After having seen a documentary on the producer Harry Novac,i decided to try one of his films that a friend of my dad had passed over and after finding out the the film was shot in eleven days i feel that while its a flawed film,i still found it to be a enjoyable small horror film.
The plot: Three gangsters go to visit some guys that are overdue on their "payment",and when they realise that they are not going to get the payment,they decide to kill them.And after they have beaten up a shop assistant at a petal station,they think that it is best the they lay-low for a while in a remote farmhouse.And when they discover that they are not alone they get thrilled because they realise that they can keep the people (a young girl called Lisa and her very ill grandfather) as hostages.But none of them realise that Lisa has an axe,and the she has some plans of her own...
View on the film: The film starred and was written and directed by Fredrick Rfriedel,one of the main things he did well was to keep the film to a very lean running time of sixty three minutes and also doing some good dark comedy in the first half(The gangsters doing their own "remake" of the William Tall opening titles with the petal station assistant)But the main thing that lets the film down are a weaker second half with a big plot-hole (In the whole film,none of them even try to keep Lisa hostage well at all) and the score sounds very out of placed and not mixed into the film at all the gives it an oil effect.
Final view on the film: A really good lean fast-moving horror film,the is let down by a big plot hole and a very bad score.
The plot: Three gangsters go to visit some guys that are overdue on their "payment",and when they realise that they are not going to get the payment,they decide to kill them.And after they have beaten up a shop assistant at a petal station,they think that it is best the they lay-low for a while in a remote farmhouse.And when they discover that they are not alone they get thrilled because they realise that they can keep the people (a young girl called Lisa and her very ill grandfather) as hostages.But none of them realise that Lisa has an axe,and the she has some plans of her own...
View on the film: The film starred and was written and directed by Fredrick Rfriedel,one of the main things he did well was to keep the film to a very lean running time of sixty three minutes and also doing some good dark comedy in the first half(The gangsters doing their own "remake" of the William Tall opening titles with the petal station assistant)But the main thing that lets the film down are a weaker second half with a big plot-hole (In the whole film,none of them even try to keep Lisa hostage well at all) and the score sounds very out of placed and not mixed into the film at all the gives it an oil effect.
Final view on the film: A really good lean fast-moving horror film,the is let down by a big plot hole and a very bad score.