Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Simply Perfect

Lack of good storyline.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Watch anything before you watch this horrible film. Ken Russell's Lair Of the Whyte Wurm is probably the good version of this derivative genre film. Watch that instead.

There was a time in my childhood when Kenny Everett was seen as the cutting edge of comedy, he pushed the boundaries and mixed zany antics with in your face attitude. Someone in the early eighties thought it might be a good idea for him to branch out into films and follow in the likes of Frankie Howerd and do a spoof movie.A roll call of named stars from the era assembled for the gig, Pamela Stephenson, Vincent Price, Gareth Hunt, Don Warrington, Cleo Rocos and etc etc, names that certainly to Brits taking an interest in entertainment in the late 70s and early 80s were familiar with. In principal the horror spoof looked a good idea, but having been done so well by the Carry On team in 1966, all those that followed had something to live up to. And sadly filling out the movie with toilet humour was not an advancement in spoof movies.The whole film just comes across as an excuse for mates to get together and lark about making easy money. Plot is completely irrelevant, the whole picture serves only to see how many spoofs of movies they can cram in. Everything from ET, Alien, American Werewolf In London and onwards is rolled out like some extended sketch show, usually accompanied by some lame joke involving gas, genitals or homosexuality. Stephenson tries to do some sort of plum in the mouth act that greatly annoys, Price turns up for the money and sleepwalks through his extended cameo, while Warrington and Hunt are trying to subvert their ladies men images by playing gay. And this before we get to Everett who is off the scale with his inane sense of what makes a good joke work on film.Fans of Everett definitely will get something from this, while those who keep filing into current day theatres to watch Scary Movie 23, they also will find spoofing a thing of fine art. But when the funniest thing in the film is Vincent Price saying a swear word, then you know it's not really worth your time. 3/10

Although his name was known to me, I do not think that I had seen any of British comic Kenny Everett's TV routines except the motorcyclists bit where Freddie Mercury guested – which I only caught up with in the first place when I was going through my obligatory Queen phase following their flamboyant frontman's death in 1991. Reading up on him now, I realize that Everett also died of AIDS in 1995, was gay (despite having been married for a spell) and was very close to Mercury during the early 1980s before they had a falling out that was eventually patched up once both tested positive to the terminal disease! I have gone into all this detail because, whatever I might think of the film proper, I liked Everett's personality in what was his sole foray into cinema (aided by the crew of his own TV show) and, in hindsight, the veritable last gasp of British horror that had been kick-started by Hammer Films back in 1955! Incidentally, Vincent Price only appears in it as "The Sinister Man" in sequences spoofing his own earlier performance in Roger Corman's classic Poe-inspired chiller THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964) and gets unceremoniously told to "Piss Off" – a retort he swiftly returns – by a fellow female fanatic irritated by his condescending comments in one of the film's biggest laugh-out-loud moments.Apart from that one, a great number of movies are spoofed: CITY OF THE DEAD (1960; the burning Satanists), THE HAUNTING (1963; gay longings in a haunted house), THE EXORCIST (1973; an unrelated victim gets her head turned 360 degrees and subsequently beheaded by a can opener, not to mention a newspaper bearing the side-splitting headline – "Exorcist: 'I Blew It!'" – in connection with the opening mass murder sequence!), THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE (1973; ditto), JAWS (1975; another hilarious bit has Everett playing John Williams' classic theme on the violin while on the toilet – whereas the audience is all the time being led to believe that something ominous is about to take place!), THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975; Everett is revealed to be a misunderstood and crippled Nazi scientist); CARRIE (1976; Everett's lisping bespectacled female companion recalls her repressed childhood days at the mercy of her religious fanatic – and confessional-wearing – mother!), STAR WARS (1977; another victim is unaccountably felled by a light-sabre!), ALIEN (1979; Everett exhibits all of John Hurt's chest-busting symptoms only to relieve his discomfort by letting out a loud hearty belch!), THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (1979; the water taps produce blood), Friday THE 13TH (1980; the afore-mentioned prologue bloodbath takes place on Thursday 12th…"give or take a day"!), AN American WEREWOLF IN London (1981; the inhospitable pub punters are first stunned into silence by Everett's appearance on the scene with his fly wide open and then get together in a sing-a-long about the old ghastly happenings when none of them get to agree on the number of victims), etc. The finale, then, has the entire household of parapsychologists being eliminated and replaced by conjured-up doppelgangers.

Horror comedies are often problematic because the humour is too cheap, too obvious. (Although this could be also said for "regular" comedies made in recent years.) The bulk of the gags in BITHOD are also unfunny, but there are some genuinely funny moments, most of which come only later on in the movie: "The Silent Fart" novel, Everett looking for his glass among the organs, Vincent Price telling the bar-maid to "p**s off", Price informing his followers that "Satan" told them to "gather all the faggots and burn them", and Everett the alien zombie/clone taking a leak in the bushes. However, there aren't many others apart from these.Aside from Price (who has an obvious penchant for comedy), and to an extent Everett, another thing that benefits this movie is the photography, the way it was made. It does have a nice feel to it, in spite of the regular cheesiness i.e. the bad gags.