 Welcome to today's edition of Frightfully Forgotten, but to start things off, what are we drinking today? Uh, Gatlin's Fall Harvest, October Fest. Mmm. Today we're gonna be bringing to you 1974's Frightmare, or sometimes called Cover Up. It is directed by Pete Walker, kind of started off with these schlocky kind of sexploitation type movies. Then got into some real decent horror, he did The Comeback, which we had covered quite a while ago. Sheila Keith is in this and she was also in The Comeback. She's kind of like that Mrs. Doubtfire kind of woman. Hello! Rupert Davies is in this and he was in a lot of stuff, but we just got to mention Dracula has risen from the grave. So the movie starts off in black and white. This gentleman going to this kind of trailer. I'm in a bit of a mess. You said I could come back. You see the interior, but you don't see who's in there with them. And then there's this guy with his head bashed and you sit in there all day. We're then show inside of a court two figures and shadows who are being spoken to by the judge with that sick wig. That British wig thing. Judge is sentencing them, committed in a mental institution. We're then introduced to one of the main characters, Debbie. And she's 15 years old and she's a bit of a rebel. She's got this kind of badass boyfriend that's in this British biker game. Yeah. They're in the disco. This disco is awesome. I want to be in this disco drinking and dancing. It looks like tons of fun. Just by looking at her, the bartender is like, yeah, I'm sorry. You're not of age. You're underage. I can't serve you. She goes back to her boyfriend and completely lies. What? He said what? He called me a young tart. He wouldn't serve me. Later that night when the bar closes, the bartender comes out and the whole gang kind of surrounds him and just beat the shit out of this guy and just take him to town. Then they flee because the cops are coming. We're then introduced to Debbie's older sister, Jackie, who's at this dinner party. She's hitting it off with this young psychiatrist and they decide, well, okay, maybe we'll go out sometime. She goes back home and sees that Debbie has just gotten home and it's very late and she starts chastising her. She comes back at her and says, well, you leave at all weird hours of the night. I have no clue where you're going. Where are you going anyways? Yeah. She doesn't tell her, but she gets up and leaves. Yeah. Drives way out to the country to this kind of farmhouse. She's visiting what appears to be, well, her parents. She brings this package when you don't really know what's in it. A couple of days later, Jackie gets a phone call from her dad calling him secret. He's like an old-style British payphone to the booth. He says he's worried about his wife, takes out this package and unwraps it and says, well, see what your mother's been doing. Yeah. He shows her what's inside, but we don't see what it is. She does. You see her reaction and she's like appalled. We then see this woman at this mysterious farmhouse. Find out she's there for a tarot card reading. She flips over the death card, right? Jackie's new boyfriend, the psychiatrist, he's supposed to come over to pick up Jackie for a date. Debbie's there and so he ends up talking with her and sort of trying to sort out... their problems. Yeah, exactly. Debbie leads her boyfriend to this back alley and there's a car there. Opens up the trunk and there's the dead body of that bartender, that poor bastard bartender from the beginning. Debbie fucking killed the guy. Meanwhile, Jackie's psychiatrist boyfriend, he starts doing some digging into the family. Turns out that it's Jackie's parents were in a mental institution and it was them two who were put away. Somebody else comes to that farmhouse for a reading, for a tarot card reading. She's kind of had enough of this woman. She stands up to walk away and all the doors are kind of locked and she uncovers this blanket over doorway and we don't see what she sees, but... Yeah, but she's terrified. Yeah, she's terrified. Dorothy pulls out a hot poker from the fireplace and just rams it right into her stomach. Pails her. Dad, he's just coming home from like work or something. Early. Yeah. And he comes into the house of this shit. And she looks up and she's like, help me. Oh, what did you do? What did you do to her? Debbie and her boyfriend flee the scene basically, right? Because they're getting chased by the cops now. Brings her boyfriend to this deserted sort of farmhouse. He's freezing his bullocks off. And so he goes into the farmhouse to find out what's going on. And that's where we're gonna end it right there because there's a lot more crazy shit that happens. It kind of, it almost mirrors the comeback in terms of the way it's written, right? And the way it's unveiled, everything kind of, it slowly gets revealed. Yeah. There's not one big reveal. Yeah. There's little small reveals throughout the movie which kind of recluse it. You helps you piece all this together. They give you little hints that like make you question something very slightly. But then you think, ah, that's probably nothing. That's probably whatever. I'm reading too much into that little line she just said. But later on it's like, oh no, I wasn't. That was a big clue. It's one of those movies that it may take two watches, right, to get everything. Because it's very easy to miss this, to miss certain clues. So many different little plot lines. Like there's the plot with the mysterious old couple at the farmhouse. The daughter bringing them these packages. Then there's the plot line with Debbie being a misfit with this biker guy. Then there's the psychiatrist's boyfriend plot. At the end like, okay, it's all related. Yeah, yeah, it all makes sense, right? It's a tragic story too, right? Yeah. Because the poor dad, he's just strapped throughout the entire movie just trying to seemingly keep his life and his wife's life together, right? Yeah. They don't want to get found out for what's going on. He's also getting dragged into the worst parts of this again, right? Yeah. And he knows what's going to happen. But he just loves his wife so much and he just doesn't want to see anything happen. Yeah, that's the neat aspect about this movie is like how love corrupts in a way. He's not doing anything just covering it up for her because he loves her so much. The directing and the acting for this movie are really superb. Superb. Superb. Sheila Keith as Dorothy Yates, she does such a great job of portraying like two sides of Madness. Like the side of Madness where she's kind of like confused and upset about what she's going through. But then to the other side where she's just like loving it and loves doing this to people. The Madness is actually taken over, right? Yeah, like that scene where she's drilling. She is terrifying. But this way I wouldn't want to be locked in a fucking room with her. No, that's for sure. I wouldn't want a tarot card reading from her. The way it's directed is intriguing. The angles that he uses, right? And the cuts, the shots. I think they're awesome. It's framed in a way where you don't see too much. And Rupert Davies as the husband is again like he compliments Sheila Keith's performance so well because he's so believable as being like this poor to strong man. Man, like by the end where he's just to shovel and he's had nice hairs all over the place. Like not one performance seems like a performance, right? So it feels real. Feels very real. Even the girls too, right? The whole yin and yang between the two of them. Because they're so opposite. Yeah. And you feel it too, right? They're always bitching at each other. Settings that they have. You mentioned the disco. Man, fuck, that looks like fun. I wish I was in that disco. Same with the farmhouse. Yeah. That farmhouse looks awesome. That giant hearth and everything with the fireplace. Like fuck, I wish I lived there, not with the wife. Yeah, but it's a really cool setting. The university type of, they're like fancy apartment. Before anyone even opens their mouths to say a line, you already know what these people are all about just by the setting they're in. Yeah, exactly how they live. This whole idea of people having gone away to either jail or to missile them to be rehabilitated and they get out. Yeah. But they really aren't. Sex offender released back into society and they show a picture of the guy. Yeah. Then why did you release him if you have to let us know? Exactly. Right? Yeah, so it mirrors real life. Yeah. You know, sadly. Yeah, exactly. So if you want like a really good, smart, well-paced like British slasher film, because it's kind of half slasher, half mystery, really check out Frightmare. The name has nothing to do with the movie at all, like Frightmare. You think it has to do with nightmares or dreams or something, but not at all. That's why cover-up makes more sense. So if you're a fan of like The Comeback, other movies by Pete Walker and you haven't seen Frightmare, check it out. Yep. And keep drinking. And eating.