Frightmare (1981)

 Tubi kept reminding me of it, and I haven't seen this since October 2006. Stealing a corpse for kicks, even if of a revered Gothic horror icon, and you are a group of film student buffs in a gnarly mansion in Hollyweird, the results really shouldn't be in your favor. It was cool to see the Zombi poster on the wall, and Ferdy Mayne returning from beyond thanks to Nina Talbot's psychic conjuring seems to really nail that narcissistic, snobby, self-absorbed waning horror stalwart nearing the end, always dressed as Lugosi's Dracula with a haughty, velvety voice. This film might well have the longest onscreen decapitated head roll..and it's Jeffrey Combs' head! While most of the deaths are so-so, that sword swing and off with his head, complete with bloody spray on the wall, is epic. Living with fellow horror fanatics just seems cool, don't you think?

Eve is my kinda girl. Too bad Ferdy uses the power of his mind to smack her upside the head with his levitated coffin! Her kiss on his dead corpse's lips was yikes but, morbid as it might be, her admitted fantasy of fucking him sort of aroused me. The pacing is a cross to bear, but Porky as a detective, lots of fog seemingly following Ferdy everywhere he goes, the aforementioned horror decorated mansion with lots of love on every wall, and the funeral pizazz with Ferdy making sure his departure had lots of pomp and circumstance did make a difference. And this version of the film is certainly better than the Troma DVD I rented from Netflix in 2006...it was so dark before.

Ferdy really is a treat. This is very much a showcase for him. Those videos in his mausoleum, especially, crack me up.

The guy gets rather wicked in his revenge...I mean I get messing with corpses is gross but burning one of them alive in a crematorium seems a trifle much, aye?