Rediscovering: The Comeback (1978)

Pete Walker directs this giallo-like horror in which a singer is looking to restart his career with some new material and takes residence in a country manor outside London, where seemingly supernatural things start to happen. Could it be the ghost of his recently murdered wife, whose body lies undiscovered in their penthouse apartment?
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[@ninfilms]

Frightmare is Pete Walker's best film. The Comeback has got brutal killing but it is a slow mover.

[@alanford8619]

I was watching something of a similar ilk recently, more a Terror movie than out and out horror, And Soon The Darkness directed by Robert Fuest. Hugely impressive. It was also all the more refreshing to return to a movie from the 70s after watching quite a number contemporary horrors. The most advanced pieces of technology featured in And Soon… were cars and a rotary phone ☺️

[@MrEnergee1987]

The year after this, cult classic ‘The Warriors’ came out

[@Warp75]

I watched this for the first time just now because I saw this vid come up last night & never heard of it. I thought it was ok 6/10

[@floyd75dylan]

The trouble with Pete Walker films is that he has a good idea but has no idea how to expand on that concept
The female characters are two dimensional. Sheila Keith who is in most of his films, usually plays the villain, but is so old that even a child could knock her over, yet you have these physically fit young women standing there screaming whilst Sheila Keith hobbles towards them with a weapon of some sort & you're thinking is Pete Walker Britain's answer to Ed Wood.
I have no desire to fork out £80 on a box set of films that are so bad that they make any of Ed Wood films look like Citizen Kane.