Spooktober Day 17 Grave Secrets!!!

Day 17

Grave Secrets

I hope you like kids lullaby music box soundtracks. Because oh boy are we gonna get a lot of it.

But it should be fun, maybe. We will see wont we?

This is one of those films that, aren’t hard to find so much as. Oddly hard to find for already being obscure. I came across it in a video store that was closing down selling off their tables. It looked interesting, pluss I never saw or heard a word about it at the time so figured yeah. Why not? And oh boy. Ooooh boy.

Well lets not waste any more time gibber jabbin. Lets get into it because oh my my my.

So we begin with a flashback. A sign of quality in any film as they want to make sure they properly setup the story for us and we can be thankful for the callback later it will surely bring in the film as it progresses to an all too important climactic moment.

And this flashback takes us back all the way too.

3 months ago. So not really, that far off. Okay then. Off to a good start. Well sort of. We have a woman driving with annoying childrens lullaby music playing “la la la la la la…..la la la la” which would drive anyone to madness after 3 minutes of it.

But this woman driving thankfully can’t hear what’s tormenting our ear holes. She has her own problems to deal with. Which we are unaware of, but we know it’s pretty serious. As she’s driving down a road at high speed with a guy next to her that looks pretty near dead. So mostly dead. But not mostly dead enough he can’t suddenly lash out at her while driving! Nearly causing her to crash into another car. She decides to nope out of the situation entirely and yeets herself out the door and onto the side of the road. Because YOLO. Though it works for her as she ends up safe on the road side, and Mr nearly dead McGrabby hands, well he couldn’t get out of the car so he crashes into a tree.

Surely as we said, this will have a payoff toward the end.

As for now. Now is a time to introduce us to the hero of the film, a man doing what I spend most my day doing. Lounging in an office chair trying to lean as far back as he can to afford himself a nice nap.

But it was a nap not meant to be as a young woman in a skirt and black hat comes in with paper work. Disturbing his near slumber. We discover he’s a bit of a night owl and works with a lady in a black hat and skirt who, tries enticing him as she bends over putting his case files down and prominently displays her pantyhose and panties for him. He’s twice her age so of course she throws herself at him.

The 80’s and the ego of writers.

Seriously she’s really thirsty for him. Like he runs away from her and she’s still desperately trying to ask him, beg him to dinner and her home after.

But he runs away from the fuzzy temptress. He’s a professor and he has a lecture to prepare and present. He’s a professor specializing in the paranormal, and psychic gifts.

His life is not the best right now. He’s making by teaching kids and turning down University poon left and right. He also was denied a grant for his research into…psychic powers, afterlife communication and paranormal studies. He’s been doing this for 10 years, and each paper he’s written and submitted, coincidentally. Have been centered around his dead wife. Who he could be, possibly be. Trying to communicate with.

So he’s understandably upset as he needed that grant, and the head of the university doesn’t feel he’s moved on from his dead wife. But things look to be taking a turn for him.

The woman from three months ago has attended his lecture! She also has decided to confront him. Challenging his lifes work. How she doesn’t believe in good ghost. But bad ghost DO exist.

She believes it so strongly, that she throws five thousand dollars at him, because she believes her newly opened bed and breakfast is haunted by evil ghost. So she believes he can help her, prove they exist, and potentially remove them.

He of course does not believe her. Even as she holds a cup of coffee shaking like a meth addict going through withdrawals even crushing the Styrofoam cup when questioned about her ghost problem. So this of course annoys him greatly.

For being someone interested in psychic and paranormal phenomena, he sucks at reading people.

But he is intent on following up on her offer, and the money she gave him helps. So driving out off into a small town, he stops for gas and snacks. But there is no one there to help him. So he does as any responsible person would. He opens a door for employees and has just entered the seediest of seedy country bars. Where no one cares to offer him help. I guess they don’t take kindly to his kind.

But there is one lone star willing to assist him. A friendly character actor bartender. Who offers him not only a cold beer and friendship, but a room to stay with an indoor toilet! He’s actually very proud of the fact they have an indoor toilet, so it seems a town rarity. Which should be mildly troubling.

Well he declines this offer and big city toiletry, he instead tells the bartender he’s looking for a specific place to stay. A place ran by a nervous lady with the meth shakes, called Homestead Home Bed and Breakfast.

Well the bartender is sad to hear this, and tells him that woman is as hospitable as a whore on judgement day. But no one will tell him where this place is!

