TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

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

Scott LeBrun The title of this minor horror-blaxploitation item seems to indicate you're in for something resembling a Scooby-Doo mystery. Still, director Ron Honthaner, working from a script by Mildred Pares, is able to generate sufficient atmosphere and overall strangeness. Even at 86 minutes, though, you can feel the padding on this thing. The final third contains way too much dancing and drumming. The cast does alright; part of the mixture of ingredients here is the potential for an interracial romance and the presence of a white face in a prominent black family, offering some sort of outsiders' perspective.That outsider is anthropology professor Andrew Cunningham (Victor French of 'Little House on the Prairie' and 'Highway to Heaven'), a member of the Christophe clan who arrive at the title location after the death of the family matriarch (Mary J. Todd McKenzie) for the reading of the will and other such matters. However, they will soon start to fall victim to so-called "accidents" engineered by an enigmatic individual on the premises.Mike Evans of 'Good Times' and 'The Jeffersons' supplies the obnoxious comedy relief as a character whom we presume that we won't miss all that much. Xernona Clayton is endearing as Harriet, who has visions of death plaguing her, the stunning Janee Michelle ("Scream Blacula Scream", "The Mephisto Waltz") adds a lot of sex appeal as our leading lady Lorena, Ella Woods (who also sings one tune) is good as house staff member Louette, and Jean Durand is amusing if never that intimidating as the mysterious butler Thomas. The special effects aren't too special, the music by Jerrold Immel is adequate, the basic set-up does hearken back to horror films of the 30s, and the finale does involve the appearance of a zombie.This one might be worth a passing glance if one is flipping channels late at night, but it's nothing that people should go out of their way to see.Five out of 10.

johnanderson40 Same old storyline gather the family of a dead rich relative to an old house and kill them off. I was glad that Phillipe was first deservedly so for his poor acting.Doesn't bond together well mismatch of ideas thrown into a pot and doesn't flow well. The setting is fine and the house looks good and you do wonder what is to happen next. Set in 1930s with 70s style filming. The romance side of things is a bit unusual between relatives who have not seen each other.Some nice touches with the filming and suspense build ups whilst nothing horrific is actually seen

skull-mountain The movie is a typical cheesy 70's horror film made on a $2 budget. I have a fondness for these type of movies and find them more interesting than the new movies that are released. With it's eerie music in the beginning and strange driving scene to open the move it's quite interesting in general and moves along well except for the 15 minute voodoo dancing scene near the end of the movie (just to pad the film I guess). Victor French does a nice job and so does Lionel Jefferson. Too bad they don't show these type of low budget movies on any channels any longer (so I doubt you'll get a chance to see this). I wonder when will there be a sequel?

cfc_can This movie seems to be in a time warp. At times, the plot seems to copy the gathering-of-the-relatives/read-the-will plot which was old even by the 1930s. At other times, it tries to blend in voodoo and blaxploitation themes and even hints at an inter-racial romance. None of these elements really works out and the film comes off as being a hodgepodge. Mike Evans (Lionel on the Jeffersons) only has a small part and a not very good one at that. The film also has a made-for-TV look about it due to the fact that there are really only about 10 or so people in the cast and not much in the way of special effects. The title itself is inappropriate. It sounds like a Hardy Boys Mystery. The servant dabbling in voodoo was kind of creepy though.