In 1969 drive-in audiences were shocked at the bloodshed and plot of today's film. Plenty of gore, taboo subject matter, nubile damsels in much distress, and very gory killings splashed enough blood on the drive-in screen to maximize the screaming and shrieking of the audience. Alas, these low-budget and shocking drive-in films seem to be part of the past. Today we look at "Night of Bloody Horror," directed by Joy N. Houck, Jr.
Wesley (Gerald McRaney) and the beautiful Susan (Lisa Dameron) are having steamy pre-marital sex in Wesley's bedroom. So steamy, in fact, Susan leaves the next morning and goes to confession at her church. Uh oh...it ain't a priest in the confessional...it's a psychopathic murderer. Alas, Susan will receive a spike through the eye and brain. Wesley has a problem...blackouts and weird visions. See, the poor guy accidentally killed his brother and spent 13 years in a mental asylum. Now he's out being tended to by his loving mom, Agatha (Evelyn Hendricks). Wesley is weird and will get the snot kicked out of him at a bar. Lucky him, the babe nurse in white, Kay (Charlotte White) will rescue him, bring him back to her place, get naked with him...and...well, you know.
Wesley loves his nurse, Kay. The two romance and end up on a beach. She is ravishing in a bikini and soon will have an axe implanted in her chest. The cops arrest Wesley but can't make the charges stick. Now his psychiatrist, Dr. Moss (Herbert Nelson) comes to visit. Uh oh...he stays with Wesley and his mom...this won't turn out well. Even worse, Wesley picks up another babe to romance, Angelle (Gaye Yellen). The two will swap a lot of spit and Angelle is determined to help him. Bodies keep turning up in chopped up fashion. Now we see Angelle is endangered...but from who?
Will Angelle survive to the end credits? Is Wesley the killer or is that too easy? Just what or who is in a locked room in Agatha's and Wesley's house? Modern audiences will see the twists coming a mile away but 1969 audiences were terrified and shocked. Still, even over 50 years after its release, "Night of Bloody Horror" is a fantastic horror film for a Friday night viewing.
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