So finding no help here, and no way of getting to his final destination. He takes off and arrives at his final destination. Nice when things work out like that.

So Professor Lovegun continues his streak of breaking and entering, by walking right into the place and staring at things inquisitively. But thinking nothing of a book by a window flipping pages, or an empty house he let himself into. In fact, he decides its worth exploring all the rooms, because why not. There could be food in them, perhaps even locally made cheese. Or Krispy Kreme.

Now with the promise of Krispy Kreme in any of these rooms he stumbles like a starved manimal into a random room. Finding stacks of newspapers. All with underlined and red ink circled titles like Psychic, paranormal, telekinesis. But he has to move a delicate pair of high waisted panties so he can read more of this.

Which happens to be the worst thing to do as right at that moment, in walks the crazy ghost problems lady, staring accusingly at him as he holds her delicate undergarments and appropriately request of him, just what in the name of great ceasers toast is he doing in there.

A right and fair question to ask anyone who freely intrudes and grabs at your silk panties.

Well she tells him he wasted his trip and needs to head home, and return her panties.

He informs her, and this was a line in the script, “Yeah, that drive home is a bitch.” So she is tired of his shit, and attitude. But decides ‘whatever’ and allows him to stay the night.

The prof has some ghost work to do and he’s not giving up now that he’s fondled her delicates and seen her…collection of newspapers.

Well if that was bad, get ready for your ears to bleed. As we hear what sounds like an animal being murdered while stomping on mice. But turns out to be crazy lady scrubbing clean a large butchers knife with a metal pad. For our delight. The sound is, piercing. To be sure.

But she’s cooking up dinner, and he’s very grateful. But he has to work for this meal. So he goes outside, showing us he’s a manly man and chops wood. Or attempts to at least.

So now we get to the fun dinner scene. It really is fun because, it’s awkward and makes no sense.

So she cooked up some steak, green beans and vegetable medley, served along side a local red wine.

He enjoys the steak, rather happy for it in fact. Until he learns its deer meat. Which for some reason weirds him out.

Now, as she gets up to pour herself a glass of wine to match his own. He watches her turn around. Then pours his entire glass of wine into a nearby potted plant. Why? No idea. She turns back to the table and, fills his glass to the brim. She is down to get him drunk as a skunk. Which worries him. Well now it’s his turn to turn away for a moment, and as he does so. SHE moves to empty her glass into the SAME potted plant. But upon finding it already swimming in the wine that he poured out, she is perplexed. He turns back around with a shit eating grin and ask her if she wants to keep playing games.

Now. Why would he empty his wine glass? Was he attempting to get her drunk so he could fondle more of her delicate under things? Was she trying to get him drunk so she could punch him in the dick for having done so? Why were they plotting something against one another?

The closest I can come up with is simply that, he felt by getting her drunk. She might be more open to telling him things about the house, herself and this ghost. But he would need to be sober to do so. Meanwhile she may have thought the best way to avoid answering any questions he might ask, is if he gets drunk, and she stays sober.

Well neither is working out!

So she challenges him. Since he asked about playing games, she tells him alright, I got a game! Called Quarters! The rules are simple. You bounce a quarter off the table into a shotglass. If it lands then the other person has to take a drink. Rinse and repeat.

So she gives him a full liter of beer, and she’ll take her drinks from an 8oz beer bottle. You can tell she’s playing this fairly.

But he decides to play this in his favor. Instead of her having to drink anytime he sinks a quarter. She has to answer his questions. Sounds good, could be interesting. Let the game begin!

And the film skips ahead to a near empty beer bottle, and him only being able to ask about how she got the house and then he has to pass out.

Which is what she wanted, well. She gets it.

So after a night of black out drunk repressed memories that’ll haunt him forever in dreams. Our Prof wakes up ready to make himself a little breakfast. But a ghost tosses him an egg thinking “You need your proteins bro”, well. He misses the egg so it ends up cracked on the floor. This puzzles him. But he shrugs it off and carries on, but the ghost insist “Proteins help you through the day bro” another tossed egg left to the floor of despair. He again, is mildly curious, This time checking the fridge to make sure he didn’t dislodge something and end up tossing eggs out. Well. There are no eggs in the fridge. It’s that kind of house.

So he turns without regrets headed for the table. When suddenly he witnesses ghost bro lifting another egg for him, tossing again and. He doesn’t want proteins.

