Legacy of Blood (1978)

User Rating:

2.6/10   

Director:

Andy Milligan

Writer:

Andy Milligan (writer)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Think of your worst nightmare... It's about to happen again!

Plot:

Horror movie about three wicked sisters and their equally unsavory husbands who all arrive at a remote...

Plot Keywords:

Remote | Uncle | Sister | Last Will | Severed Head

Cast

Eve Adamson	...	Alice
Walter Ballester	...	Waiter
Peter Barcia	...	John
Elaine Boies	...	Margaret
Jack Boies	...	Caretaker
Jason Boies	...	Boy
Lisa Boies	...	Eena
Chris Broderick	...	Carl
Kathryn Capofari	...	Martha
Jeannie Cusick	...	Louise
Joe Downing	...	James Smith
Bob Elia	...	Baba
Louise Gallandra
Dan Handley	...	2nd Man
Dale Hansen
Fred Keller	...	1st Man
Kathryn Kilss	...	Customer
Andy Milligan	...	Mailman (as Charles Richards)
Ann Ogilvie	...	Woman
Martin Reymert
John Schiumo	...	Ito
Stan Schwartz	...	Robert Burke
Lynn Synder	...	Charlotte
Sherri Synder	...	Susan
John Tarantino	...	William
Marilee Troncone
Carla Wentworth	...	Sylvia Cunningham

Also Known As:

Legacy of Horror

Runtime:

82 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Take One Film Group

Movie Connections:

Featured in Cinematic Titanic: Legacy of Blood (2008) (V)

Low budget period horror

Andy Milligan has something of a twisted reputation among bad film buffs as producing inept low-budget gore. This flick is a slightly more competent remake of an earlier film Milligan conceived called THE GHASTLY ONES. The plots both films share is this: a trio of sisters, along with their husbands, travel to the family mansion for the reading of the late father's will. The sisters stand to inherit a substantial fortune, but someone plans to kill them before they can stay the prescribed weekend in the house, and various gory murders ensue. Milligan tried both with period settings, 1905 for the first and circa 1920 for the latter, and the remake fares better in terms of accurate period detail. Also, Milligan takes more care to develop the characters and their relationships with each other. Also, the two sisters who care for the mansion and their retarded brother are given more development, most noticably in the brother, originally a rabbit-eating geek in the first, is portrayed as a sad waste of human potential in the second. The sight of this simpleton crouching in his squalid basement room, punching a teddy bear over and over while babbling, "Stupid, stupid" is more chilling than any disemboweling. While not a great film, it stands head and shoulders above it's predecessor. And nobody hacks up a single mannequin this time around.