So what was the deal with this movie? I thought about it a bit, and realized that director/writer Pat Boyette basically tried to put a story from of the old "EC" horror comics on film. And in spite of everything, there was a definite creepy atmosphere to be found, very nasty and disturbing. The makeup effects were startlingly good in contrast to the rest of the film, the actors were LOOKED interesting, especially the mute servant girl and the Countess.
But there were a couple of nice moments here and there. (Note - this last may have been the fault of a bad print, rather than the camera crew). ("I demand that our conversation be pleasant!!!") And the color values tended to shift violently from shot to shot, as if cheap film stock and problematic lighting equipment were the order of the day. Most of the dialog is simply ridiculous and stilted, as if it was translated from Japanese. Much of the plot is carried by the narrator's droning, monotonic voice-over, which carries less dramatic impact than the menu recital at Denny's.
More? Well, the sets are cheap, and the special effects are cheaper (the makeup is an exception to this).
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The mute servant girl is captured, put on the rack.and then the movie (and the hero, who put her in this predicament) just sort of "forgets" about her. The hero is choked unconscious by the henchman but makes no mention of it when he wakes up and first meets his host. The movie wastes five minutes with a 'special guest star' who serves as the physical embodiment of the villain's madness and paranoia, but never shows him again. More? OK -The plot is a shambles with no continuity to speak of. The hero is a wuss who stands by while his wounded friend fights the henchman and gets killed. It abounds with serious technical gaffes (my favorite was the 'repeating musket' that fired twice in two minutes without benefit of a reload). Anyway, there is certainly a lot to dislike about this film. Of course, $2.95 went a lot further back in 1962, but still. There was no denying the demented gleam in his eye as he pulled it out of its brown paper bag and announced what he had in store for us: "The Most Dangerous Game", filmed on a budget of about $2.95. My bad film guru (and the president of the Exposed Film Society) sprang this one on us last week.
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