Grindhouse Double Feature: Don't Look in the Basement / Don't Open the Door

Don't Look In The Basement (1973)

Classic low-budget shocker set in an asylum where patients rebel against the new, sadistic female director after the former chief has been axed--literally! Will they stop her before she kills them all? With Ann McAdams, Rosie Holotik, Michael Harvey, and William McGee as Sam, the lollipop-sucking inmate. 95 min. C/Rtg: R

Don't Open The Door (1975)

More good domestic advice from "Don't Look in the Basement" director S.F. Brownrigg, as a young woman returns home to care for her ailing grandmother, 12 years after a mysterious killer slew the woman's mother. At her grandmother's house, she meets some sinister locals and soon learns that the murderer from her past is still on the loose. Susan Bracken, Larry O'Dwyer, Gene Ross star. 90 min. C/Rtg: PG