Absolutely the worst movie.

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Uh-oh! Never cross a woman who's crazy enough to turn up days before you get married and flash those bunny boiling eyes at you. That's what happens to our protagonist here. Some jazz pianist on a small island, getting ready to marry his beau, tries to break off with his on the side lover, but she's having none of it. If she can't have him, no one can. At least that's what she keeps saying before she falls off the side of a lighthouse. That's not our hero's fault, is it? Fair enough, he could have saved her, but there you go.Guiltily trying to return to normal life, our hero finds himself almost immediately being stalked by a ghostly presence. Footprints appear in the sand. He sees her body floating in the sea, only to find out it's seaweed. Her watch appears. A record she sings on keeps appearing on his record player. Looks like his ex isn't even letting death from stopping her doing a bit of stalking.His girlfriend is flummoxed by his behaviour, as is her kid sister, who dotes on the guy. He's still determined to go through with the wedding when who turns up but Joe Turkel. He was the guy who brought the lover to the island, and quickly twigs that there's a doing a-transpiring. He also plays the character like a beatnik so expect loads of hip talk, dad.What I liked about this film (apart from the constant tormenting), was that instead of revealing about three quarters of the way through the film that it was all a hoax (as these films tend to do), it just goes for the straight ahead haunting and is all the better for it. There's loads of ghostly action here and it nips along with nary a dip in timing. I've not watched many of Bert I Gordon's films but I'll recommend this.

After his inactivity caused his mistress' death, a jazz pianist about to be married finds the dead woman's ghost haunting him wherever he goes and forcing him to resort to increasingly violent manners to keep his actions a secret.This was a pretty disappointing and really disjointed effort. One of the biggest issues present in the film is the rather banal efforts used in the haunting scenes that, while effective in continuing a present storyline, fail to really provide anything worth getting scared over. The scares are a never-ending series of floating voices only he can hear, disappearing appendages only he can see and whenever he goes to apprehend it finds it's not what he went after but something else entirely, and all the while this generates some lame scenes due to their repeating nature. As well, the lack of danger to the others around him makes it all pretty clear this might be simply a guilty conscience rather than a traditional ghost haunting, and the film does remarkably well at incorporating elements to make it seem that's the case here but that doesn't make for an exciting effort. The low-key nature of the material and middling pace don't help much either, and overall drag this one down enough to overcome the decent special effects to showcase the apparition which marks the film's only other bright spot.Today's Rating-PG: Violence.

A creepy little film even though it's hokey. The story line is engaging, the island setting is very atmospheric, and the acting isn't too bad (I enjoyed the relatively young Lillian Adams as Mrs. Ellis). And there are some eerie touches, such as the wilting flowers and drooping candles in the church scene. But the movie suffers from all the campiness (e.g., Vi's floating head) and a terrible, discordant early-1960's jazz score. Oddly, even though Mrs. Ellis is an interesting character, it's not made clear why she's even in the story or what her blindness has to do with anything. (Ostensibly, her blindness renders her more perceptive, more attuned to things others cannot see, more willing to believe in the supernatural than others in the household, but this angle isn't taken up in a satisfying way.)Not worth purchasing, but if it shows up on late-night TV, give it a shot!

Richard Carlson (Tom) tells Juli Reding (Vi) that it's over between them and that he intends to marry Lugene Sanders (Meg). This opening scene takes place in a lighthouse and has an unhappy ending for Miss Reding as she falls to her death. Carlson could have saved her but decided not to, after all, with her out of the way, he is a free man to get it on with Sanders without any troubles. He couldn't be more wrong. Reding comes back to haunt him.Don't expect a well-acted, scary ghost story. Instead, psyche yourself up for a fun film that will make you cringe at times and be almost quite good at other times. This is despite the cast who perfectly demonstrate the acting-by-numbers technique, ie, acting without being any good. Main offenders are Carlson who is a complete douchebag throughout the whole film, Susan Gordon (Sandy) who plays the young girl who acts like a grown-up and Lillian Adams (Mrs Ellis) who plays a blind landlady that knows more than sighted people do as they always seem to.The dialogue is crass but the film keeps you watching. Juli Reding is the best thing about the film which does provide a couple of spooky moments. Carlson deserves everything that he gets for choosing the insipid Doris Day lookalike over her for a life partner. I liked how the story finished. You just know who is going to have the last laugh......and where is that wedding ring?