There's a very fine line sometimes between Monster movies & JD/Crime flicks, but the general rule in defining genres usually seems to be, if there's a bonafide Psycho involved, that will make the plot just twisted enough to qualify as a Monster movie.....so you get some titles like "Bucket Of Blood," "Anatomy Of A Psycho" etc, or in this case, "The Bloody Brood." These hip punks are a real gang of mental monsters led by none other than Peter Falk, who was, by my reckoning, 32 when this film was made. Seems like film makers in the 50's had a lot of trouble defining the 'Beat' generation! They manage to get some of the lingo straight, they remember to use a lot of bongos, and beat poetry, but the characters generally seem overly outrageous, & very rarely dressed properly. Okay, here's the deal, Beatniks should look like Maynard G. Krebs, period. Sweatshirt & tennies, no suits, man, that's for squares, you dig?!!!
Harry Freedman provides us with a soundtrack a lot hipper than the people in the movie, but just as sinister! Here's The Bloody Brood
It was interesting how she just slid up there like a seal or a dolphin to get that drink!
From "I Walked With A Zombie" in 1943 to "The Andy Griffith Show," in 1967, yeah, I guess you could say that famed Calypso artist Lancelot Victor Edward Pinard pretty much did it all, including living to the ripe old age of 98. In this film he has a message for the elite at this party, "Apparently a normal Calypso song, but there is something behind the words, if you listen closely enough." Like, Yeah, we're talking 'Cave Of Death' here! Richard Gilden as the young native Raoul Koom sure as hell doesn't want to talk about it, so you'll have to try and find your own copy of this hard-to-find movie to see if they got the message! "All Right...Sir Lancelot."
