Here’s another dull Pete Walker offering. At least this one has a little bit of skin and
a touch of atmosphere. The opening title
card says the end of the film was filmed in 3-D. (Walker previously did The Four Dimensions of
Greta using the same format.)
Unfortunately, I only saw it in 2-D.
A pair of horror actresses get roles in a play called The
Flesh and Blood Show at a previously abandoned theater on a pier. To save on lodging, the cast sleep inside the
theater at night. Predictably, someone
starts bumping off the cast members.
Walker gets some mileage out of the creepy setting. The scenes of people walking through the
corridors of the darkened theater are moderately suspenseful. Most times though, there’s never really much
of a payoff. The pacing tends to dawdle
and the tension sputters out towards the end, which is exactly when it should
be heating up. It also takes a while for
the bodies to pile up and even then, it’s not much of a body count.
At least there’s plenty of skin to go around. There’s definitely more flesh than blood on
display here. Some will be happy with
that ratio while others may feel shortchanged.
The killer gets the best line of the movie during his Shakespearean
rant where he vents about his disdain for his victims and calls them, “EXCREMENT!”
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