Who dares to try and make sense of the opening shots of the man trying to escape the asylum and how it has anything to do with the rest of the film? Was it a dream? Or was it just found footage spliced in to fill some time, perhaps to give us the impression this film had something more sinister afoot?
shareI had thought it was Allan, the main character ... but I watched it over three nights so I guess I was wrong. I was really disturbed that it ends and no one seems to notice or care that he tortured and killed all those other Red Heads !!
shareI think Alan was institutionalized at some point in the past and that was just a flashback.
As for the redheads, I think Alan was deemed not criminally responsible for their deaths since he was bonkers at the time. Insanity plea.
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It's funny that someone would watch the whole movie and not realize that's Lord Cunningham (Anthony Steffen), the main character. The sequence ends showing the plaque with the name of the institution and Dr. Richard Timbarlane's name, who is the doctor that appears throughout the movie and talks about Cunningham having been institutionalized. It is clearly earlier in time, maybe shortly after his wife's death, and now he's out and picking up redheaded prostitutes that remind him of Evelyn.
I liked that opening sequence for the shot in the mossy overgrown amphitheater where you see Cunningham come over the edge and then the pursuing figures come up on the sides and start to come down after him. Nice visual composition.
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