Wonderful Movie

Very Cool!!!

best movie i've ever seen.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The film is not a bad ghost/haunting story - the Ludlow demon is more like a really mean ghost but I'll call him a demon - lol. The film did hold my interest to a degree, it's not great but I did find it watchable.The haunted piano (harpsichord really) houses the Ludlow demon - a man that used to play it all the time but had his hands cut off and vowed revenge on the descendants of those that did this to him. Each person he's killed over the years has become his ghostly helpers in his evil diabolical revenge plan! Muahaha!! Fun movie. Somewhat entertaining and watchable. I would have rated this film slightly higher but I don't understand why the ghost demon Ludlow didn't get back his hands at a much earlier time period - why did he wait 200 years to do it? He could have done it well before 1983. Oh well, still kind of a fun film to watch.4/10

Okay, I must say the plot is so hard to follow that I may get a few facts wrong so forgive me. Ludlow is a cursed coastal town due to the townspeople cutting off a man's hands in the 1860s. To celebrate the towns 200th anniversary a harpsichord is given as a gift. Evidently it is the same harpsichord that was in town the night Vincent Ludlow was tried. His spirit and those of some others haunt the instrument so when it's played strange things happen. Ludlow's spirit is out for revenge and is killing the descendants of those who wronged him. It's a lot like The Fog but not as good.The cast includes a reporter named Debra who is in town for some reason I couldn't find and by her own admission even she can't figure out why she is investigating Ludlows past. The other main character is a preacher named Chris who loses his hands at the end of the movie.This would be fine except there's so many subplots that go nowhere. They never establish that Debra is a reporter so you just sort of figure it out. The fact that the descendants are being targeted by Ludlow is not even said until late in the film although it is known by the preacher and the mayor the whole time.The movie does some things right. It is sufficiently creepy. The opening music is good. The filming gives you a good sense of isolation from the outside world. That being said, the writing is so poor that the plot never comes together so the end makes you just shrug your shoulders and say "whatever". I know budget constraints can make effects look cheesy but this one's problems go beyond that. I don't think that Halloween was all that expensive to make but since it is well put together you put aside the green leaves in October. Demons of Ludlow's shortcomings can't be overlooked.In some odd way I do like this movie. 70's and 80's cheese always appeals to me. I also live in Wisconsin so Bill Rebane's films hit home. If you like low budget horror than this one's for you but be warned, it's bad.

Really, really terrible, even for Rebane. I don't think I've ever seen a sink burst into flame in any genre of film, for starters. In keeping with Rebane's "style" in this movie, this review will mostly be full of rambling comments. Ludlow is apparently in New England, but it looks like Wisconsin and the accents are Wisconsin-y. Characters are ripped apart by demons but later found intact and the cause of death is ruled as strangulation. The reporter girl has flashbacks of things that haven't happened yet. Vampires??? Bill, 49 minutes in and you introduce vampires??? I think it's trying to be a mystery that gradually unfurls, but it's so badly done stuff just jerks along from one plot point to another. One hour and 19 minutes into the movie, the Three Musketeers show up to have a swordfight and kill a character. "Efrem Ludlow's ghost is in the piano...he wants his hands!" The laughing, floating piano that explodes about ten times without damage is a riot though. The shocking revelation of the stumps hardly looks like the actor playing Efrem is wearing socks over his hands, huh? Hell, I don't even know what happened at the end.You may think this is a "so bad it's good" movie. Don't think that. It's so awful it made me angry. Avoid.

Yet another low budget effort from Wisconsin's legendary low budget filmmaker Bill Rebane, this one involving ghosts, a cursed town and a haunted piano.It reminds me a lot of Carpenter's "The Fog" only with a cursed piano instead of a ghost ship, which would look pretty stupid in an inland town anyway. There's even a preacher who is the last to die just like in Carpenter's film.The effects, (especially the beheading), are weak but, like most of Rebane's films, it's still an enjoyable way to kill some time. And since it's in the public domain should be available cheap on a bargain DVD.