But he DOES want to get down on some ghost business. Breaking out his tape measurer and writing utensils. Time to go to work. However that’s cut short as the lady who got him drunk informs him ‘Hey you egg droppin asshole. This is my house and I only let you stay one night! GTFO” But he ignores her again and goes back to ghost business.

She knows it’s a hopeless endeavor. So she ‘whatevers’ him and he carries on. Anytime, and I do mean this. Any time.

Any. Time. A woman whatevers you, whether she does so verbally, or through body language. You are to stop all fucketry, nonsense you were spilling, and any current actions. As it will not end well for you. It is best to reverse this as soon as possible. For if you don’t? It’s your ass.

But that’s okay for now. Because we have bigger problems to deal with. Like drunk woodsmen.

Because those people, will likely do horrible, dumb as hell, violent things. Which will only serve to make them laugh later over their ‘cleverness’, for instance. A drunk woodsmen in this film, who was at the bar and didn’t take kindly to the Prof asking about the bed and breakfast. Who didn’t take kindly to her letting him stay the night. Well. He just doesn’t take kindly do them and that house, so while the two stand outside, about to begin what I can only imagine would have been a truly moving scene and possibly given us something after 30 minutes of not a damn thing. But the woodsmen ends all hope of that by. Flinging an axe. From the woods. Into a center post between the two of them.

Now. Normally. This would be filed as attempted murder. Or potentially one hell of a job interview for a circus. But as they are not in a town that values the law, and they aren’t themselves circus owners. They take it as simply a wild axe tossing itself at the house.

Which prompts a truly wonderful scene. A romantic fire setting in the fireplace, Prof Lovegun writing in his journal. While his voice over seems to be heard by the actress. Because as he addresses the axe possibly being meant for her, not himself of course. He believes she could be manifesting all this psychic energy herself. As the voice over says this, we cut to her suddenly looking from the fireplace over to him with a, “the fuck you just say?” look.

But she plays it cool and states how she’s afraid to ask him what he’s thinking. Well he tries being a combination of sincere, and flirty. In his mind he succeeded at both. But in reality he’s no use to anyone. But luckily a ghost senses the mood and decides to put a record on for them. Which he thinks is pretty cool, the ghost is fine with. Until he pushes a button to begin recording all activity. Prompting her to wonder if he installed one in the bathroom. I would not put it past him.

Thankfully the ghost pick up on this, and begin choking him. But he’s cool about it. This is his fetish and he’s into it. So naturally the ghost stops and heads upstairs. So naturally he wants to go upstairs because he was half mast and wanted this to continue. So they stand outside the bedroom and he makes a show in front of crazy lady of this, in hopes to earn points. “If there is a presence here, make contact with us!” Well the ghost sighs audibly, the crazy lady can’t believe he’s doing that, and next thing you know the ghost is out the room, shoving past these two and out the front door.

No that’s actually what happens. He tries making contact, the ghost nopes out of it and shoves past him, stomps down the stairs and out the door.

Do you have any idea how priceless that would be having that happen on like Ghost Adventures?  Ghost team just rolls up sets up their equipment, ask the ghost to identify themselves and the ghost just say ‘Bye Felicia’ and head out. Would make watching worth it. For once.

Well not that he’s seen just what happens while he’s not passed out drunk. It’s time to stop being nice, and start getting real. So after she signs a consent form, he hypnotizes her. Putting to use the skills he learned from the VHS tape how to seduce women using through hypnosis. Thankfully for all our sakes. That is not the case.

But he does ask her if she knows anything about the manly ghost that choked him. She knows them, she can identify them. But she won’t. She can’t. She can’t because she won’t. Why? Because it’s too much man. Too much pain, too much everything.

So naturally he tells her to face this pain and tell him what it looks like. Because that’s the right thing to do.

Which turns out it is not. As she begins staring wild eyed into the depths of hell and experiences extreme pain that would split the mind of any who even heard but a few moments of it.

So he’ll sit and ruminate on that for the night.

For now, we must venture into town for a lesson in what they call, a federal offense. Or in this films case. Tampering with the mail. Prof Lovegun heads into town, expecting some important mail from his contacts, which means the thirsty skirt girl back at the college.

Well, when he ventures to the store that’s holding his mail. We learn the stores owner, is also the bartender, who’s also the head postman. We also learn he likes opening up peoples packages and going through them, as we find him going through his.

