Written by James M. Tate / 10/02/2015 / No comments / donald pleasence , horror , peter cushing , seventies
NIGHT OF THE MINOTAUR AKA THE DEVIL'S MEN
year: 1976 |
Not bad for a bad movie, MINOTAUR hands off various lead characters, from those twenty-something victims... much too curious for their own good while driving around in a Scooby-Do style hippie van... to a long-haired greying detective: all teamed with the true lead, the always-dependable Donald Pleasence who, like only he can, makes something out of nothing in yet another brooding performance.
Much of the suspense occurs indoors as the priest knows what lurks outside, located within the hidden caverns dug somewhere beneath a Gothic manor, guarded by the Devil himself in this ultra low-budget vehicle seeming like a thrift shop Hammer Production combined with a foreign crime noir but especially mirroring a body count drive-in flick: too bad there weren't more young banal victims to buy the farm, or a more worthy ingenue to center on, so the audience could have more fun along the way.
CAMP VALUE RATING: ***
SOURCE: Drive-In Cult Classics Volume 2
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