Tormented

MOVIE #1,111 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.16.23 I wish I hadn’t read that this was a MST3K movie because I kept thinking of the spots for possible quips and it was actually kind of distracting. Made by B-Movie legend Burt I. Gordon — best known for his work in the idiom of giant monster films — this is a quick little 75-minute ghost story featuring some lovable in-camera FX of the era (even if that’s all there really is). It’s pretty much one-note: dude is seeing shit.

This is “bad” but is it really THAT Bad? It’s biggest crime is that it’s fairly boring in between the charming (and legitimately!) cool visual stuff. This type of B-movie is fun for mostly good reasons unlike films skewered for bad dubbing and editing, and poor continuity and acting, etc. The main character does consider murdering a child in the end, though (played by the director’s daughter too lol). It’s fine!

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Tormented is a 1960 American horror film directed and produced by Bert I. Gordon for Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, and starring Richard Carlson. The film was featured in the fourth season of the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000. It was released on September 22, 1960.