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OK classic horror fans, listen up.
A great, often overlooked little gem is out on DVD and you really need to look this one up and check it out.
Thanks to the WARNER ARCHIVES COLLECTION we now have the 1965 spookfest TWO ON A GUILLOTINE out on DVD and I just gave it in spin in the player and what fun!
A throwback to the William Castle style of film making TWO tells the tale of a Magician and his ultimate trick. When things go horribly wrong and some one looses their head things get fun.
The Magician's daughter comes home to bury her dad who had been very ill since "the accident". Upon the reading of "dads" will it is found out that he has left his vast fortune and his elaborate house to his daughter under the condition that she spend 7 nights in the house from Midnight to sunrise. If she don't stay, she don't get nothing.
Once she gets into the house the film takes a turn towards the William Castle vien with flying skeletons, rolling heads and all kinds of fun little gimmicks.
Directed by William Conrad who would later gain fame as the FATMAN in the hit TV series JAKE AND THE FATMAN this film makes me wish he would have continued making genre films. The movie is really well shot. I would say it easily holds its own against other Black and White classics of that era.
The cast is one that anyone younger then 40 probably won't remember. You've got CONNIE STEVENS, DEAN JONES in his pre Disney days and CESAR ROMERO who would go onto infamy as THE JOKER in the old BATMAN TV show.
Everyone is great but Romero steals the show as the completely mad magician DUKE. Over the top, out of the park amazing.
I really can't recommend this film enough. I had a great time watching it and seeing it really makes your realize just how lame so many of the films today are.
TWO ON A GUILLOTINE is loaded with heart and imagination and inventiveness. A lot of stuff that we could use in the genre right now, as opposed to just redoing crap that has already been done.
Sure, it's almost 50 years old, in black and white and done by a bunch of folks that most of you have never heard of but trust me, give it a chance and you might just find out what it's like to see something inventive and fun as opposed to overdone and over-hyped.
TWO ON A GUILLOTINE is available right now from WARNER ARCHIVE. You can CLICK HERE and go pick it up.
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