“It would be nice just to see one little spurt at the moment of slashing.” A little spurt, you say? Can do. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they take a trip to George A. Romero’s sphere of influence for a movie within a movie within a movie within … well, you get the picture. The movie is called Effects (1979).
Decades of Horror 1970s
Episode 208 – Effects (1979)
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While a small film crew are shooting a low-budget horror movie in a house in the woods, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur, and the movie slowly turns into a “snuff” film.
Director: Dusty Nelson Writers: William H. Mooney (novel); Dusty Nelson (screenplay) Producers: Pasquale Buba (producer), John Harrison (executive producer) (as John S. Harrison Jr.) Music: John Harrison Cinematography by: Carl Augenstein (as Carl E. Augenstein), Toni Semple (as Toni Semple-Nelson) Editing by: Pasquale Buba Special Effects by: Tom Savini (special effects) Tony Panatella (explosions) Regis Survinski (explosions) (as Rege Survinsky) Boom Man: Nicholas Mastandrea Selected Cast: Joseph Pilato as Dominic (as Joseph F. Pilato) Susan Chapek as Celeste John Harrison as Lacey Bickel Bernard McKenna as Barney Debra Gordon as Rita / Mona Tom Savini as Nicky Charles Hoyes as Lobo (as Chuck Hoyes) Blay Bahnsen as Scratch (as Blay Bahnson) Joe Wittkofski as TV Director John Sutton as TV Sound Man Dave Balko as TV Video Man (as Dave Belko) Jackie Lahane as Murdered Girl (as Jackie Lehane) Cindy Sebastian as DancerFilmed in 1978 and released the following year, Effects (1979) features Tom Savini (as both actor and special effects guru) and a collection of George A. Romero’s filmmaking friends and colleagues. Oh, yeah, the cast also includes Day of the Dead‘s Captain Rhodes, Joseph Pilato, in a lead role. Shot on a miniscule budget with an ambitious script, the feature contains a story within a story with another movie buried within. The Grue-Crew share their thoughts on all the shenanigans and then read through a hefty amount of feedback. This one has all the goods!
At the time of this writing, Effects is available to stream from Tubi, Screambox, and Arrow, as well as various PPV options. The film is available on physical media as a Blu-ray from AGFA.
Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode, chosen by Chad, will be The Mad Butcher (1971), aka Lo strangolatore di Vienna, starring Victor Buono. Yikes!
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