Run Time - 1:18:46 File Size - 216mb

Title - Slashed Dreams
Starring - Peter Hooten, Katherine Baumann, Ric Carrott, Anne Lockhart, Robert Englund, James Keach, Peter Brown, Rudy Vallee, David Pritchard
Directed by - James Polakof
Producer(s) - James Polakof
Screenwriter(s) - James Keach, James Polakof

Review

This funky film begins with a group of college students who are concerned about a friend who has dropped out of college and moved into the mountains. Later, Jenny, who was particularly close to her dropout pal, Michael (played by Robert Englund), has a spat with her boyfriend at a frat party. It seems that the boyfriend thinks none too kindly of the recently reclusive friend and doesn’t mince words about it. Thoroughly disgusted with her boyfriend’s attitude and behavior, Jenny drives off with another friend in search of Michael.

Along the way they stop at a country store that is operated by a night club wannabe (actually portrayed by the legendary Rudy Vallee.) Concerned about the young people, he warns them not to go alone into the woods; but they do not heed his advice. Traveling on, they come across a cabin they believe might belong to their friend Michael. Things go from bad to worse at this point when the couple is accosted by criminals in the woods.

Interestingly enough, Robert Englund, who later played Freddy Kreuger in the Friday the 13th series of slasher movies, appears only briefly toward the end of this film. Crime and drama fans will be like stapled to their seats throughout the climatic end to this movie as it presents dramatically how a life can instantly be changed by events that happen in the blink of an eye. 

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Title - Messiah of Evil
Starring - Michael Greer, Marianna Hill, Royal Dano, Joy Bang, Anitra Ford, Elisha Cook, Jr.
Directed by - Willard Huyck
Producer(s) - Gloria Katz
Screenwriter(s) - Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz

Review

If you are a fan of avant-garde you will love this very unusual film. It takes a step away from the normal kind of zombie movie we are used to (well, maybe you are, I'm still from another planet and we don't have zombies there). Here we find a sorry bunch of small town residents who have slowly been turned into the living dead, zombies, by a rather supernatural force (well it would have to be, wouldn't it).

Throughout the whole time they remain functional and are able to move, speak and generally act just as a normal living person might. The film takes a departure from normal zombie movies in that, instead of having a main goal of eating the living, the objective of these zombies is to wait for the coming of their dark messiah.

Overall, the film is quite surreal, expressionistic and very imaginative. It is also extremely dark, so it is best suited for individuals who like that type of cinematic expression. Several scenes are more than memorable, including some that are extremely sharp and moody; quite exceptional for the era. The cast is exceptional, providing some superb performances including Michael Greer and Marianna Hill. 

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Run Time - 1:29:35 File Size - 247mb

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Title - Scream Bloody Murder
Starring - Fred Holbert, Leigh Mitchell, Robert Knox, Ron Bastone, Suzette Hamilton, A. Muana Tanelah, Florence Lea
Directed by - Marc B. Ray
Producer(s) - Marc B. Ray
Screenwriter(s) - Larry Aleander, Marc B. Ray

Review

Horror fans will be delighted with this intensely gory film. (Webmaster note - This was another toughie for our little reviewer. He added the word "upchuck" to his rapidly growing vocabulary after sitting through this beauty.) The film begins with a young boy, Matthew, who runs over his father with a bulldozer. He then runs over his own arm. He is then sent off to a juvenile mental hospital for much of the rest of his adolescence. After several years he is finally released and returns home to find that his mother has remarried. He subsequently kills his step-father and when his mother discovers this, he kills her as well.

He then sets off on the road and continues his killing spree; haunted by the face of his mother. During his killing spree he encounters promiscuous young couples as well as several other interesting characters including a rather unique dog who doesn’t even bark. Throughout it all Matthew is searching for a traditional mother figure like the one he killed. Unfortunately for Matthew, however, everything continues to fail to fulfill his psychic need.

While created on a low-budget, this is truly a classic American horror film that will satisfy the most serious horror film fan’s need for gore. 

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Title - The She Beast
Starring - Barbara Steele, John Karlsen, Ian Ogilvy, Mel Weller, Jay Riley, Richard Watson, Lucrezia Love
Directed by - Mike Reeves
Producer(s) - Paul M. Maslansky
Screenwriter(s) - Michael Byron

Review

Viewers can’t go wrong with this classic horror flick, starring the captivating Barbara Steele, from Black Sunday, and directed by Michael Reeves; the famed director of “Witchfinder General.” Mel Wells from Little Shop of Horrors also makes an exceptional appearance in this classic film as a hotel owner with more on his mind than the well being of his guests.

The story unfolds as a young couple begins their honeymoon at a hotel in Romania. All seems well at first. The newlyweds have tea with an elderly count, who lives nearby; Count Van Helsing. During tea they are regaled by a tale of a murderous witch who was killed in the nearby lake several hundred years ago. The count cryptically warns the young couple that the lake where the witch was killed can still be quite a dangerous place.

Things get difficult when the couple learns that the owner of the hotel, portrayed by Mel Wells, has been spying on them during intimate moments. Naturally disgusted, they decide to leave the hotel immediately. Unfortunately, as they are fleeing from the creepy hotel and hotel owner, their car is run off the road and into the same nearby lake the count warned them about.

Although the husband survives the car crash, the young wife’s body becomes possessed by the ghost of a witch who died in the lake some 200 years before. During the 17th century, in Romania, the murderous witch had been captured and lynched in a rather brutal fashion by the local villagers. Now resurrected, the witch begins a killing spree that will leave you dripping from the edge of your seat. Barbara Steele’s performance in this role is nothing short of outstanding.

Fans of Michael Reeves won’t be disappointed either; as his work in this film certainly rivals his direction of the exceptional 1968 horror classic Witchfinder General. 

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Run Time - 1:18:53 File Size - 216mb