Fluentiama
Perfect cast and a good story
Actuakers
One of my all time favorites.
Intcatinfo
A Masterpiece!
Rainey Dawn
This film is not as bad as some have made it out to be. Yes it's a terrible film but has a charming and hypnotic quality to it that makes the movie enjoyable to watch. So bad it's good.This film will not suit most horror fans but for those that like obscure B-films this movie might be up your alley way - like it is with me.The acting is a bit better than I expected. The costume, sets and special effects are good for a movie made on little money. The story is not all that bad either.I am one that enjoys older bad horror films - for the most part. And this film fits into what I like in an older obscure horror film.Like any movie, you have to watch it for yourself to know if you will like the flick or not. If you happen to see the film on TV or happen to acquire the movie then give the movie a chance - if you don't like it then you can always turn it off.6/10
Woodyanders
Made on a painfully obvious breadcrumb budget, with an overly talky script, limp (non)direction by Pat Boyette (who also co-wrote the long-winded screenplay), a lethargic, uneventful, and meandering narrative, hit-or-miss acting, a dissatisfying downbeat ending, and cheesy (far from) special effects (the cruddy matte painting of a crumbling castle and the rinky-dink miniature of a ship that gets caught in a storm are both laughably hokey), this dreary dud about a sadistic count (robustly played by William McNulty) tormenting several folks on a remote island for the most part proves to be a boring chore to endure, but nonetheless manages to evoke a potently brooding gloom-doom Gothic atmosphere and delivers a couple of genuinely creepy and unsettling moments (Eunice Grey's regrettably brief appearance as the count's hideously disfigured and deranged wife who's stricken with leprosy rates as the definite flesh-crawling highlight). Moreover, both Helen Morgan as the sweet and helpful Cassandra and Michele Buquor as traumatized mute Ann manage to transcend the movie's pervasive mind-numbing mediocrity. Alas, Russ Harvey makes for a bland and underwhelming hero as the drippy Aaron Fallon, the excruciatingly poky pacing sucks all the energy and entertainment value from the picture, the slushy orchestral score is more obtrusive than effective, and the whole thing degenerates into the inevitable "The Most Dangerous Game" rehash in the last third. A deadly dull wash-out.
Peter_Bark
Some reviewers have called this a turkey, while others have tried to elevate it to a surrealist masterpiece. I found the film to neither be as bad nor as bizarre as they have made out.It brought to mind Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe adaptations (e.g. House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum) and Mexican and Italian Gothic horror films from the same period, but done on a shoestring budget. The story, which borrows loosely from The Most Dangerous Game, was actually pretty good, and with a clever twist ending; I'm not sure why some reviewers claim it is incoherent, because I had no problem following it. While there may have been a few draggy bits, I found Dungeon of Harrow to be fast paced overall, which is surprising for an almost completely dialogue-driven movie. The worst that you can say about it is that some of the acting was wooden and some of the props (like a giant spider) weren't exactly state of the art. Given the tiny budget he was working with, I think the director can be excused for not hiring Vincent Price to be the lead man or for using cheesy props.Some will think it's boring, but personally, I find obscure films like this that were made outside of the studio system and major cultural centers (Hollywood, New York, London, Rome, Paris, Berlin) to be fascinating.My true rating is 7 out of 10, but I'm giving it a 10 out of 10 because I find the current IMDb average of 2.8 to be unjustly low.
KREEPY
This film just screams cheap-jack 60's horror comics ala Creepy and Eerie, and I mean screams with a capital S, and no surprise really, being director Boyette was a well-known horror comic scribe/artiste. Where "Creepshow" failed in really capturing that "EC-vibe", "Dungeon" succeeds 100% in getting that surreal budget label Charlton Comics thing down to a tee! I say, turn it on, shut down you brain and just soak in the oddness, and this film is way odd, dreamlike really, and best watched while slightly groggy after 1 AM (it has a similar dreamy quality akin to the classic poverty row noir "Detour" in this regard, call me crazy)...that said, though, I really only recommend it to hardcore genre fans, regional horror obscurity weirdos (like myself, especially fans of Texas-lensed regional oddities), and retro horror comic fans, so if this sounds like you, Dungeons is pure gold. Now, if someone could please find Boyette's lost film "The Weird One's" my life would be complete.
