Frightmare (1974)
5/10
There's not much to say really ***SPOILERS***
18 November 2004
Warning: Spoilers
While I feel the storyline was interesting, I didn't like how they jumped around a lot in the film. Perhaps they had to cut out a lot of scenes because of the budget and time? Whatever the excuse I still feel the editing could have been done better. One minute we see Jackie holding out a blood stained jacket asking her sister how it got there and the next we see Jackie sitting down and Graham coming to her with a glass of water because she had just got done crying. I would have very much liked to see Debbie's explanation of how the blood got there but no, they had to skip all of that and have Jackie mention it to Graham. There were a bunch of other jumps in the film as well but I am not going to list all of them.

Also the gore was a big let down, there just wasn't enough! In the one scene where Dorothy drills the woman's head all you see is her crazed eyes and little splatter's of blood. Show us the drill going into the head! Maybe I am being too picky because maybe thats what the director wanted, to scare his audience by not actually showing the drill going into the head just the crazed look in Dorothy's eyes, but I just felt it was lacking. It didn't scare me at all. Overall I gave this film a 5/10. The storyline was good, but the acting was so so and the gore was completely laughable.
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