad. Thankfully it's also great fun with a good few laugh out loud moments and i must say by the end i had a warm spot for it – no i don't mean Hell. Direction, photography, editing, performances all stink like week old fish but oddly the script has, in between plenty of crap dialogue some wonderfully lucid and poignant lines that could have come straight from the pages of a 19th century novel by M.R. JAMES or some other notable genre scribe of the period. The story itself is quite strong and given some money, a decent cast and crew there was a good movie waiting to be made here. Certainly worse than anything EDDIE WOOD ever did and i suspect this is what an ANDY MILLIGAN picture might look like – i've only seen trailers of that guy's .....'work'. At least originally it would have looked nice enough having been shot in EASTMAN COLOR – alas the print here ( on YOU TUBE ) had very faded colours.

wes-connors "The mad Count De Sade lives in his families' (sic) castle located on a remote island. Count De Sade keeps his wife locked up in a dungeon below the castle and his insanity strike (sic) fear into the staff. After a terrible storm, a ship's captain and the son of the ship's owner find themselves washed ashore on this lonely isle, not knowing the danger they face from the evil Count De Sade," according to the DVD sleeve's synopsis.This hilariously awful spoof of "The Most Dangerous Game" could obviously be better, with a bigger budget and more directorial flourish. But the script, by Pat Boyette and Henry Garcia, is quite wittily written; and, the performances are delivered with appropriate tongues-in-cheek. Although its satirical intent serves to negate it as a "so-bad-it's-good" movie, "The Dungeon of Harrow" should appeal to followers of that genre.***** The Dungeon of Harrow (1962) Pat Boyette ~ Russ Harvey, Helen Hogan, William McNulty