Mr_Ectoplasma Poor psychotic Vicki Kent seems to be plagued by an ancestral curse that drives her and her family members to kill. Upon being released from a psychiatric institute after killing two neighborhood boys, Vicki soon picks up the hatchet and gets back to dismembering her family line.Doris Wishman's "A Night to Dismember" is a true landmark in bad filmmaking-it's hard to say whether it is a result of the filmmakers' ineptitude or the troubled production history (which included multiple reels being destroyed, causing Wishman to rework the film with stock footage and an entirely new plot grafted onto the pre-existing footage). In any case, it has gone down in the annals of trash cinema for good reason.I cannot pretend this is a worthwhile film for most moviegoers, but as a pure oddity, it is required viewing for hardened slasher fans. Pornographic actress Samantha Fox portrays the insane Vicki, and is surrounded by a group of equally inept actors. The entire film is narrated with a documentary-like voiceover from a policeman who investigated the crimes, and there is virtually no dialogue present; what is there is badly-dubbed and only accentuated by sloppy editing, bizarre montages, and amateurish special effects for good measure.In any event, I found the film entertaining on a primal level, only because it feels like a fever dream pulled from the head of a madman. The fact that Wishman even finished it is something of a minor triumph, and it is weirdly amusing in all its badness. For the casual moviegoing majority, it is a laughable disaster, and even hardened fans of slasher films and camp trash will find elements of it almost too absurd; but midway through, I couldn't help but feel there was some earnestness behind it, and the bones of what could have been an at least average psycho-slasher flick. The result is many ranks below average of course, but it is a fun romp for people who find entertainment, genuine interest, or pure comedy in cheapjack horror. You have been warned. 5/10.

Scarecrow-88 This diabolical abomination is the patchwork of mishandled material, and I can't fault director Doris Wishman for trying to make something out of nothing. It was equal parts painful, frustrating, not to mention bizarrely watchable at times. I do consider myself a gore aficionado and an enthusiast of weird cinema, so to say that 'A Night to Dismember' was a total waste would be a falsity. This is the first time that I can remember seeing a decapitated head roasting in a fireplace! How could one not enjoy watching porn star Samantha Fox, starring in this film as a recently released asylum patient, gobbling ham! You get a heart pulled from a chest, a head squashed under a car tire, and fingers hacked off! The grisly shenanigans include a gash in the forehead of a victim from the use of the dreaded ax(..and, my favorite would have to be the scene where the murderer has trouble shaking the head from the ax!). This does have the same bloody charm of a HGL production(..sharp implements slowly burst skin, with methodical blood flow). A lot of random people fall to the ax-wielding maniac, who chops without abandon.It's especially a treat to experience Fox's "method" performance. Part of the plot has Vicki(Fox)tormented by her sister and brother so she would return to the hospital(..it is feared that Vicki would take sis' boyfriend away from her!). The private dick who narrates the film(..I guess this is a homage to film noir while also providing Wishman with an outlet to explain details to the audience)is shown ogling Vicki, with her enjoying his eyes on her quite joyfully(..that is when she isn't asleep).Pretty grisly nightmare sequence where Vicki's sister dreams of being stabbed multiple times in the throat, head, and torso(..we see the knife and ax sometimes penetrating flesh). You even see the aftermath of a ghastly eyeball gouge. And, there's nothing quite as resounding as a lingering shot of a dead, mutilated body in a refrigerator. As you'll see, special dedication was given in regards to the grue. Certain sound effects and pieces of music can be quite obtrusive and downright jarring, but something about this works appropriately with the dopey nature of the finished product. There is an amusing sight gag at the end with Uncle Sam I admired quite a bit. Revelation proves that deranged behavior runs in the family.

AngryChair Famed lame-film maker Ed Wood doesn't have anything on DORIS WISHMAN! This celluloid train wreck is apt proof too. Girl returns home from the loony-bin and someone begins to butcher the people around her. Who is the killer.... and will we care?Hilariously awful slasher is a doozy from beginning to end. All the characters are dubbed (by about two people), the editing is completely chaotic, the gore FX extremely cheap, and the plot is nearly incoherent. Word has it that half of Wishman's shot footage for the film was destroyed and she had to go back and re-edit and re-write the film with the remaining footage. The film is just sloppy enough for it to be true. The only good thing about A Night to Dismember is its memorable title and an amusing DVD commentary by director Wishman and her camera man. The bickering conversations between those two are worth more than a few laughs! The movie itself though is so terrible it's amazing that it was ever released. BOMB out of ****

Nozze-Foto What can you say about a movie with a budget so very low they borrowed music from Andy Milligan's THE GHASTLY ONES? Doris Wishman has directed stuff like BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL, ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER MAN, NUDE ON THE MOON and the classic AMAZING TRANSPLANT. Okay, so she's no Ida Lupino you deffinitely won't sleep through any of her movies! A NIGHT TO DISMEMBER is as disjointed as the hacked up bodies the killer leaves behind. Why? Because some idiot at the processing lab either lost or erased about 34 minutes of film leaving Ms. Wishman to make some sense out of the 68 minutes she had left. Well she did, sort of. Vicki Kent (Samantha Fox) is released from a mental hospital several years after the unprovoked killing of two boys. Right away her brother and sister, who are jealous of her for no reason that I can figure out, decide to drive her crazy again and send her back to the hospital. Right about this same time several brutal murders take place and the finger of suspicion points to . . .guess who. Ah, but is she really guilty? hey, it's only a 68 minute movie so you won't have to wait long to find out. The gore effects are outrageous, an obvious dummy is barely tapped with a machete and the head falls off; hatchet hardly touches its victim for blood to spurt like a fountain; a woman's finger are cut off one by one but she is just making a fist and her hand is covered with stage blood. But it's things like this that make the movie fun. Also there is a detective narrating who describes things he could not possibly know. In one case he talks about what Vicki Kent is dreaming while he watches her through a window! Ridiculous? Yes! Fun? You bet! Worth seeing? What are you waiting for?