| 100 Cries Of Terror |
| As many critics have yapped there isn't 100 cries of terror in this film.This is an anthology film consisting of two stories:A Debt Of Panic and Terror In The Cript(sic).The first story is almost too short but the second is too long. The first story has a husband and wife arriving late one night to a house that he has purchased but she hasn't seen.(Oh yeah now THAT happens all the time in marriage."Hi honey!I just bought a house!You'll love it!" BLAM!Sounds of shotgun shells being ejected as moronic husband is splashed all over the walls of his old house).Anyway this house is miles from town in a very lonely secluded area.Wifey has a bad heart and needs to rest.This is a perfect place to also work on their troubled marriage as well.Or is it? Anyway it seems hubby was able to pick the place up cheap.The former owner was a mental case who was chained up in the house as her family didn't want to commit her.Hey, the cost of long term care sucks!It is rumored that she actually still haunts the house. Before they get settled in something raises hell in the kitchen and tosses all of the utensils & dishes onto the floor.Chains start rattling and then we are treated to some really cool ghostly screams.Wife begins to get chest pains and hubby goes to town for a doctor.Before he can get there an apparition of a ghostly hag in chains surprises the wife and she hits the floor dead. Hubby races back in and his girlfriend takes off the disguise.That lousy SOB!He planned it all.He then leaves the house to establish an alibi and leaves the chick there with the body.However weird things start happening while he is gone.The kitchen is destroyed again, the body disappears and chains rattle and screams echo through the house. Is the joint really haunted? The chick almost wets herself when the ghost appears.It starts chasing her through the house and she gets a gun.When there is pounding on the bedroom door she empties the pistol into it....and into her boyfriend.She falls and cracks her skull open.Bummer.Wifey steps out having pulled a trick out of House On Haunted Hill. The second story concerns a medical student with a weird affliction.If he doesn't take his pills he is prone to passing out.Well he visits the mauseoleum to see his departed fiance.He forgets to take his pills and collapses.He is locked in the crypt for the night. When he awakens he hears moans and crying.(Thought he was at the drive in for a second there).He forces open a crypt to find a young woman who had suffered a cataleptic spell.Mistakenly thought dead she was buried alive.(Obviously she missed the embalming process).The man assures her that all will be well and that they just have to stay calm until the morning.Then they will be free. Heh.Ain't gonna happen.Seems this chick is a bit of a loon.She starts freaking out and hearing things that aren't there.She babbles.He talks.She rants.He talks.You nod off.She screams and you wake up wondering what the %$#& is going on!He tries to calm her down but she thinks that she is dead and that he is too and it goes on and on and on. Then she just loses what little sanity she was clinging to.So in self defense or self preservation because this witch ain't ever gonna shut up he kills her.Then he puts her back in the crypt, seals it up and waits for morning. The caretaker opens up the tomb and is surprised to see this whistling happy guy who is safe in the knowledge that he committed murder and no one will ever know.... The ending of the second story is really twisted and unexpected.The first story also has a nice twist ending to it and is a lot of fun.The screamer will send a shiver down your spine. The jazzy score is unlike any of the other canned scores of a K Gordon Murray import. However the second story suffers from too much talk and it runs almost an hour.It could have been trimmed by twenty or thirty minutes with losing nothing.A third story could have been run instead. |
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