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Barn of the Naked Dead (1974)
Directed by Alan Rudolph
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Three showgirls on their way to Las Vegas have car trouble and are stuck all night out in the desert. The next morning cheerful Andre offers them help in fixing their car. However, Andre is really a maniac with a lot of family problems; his mother ran out on him when he was a child so now he keeps kidnapped women chained up in his barn and trains them to perform circus tricks. Andre’s father is still around of course, but because the old homestead is next to a nuclear test site he has been transformed into a raving homicidal mutant that Andre keeps locked up in a shed.
Rated R | Length 86 minutes
Actors
Andrew Prine | Manuela Thiess | Sherry Alberoni | Gyl Roland | Sheila Bromley | Gil Lamb | Al Cormier | Jennifer Ashley | Jeane Manson | Marlene Tracy | Chuck Niles | Laura Campbell | Sonja Dunson | Karen Fredrik | Lin Henson | Jolene Lontere | Byrd Holland | Nick Archondo | Billy Holms | Bernie Schwartz | Bill Conway | David Miller
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/23/2011 | TV | DVD | Rented | 5 stars |
| (Average) 5 stars |
Viewing Notes
Pure grindhouse exploitation. Dirty, grimy and nasty. And not very good other than an oddity of that time. The extras were probably more interesting including the interview with John Landis. Love the “Nightmare Circus” title. If not for most of the corniness this is a pretty creepy flick and another earlier pre-cursor of modern torture horror.
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