Oct 22, 2020
Horror Hospital (Computer Killers, 1973)
"Pollack is here. He's being difficult. He wants more money."
"Then give it to him. A man like Pollack should always get what he deserves."
#Horror hospital#Computer Killers#british cinema#Horror film#films i done watched#1973#Antony Balch#Alan Watson#Michael Gough#Robin Askwith#Vanessa Shaw#Ellen Pollock#Dennis Price#Skip Martin#Kurt Christian#Barbara Wendy#Kenneth Benda#George Herbert#Martin Grace#Colin Skeaping#Blood tw#Hnnn n. A mess. A low grade parody of a time and place in cinema history that was already fast approaching a point far beyond parody#Gough deserved better. Pollock (a leading authority on GB Shaw and theatrical entrepreneur) deserved better#That this could well have been the last completed work of Dennis Price is nothing short of tragic and of course he deserved better#Our leads... Not so much. Shaw is painfully stilted but Askwith is just his usual charmless cretin obsessed with bonking. If it sounds like#I hated it then its because I almost did; until about the half way mark when either in started to get it or it finally lost all meaning or#Most likely my fever peaked. I will say that the blu looks incredibly good. Like. Unreasonably good. And Skip Martin is having a lot of fun#With his part (having a lot of fun slash literally doesn't give a shit).#Also enjoyed the ending. Always love an ending which makes no sense and potentially sets up a sequel they must surely have known would#Never come.
