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Saturday, December 10, 2011

Haunted (1977)

In 1860s Arizona, an Indian maiden (Ann Michelle) is framed and sent to the desert to die but not before she vows revenge on the descendants of her accusers. Jump a 100 years later and when a young woman (also Michelle) arrives at an Arizona ghost town, all hell breaks loose. To describe this "horror" movie as laughably inept is an understatement of epic proportions. To call the acting amateur is an insult to community theater. To be fair, the appalling dialog and incompetent direction would defeat the most accomplished of actors. This is the kind of incomprehensible movie where the Indian maiden has an unexplained English accent and there's a telephone booth in a cemetery! What's not funny however is the unpleasant sight of seeing the top billed former stars Aldo Ray (PAT AND MIKE) and Virginia Mayo (BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES), both obviously fallen on hard times if they had to do crap like this. Mayo as an addled blind lady somehow manages not to embarrass herself which can't be said for a bloated and puffy faced Ray who shot the entire film drunk as a skunk (according to one of his co-stars). The title song is sung by Billy Vera who would later go on to some pop fame. Directed or should I say misdirected by Michael De Gaetano.

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