However, thankfully. It leads to a discussion about the house. More so the original owners and how “There were no trouble with the original ladies who ran that house. Trouble started when crazy lady took over the house.”, so obviously she’s to blame. It’s a small town, and she’s not part of that town. But at least he saved us a later scene going over the paperwork by telling us the original owners were two spinster sisters. We also learn something interesting. That a man lost his head a year ago. That this man. The same man we saw in the flashback at the start of the film. Which said ‘3 months ago’ not ‘a year ago’. That the car people saw her charging off with at high speed. Is also the very same car this man was found in, after hitting a tree head on and decapitating him in the process. Everyone in town believes she did it, but she claimed not to had known him, and the law doesn’t exist in this town. So no charges. Just glares and insinuations.

So having had enough of this chatting and story, Lovegun moves to exit the store. But our friendly neighborhood drunk woodsmen slams the door into his face, knocking him out and landing perfectly the line of “oops”.

Classic.

Well now he’s back home with crazy lady, who tends to his wounds. While also hiding her heavy meds. He thinks it’s a bit weird but dismisses it entirely and changes the subject. Telling her they need to bring in a spirit medium so they can have someone to talk to this ghost. Well Crazy is against this entirely. She doesn’t need more people inher bed and breakfast! But she does WANT people in her bed and breakfast. She also wants this ghost gone so. Gotta find a happy medium.

Ha. Medium. Get it? I’ll stop.

Well the ghost has their own thoughts on things and decides to scream out, which leads Lovegun to the attic where he watches a live performance by the ghost. Floating lingerie and flaunting adoption papers. Now the important thing here. Is that poor Crazy lady faints while seeing this. So he takes her to the hospital. Where an aging doctor lets slip news about a rape she survived. But wont tell him anything more. Because she knows he’s not family and she’s no snitch.

We needed another fun scene of course. Because the movie depends on them.

In fact we get two of them. It’s needed.

First we have Prof Lovegun on the fun with his thirsty assistant. Trying to ask her to calm down dry humping the phone and look up information on an adoption, and possible rape report, trying to find the identity of the father for, a child. Who was put up for adoption. As he’s saying this. In the background. Drunken woodsmen is coming down the hall, with a bouget of flowers. He stops hearing Lovegun, gets visibly upset, cusses loud enough for everyone to hear, slams his flowers into the trash and throws open two doors making his loud exist. Which Lovegun misses entirely, or ignored knowingly. Eitherway it’s pretty damn hilarious seeing them and Lovegun wince as he hears the loud doors slam back.

But better still, as this film proves a master of visual humor. We cut to the bar. Our Woodsmen is there drinking, complaining. While the bartender is filling bottles of high price whiskey with gut rot whiskey. At one point, one of the bar patrons who is teetering on the edge of blacking out. Finally does so. Crushing a bowl of peanuts under him. Which the bartender lifts his head and scoots the peanuts into a bag. Letting the mans head slam back down on the bar, and taking those collected peanuts, using them to fill a bowl of peanuts at the other end of the bar. All while talking with the Woodsmen about calming down, knowing Lovegun will leave soon enough, and all things will go back to normal.

Whatever that is.

Well everyone is back home now. Crazy is barely holding it together, and Lovegun is setting things up that she will only further lose her mind over and continue to prompt him to leave. Which he will only take as reason to stay. It’s. What he does.

So arriving at the empty bed and breakfast is a fancy british man. The spirit medium. Of course, and naturally Crazy is not happy about this. But Lovegun tries to play it cool and resolve this using his none existent skills. Imagine playing Dungeons and Dragons, and your tasked with convincing an irate landlord to let you and your friend stay for free. But every initiative you roll is a 1 or a 5. His friend noticing crazy is not thrilled, nor was she made aware he would be here. She tells him she is not going anywhere with them and he should head back. He looks confused about this, so Lovegun steps in and moves for the save “Well, it’s a long drive back, I’m sure my friend would be happy to stay here.” He says with several winks and a nod. His friend doesn’t really get it. Crazy is not amused. She retorts. “He does not want to stay here and he shouldn’t. No one should” Further confusing Fancy English man, Lovegun steps in again. “No trust me, he -really- wants to stay here. He says while nodding a dozen times and his right eye has a seizure of winks. Finally getting it, Fancy English nods “Yes I think I would like to stay.” Lovegun smiles in victory and looks to her with a ‘Well you heard him’ and takes full credit for his sneaky handling of this.

