Blood Legacy (1971)

hyped garbage

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

This film is known as "Will to Die" or "Legacy of Blood" (1971). The movie really does have a great cast but the story is just so-so. The film seems to have potential for a good horror movie but it just didn't quite make it to that status. I will say it's worth a watch for fans of B-horror films - even for a one time viewing.The story has John Carradine as Christopher Dean. Dean is a father who has died and "haunts" the estate. He leaves a will -- whom among his ungrateful children will inherit the estate? Who will die? There is a catch and twist ending.I'd recommend this film to those that like John Carradine and like just so-so B-horror films... you might get a kick of the movie.5/10

After reading the plot which does seem interesting with a family gathering at their childhood home after the death of their father to claim their inheritance, but have to spend one week there first and of course there's a killer amongst them and they start to get picked off. But even with the Gothic house setting, nothing good can be said for this piece of rubbish, it's just awful and weird and fails on almost every level.Even with plot lines involving incest, deceit and death isn't enough to keep the story going and it just splits apart between too many characters, and the constant flash backs just made me confused, plus the obvious errors was just strange, even the characters are all horrible. The four siblings Johnny, Leslie, Veronica and Gregory are just over the top and unrealistic, even the dead father in the flash backs was just stupid and strange. Even the shady servants Nanny and Igor fail to become interesting and all of them are just paper thin looney tunes.All in all "Legacy Of Blood" is just plain awful, an interesting premise that's just wasted on this piece of rubbish and even the silly over the top ending wasn't enough to save this mess, and even the running time just seems to go on and on.

For a "b" movie Roger Corman production,, this wasn't that bad at all really.. sure could have been better, but given the budget, and the time period that it was made I thought it was delightful.. sort of a poor man's House on the Haunted Hill if you will,, 4 people have to spend time in a house in order to qualify for the reading of the will of their father,, whom of course they all hated. very creepy house,, lot's of misdoings going on there,, and sure enough slowly 1 by 1 people start disappearing and dying left and right. all we have to do now is figure out who in the world done it,, was it the butler.. ala Clue,, or was it someone else,, watch and find out.

I caught this on a Brentwood 10 movie compilation. The first thing I noticed was how bad everyone's hair looked. The only guy I recognized was John Russell. I said to myself, "That's the guy from Lawman!" He played Frank the chauffeur and was probably the only sane person in the whole film and was evidently a badass. Some wacky, wacky stuff going on here. The butler, Ygor, looked just like Mel Brooks. He was nuts. The beautiful young daughter, she was nuts. The greasy haired brother, he was nuts, too. All these people had to stay in their dad's/employer's house for a week to get his dough. That was the late, great John Carradine. He had died and evidently hated everybody. Well, naturally, the bodies start to pile up. This movie kept me interested. I was not expecting Citizen Kane. It dealt with some hot button issues for the time it was made. Overall not too shabby. I mean, you gotta take in to account the budget, state of the art of cinema at the time, things like that. Only the ending left me scratching my head. Were there multiple killers or what? Give it a shot.