Archive for the ‘Classics’ Category

Sportswriter Paul Taylor, after a near-death experience on the operating table, can hear the voices of the recently dead. These voices direct him to people who need help from supernatural dangers. In this story, his mission takes him to a remote Canadian island haunted by a creature made from mud and clay. The only thing which can harm this mud golem is salt.

Aka The Mud Monster
Director: Noel Black
Writer: Art Wallace
Cast: Granville Van Dusen, JoBeth Williams, Richard Fitzpatrick

Mr. Higgins runs an antique store in middle America. He is lonely and wishes that Sparkles, a clown doll that came from Germany at the end of World War II, would come to life and play with him. On the night before Memorial Day weekend, while Mr. Higgins is working late, a wind comes through the store and a book, written in a strange language, appears next to the clown.

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A race of topless, large-breasted women from the planet Angvia, in another dimension, come to earth to kidnap women to repopulate their planet.

Aka The Love Factor
Director: Michael Cort
Writer: Michael Cort, Alistair McKenzie
Cast: Robin Hawdon, Charles Hawtrey, Dawn Addams, Yutte Stensgaard

Final and least well-known installment in the Mark IV series of fundamentalist apocalypse films. About to executed by the forces of the Antichrist, fundamentalist Christian guerrilla David is rescued by Connie, an Antichrist agent pretending to be a double agent for the Believers’ Underground. Connie hopes to trick David into leading her to the dissidents’ hidden base. Meanwhile, Armageddon and the Second Coming draw nigh.

Director: Donald W. Thompson
Writer: Russell S. Doughten Jr.
Cast: William Wellman Jr., Lynda Beatie, Terri Lynn Hall, Thom Rachford

Third and best known entry in the Mark IV series of fundamentalist apocalypse films. Fundamentalist Christian guerrilla David helps condemned dissidents escape, attempts to subvert the computerized Mark of the Beast, and generally tries to survive as prophecy unfolds in the rise of the Antichrist to the pinnacle of his power and the beginning of God’s war on sinful man.

Director: Donald W. Thompson
Writers: Russell S. Doughten Jr., Donald W. Thompson
Cast: William Wellman Jr., Susan Plumb, Patty Dunning, Russell S. Doughten Jr., Thom Rachford

This second film in the series continues the story of Patty who is left living as a fugitive, relentlessly pursued and finally captured by the forces of UNITE, she is given a choice: either receive “the Mark” or face death.

Director: Donald W. Thompson
Writer: Russell S. Doughten Jr.
Cast: Patty Dunning, Sally Johnson, Sandy Christen, Thom Rachford

Story of Patty, a young woman caught up in living for the present with little concern for the future. As dramatic, earth shaking events begin to unfold around her, Patty realizes she is living in the end times spoken of in biblical prophecy.

Director: Donald W. Thompson
Writers: Russell S. Doughten Jr., Grant James
Cast: Patty Dunning, Mike Niday, Colleen Niday, Maryann Rachford, Thom Rachford

Japanese pinky about a wife seeking sexual freedom because her husband can no longer perform due to being sexually tortured.

aka Madamu Sado Mesu jigoku, Madame De Sade She Beast In Hell
Director: Itsumichi Isomura
Writer: Yoshihiro Kawasaki
Cast: Kazuyo Ezaki, Isshiki Hikaru, Keijiro Shiga, Machiko Wachi

Six rugged motorcyclists gather on the side of the higway to plan an excursion to Los Angeles. Although they appear to be the burliest bunch of bikers this side of the Hell’s Angels, they are actually cross-dressing madmen with an affinity for lipstick, high heels and braziers.

Director: Larry G. Brown
Writer: Margaret McPherson
Cast: John Alderman, Tom Basham, Robert Biheller, Jackson Bostwick

Joan has recurring nightmares of ancient Etruscan sacrifice rites, but there is something more: in her nightmares she can see exactly the tomb where her archaeologist husband is working without having ever been there, and she foresees her husband’s death.

Aka Assassinio al cimitero etrusco
Director: Sergio Martino
Writer: Ernesto Gastaldi
Cast: Elvire Audray, Paolo Malco, Claudio Cassinelli, Marilù Tolo