ChikPapa
Very disappointed :(
Colibel
Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
AutCuddly
Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
dmuel
First question is what's with the eerie, sci-fi creep out music? Sounds like Day the Earth Stood Still! And the opening scene where we watch a claw hammer float through the house drags on,and on,and on! The subsequent action, when it finally occurs, can't be anything but anticlimactic.The eye candy from the TV show F Troop is the star of our bloody lingerie story, a young woman who's certain something is rotten in the state of the local convalescent home. There is a cast of creeps to keep the audience playing a guessing game...who's the killer? The problems with this film are 1) it got made, and 2 it offers nothing to horror fans. MGM was slow on the uptake since it clearly wasn't paying attention to independent films that were setting trends for shock and horror. This one plays like a made-for-TV operation. It stinks!
MartinHafer
leading lady is 22 and she looks it I cannot complain about "Blood and Lace" because it's a cheesy horror film--it unabashedly is and sometimes this sort of movie is fun to watch. My complaint is that although the setup for the film is great, the ending was just plain awful.The film begins with a woman and her lover being bludgeoned with a hammer and then the house begin set ablaze. Yes, there is lots of blood, but because it's done so slowly and ineptly, it's really not that tough a scene to watch. Next, the dead woman's teenage daughter is taken by a cop (Vic Tayback) to social services. The caseworker (Milton Seltzer) is a very hands-off guy--and he puts her in a home for orphans run by a deranged lady (Gloria Graham). She and her nutty assistant are killing off teens and shoving them in a freezer--and our little orphan might just be next.Now the above description, for a cheesy horror film, is GREAT. So what's the problem? Well, the ending looks like it was just tacked on, as Tayback returns and then gives a LONG and rather inept exposition to explain everything that has happened in the film. And, to make it worse, he then drops a really weird bombshell. What is it? See the film...I'd hate to ruin this surprise that comes completely from left field!! Overall, this is a rather bad film I wanted to like. Mostly because the ending was just stupid and incomplete. See it for yourself and let me know what you think about the ending....it is quite SPECIAL.And, by the way, if you think 'that teenager looks awfully old', you are right--the 'teen' was 22.
trashgang
This is a weird one, one example of the trashy movies made around that time. Surely not done these days, again a movie about child abuse. This time in a orphanage. First we see in the first minute a murder of a man and a woman. A child is left alone afterwards. So she has to go to an orphanage. Real punishment is given over there, it was the time that in real life it was done to give your child(ren) some spanking or ear pulling or physical punishment. All shown in this flick. The girl from the house has a bad mouth still talking about her mother as a whore (which she was) messing around with teens and all the men of the town. And at the orphanage it's the same, the gardener (what a cliché) is messing around with all the girls even with the sixteen year old one. There is almost no blood in this flick and almost no killing but it has a strange feeling and atmosphere. At the end everything is revealed and even that has this strange feeling. The copper asking something (won't spoil the plot or killer) that makes you feel, only in those 70 grindhouse/exploitation ones. This one was never released and will never be released due the matter of the child affairs. But make sure to have a watch, it will leave you with a bitter feeling.
capkronos
If you enjoy seeing once respected actresses past their "prime" in sleazy roles, then seek out this sickie with Gloria Grahame (co-star of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, an Oscar winner for THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL and highly impressive in several notable film noirs) as the abusive Mrs. Deere. To save money at the orphanage she runs, Gloria and the sadistic handyman (Len Lesser) kill their charges and store the bodies downstairs in a padlocked walk-in freezer. Melody Patterson (Ranger Jane from the "F-Troop" TV show) looks way too old for the role of 17-year-old Ellie Masters, who's sent there after her parents are killed by being whacked upside the head a few times with a hammer. The masked sick-o responsible for that crime and a sex-offender detective (Vic Tayback) show up to complicate matters.Yeah, the plot is overloaded to the max with all kinds of sick stuff and this is strictly a gutter trash exploitation movie, but Grahame (an underrated character actress if there ever was one) is good, it's fairly colorful and well photographed and there are a few surprises to the story. Not as surprising though as how this movie, with lots of brutality directed toward children (one even has his hand chopped off with an axe!), implied rape and incest and overall bad taste, earned a PG rating.
