Review – Crucible of Horror

Is it just me, or does the word "dreary" automatically bring English crime dramas to mind? Movies like this help cement the association. Michael Gough plays a family patriarch who derives pleasure from browbeating his wife and literally beating his daughter (complete with some really gross Freudian nudity). The Netflix description promised that after the womenfolk tire of his crap and kill him that he would return from the dead to seek revenge. Naturally this conjured images of vengeful zombies a la the "Happy Father's Day" sequence from Creepshow, but what we get here is more "oh, there he is. I guess he isn't dead after all." The resulting production should more aptly have been dubbed Crucible of Boredom. See if desperate