kristianryder

One can see from this pilot that it was going to work but for two or three problems. The core cast work well and Lurkio, the senator and Ammonia work perfectly together. It is like an unpolished genius. The problems lie with Cassandra the sooth sayer. The point of a sooth sayer is that they are "old and withered" but Cassandra is a young lady who isn't very good as a TV actress. I believe Frankie Howerd suggested his very good friend Jeanne Mockford for the role and she plays it perfectly. My other issue was with Tarsius, he was hamming it to the extreme that it wasn't funny and was very happy when he jumped.

On the whole though...very enjoyable.

This movie has all the feelings of a great idea but with no conviction. As a horror movie it sucks big style and as a comedy it isn't much better. The actors act like they just want a pay check. There are some "scary scenes" but they just aren't scary, they are predictable. You will not be jumping out of your seat to this film. I want to say something good about it but there is just so little. The whole movie just has an air of cheap new actors and old has beens. It is also way too long for a movie of this appallingness. 88 to 91 minutes would have sufficed but they made it 110 minutes for no obvious reason. Just an extra 20 minutes for the poor punter to endure. My advice is to just not bother....you will thank me for it in the long run.

WOW! Where do I start? I think to call this a film is even an insult to the movie industry. I have to start by saying that this is one of the worst films you will ever see. The camera work is all over the place, it is jerky in parts and then still when it shouldn't be and what is with the rolling pan shot of the wall when the boy is talking to the cook? They say a story should have a beginning, a middle and an end...this film has none of them, just a garbled mess. And as for the acting (if you can call it that) well that was just the worst. The only redeeming actor was the young lad in what was actually his first acting performance. Although I don't actually know if he was any good or just better than the rest of the cast. Michelle Romano, who played Judy, was actually not terrible albeit a little wooden but she did know the basics of acting at least. Jimmy Scanlon was terrible and after seeing he has since wrote the script to a short film called "Methadone Mile" I suspect he may well have been high on heroin at the time of this movie, although even that wouldn't explain his behaviour. I would like to end with at least one redeeming factor for this film but there were none. I don't think I have ever been so excited to see the credits at the end of a movie. Please do not watch this film, you can actually find it on YouTube as a free movie so what I would recommend is to just flick to any point in the film and just see how bad things are. Truly amazed this was ever distributed.