Canada, USA, 1974
78m (USA), 79m 49s (UK (1975)), 82m 37s (UK – video (PAL))
35mm film, colour
mono, English
A Canadian/American horror film directed by Jeff Gillen and Alan Ormsby.
Plot Summary
Ezra Cobb lives in a remote rural Wisconsin town, his life dominated by his bed-ridden mother. When she dies, Ezra exhumes her corpse and takes it home, robbing graves to find parts to patch up her corpse as it begins to fall apart.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Jeff Gillen, Alan Ormsby
© MCMLXXIV [1974] American International Pictures, Inc.
Karr International Pictures presents. An American International release
Produced by: Tom Karr
Original Screenplay: Alan Ormsby
Director of Photography: Jack McGowan
Music: Carl Zittrer
Sound: Gary Goch
Costumes: Elizabeth Leroy
Make-up: Alan Ormsby, Tom Savini, Jerome Bergson
Art Director: Albert Fisher
Cast
Roberts Blossom (Ezra Cobb)
Marion Waldman (Maureen Selby)
Cosette Lee (Ma Cobb)
Micki Moore (Mary)
Robert Warner (Harlan Kootz)
Pat Orr (Sally)
Marcia Diamond (Jenny Kootz)
Leslie Carlson (narrator [Tom Sims])
Brian Smeagle (Brad Kootz)
Arlene Gillen (Miss Johnson)
Robert McHeady (sheriff)
Jack Mather (drunk)
Alternative Titles
Besessen – West Germany
Ondska bortom alla gränser – Sweden
Links
Extracts included in
Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 3 (1996)
Mad Ron’s Prevues from Hell (1987)
See also
Ed Gein (2000)
Motel Hell (1980)
Psycho (1960)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Three on a Meathook (1972)
References
Periodicals
- Castle of Frankenstein no.23 p.53
- Neon September 1998 p.98 – review (by Phelim O’Neill)
- Video Watchdog no.184 (June 2017) pp.6-7 – illustrated review (by John Charles)
Books
- American International Pictures: A Comprehensive Filmography by Rob Craig p.117
- American International Pictures: A Filmography by Robert L. Ottoson pp.251-253 – illustrated credits, synopsis, review
- Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures by Mark Thomas McGee p.307
- Grande Illusions by Tom Savini – illustrated article
- Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis p.92
- Introduction to Japanese Horror Film by Colette Balmain p.150
- The Mammoth Book of Slasher Movies: An A-Z Guide to Over Sixty Years of Blood and Guts by Peter Normanton pp.160-162
- Regional Horror Films, 1958-1990 by Brian Albright p.250
- Serial Killer Cinema: An Analytical Filmography by Robert Cetti pp.123-124
- Terror Tracks: Music, Sound and Horror Cinema by Philip Hayward (ed) p.190
- Zombie by Allan Bryce (ed) pp.41-47 – illustrated article (Tom Savini – Sultan of splatter by Allan Bryce)
