Night of Bloody Horror

Michael Anthony Director: Joy N. Houck Jr. Joy N. Houck Jr.

Overview

This lurid meat-clever murder movie tells the story of a former mental patient accused of hacking up beautiful women, all of whom were his former lovers. The promos of the film were said to be more inspired than the picture itself. Filmmakers glorified in the gory scenes saying the film was filmed in "Violent Vision"; while television commercials offered $1,000 to the family's of viewers who dropped dead of fright, as well as claiming that many scenes were too violent to show on the commercials.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/04/2017
UPC:	0818522017280
Original Release:	1974
Rating:	R
Source:	Frolic Pictures
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Time:	1:29:00
Sales rank:	10,512

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Michael Anthony	Mario Spenelli
John A. Barber	Actor
Lisa Dameron	Susan Collins
Evelyn Hendricks	Agatha Stuart
Gerald McRaney	Wesley Stuart
Herbert Nelson	Dr. Bennett Moss
George Spelvin	Priest
Charlotte White	Kay Jensen
Gaye Yellen	Angelle Miliot

Technical Credits

Joy N. Houck

Robert A. Weaver

Joy N. Houck	Director,Producer,Screenwriter
General Music Corp.	Score Composer
Philip St. Jon	Makeup
Robert A. Weaver	Cinematographer,Editor,Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Plagued by unpredictable blackouts after a childhood accident claimed the life of his brother, Wesley (Gerald McRaney) discovers that he is the prime suspect in the brutal consecutive murders of women with whom he is intimately involved. This low-budget and aggressively downbeat horror effort, shot on-location in New Orleans, borrows heavily from Psycho, but substitutes sadism and copious (if not particularly well executed) gore for suspense and solid scripting. The producers' promotional devices are far more enjoyable that the film itself. Its central gimmick, "Violent Vision," is a barrage of psychedelic visual effects in an attempt to suggest Wesley's fractured mental state; in addition to this, the sum of 1,000 dollars was offered to the family of any patron who died during a screening. As such, Night will provide some amusing moments for low-budget horror fans and students of exploitation ballyhoo. Several members of the cast, including McRaney, returned the following year for director Joy N. Houck Jr.'s similar Women and Bloody Terror.

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