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Day 31- Ru Versus Madhouse

Year: 1974

Director: Jim Clark

Writer: Angus Hall and Ken Levison

Starring: Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Robert Quarry

Madhouse, made in 1974 is about a horror movie star coming back from retirement after a traumatizing event to reprise one of his famous roles. However, on arrival there is a string of murders happening that mimic kills from his previous films. Now he is suspected to being the murderer due to his unstable past.

I’m going to start by saying that I LOVE Vincent Price, he is one of my favorite actors of all time, but that won’t make me biased to my review. I will admit the special effects in this film are a bit cheesy, but I do get a kick when films have some pretty bad effects, mainly because I feel like they aren’t taking themselves seriously.

Another thing I wasn’t fond of was just the amount of characters that are thrown at us. I know this tactic was to detour us from who the killer was, but I think they needed to scale it down. I was able to keep track of which characters was who, but I felt like a few of them were unneeded and just a waste of space.

Madhouse is a very amusing film, mainly because I film like it’s a homage to Vincent Price’s work as an actor. I wouldn’t say it was the best Vincent Price film I’ve seen, but it was certainly amusing. I give Madhouse 3 stars out of 5.

Thank you again for reading guys. It’s been a fun and crazy month and I appreciate everyone who helped me every step of the way!

~Tune in soon guys for my list of my movies I watched for 31 Days from worst to best! ~