I collect horror, ranging from the deranged bloodlust of Guinea Pig to the campy fun of Video Violence. I recently got my hands on a Camp Video VHS copy of this movie under the name "Nightmare House" the trailer seemed good and it was released under Troma as well so how could this go wrong? Well, to start, the acting is about what you expect for a movie from the late 60s, not great. The writing is flawed and makes the movie a snooze fest. An hour in and nothing happened. People do acid, guy in face paint chases a girl, random sex scene.
Though a few things that saves this movie for me, the acid jazz coupled with the cloudiness of the vhs copy I own really makes it feel like a fever dream. The last half of the movie isn't awful. It feels like the first hour of the movie is a completely different script thrown in to tie the whole "Nightmare House" part in at the end. It feels like an unfinished Herschell Gordon Lewis movie.
