Frightmare
(Cover Up) Directed by Peter Walker. Starring Sheila Keith (1974).
Having
just watched House Of Whipchord, this is the best Peter Walker film I’ve seen
so far. In 50’s London at an amusement park, unfortunate victim Barry Nichol’s
face is eaten off by fortune telling cannibals. For this crime against humanity,
Ed & Dorothy Yates are sentenced to a mental ward. Now in the present
setting down at The Toby Jug some bikers get into a fight, they stomp a poor
innocent bartender for refusing to serve 15 year old Tart Debbie. Jackie and
Debbie are the sibling offspring of the Yates parents. Jackie, the older sister
brings her mother animal brains to tide over her cannibal cravings that have
yet to subside. They now live in a stone cottage farm that’s bathed in black
and red shadows. Her eerie mother visits Jackie in a nightmare with a ghostly
face and red eye sockets (that’s the artwork on the cover). Jackie always has
to cover up for her parents human meat addiction and wants to lead a normal
life. The mother gets stir crazy being sentenced to the farm (those red lights
must be acting like the Kenny Rogers sign in that Seinfeld episode, switching their
rods and cones all around)! Debbie the troubled tart has been kept away from
her parents and later reconnects with them in a disturbing way. The mother
tricks her victims into her lair with psychic readings (I’m guessing that was
her method before too).
She
uses a drill on one victim and yells “There’s no Future” like Johnny Rotten as
she stabs another girl with a flaming hot poker. To justify the killings to her husband, who
is her corpse burying bitch, is that no one will miss them! I would say if you
want to check out any Peter Walker films see this one first (it’s the least dry
British) and very entertaining!
WATCH HERE (you need a Creepster account)
I card all those under 30 and look where it got me! |
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