Here's a Fulci film from 1989 that was originally made for TV. This one was surprisingly good, considering that it's origins made me think going in that this was going to be the worst of the bunch.It opens with an old house inhabited by an old couple that are keeping an eye on a couple dead bodies they have in another room. Meanwhile a group of young troublemakers is driving through the country side after robbing a convenience store when one of them decides to trap a stray cat in a plastic bag and leave it to suffocate. The symbolism is Fulci-ian in it's obviousness, but luckily the master delivers on the set up in a way that we only hoped for in BLACK CAT!
So once the kids find the old home, they decide to break in and rob the old people. Here is where it actually gets good. Of course, like every old couple taking care of dead bodies, they have a one-eyed Al Cliver in tow and he really makes things interesting when he tries to halt the robbery, only to get shot and cause the quick deaths of all those around him. So now there are a couple dead old people, a struggling Al Cliver, and 3 freaked-out troublemakers with a dying cat in their car.
This all happens at around the 30 minute mark, and from here the film really gets good. The house is filled with clocks, and all of them start running backwards. One by one the kids start freaking out and stranger and stranger things start happening. The film actually holds interest, and leads to an ending that seems bad, but quickly redeems itself in spades!
F for Fair
1 comment:
yes , I think you ve given House of Clocks a decent summary- fair. Not a bad film and I feel some have been a little unfair to what is after all a TV movie. I really liked this one myself but I would not want to kid anyone into thinking it was any kind of classic. Cop out ending.
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