Although George Romero wasn’t involved, he appears in the special features on Effects, made by most of his associates in Pittsburgh in 1980 and missing since then (I’ve been looking for it since reading a glowing review in Cinefantastique about 20 years ago).

Joe Pilato from Day of the Dead stars as a cameraman recruited for a low-budget movie which turns out to be a snuff movie. The mad director is nicely underplayed by John Harrison, formerly Romero’s composer and editor but now more famous as the director of TV’s Dune, and other Romero regulars like Tom Savini fill out the cast and crew. It’s clear that the budget didn’t really match the ambition of the exercise, but it’s a neat and undervalued movie as far as these things go.

Mild Peril Rating:

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