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      Tormented

      Released Sep 22, 1960 1h 15m Horror Mystery & Thriller List
      Reviews 21% Audience Score 250+ Ratings A jazz pianist is haunted by his dead ex-lover's crawling hand and floating head. Read More Read Less

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      Matt Brunson Film Frenzy The story is decent and some individual scenes click, but the low-budget production values and some weak acting from the supporting players hurt. Rated: 2/4 Apr 28, 2024 Full Review John Beifuss Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) 'She's dead,' muses Richard Carlson. 'She doesn't exist. She's a perfume, she's a footprint, she's a hand, she's a face in a picture...' In other words, she sure is present for something that 'doesn't exist'; isn't that the way 'dead' loves tend to be? Rated: 2.5/4 Jan 6, 2014 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Though it's passable entertainment, the ghost story developments are too ridiculous to be even considered real possibilities. Rated: C+ Oct 31, 2012 Full Review Steve Biodrowski ESplatter Bert I. Gordon is most well known for his low-budget 1950s sci-fi pics, but this little seen relic of 1960 is actually one of his better efforts. It is also one of the more entertaining installments of the always enjoyable Mystery Science Theater 3000. Aug 19, 2010 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Simon T Blithe Spirit with lighthouses. Terrible schlock made the same year as Psycho, but not that you'd notice. Ageing jazz pianist (King of the Bs Richard Carlson, looking embarrassed throughout) allows his squeeze to plummet to her death so he can marry his other squeeze. Highlights of this turkey are the blind housekeeper and Carlson's terrible miming of playing the piano. Profoundly stupid and - as with most drive-in movies incredibly slow. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/10/24 Full Review Blobbo X Memorable in a funny kinda way. That Paul Frees' voice replacing the dad's, for some reason. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/02/23 Full Review Chris M Again, this would be a great "Twilight Zone" episode over a feature length film as there is a lot of padding and filler. But this has a dumb fun that you can riff. Like the fact they should have used a model of the lighthouse over super imposing a real lighthouse that was suppose to be rundown, because you can see the windows are intact in some scene are broken in others. Normally Burt I. Gordon shitty effects work here. As the blurring, transparent and cutting things off gives Vi the ghostly effect that works, even if it's by accident. A good bad movie to riff and have fun with. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/15/22 Full Review martin a A very enjoyable Ghost story about a man who ends his relationship with a woman after meeting someone new. The old lover turns up on the Island and meets him in an empty Lighthouse, when they are arguing at the top, she threatens to blackmail him and end his relationship if he does not come back to her. During the discussion, she leans on the railings at the top leaving her hanging, and he does not try to help her. She then falls into the sea and dies, but comes back as a ghost who he keeps seeing. As things move on a friend of hers turns up to blackmail him, so he kills him, but it is witnessed by a child of his new lover, so he takes her back to the lighthouse to kill her. A very good film with some great special effects Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review John R A genuinely interesting premise, but the execution was just so ham-handed as to be mind-numbingly stupid. If it weren't for MST3k, this would not have been worth the time. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 04/23/22 Full Review william k As ghost stories go, this is basically a silly tale, but has some effective moments, a disagreeable protagonist - and no happy ending. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis A jazz pianist is haunted by his dead ex-lover's crawling hand and floating head.
      Director
      Bert I. Gordon
      Screenwriter
      George Worthing Yates
      Distributor
      Allied Artists Pictures
      Production Co
      Cheviot Productions
      Genre
      Horror, Mystery & Thriller
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Sep 22, 1960, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Aug 11, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 15m
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