Mary Henry's life is turned upside down when a pleasant day trip with two friends turns sour after they accept a challenge to drag race and their car is forced off a bridge. The car sinks into the murky depths, and all three women are assumed drowned. Some time later, to everyone�s amazement, Mary emerges unscathed from the river. Trying to get a new start as a church organist, Mary finds herself haunted by a ghostly figure that arouses fear and dread in the tormented young woman.
Mary Henry - Candace Hilligoss
Mrs. Thomas, Landlady - Frances Feist
John Linden - Sidney Berger
Minister - Art Ellison
Dr. Samuels - Stan Levitt
Organ Factory Boss - Tom McGinnis
Directed by Herk Harvey
Writers - John Clifford
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Wow, gotta get this one while it is fresh in my mind. Don't want to have to think about it ever again, and for a very short time. After watching this movie, the biggest question you will have is "Why? Why did they bother turning the camera on?".
Save yourself the trouble and skip this one. Don't rent it and definitely don't buy it. There is no blood, gore, action, nudity, violence, horror, acting, or reason! Man, starts out the movies from that 50 pack from X-mas 2004. Just can't wait to watch the next one ;)
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Wow, gotta get this one while it is fresh in my mind. Don't want to have to think about it ever aga ...
Atmosphere, atmosphere. All over the place. This movie is dripping with it!
Upon finally catching this one, it seems like a slightly overdrawn Twilight Zone episode. Considering the fact that it was made during the middle of the Twilight Zone era, I wouldn't be surprised if it was made with that intention. Even funnier, the Henry Rollins hosted TZ knock-off Night Visions had a story that was basically a rewritten version of this movie.
Starring the beautiful Candace Hilligoss, who starred in this movie and one other (also horror), the spooky tale of a lonely church organist in a big city is filled with some interesting shots, bad audio dubbing, and tons of cheesy organ music. Shot with an extremely low budget, the crew did what they could to try and make a spooky movie.
I really loved the shot where the grease monkey points the way to the hotel, and the camera follows his point out to the night sky, where a door opens and it turns into Mary's hotel room. Pretty well done, I thought. Another one that the director tried was sequencing a car dash into organ keys, which tanked terribly.
The organ music soundtrack really does get annoying, especially with the awful transfer of the film I watched it on. A lot of the dialogue and sound effects (even shoes stomping!) don't match up. The spooky zombie-ish creatures's make-up is goofy, but when shot far enough away (and through windows), it's effective enough to work.
I rather enjoyed myself, honestly. It's shoddily made, and can easily be argued out to be a Twilight Zone rip-off, but the dream-like quality of the events that go on and the mystery of what happened (easily guessed, yeah, but that's because it's been copied so many times since) kept me going through the movie. It should've been just a smidge shorter, like nine minutes or so (which is what the drive-in theaters used to shave off to get in more viewings apparently...I think they had the right idea).
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Atmosphere, atmosphere. All over the place. This movie is dripping with it! ...
Good sound effects - no
Interesting shots - yes
Bad Organ Music - Yes
Bad plot and everything else - Yes
Drag racing at 25 mph? Well, it is like 1870 or so.
Um, you've been underwater for 3 hours, how!?
Remember next time your car is broken down, rolling up your windows will fix your car.
Ajax plug!
He let her stay in the car?? Yeah, right.
Extreme Closeups!
She just blinked!
Tom McGinnis - "Mary, it takes more than intellect to be a musician, put your soul into it."
Hotel owner - "Oh hooo. That must've been a kick in the head."
Mr. Linden - "I could have gone to college once, I was pretty good at football, but they wanted me to take a lot of classes."
Mary - "Thank you for the coffee. It was unsanitary but delicious."
Mr Linden - "Now me, I not only drink really, I really drink."













