Night 9 of 31 nights of Horror

This may be the movie I’ve been searching for all week. Unfortunately, I didn’t like it.

In the last article, I raved about how big a difference having experienced actors, and I still believe this to be true, but even the massive talent pool of this cast wasn’t enough to make me enjoy it.

Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, John Carradine, all giants of the horror genre… from the 50s and 60s. I mean they can still act, they were great, it’s just that the film itself felt out of date, given it was made in the 80s and it’s not due to the age of the cast, the whole tone, look and feel from the music to the camera movement to the colour pallet just felt like an homage to movies that films that made the cast famous. It’s just not my thing.

I don’t want to come off like I’m bashing the movie, so I won’t say any more about it. If you like older movies like ones from Hammer Films, you may like House of the Long Shadows.