What makes it that much worse, is that he even stated aloud between the two, speaking to his friend “Let me handle convincing them”, talking as if Crazy wasn’t even there. It’s magic. Pure and simple magic.

So now we can get into the meat and potatoes of the paranormal activites.

But also the acknowledging that Lovegun has a thing for her. Which is not so subtle, and he seems all too happy to admit too his friend.

I feel bad for Crazy, she’s really doing her best to put up with this guy and his crap. While also putting up with her own sanity dangling by a delicate thread.

So why not make it even funner? A knock at the door summons a new party member.  Thirsty girl.

Yep. Now she’s hear to throw a rench in Lovegun’s plans to get with crazy while taking care of her ghost, and adoption mystery.

Of course, naturally. Crazy is not happy with this. Especially the guest being a girl. Who’s just all too happy and bubbly being there for a séance. Which she describes as 4 people holding hands and a guy talking out his nose. This is not going well. Crazy is not happy. But Thirsty girl is not done. She presents to her worried looking professor some personal files on Crazy. Which she ask with good reason, just how the hell she got these personal files. Crazy is all too happy and proud to share that she “I pretended to be you and got them.” Prof Lovegun is about to blow his own mind out at this point and can’t help utter a verbal wtf. So Thirst girl adds, “I did just like you said, whatever it takes to get them.”

Clearly at this point his chances of even holding hands with Crazy, let alone seeing her in those lacy under garments from earlier. Have dwindled down to the level of not a chance in hell.

But Fancy Brit is here to save his bro. He tells everyone to calm their collective chest, grab some wine and let whatever happens happen.

So here we go. Séance time. The final countdown. Let’s get to it and may the odds be in their favor.

As things get underway, they luckily get a ghost to make an appearance. Unfortunately its Bob Marley and his chains answering the call. But they don’t want three spirits visiting them. So they call on the spirit directly haunting her.  Well Bob takes the hint and steps aside. Letting Frankenstein into the picture. Literally it’s a huge built body moving like Frankenstein. Minus a head. Just like the man in the beginning who had last his that everyone talked about!!!

Well he’s settling in and taking over Fancy British mans body. Ready to do some commissioned art for the group.

Which quickly turns into a bad thing as the ghost declares Crazy is his, and begins declaring she must be his daughter. It’s the first time we’ve had some action in this movie and it’s much needed. But is sadly over too fast. But at least we know the ghost has purpose for haunting her, and why he choked out Lovegun for sitting in his leather chair while alone with Crazy.

Of course this isn’t the end. Fancy brit tells us it’s the most Malevolent spirit he’s ever felt, and he’s felt a lot. It’s dead set on destroying her and everyone in its way. So he ask Lovegun to keep Crazy safe and out of the house.

Meanwhile. Drunk woodsmen is doing some late night plumbing to mess with Crazy. Dislodging her pipes, proud of himself for the fact she’ll go to shower and get nothing, no hot water for tea. He’s well and truly taught her a lesson. What the lesson is, is anyones guess. But he considers it a victory. That is until he uncovers the severed head of the man now haunting her. Which was lodged in the pipes. So I guess good job buddy?

Now, as for the mystery about the child for adoption? We get an answer to that. But not much of a setup. Which is unfortunate. Crazy had handed a letter to Lovegun. It was from her, stating that she was not needing the services of the adoption agency, as her baby boy died two days after being born.

She also decides to lay the rest of the story on us. As we’re getting toward the end and it’d be nice to have that.

So we learn that her father, was not only the ghost haunting her, and trying to strangle her. But he also, while alive. Would rape her. So the child she had, and lost. Was his. She’d tried getting away from him, and succeeded. Until he told her he had changed and wished to see her. She believed him and, well that was a mistake as he had not changed.

He also would cut her. With steak knifes and anything handy. He seemed to enjoy tormenting and abusing her at any given chance.

What more though, we learn he was a bit more depraved than that. As she tells us of the night she birthed his son. How he came up to her room while she was in labor, with a butchers knife and severed the connection between mother and son. She tried keeping the baby from him but. He over powered her and he killed it. Blaming her for it in the process.

She knocked him out with a shovel and dragged him into the car we saw her driving 3 months earlier. She’d planned to take him to the sheriff. Which surprised me to learn they had one given the lack of care toward the law the towns people showed. So that’s why in the beginning she ended up ducking out of the car when he woke and tried strangling her.

