TORMENTED

Friday October 5th, 2001 we featured one of Bert I. Gordon's more watchable films... "Tormented," a better than usual ghost story with the same ol' rotten Bert & Flora Gordon unspecial effects.

You'll remember Gordon from his heydays at American International Pictures (by the way, so long Sam... we loved yer films.) Films like "The Amazing Colossal Man," Attack of the Puppet People" and "Earth vs. the Spider" were the seedlings of the Golden Age of the Drive-In Movies.

Gordon was always in Roger Corman's shadow at AIP and Allied Artists, but he carved his own little niche and kept the bad monster movie genre alive well into the '70s (remember "Empire of the Ants" and "Food of the Gods"?). "Tormented" could very well be his masterpiece (God, I hate using that word in conjunction with a Gordon film, but...);

Star Richard Carlson (Universal's "Creature from the Black Lagoon" and "It Came from Outer Space") does his stoic best as Tom Stewart, stoic jazz composer and pianist. Juli Reding (who?) is the spirit/vamp that keeps sticking her head (at one point, literally) into Tom's future wedding plans, she's a sexy ghost haunting a lover who not only jilted her, but let her fall off the top of a lighthouse... happens every day.

These hauntings are the spice of the film and are a bad effects fan's dream come true. Watch for the wet foot prints on the carpet; you can see the effects person's knee print there as well.

But the story by George Worthing Yates, who wrote many earlier mentioned Gordon classics, is typical ghost-story fun. It ain't Shakespeare, but then again, neither is Shakespeare anymore. So kick back and enjoy it; I think you will.

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