The Comeback (1978)
Pete Walker's film stars Jack Jones as an American singer who who retreats to a remote manor in Surrey to record an album; there, he is followed by a psychopath wearing a hag mask who murdered his ex-wife.
Whilst not top level Pete Walker,The Comeback has odd bits to recommend it. The film has a nice ghostly atmosphere as Jones is haunted as the cries of his dead wife echo round the old mansion, and there are a couple of graphic murder sequences that book end the film.
You can't have Pete Walker without the one dimensional Sheila Keith who co-stars here, in as you can guess, truly sinister mode, along with Bill Owen as her hubby and fellow house keeper.
For a slasher film this is weak seeing there are only two murders during the first seventy minutes of this once again over long film. It's as if Walker was told 'you're supposed to be making a horror film' so had to throw in a couple. There are lengthy sequences where not an awful lot happens other than recording studio chatter meaning The Comeback is hardly exciting viewing for the most part although the murders are nice and grisly when they finally happen.
I've now finished the 88 Films Pete Walker box set. I'll never watch them back to back ever again. In the end it became a chore. I should never have wasted eighty quid on it.
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