The Ghastly Ones (1968) Online
A gruesome tale of revenge and bloodshed, from the Shock King of Staten Island, cult director, Andy Milligan. This super-cheap horror film story is set in an eerie Victorian mansion where a family has gathered for a will-reading. Three couples must spend the night there to inherit a fortune according to the will. Then they start dying one by one, as people are impaled with pitchforks, decapitated, dismembered, and have their throats hacked open with knives. There is a lot of disgusting gore including a scene where a hunchbacked cretin eats live rabbits.
Complete credited cast: | |||
Veronica Radburn | - | Martha | |
Maggie Rogers | - | Hattie | |
Hal Borske | - | Colin Trask | |
Anne Linden | - | Vicky | |
Fib LaBlaque | - | Rich (as Fib La Blaque) | |
Carol Vogel | - | Liz | |
Richard Romanus | - | Don (as Richard Romanos) | |
Eileen Hayes | - | Veronica (as Eileen Haves) | |
Don Williams | - | Bill | |
Hal Sherwood | - | Pastor Walter | |
Neil Flanagan | - | Lawyer Dobbs (as Niel Flanagan) | |
Ada McAllister | - | Ada | |
Robert Adsit | - | Robert |
Horror author Stephen King claims in his book "Danse Macabre" that this film is "the work of morons with cameras".
The opening scene of the double murder scene was the last scene to be filmed. It was shot during the spring of 1968, several months after principle filming ended as noticed by the green plants in contrast to the winter setting of the bulk of the film.
Film debut of Richard Romanus.
Reissued theatrically on multi-feature bills in the early 1980s as 'Blood Orgy'.
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