The Ghastly Ones Full Movie

Paul J 29 May 2010

I actually find it difficult to say this film deserves even one star. Hands down, the lamest video nasty I've seen. Despite the story actually being half-decent, it's the direction, writing and cinematography that are dreadful. I suppose for the late sixties, the graphic nature of some of the gore was highly disturbing. Also, suggested animal mutilation and rape are both addressed. With that in mind, it's somewhat interesting to see the gross-out factor. There's even a twist ending that might have influenced Friday the 13th. (The villain is even reminiscent of the Scream baddie.) However, the whole movie drags at a painful pace and the characters are laughable.

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Tristan P 30 Jul 2008

Insanely off-the-wall flick from Andy Milligan, who deserves cult status. It's a bloody and (at least in part) intentionally funny flick, made for (so I read) about $16,000. An acquired taste, but fun for those who like this kind of stuff.

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Timothy E 16 Jun 2007

To give an Andy Milligan movie five stars is to openly admit you're at war with cinema. Milligan's movies are grimier than even the cheapest grindhouse contemporary, slower than Tarkovsky on valium, and make about as much sense as your Uncle Luke when he gets ripped on corn whiskey and tries to tell you about a movie he saw when he was a kid. And yet...they're oddly hypnotic. Not everyone can be sucked into the perverse world of a Milligan movie- I'd say most people would rather watch something with production values and with less of an odious atmosphere of twisted sexuality. The sex scenes won't titillate you; the gore scenes won't horrify you. The Ghastly Ones exists in its own realm. The actual plot- involving murder and inheritance- doesn't really matter. What matters is that Andy Milligan was savaging cinema.

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Al M 28 Jan 2009

Fun little Andy Milligan film, which features no budget but loads of insanity. Similar in look to Herschell Gordon Lewis films, but Milligan's film features far more plot than any of Lewis's films. Milligan's plot twists and turns as it is revealed by the so horrible its humorous acting. Worth seeing for fans of schlock filmmaking.

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Private U 16 Jun 2007

Opens with a scene that has no bearing on the rest of the film, and it goes downhill from there. The plot twist is ludicrous and the hooded killer would give the killer from Scream a run for his money in terms of ineptitude and sheer ballsiness - the killer actually DUCKS in front of a victim to avoid being seen... stood right in front of them, they DUCK. For that scene alone it gets a four star.

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