Incredible! Not necessarily in a good way either. HOUSE ON BARE MOUNTAIN is a (perhaps for the best) forgotten movie which combines some terrible comedy with a nudie cudie-style film, of which there were hundreds being made during this period (the genre is probably best exemplified by the works of Russ Meyer, H.G. Lewis, and Harrison Marks). It's certainly a one off film on which the production levels are about the same as an average Ed Wood epic. The "plot" - if you can really call it that - concerns Granny Good and her school for special girls, which is really a front for a bootlegging operation run in the cellar. An undercover girl is sent to investigate while the police close in. That's it.Bob Cresse - a strange chap to be sure - plays the film entirely in drag as Granny Good. His character can really be seen as the logical predecessor to our own Benny Hill, and he takes great delight in delivering bad jokes and puns. The rest of the comedy seems to be taken from ancient slapstick routines, with the film being sped-up at some points. The music is incredibly cheesy and shots of a mountain-top castle are interested in order to give the film it's title.This film may have some interest for horror fans due to the inclusion of the Wolf Man, Dracula, Frankenstein and a Ghoul, or their no-budget equivalents. The latter three are just normal guys either wearing cheap makeup or masks, although the Wolf Man has "official" makeup by a guy who worked on PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE - there's a claim to fame! Events culminate in a drunken party where the cops, monsters, and girls chase each other around. It seems even members of the public, friends, and production team were dragged in. In the end, HOUSE ON BARE MOUNTAIN simply serves as an excuse to show an endless parade of naked girls which it does at every opportunity.

OK, I admit! This movie was pretty fun to watch at times and it certainly wasn't as bad as I had feared.At first this seemed to be just another one of those sleazy '60's productions, that involved little money and little clothes for the female characters in it. And while the movie was still being a typical '60's sleazy one, it was a surprising lot of fun as well.It's a movie that is really aware of itself and what it is trying to be and do. It has no illusions about it that it's is a great movie and the cast luckily also seemed to realize this, so they simply decided to have some fun with it. Everybody was working with a smile on their face it seemed and it must have been really fun to work on this movie, even for the girls, who of course get exploited heavily in this movie.It's comedy really saves this movie and makes it a more or less watchable. Since otherwise, this movie has very little to offer. I literally had no idea what the story was all supposed to be about but it really didn't mattered at all for this movie.But even while this is only a 1 hour short movie, it still manages to feel a tat bit overlong and the movie even starts to drag toward its end, when all the gloves are off and the movie decides to go completely crazy. It starts to repeat itself at that point and the movie even becomes too silly for its own good.However, as far as these type of cheap and simplistic genre movies go, this is definitely one of the more fun ones I have ever seen!5/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

I like the Nudie Cutie, and find the dopey plots kind of fun, but this was just too dumb. Granny Good, doing a bad Jonathan Winters impersonation (or did Winters and Bob Cresse both draw the Granny/Maude Frick character from a common source? I don't know), is insufferable. Then there are the cheesy made-up monsters that are really pathetic. As a kid born in 1959, I love early 60s monsterdom, but even I have my limits. Of course also as a kid born in the 50's I love massive mammaries. This movie *does* have that, in the person of one platinum blond who manages to walk across a landing and down a staircase twice. The subtle movements of her breasts, en route, suggest that breasts, when challenged by gravity, have a mind of their own. Said generously endowed blond has a little bit of a Lorna Maitland look, except with a little too much of a pooch stomach and not quite as nice eyes though still real cute (anybody know who she is? Please pm me.) Back to ripping on the movie. The acting and especially the direction is unnecessarily bad. Just a little more work would have made this movie a keeper. E.g., one man in a business suit investigating Bare Mountain walks in and sees a topless woman sitting on a desk and calmly asks her for directions. Then, later, he walks by another topless woman and is totally surprised. The police 'work" in the movie is totally boring and is probably bad leftover vaudeville shtick, without the redeeming quality of being delivered with expert timing live on stage.

House on Bare Mountain (1962) * (out of 4) Early nudie sexploitation flick about G.G.S.F.G.G. (Good Grandma School For Good Girls), which comes under attack from Frankenstein's monster, Dracula and The Wolf Man. This is your typical sexploitation film as it contains non-stop nudity and plenty of dancing. As usual, there's very little going on in this film and everything that does happen is just happening so you can see young women with their shirts off. The monsters contain as bad as a make up job that you can have considering they just wear store bought masks, although the Wolf Man actually has its own style. Needless to say all the performances are bad, direction laughable but what did you expect?