When you pick up the yellow key, you get ambushed by monsters.This opens a passage that leads said balcony. Kill the zombie to open a door left of the yellow-key gate. Near the yellow key gate, there's a zombie on a outcropping.Follow and swim in the direction of the arrows, and you'll eventually come to a teleporter with red armor. Jump into the water near the entrance or the following room(s).Grenade launcher: In the yellow key room.Nailgun: Appears near the start, before the lift.You'll soon come to the spike corridor where nails will shoot from the walls on easier difficulties, only some of the shooters fire their shots, and do so less frequently.Īcross the bridge, the exit to The Ebon Fortress is there. Take the gold key, and return back to the gold key gate (there's only one path - barriers block most other pathways aside from taking a dive.)

Walk slowly towards it from the side once it springs, run through it before it recharges. Press the button to extend the bridge and cross the newly extended bridges.Īfter the second bridge, there is a spike trap. Cross the bridge and take the right exit. Loop back around to the bridge (or jump in the water and take the red armor secret) and go through the door. Press the button to extend the bridge to the central tower and cross to press a button that opens a nearby door (behind the window). I've scanned the front cover (which bears no relation to the movie!) and the back cover (including accurate credits and plot summary) of the video for those who doubt its very existence.Head up the lift, and take the right exit. No indication it played anywhere at all, and the source print used for the vhs release looks as if it was more or less pristine. The title on the print is a later addition, so presumably the film was made under another title. Which is nothing short of bizarre in view of the people connected with this movie! It snuck out on VHS in 1989, from a company calling itself Gryphon Productions, which may have in fact had some direct link to Weis. In fact, none of the usual sources for filmographic data list it. The IMDb doesn't list DEATH BRINGS ROSES. Scott Brady, Broderick Crawford, stage legend Hermione Gingold (?!), and even Henny Youngman (?!?!). because its cast includes quite a few bona fide 'names'.

It's of about the same standard, although rather better acted, than CRYPT OF DARK SECRETS and MARDI GRAS MASSACRE.Īnd the reason why DEATH BRINGS ROSES has a better level of acting is. Has anyone seen any of Jack Weis's other movies, 'Quadroon' and 'Storyville'? While I haven't see either of those movies, I have seen Jack Weis's final feature, DEATH BRINGS ROSES (1979), which uses many of the same locations as, and much of the soundtrack music from. I think that's the kind of vibe they were going for, anyway. Maybe there was a tv-safe take of the film that has been lost forever (though if they had to lose one, that was the version to lose!).ģ) The overall film is very much like the kinds of stories showing up in Creepy or Eerie in the same time period. And the film ends with the evil group being tempted to the voodoo island with promises of getting some rumored pirate treasure, which they do find.Is it possible the original story, and what the Vietnam vet was supposed to be guarding was in fact the pirate treasure that he had found & was the source of his wealth, but that for some reason the money bit was added later, possibly to lengthen the film? Ever shot involved with the money (as opposed to the gold & jewels) were shot a little worse than the rest of the film.Ģ) There may be a more demurely-clothed version of this film - when Damballa doing the dance of no veils on top of the coffin, she has no clothes whatsoever on in the film but in the trailer she's shown as wearing clothes in this scene. The beginning is all about the sleepy Vietnam vet's money, but when his stuff is returned by the police, he's much more interested in a few jewels he had, a ring and a bracelet. 1) I think there is a changed premise in there somewhere.

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