I know it's not saying much, but so far this is my favourite Bill Rebane film (out of the four or five I've watched). It's low budget, sure, but Rebane fills Demons of Ludlow with loads of weirdness and a few creepy scenes, adds in a dollop of Wisconsin cheese, and just goes for the scares.

It's a very Stephen King like plot too. A New England town receives a gift of an antique piano from the relatives of its founding father, and immediately things begin to get weird. Objects move of there own accord, a ghost girl appears randomly everywhere, and people from the past are seemingly stepping back into the present. It's up to a visiting journalist (and once resident) and the local priest to sort things out.

Although the budget is extremely low, Rebane's no fool. He throws in as many scares as possible, what with the moving objects, ghost demons, surreal, crying and laughing toys, a demonic hand pulling folks into another dimension, and even a bit of good for good measure (a decapitation and amputation). It got a sense of that playfulness of his other films, but it's more like an outright horror. I was hooked from start to finish.

I've heard Blood Harvest is his best film, but haven't had a sniff of that. Other Rebane films are the ultra-cheesy (and great!) Giant Spider Invasion, the weird but fun The Cold (aka The Game),the so-so but still watchable Twister's Revenge. I've also got a copy of The Alpha Incident, but it refuses to work.

Nice one - I'm a fan of your work Bill.

The town of Ludlow which has managed to make it to its bicentennial though its barely scraping by with 34 actual residents gets a mysterious old white piano as a gift from the descendant of the guy it was named after. But another ancestor on that family tree was killed many years ago for being a warlock. And you thought things like that had died out in New England centuries before.

Anyway the warlock's spirit lives in the piano and the guy who donated it is playing one horrific cosmic joke on the town. The old warlock is out for revenge and any time somebody plays an obbligato on the piano something evil happens, a gruesome kind of death. Not like Ludlow can afford to lose too many more people.

The Demons Of Ludlow started as a good idea, but went bad with telling with a poor script and acting that's not terribly convincing. I'd pass this one by folks.

The town of Ludlow marks its bicentennial with a barn dance, the highlight of which is the unveiling of an antique piano, a gift bequeathed by Ephram Ludlow, the town's founding father. Unfortunately for the townsfolk (all 47 of them),the instrument turns out to be a modern day Trojan horse, for when the keys are played, Ephram's spirit is unleashed from within, free to wreak revenge on the descendants of those who persecuted him centuries before.

Slow moving, badly acted, with dingy cinematography and an unappealing lead actor, there's very little to get excited about with this uninspired supernatural shocker from director Bill Rebane. A few unintentional laughs can be had at the expense of the poorly handled ghost/demon scenes, there's one pair of bare breasts (albeit on a supposed minor),and a couple of moments of unconvincing gore (including a crap but fun decapitation),but for the most part this is a real test of endurance, one that I had to view over the course of several evenings because I kept falling asleep.