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Summary: NOT "EUROSHOCK".....
Review: This is not a "Euroshock" feature even though it's part of the Euroshock Collection. It's a well made but very tame British "gore" film from the seventies. Mother (Sheila Keith) and Daddy live on a farm in the country. Daddy is nervous and edgy over keeping Mother happy. One daughter lives in the city and makes trips to the country to deliver Mother's little "packages". This makes Daddy more nervous. The other younger daughter is a wild child with a violent streak who keeps getting into messy scrapes. Mother has a phony tarot card set-up where she sees clients who end up in the barn buried under the snow. Mother likes to eat brains. The "packages" the city daughter brings her are animal brains to try to pacify her cravings so she won't kill. She has a history, you see. The murders are few and the "gore" is minimal. The acting is good so you wonder what audience did they have in mind? The film is not scary and the ending is very downbeat--typical for the "type" of film this is supposed to be. If you're looking for a British 70's movie that tells more of a story than it does shock then this is OK. If you're looking for gore you'll be disappointed. Don't let the packaging fool you or the hype that accompanies it. "Frightmare" is more "Dullmare".
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Summary: MAMA's TASTE TEST.............
Review: Ya know, once a cannibal, always a cannibal.Just a nasty piece of work as only the Brits can do, about Mama's quirky little habit of drilling her victims [or in that certain scene, the pitchfork to the face, or is it also the red hot poker?] to perfection! She's also a psychic........and has quuite a sideshow. Hubby dear, try as he only may, cannot get her to quit [although she's apparently rehabilitated since that piercing opening sequence]. Then there's the confused off-spring and the so-called suitors. It's disturbing to see this matron-being "out of sorts" - but only in Merry old England. Akin to Monty Python going Psycho for real. The 1974 posters warned about "the Black and Decker moments" - so be warned, this one's not for the squeamish, and graphic for the faint of heart. Talk about brainfood! This one's spread all over the place. Companions? "Peeping Tom" [ditto the piercings], and possibly the much earlier "Horrors of the Black Museum" [Michael Gough].
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