videorama-759-859391 Kenny Everett, I feel was someone who didn't get the recognition he deserved. A character actor, I feel he should of done more films, so when seeing this film, it's a thankful presence to see him here, in something's he's right at home with. I've always found this movie, very entertaining, or addictively entertaining, as I did with a lot of 80's movie. There's a lot of gore here, yes, with the equal amount of smart humor, and that's the movie's winning speciality, where an interesting twist comes into play towards the end. Everett and Stephenson (so much fun here) join these other 4 other scientists (including a hunky American that I liked and an English hottie) at this manor where 18 people were bludgeoned to death, by strange circumstances. This movie is a lot of fun where Stephenson and the late Everett are so watchable, here's a comedy that's a winner. 80's cheese, like we loved. A rare Brit, horror comedy treat, that stands alone, and rightly so.

David Love Kenny Everett was a zany comic who started out as a DJ in the 1960s before fronting a prime time TV comedy show in the 1980s. This 1984 film is his only attempt at a big screen offering. Kenny died of AIDS-related illness in 1995, aged 50.The film is a Hammer horror spoof, though many other films and genres are spoofed along the way. It is written by Barry Cryer, who appears in the title sequence. Eight scientists (including Kenny and, more plausibly, Dr Pamela Stephenson) investigate an old house where, 18 years earlier, 18 people were killed there in one night. The others are played by John Fortune, Sheila Steafel, Don (Rising Damp) Warrington, Gareth (coffee ads) Hunt, Cleo Rocos and John Stephen Hill. All were well known 80s British personalities but not entirely convincing as scientists! The best known actor here is Vincent Price, though he only appears in a few scenes, as the 'sinister man'. Pat Ashton's appearance as the murdered barmaid marked her last appearance in a run of 20 years of British comedy shows before she disappeared, which is a shame as she was always good fun. It pretty much also marked the end of John Stephen Hill's acting career though he is better mapped as he went on to immerse himself in his Jesuit faith.The film is a bit hit and miss, like Everett's TV shows - lots of scenes that don't really work, interspersed with occasional moments of genius. It is the only opportunity to see Everett on the big screen, and it represents a peak of sorts in early 80s British comedy. I don't want to judge it too harshly.

Joxerlives Always been a Kenny fan and to have him in the same film as Vincent Price and Not the Nine O'clock News' Pamela Stephenson had such great potential. Sadly it never lived up to it but still glad to watch it.The Good; Love the gag of the stalker being hit in the face with the brier and the Headstone Manor hall for 'Tired businessmen/Teenage Girls Summer Camp'. Vincent Price's stuff is great. Pamela Stephenson is just as gorgeous naked as we always thought she'd be (surprisingly Cleo Rocos who was always the cheesecake in Kenny's shows keeps her clothes on?). Adore the pub singalong, Don Warrington and Gareth Hunt make a very funny gay couple and the surgery scene is funny. The parodies are also pretty good, especially the Carrie one. The Bad; Lots I'm afraid, the plot makes no sense, the direction is leaden and the story just doesn't hang together. It doesn't work as a horror film or a zany comedy and some of the gags just aren't funny and go on for far too long (to my shame I missed the 'Do you like my mole?' joke until I'd watched it for the second time. Still wasn't funny)The Other; did you notice there was a story about AIDS on the cover of the gay magazine Stephen and Elliot read? Kenny Everett was a closet homosexual and would sadly later die of the disease, I wonder if this was put in deliberately? The scene where Don Warrington's character is killed by a blade emerging from a phone receiver is very similar to 'Dr Phibes Rises Again' also starring Vincent Price. All told I think it's something of a wasted opportunity

BA_Harrison Until now, I had 2009's Lesbian Vampire Killers down as the worst British comedy/horror film to feature home-grown TV 'talent', but I'd forgotten all about this absolute travesty from '84. Starring ex-Radio One disc-jockey turned TV superstar Kenny Everett in his one-and-only feature film role, plus a host of other familiar faces from British TV during the 70s and 80s, the film is a laugh-free zone from start to finish, the puerile script by seasoned TV gag-writer Barry Cryer featuring lame jokes that make even his worst material for Russ Abbot and Jim Davidson look like comedy genius by comparison, and the performances ranging from the perfunctory (Vincent Price) to the downright abysmal (Everett's TV co-star Cleo Rocos).Given star Everett's trademark zaniness, Bloodbath at the House of Death could (and should) have been a hilarious exercise in excess, the move to the big screen allowing the star to be crazier, bawdier and more outrageous than ever before, and yet there is a frustratingly restrained feel about the whole film; true, there are a few surprisingly graphic deaths involving some cartoonish gore (which even earned the film an 18 certificate!), but the majority of the gags are tired, dumb, predictable and irritatingly scatter-shot, desperately parodying everything from Jaws and the Exorcist to ET and Star Wars in the fruitless search for laughs.