Review of The Ghastly Ones (1968) by Timothy E — 16 Jun 2007
To give an Andy Milligan movie five stars is to openly admit you're at war with cinema. Milligan's movies are grimier than even the cheapest grindhouse contemporary, slower than Tarkovsky on valium, and make about as much sense as your Uncle Luke when he gets ripped on corn whiskey and tries to tell you about a movie he saw when he was a kid.
And yet...they're oddly hypnotic. Not everyone can be sucked into the perverse world of a Milligan movie- I'd say most people would rather watch something with production values and with less of an odious atmosphere of twisted sexuality.
The sex scenes won't titillate you; the gore scenes won't horrify you. The Ghastly Ones exists in its own realm. The actual plot- involving murder and inheritance- doesn't really matter. What matters is that Andy Milligan was savaging cinema.
This review of The Ghastly Ones (1968) was written by Timothy E on 16 Jun 2007.
The Ghastly Ones has generally received negative reviews.
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