Monday, April 18, 2016

Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)

A Really Good "Ghost" and Slasher Film


This film is known as The Red Mark of Madness, Blood Brides and An Axe for the Honeymoon - it's a pretty good movie that will leave you guessing about a few things in the end. After watching the film, I read a handful of reviews and discussions on the film and there are a couple of takes on what actually happened - both of which I was thinking of when I was watching it.

Two ideas on the ghost:
1) The ghost of the dead wife was real. She really did appear to others and later on him.

2) The ghost of the dead wife was all in his mind - including others seeing and speaking of the (dead) wife. In other words, he imagined others taking about seeing her, he imagined the coffee being poured for his dead wife and he imagined the wife's sherry on the table. All was in his mind. 

The murders must have been real and not imagined by John. Overall a good thriller I enjoyed watching. 

8.5/10


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