Montclare – Erbe des Grauens (1982)

Montclare – Erbe des Grauens: Directed by Tony Williams. With Jacki Kerin, John Jarratt, Alex Scott, Gerda Nicolson. In a rest home for elderly people, a daughter reads her mother’s diary. Soon events that are mentioned in the mother’s diary begin to happen to the daughter.

“The one problem this film has is contrivance. I mention this in advance, because you have to turn your reality switch off and forget about that. The reasons you would do so, are because this was made on a minuscule budget, with very limited promotion and is highly ambitious for what it tries to accomplish. Itu0026#39;s also very sincere. Itu0026#39;s not schlock. The filmmakers gave this effort their all. So, YEAH, forget the holes in logic (some) and concentrate on the good acting, beautiful framing of scenes, above-average cinematography, lurid jolts and that slam-BANG ending. This oneu0026#39;s a treat from beginning to end, for anybody who treasures superbly done horror (and letu0026#39;s face it, people, how many undiscovered gems like this remain out there?). It suffered from being released in the USA by a tiny video distributor (VCD) who was just about in bankruptcy when it came out. It had NO theater exhibition outside its native Australia and got confused with a Patrick Swayze pot boiler of the same name, which surfaced around the same time. I like this film SO MUCH, that I will not divulge details of the plot to you in any manner, whatsoever. Seriously, hunt around in the bins at your local video store and keep your fingers crossed, because youu0026#39;ll dig this one. Flaws? I took a point off for them, so youu0026#39;re good to go get this sweet Australian sleeper.”