Zeegrade Talk about having your priorities out of order! Chris the town preacher who sports a man perm is married to Sybil, a drunk hottie who appears on screen either in sexy lingerie, drinking, or both. How many more signs does a cat need that this lady needs some serious husband on wife attention? Does she have to signal him in with airstrip landing lights for crying out loud? Instead Chris becomes infatuated with a piano. Yes a freaking piano. Anyway, this piano that sounds like an organ is returned to the village of Ludlow by the descendants of Efrem Ludlow one of the town's original founders. Turns out Efrem really angered everyone by constantly playing the thing so they did what any respectable music hating citizen would do. They cut off his hands. Fast forward two hundred years and the spirit of Efrem emerges from the piano/harpsichord/organ/kazoo and takes revenge on the town descendants who did this to him. Pretty steep a curse for a pair of hands if you ask me. Soon the townies are being dispatched by demon hands or invisible spirits or ghosts that resemble late eighteenth century citizens that are either cannibals or pack some serious heat. Yeah this movie is all over the place. Chris is aided by Debra a former resident who is a reporter though in what capacity I have no idea. They discover that this curse never ends and that a list is composed of the families that were complicit in Efrem's banishment. Sure enough Chris and Debra both have family ties to the cursed townspeople which makes them targeted to be killed. This could be stopped immediately by simply moving out of town. Perhaps Westchester that everyone keeps crowing about.A return to form for Bill Rebane after I was pleasantly surprised by The Alpha Incident. A cursed piano? Sorry, not frightening. Who exactly cursed the town? If it was Efrem then why did various ghosts appear to help him? How come some are capable of ripping apart flesh like when Emily was "strangled" and yet others use firearms to kill? What was the purpose of the mutant arm? Who is responsible for the worst funeral spread ever at about the forty-second minute mark? Biscuits with ham slices? No open bar? Come on! Lastly and most confusing of all, why didn't Chris get some of that drunk tail Sybil was tossing his way? Was he gay? A eunuch? A ghost? At least he gets what he deserves by having HIS hands cut off. HA! Serves you right holy man.

dirk275 Okay, I must say the plot is so hard to follow that I may get a few facts wrong so forgive me. Ludlow is a cursed coastal town due to the townspeople cutting off a man's hands in the 1860s. To celebrate the towns 200th anniversary a harpsichord is given as a gift. Evidently it is the same harpsichord that was in town the night Vincent Ludlow was tried. His spirit and those of some others haunt the instrument so when it's played strange things happen. Ludlow's spirit is out for revenge and is killing the descendants of those who wronged him. It's a lot like The Fog but not as good.The cast includes a reporter named Debra who is in town for some reason I couldn't find and by her own admission even she can't figure out why she is investigating Ludlows past. The other main character is a preacher named Chris who loses his hands at the end of the movie.This would be fine except there's so many subplots that go nowhere. They never establish that Debra is a reporter so you just sort of figure it out. The fact that the descendants are being targeted by Ludlow is not even said until late in the film although it is known by the preacher and the mayor the whole time.The movie does some things right. It is sufficiently creepy. The opening music is good. The filming gives you a good sense of isolation from the outside world. That being said, the writing is so poor that the plot never comes together so the end makes you just shrug your shoulders and say "whatever". I know budget constraints can make effects look cheesy but this one's problems go beyond that. I don't think that Halloween was all that expensive to make but since it is well put together you put aside the green leaves in October. Demons of Ludlow's shortcomings can't be overlooked.In some odd way I do like this movie. 70's and 80's cheese always appeals to me. I also live in Wisconsin so Bill Rebane's films hit home. If you like low budget horror than this one's for you but be warned, it's bad.

Hitchcoc This is a movie about a dying community with a curse on it. Back in Colonial times some guy who played the piano got his hands chopped off. Because of that, his supernatural being is going to make all town members pay for it. His old piano (harpsichord) is sent to the town on their bicentennial celebration. The people who play it go into hysterical contortions like those folks in reefer madness. Also, bad things begin to happen. Spirits are set free. They are dressed in cheap Thanksgiving costumes. But they are deadly. Also, lots of people like to show up in their underwear before being accosted by these Pilgrim bullies. There's a few pirates around too. There is some gore in it but the rules are never precisely clear and we need to figure them out as we go. There is a bouncing piano. Not exactly Citizen Kane.

Tikkin I was really looking forward to watching this because the VHS box art looks SO 80's. Sadly it was rather dull and I ended up almost falling asleep.It looked promising to start with - it has excellent creepy music, and there's a rather good scene with some demons near the start. After this everything gets confusing, dull and tedious. If there had been more demons and gore, it might have been interesting. Sadly everything is just a jumble. There were a few OK scenes scattered throughout the film, but none were good enough for me to remember in detail.Unless you're a collector, avoid this - you'd be far better off watching something like Demons or even Demon Wind.