Naturally, I wasn't expecting anything more than a trashy seventies B-movie from Keep My Grave Open, but I was also hoping it would be a fun watch, and unfortunately; this S.F. Brownrigg film doesn't deliver on that. When reading the plot description, I was expecting the film to be something like Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, but actually; it doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. The plot focuses on Lesley Fontaine, a crazy woman who lives in a house, supposedly with her brother Kevin. However, Kevin doesn't actually exist; and Lesley is dressing up as him and then murdering people. The main problem with this film is the fact that it's BORING. Keep My Grave Open bumbles along at a slow pace and only really captured my imagination during one scene; and that's not very good going for an eighty minute movie. There's a fair amount of sleaze, as you would expect from the director of the Video Nasty 'Don't Look in the Basement', and the low budget makes for a gritty atmosphere; but these things come to nothing when the film is such a non-event. Not even a performance from a young Stephen Tobolowsky can save this one. Skip it!
Review of Keep My Grave Open
