[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

THE HOUSE THAT CRIED MURDER - AKA THE BRIDE. I quite enjoyed this relic from the groovy age of horror (ie 1973). It stars Robin Strasser as a horrible overgrown brat who pesters her loaded daddy into funding her delusions of being an architect. He agrees, resulting in the birth of a monstrous house which looks awful on every level. So much for that, then. Cut to... overgrown brat dating, then marrying a hugely unlikeable lothario type who brazenly shags his ex on his and brat's wedding day, whereupon brat bursts in on the scene and scissors him good before fleeing, disappearing and setting up the rest of the film, which consists of wounded lothario receiving mysterious, snotty phone calls from an unknown location... hey, could it be spurned scissor-brat? The answer isn't as obvious as it may seem, and the ending, played out in that rubbish scissor-brat-house, is kooky in a way only seventies horror can pull off. For fans of the kind of subtly wonky vibe pervading the likes of, say, 'Death by Invitation' or 'Warlock Moon' there are eg. shots of a wedding reception jazz band that go on way too long interspersed with moody, arty framings of wedding guests followed by severed chicken's heads on pillows and a generally paranoid atmosphere.

Do you think the more arty moments in 70s oddball horror are there by design, chance or a reflection of the times?