Year: 1962
Director: Lee Frost
Country: US
Language: English
On Black Friday I bought a year subscription of MUBI for $60. It always has 30 curated movies to stream at a time, with one film being removed everyday and one film being added. MUBI has very obscure strange films that you wouldn't know existed before the service. It's far better than Netflix, which has just about every movie you can find in a Walmart bargain bin. I watched House on Bare Mountain today on MUBI out of curiousity.
Granny Good (Bob Cresse) runs a school located in a "creepy" house where women are always topless. The school is really a front for an illegal booze distillery which she runs in the basement with the help of a wolfman named "Krakow".
Nicholas Winding Refn, director of Drive, lovingly restored this nearly forgotten work of weird (and I mean WEIRD) cinema. It's a self described "nudie cutie", which has as much bums, boobs and babes as one can handle. Though its bare bones plot is an excuse to show a tremendous amount of full frontal nudity, I must admit it's quite a trip.
House on Bare Mountain is hilarious, mainly because of how random it is. Why does a werewolf belong to a union? Why does the one girl constatly read from the dictionary? It's Monty Python-lite, which is still pretty decent. Don't get me wrong, the acting is BAD, but if you watch for mindless entertainment this film delivers.
The film gets a 4/10 on IMDB, which...it might deserve? It's hard to rate a film like this. I thought the punch-line at the end certainly made it an above passing grade. Movies nowadays ought to strive to be as fun as this.
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