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BGCOLOR="#FFFF99" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>American Gothic</B></div> <div> <B>(Island/Family/Pzychosis/Incest)             9**********skulls</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>* Blood * Violent (Implied Necrophilia) * No Strong Language *</B></div> <div> <B>* No Nudity * No Sexual Situations * Not Particularly Gory *</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>    </B><B>                 </B></div> <div> <B>1986/Color/90 Min./Vidmark Entertainment & Brent Walker PLC & Pinetalk Ltd. & Manor Ground Productions/UK/Canada/Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director...........John Hough (</B><I><B>Howling IV, Legend of Hell House</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.....Burt Wetanson & Michael Vines</B></div> <div> <B>Music..............Alan Parker</B></div> <div> <B>Producer........John Quested & Christopher Harrop</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producers.....Ray Homer & George Walker & Michael Manley</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Cynthia...........Sarah Torgov (</B><I><B>If You Could See What I Hear</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Pa...................Rod Steiger (</B><I><B>Amityville Horror, Dr. Zhivago, The Kindred</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Ma...................Yvonne DeCarlo* (</B><I><B>Munsters, Cellar Dweller, Silent Scream</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Woody............Michael J. Pollard (</B><I><B>Bonnie and Clyde, Roxanne</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Lynn...............Fiona Hutchison (</B><I><B>Biggles--Adventures in Time</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Jeff.................Mark Erickson</B></div> <div> <B>Fanny.............Janet Wright</B></div> <div> <B>Rob.................Mark Lindsay Chapman</B></div> <div> <B>Terri...............Caroline Barclay</B></div> <div> <B>Paul...............Stephen Shellen (</B><I><B>A River Runs Through It, The Stepfather</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Teddy.............William Hootkins (</B><I><B>Biggles--Adventures in Time</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Psychiatrist.....Terry Kelly</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Having Cynthia emerge from the mental institution with veiled talk of problems with a child and then the series of baby drowning flashbacks is all too believable nightmare. Superimposed on this backdrop, the image of these aging children, one of whom has a dead baby herself, which she has opted to hang onto, will have the hairs on your neck doing handstands. The ingredients of the American Puritan life and righteous hellfire makes for a brutal mixture, particularly in the isolation of their island. The idea of these aged children trapping people on an island is a hit, and you'll love Fanny's chambre des big dollies. The incest motif is chilling Nice pace. Movie stars! Oscar winner Rod Steiger! and Evonne DeCarlo (Lily Munster) is as always a delight. The music accounts for more than a few chills on its own. Good scary movie. Travel tip: if your going to travel to a B.C. island, make it a resort island and book with a group. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Cynthia is released from the mental institute to her husband who tells her psychiatrist they would both like to have another baby. She needs understanding, love and time. Hubby wants to go to the islands off Seattle where they had their honeymoon. Despite engine troubles that force them on to a deserted coastal island, the young men and women settle into bucolic pursuits such as sleeping off last night's bender. When one one of the girls slips on the rocks and falls into the sea, Cynthia has a flashback to the drowning of her baby, and isn't able to help. This is a scary scene. Later a hike turns up an isolated cabin. Is someone watching them? The campers enter the cabin and find it furnished roaring twenties style. While the others flip on the rag music, the brooding Cynthia heads for the nursery. In come ma and pa breaking up the festivities. The kids are invited to eat, and all is apparently well. When the kids start asking about TVs and radios it is met with a stony silence. As Lynn and Cynthia poke around, in walks a middle aged woman, Fanny, who plays with dollies. Ma says she's twelve years old. What's more, when she's good she's really good when she's bad she's really bad. When Terri and Jeff head for bed together, Pa announces there will be no devil's play. The next day Rob gets invited for a swing with Fanny and "Teddy", another of the superannuated children. Later, Cynthia finds Rob, who apparently slipped off the cliff. Next Woodie shows up. He can be a caution. Lynn overhears the plaintive Lynn describing Fanny as repulsive. That doesn't seem advisable. Fanny urges Cynthia to stay and play with her. That night, Fanny comes to show Cynthia her baby. It's a desiccated infant's corpse. Just what the doctor ordered for Cynthia. When Cynthia is urged to kiss the baby, she faints away. The bereaved but still combative Lynn walks along and finds some of the "kids" jumping rope. When she announces they're weirdoes, the fun really begins. Jeff didn't accept Cynthia's story about the mummified baby. She has, after all, had some problems along these lines. It's only been a year since the accident. When Fanny overhears the conversation, she decides she "wants" Jeff. Cynthia flees Jeff's Oedipus at Colonus imitation to find Lynn hanging around after the jump rope game. The survivors get a hold of Fanny and put a flare gun to her head to try to get Pa to bring them to a boat. Paul's body in the boat makes it less attractive and they lose their opportunity. Teddy is a bad boy with One of the girls he's killed (a riveting necrophilic scene) and gets a hiding from Pa for it. Finally, the already fragile Cynthia is left with the family. Everything's going just fine until Fanny gives baby a bath. 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