Frightless Night

Another 70s horror film, another disappointment. This time the film is the non-classic Let's Scare Jessica to Death. This movie, about a woman who is either slowly going crazy or the only sane person in a town full of maniacal undead vampires, has mood in spades but little else.

Wha?!? Little else? Are you out of your mind? Jessica capitalized on the bizarre 70s feel you love so much and totally blew my mind. Look at that picture on the left. There she is, cruising the graveyard, not a care in the world. Is she mental, is she sane? Who cares? She's a ton of fun in the sun and I give it a 10.

I thought it started strong with a nice soft focus opening and some good shadowy scares but after that it grew increasingly ridiculous.

What you call ridiculous I call riveting. Name some things you found absurd.

How about the impromptu lute concert after dinner with the strange squatter they found in their house? Or the giant apple spraying machine that showered chemicals not only on the fruit trees but on anyone within 50 feet of the mechanical beast? I also thought that having Jessica's pet mole die from stab wounds was an odd touch. As was the dead child in the cello case. Shall I go on?

No need. You've proven my point. In what other film do you get such wonderfully bizarre scenes such as those? No such film exists. And the woman who played Jessica was astonishing. I truly thought she was on the edge of sanity with those facial tics, odd line readings and disaffected mannerisms.

She probably was a bit touched in real life. You can't fake that kind of crazy.

Maybe she didn't even know it was a movie. Maybe she thought she was being filmed as part of a documentary. That's why she was so emotional about that mole dying. The director is a genius! What else did he make?

Prancer.

The late 80s Christmas movie? Ugh. I take it all back.