Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

meddlecore Despite displaying what would today be considered very mediocre special effects, Frightmare is a creepy British classic.Imagine you are a single father and you fall madly in love with a woman, who then becomes your wife. Only to find out that she is a serial killing cannibal who uses tarot readings to lure in unsuspecting victims. You love her so much, though, that when the sh*t hits the fan...you get yourself institutionalized in an asylum just to be closer to her...leaving your daughters as wards of the state.Fast forward 15 years later: your wife is deemed cured and fit for release (a credit to the ego of psychiatrists...toward which the film takes an oppositional slant). Together- even though your insanity was questioned from the beginning- you are sent back out into the world, to live freely.The release of such a couple, has led to an identity crisis for their daughters, who now find themselves leading dual realities. Jackie is left attempting to con her still cannibalistic mother into eating hog brain, so that she can prevent any other innocent people from being murdered. While subsequently trying to hide the very existence of their parents from her sister Debbie- who was born in the asylum and raised in a convent style orphanage by a group of nuns. However Debbie has some secrets of her own...It becomes evidently clear early on- after she instigates a bar fight, before killing and dismembering the target victim- that Debbie has, at the very least, inherited the murder gene from her violently disturbed mother.Her mother, on the other hand, is an incredibly manipulative psychopath who simply cannot stop murdering and eating people. And she has a particular taste for brain.She has gotten her entire family trapped within her world. They are all either trying to cover-up for her, or actively helping her kill.Too bad for the young and upcoming, local, psychiatrist- who thinks he's the wondermaker that can work out all their mental issues. As you might suspect, things don't go so well for him. Inevitably leading to the conclusion of the film.In my opinion, The Yates Family are, alongside the Texas Chainsaw Massacre crew and those backwoods hicks from Deliverance, among the creepiest horror families that have ever plagued the cinematic screen. While the special effects are quite budget- with a general lack of gore- the film more than makes up for this with it's tension and collection of creepy characters driven by dubious motives. I really enjoyed this disturbing classic. Recommended.6.5 out of 10

acidburn-10 I must say that "Frightmare" is yet another highlight in Pete Walker's directing career, and this is the third movie of his I have viewed and enjoyed. With yet again another interesting storyline and upon seeing the trailer, well I just had to seek this little gem out.From the beginning we see Dorothy Yates (played brilliantly by Sheila Keith) give out a Tarot reading to an unsuspecting victim and then kill them and feed on their brains. Her husband Edmund covers up her nasty deeds, but then they are found out and then sent to an insane asylum. Flash forward 15 years later and they are seemingly cured, or are they.As I have already said that "Frightmare" is highly enjoyable and given it's time must have been pretty gruesome, although nowhere near as gory as today's standards, but none the less this movie still packs one hell of a punch. There are some scenes where we do get too see some blood and brains and they do look pretty realistic and cool, and despite the pretty low body count, they are in no way tame at all. The farmhouse is also a very good setting, very eerie and unsettling which is perfect for the tone of this movie. Sheila Keith of course steals the show as nutty Dorothy Yates as she is spine chillingly convincing, as she comes across all sweet natured and kind, and then wide eyed and psychotic at the drop of a hat, she really gives it her all especially in the murder scenes, where she does send shivers down your spine. Rupert Davis gives a very sympathetic performance as the husband, so very tragic but his loyalty to her is very admirable. Deborah Fairfax was also very good at being bad and gets better during the final scenes. Kim Butcher is pretty good as the good daughter Jackie but given the situation she just doesn't give her character the intense or emotional as she should be.All in all "Frightmare" is yet another prime example that the British can do great horror, with a great cast, creepy setting "Frightmare" is a must see for every horror collectors collection.

cameron-kills-it "Frightmare" is the atmospheric and creepy story of an elderly couple who spent several years in a mental institution for cannibalistic murders, but are recently released. The couple has two daughters, the oldest knows the whereabouts of her parents and goes to their house several times a week to bring mysterious "packages" to the mother, but the youngest daughter "supposedly" believes that the parents died in a car crash. However, the younger daughter starts to exhibit behavior similar to her mothers... Pete Walker regular Sheila Keith really made this movie. She is perfectly cast as the creepy woman who appears to be up to her cannibalistic old tricks again. She is very intense and a great scary actress. The film also wins because of its bleak and dreary atmosphere, and manages to instill a sense of eeriness and unease throughout. If you happen to run into this film, give it a try!Not Rated: contains Violence and GoreGrade: B-

Kazetnik This is a superbly savage and utterly bleak study of generational insanity and the fatuousness of the medicine that seeks to heal it. The world of this movie is realised with such economy and concision (no pointless repetition or endless discovery process) and the settings are so exactly right, from the funky flat to the farmhouse, yet not located in any particular area.Two characters stand out - Debbie, the younger daughter, and the father. The way in which the performance of the former veered from little girl to pseudo-grown up to almost a woman, primarily through voice and accent alone, was compelling and convincing, as she shifts from tough little vixen to teenage sexpot to needy child. But central to this movie is the father and his enigmatic, ambivalent persona. Evil (or madness) is actually much less interesting than complicity and greyer shades of guilt.So the gore is primitively rendered, the support acting lame and the cars a bit sad. This is ten times as smart and politically informed as Hostel or its ilk. And it lingers long in the memory, not for the blood splatter, but with Why? questions.