Tower Of Evil
Elite Entertainment
DVD, 89 mins., 1972, 1:85

review by Shade Rupe

A simple night of sex and frolic becomes entrenched in death and gory violence in this slice of '70s British terror film. Two fisherman find a man's body face down in blood. They climb the lighthouse stairs, finding another body. As they adjust the corpse, the head rolls away. A third body (Robin Askwith, who would later star in Horror Hosptial) is found with a spear, right through the peaceful butterly applique on his t-shirt.

When they open a wooden door a crazed nude woman rushes out and stabs one of the firshermen (George Coulouris, of Orson Welles' Citizne Kane fame). Subduing her, she is then placed nheceo agpfrse.Uig ahypnotizing machine of many colored lights, she rcnts partial details of theyner'vening on Snape Island, with flashes of nudelovemaking and horrific violent events.

The researches make off for Snape Island, dressed to the nines in '70s London fashion, and bicker amongst themselves while unlocking the secret of Snape Island, the young girl's fragmented memories, and the mystery of just who. or what, killed the young islandgoers.

Tower Of Evil is a fun trip back to a long-gone time of Britsih cinema. Sex and violence are the order of the day, and gruesome monstrous terror furthers the grimy demise of the teens. Scary isn't the word here, Turned-on terror would be a better description of Tower Of Evil's gifts for the adventurous film-renter.

Elite's presentation at 1:85 is clean and crisp and offers a theatrical trailer. With Robin Askwith's presence, appearing just one year before the making of Elite's Horror Hosptial, a fun double feature of sex and gore are just two discs away.

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