Lesley Fontaine (Camilla Carr) is an attractive but mentally unbalanced woman who lives in an isolated mansion with her brother Kevin, for whom she shares incestuous desires. When she not shouting at or getting jiggy with Kevin (who may or may not be a figment of her imagination), Lesley fills her time with a little stalk and slash, using a sword to cut down those who enter her estate.
Director S.F. Brownrigg is best known for his effective asylum shocker Don't Go In The Basement and the sleazy backwoods slasher Scum Of The Earth (AKA Poor White Trash II). Keep My Grave Open, the last of Brownrigg's horror films, is, by comparison, a far more reserved effort, the film-maker keeping his plot's more lurid elements very low key. This less exploitative approach, combined with an extremely measured (ie., boring) pace, results in one of the Texan auteur's least satisfying efforts, a dreary psycho horror that fails to deliver either cheap scares, bargain basement gore or gratuitous nudity, staple ingredients of any self-respecting low-budget Z-grade trash horror.
Director S.F. Brownrigg is best known for his effective asylum shocker Don't Go In The Basement and the sleazy backwoods slasher Scum Of The Earth (AKA Poor White Trash II). Keep My Grave Open, the last of Brownrigg's horror films, is, by comparison, a far more reserved effort, the film-maker keeping his plot's more lurid elements very low key. This less exploitative approach, combined with an extremely measured (ie., boring) pace, results in one of the Texan auteur's least satisfying efforts, a dreary psycho horror that fails to deliver either cheap scares, bargain basement gore or gratuitous nudity, staple ingredients of any self-respecting low-budget Z-grade trash horror.