So funny, but I hadn't thought of this film in years,,,but once upon a time, living in the Caribbean, a friend of mine had this on Betamax,,,,yea,,,betamax! I am fairly certain that I borrowed it at least 10 times, and though it was low budget, this may be the film that first ever made me take "low budget" seriously. It has to have been 24 years since I saw it and I still remember and love it. And isn't that the real test of a movie? How long it stays with you?
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it looks like a blast.
Yeah, um, mmm, *cough* *cough*
How retro :D
i have seen this movie about 3 - 5 times when i was a kid, it used to air on Swedish channel 5 all the time back in the nineties when they frequently aired old horror movies late at night.
i remember that i for some reason liked "The Tower of Evil" and "Superstition" a lot more than the other horror movies that they used to air, ok, whenever a "Friday the 13th" aired i would cry if i did not get to see it.
I was insane as a kid, loving every movie just because it was a horror movie and got some gore in it. ;D
However i have to see this movie soon!
Believe or don't this schlock fest will be on TCM Dec.12,2008! Glory be is it caffeine free?
Nothing is more beautiful than nothing.
They're showing it with another even worse horror film--"Horror House". It has Frankie Avalon, a bunch of stupid English kids and an axe murderer. The uncut version ("Haunted House of Horror") is great but the PG version (which is probably the one TCM will be stuck with) is terrible.
shareThe TCM schedule lists Horror House at 92 minutes so I'm crossing my fingers and recording them both. Jill Haworth in all her dolly-bird glory! I saw Tower of Evil at the run-down "2 movies fo $1" theater in my hometown when I was younger, retitled "Beyond the Fog" and I think on a double bill with "Bog". (Other movies I saw there include Jack the Ripper w. Klaus Kinski, Caged Virgins, The Folka at the Red Wolf Inn, Phantom of the Paradise--repeatedly!, The Psychopath, Sketches of a Strangler, and a lot of kung fu and blaxsploitation stuff..good times!)
shareI didn't see "Tower..." until I got it on DVD last year...then an ex-friend "borrowed" it and I never saw it again! Two movies for $1--I remember those days:) Unfortunately the theatre that showed stuff like this was in the worst part of town so I wasn't allowed to go(:
shareI'd seen this one before a good few years ago, but it was on tv again a couple days back so I taped it.
It's an odd one, isn't it? There's stuff in there that's pretty cheesy and silly but...it does have a certain atmosphere. The director's grasp of sound in particular was good, all that eerie whistling wind and odd sounds, manic giggling and groaning and that flute.
Pick at the story and it falls to bits but I can't deny this film has a certain something to it. The credits sequence is so simple yet so memorably creepy.
7/10 for me. Reminded me of an old Scooby-Doo episode, except for the sex, half the cast getting killed, no Mystery Machine and no dog. But it's similar though.
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