So we have closure. It would seem. But no! We have to learn. Did he really kill her baby? Or was he being a huge douche bag and telling her this to mess with her.

Short answer, he did kill the baby, and he buried the child alive, Beside the large wood pile Lovegun had chopped wood at earlier.

It’s honestly pretty messed up and a good scene. But like a lot in this movie. It’s a bit of a jumbled mess between well done thought out story pieces, with random or mishandled scenes getting in the way.

But the payoff is still great. As even the Drunken Woodsmen gets in on the ghostly happenings.

He’s armed with the head of the dead dad and ready to take it to town, so Crazy can finally pay for her crimes. But he ends up stumbling onto his first ghostly apparition. A replaying of the car crash that took her dad. Which is great because now he has seen it and KNOWS ghost are real, and the possibility Crazy isn’t crazy! But it’s all cut too short as he did the one thing he shouldn’t had. He brought the severed head of dead dad with him. Which has now reunited with his body. That. For some reason. And I do mean. Some reason. Because it’s never explained. So we’ll use Freddy Krueger logic.

In A nightmare on Elm Street 3. To finally put freddy to rest. They needed to bury his bones on consecrated ground. As they attempted doing so. Freddy took control of his bones in the real world and was able to attack the two men trying to bury him. But once they were able to consecrate his grave and bury him. Freddy was dead. Until Part 4.

So the same applies here. Kind of. Now that Daddy has his head. His body is a zombie and able to react to the world of the living. So he goes after his daughter and Lovegun, because he wants his dead son. Well an Axe to the back stops that. And Mama Crazy has saved her son. Opting to take Loveguns advice and now bury the body, head and all on consecrated ground, a proper Christian burial.

Even paid for a tombstone.

But the most unbelievable thing. Out of all of this?

Is that at the end, He’s sharing a bed with Crazy, indicating they are now together. But thankfully for all of us he is one of those men that wears pajamas from JCPennies to bed, and she a full length grandmas nighty. But I still don’t buy for a second these two are a couple. It’s just not possible. It shouldn’t be.

But there it is, for all the  world to see as the credits roll and they pull one final what if.

Crazy has a dream where she see’s her fathers decapitated head under the bed calling out to her. And Lovegun reassures her things are okay, and smooches her. A long smooch. Because he’s keeping a cautious eye on the clock as he sees the clock strike midnight, knowing this was the time of all ghostly activities for them. But alas. Credits roll as the click strikes midnight.

I give this movie some crap because, it deserves it. Earns it even. Don’t get me wrong. It is entertaining. Even when it’s bad. It’s just a bit frustrating in the process as there is a good, and entertaining story in there. But it gets a bit muddled with other scenes and poorly done setups.

Which happens with movies, even the big ones. But also you get films like this one. Where the lead actor is, somewhat believable as his cast part. But the writer feels the need to, write them as being irresistible and suave. Without themselves knowing how to be that. So it comes off uncomfortable and hysterical. Because you have this pudgy guy with almost no charisma. But he’s got a student aid flashing him her ass and begging him to come home with her. Which is irritating to him because, uhg. These women keep throwing themselves at him. It’s just not believable and the way it’s written just makes it well yeah.

So when you have scenes like that, mixed with the actual story. It makes it feel a bit off balanced. That’s why I enjoyed pointing out the funny scenes because at points you have to actually wonder if they meant to do that, or if it was just a happy accident. But it still makes the film enjoyable. It really does.

The cover itself is a bit of an adventure too. When I picked this up it was in a hardshell case with a cut open box. It was interesting to me because the box literally gave away nothing of the story. No indication if it was going to be a gore fest or a for real movie.

Only image on the cover was an outline in green(or gray) of a man with a shovel digging into the ground and the tag line “It’s going to be a hell of a night!” Which reminded me of seeing the original poster for Planet of the Apes which just showed the wooden cage holding men inside it, but nothing of the apes. They wanted to keep that for the film itself.

But years later I saw the films title again, and I guess what was supposed to be the proper release for it. Which was the dads decapitated head laughing and the title in spooky text. Both work, and sell two different films.

Which is funny because it works. The producers on this also worked on Children of the Corn. Which also had a silhouette poster that gave little away. But later of course that poster gave way to kids and bloody farming tools so. Two different stories.

It’s an enjoyable movie, but not a high on the horror scale one. More a classic ghost story with a bit of oddness. So absolutely check it out. Give it a go. But buy it at your own risk lol