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This movie really isn’t what I expected it to be. I rented this because a friend of a friend thought I would like it, and boy did I ever! When I was reading the back of the movie case, I had mixed feelings. Its not often you see a good B’ horror movie, especially in the 90’s. This movie even won the Fangoria Golden Chainsaw Award, now that’s big stuff for a horror movie.

The movie opens in a seven hundred year old castle, an old woman is preparing a meal, but its not for her. We follow the old woman to a dungeon type of place. She opens the door and starts beating our castle freak violently with a chain whip. Later, this old woman, who we discover was a duchess, dies of natural causes and her last living relative (or so its said) inherits the castle. He starts hearing strange noises, his daughter too.

He is told that the house is haunted by the murdered child of the duchess (the Freak) whom was killed in a fit of revenge for the betrail of her husband. The man decides to sell all the possessions in the house. Walking around writing lists and making inventory of every piece of furniture, he stumbles upon a photo of a young five-year old child of the duchess (the Freak). The child looks exactly like his child that he lost in a car wreck that left him guilty and his daughter blind. Attention was not given to his daughter; she walks around the castle following a cat. The cat has led her to the cell that we saw at the beginning. She hears chains, the cat enters a small entrance for food, which results in the cat being eaten bye our freak.

The freak escapes his chains, by ripping his thumb off and sliding his hands through the hand buckles He starts to terrorize the household, there are many suspenseful moments where we see the freak no more then two inches away from the blind girl (FREAKY!), which was kind of a rip off of Eyes of a Stranger.The villain starts eating person by person. The ending is nothing more then a game of cat and mouse. The wife and daughter are running for their lives, with the freak not far behind.

This movie gets two and a half stars. It was cheap suspence, and a weak plot. The movie, wasn't great, but it was okay.