SOLEDAD MIRANDA BITING EWA STRÖMBERG IN 'VAMPYROS LESBOS'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzk6vOpDQtruVvDnylboRuSrk9SvWIP2u0a1oG9ZljxkUyUH_4UeUPc0lGZOm-QI-gTXOouuWNhPkrjSxaZImyAAKzuEmwbGSQlKjscLxrmIaUDDqOvEI-HtSMif-vOAl6gztGnQb0ctOzu0NnsrHJygP08VeG_Bc5DND0WDmAe0ONkpELMrwbXsYf7jCc/s2682/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-26%20at%2011.40.15%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1490" data-original-width="2682" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzk6vOpDQtruVvDnylboRuSrk9SvWIP2u0a1oG9ZljxkUyUH_4UeUPc0lGZOm-QI-gTXOouuWNhPkrjSxaZImyAAKzuEmwbGSQlKjscLxrmIaUDDqOvEI-HtSMif-vOAl6gztGnQb0ctOzu0NnsrHJygP08VeG_Bc5DND0WDmAe0ONkpELMrwbXsYf7jCc/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-26%20at%2011.40.15%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Soledad Miranda in VAMPYROS LESBOS Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In what's otherwise infamously campy directing icon Jesús Franco's most creatively/artistic Spanish horror, just the mere casting of perhaps the most beautiful women ever filmed, round-faced brunette Soledad Miranda (who tragically died at 27 one year before release), makes VAMPYROS LESBOS more intriguing than the deliberately basic premise taken straight from both DRACULA and NOSFERATU...<br><br>A pawn in the form of contrasting blonde beauty Ewa Strömberg (in place of solicitor  Jonathan Harker), an insurance agent sent to the Turkish island lair to resolve an inheritance... where she's instantly smitten and bitten by Miranda's Countess Nadine Carody: followed by the usual sickly withdrawals during the human-to-vampire transition... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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SOLEDAD MIRANDA BITING EWA STRÖMBERG IN 'VAMPYROS LESBOS'

Soledad Miranda in VAMPYROS LESBOS Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2 In what's otherwise infamously campy directing icon Jesús Franco's most...

ELISA VELA WITH LINA ROMAY IN 'MANSION OF THE LIVING DEAD'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheMKbmwaXR6VbwWF344OZSKlTQ4p9mjH1C7Qtc3n5W8VEFm9A9tdwkSbOyGnGfS5gv7AkyKMCVXysl5cJGw2D7G3rLaR88oESigeW8gLrDcyAii4GmxEj0PWoognr6gUrqzc6Rd3Fd1JXaLpjvy3M7pi4-Lw9FXyld6ZUQoLvNEuEH6OUzfmhOkzU7hQhr/s1674/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-28%20at%201.00.31%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1014" data-original-width="1674" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheMKbmwaXR6VbwWF344OZSKlTQ4p9mjH1C7Qtc3n5W8VEFm9A9tdwkSbOyGnGfS5gv7AkyKMCVXysl5cJGw2D7G3rLaR88oESigeW8gLrDcyAii4GmxEj0PWoognr6gUrqzc6Rd3Fd1JXaLpjvy3M7pi4-Lw9FXyld6ZUQoLvNEuEH6OUzfmhOkzU7hQhr/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-28%20at%201.00.31%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Elisa Vela in Mansion of the Living Dead/La mansión de los muertos vivientes Year: 1983 Rates: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Infamously campy Spanish Exploitation-Horror director Jesús Franco's MANSION OF THE LIVING DEAD is really a rural beachfront hotel where four beautiful women... two chunky-hot blondes and two perfect-bodied model brunettes... check into two different rooms, two at a time: each of the blondes kissing their own brunette — until the token first-girl wanders off alone...</p><p></p><p>As Mari Carmen Nieto far too quickly dies after happening upon a nearby monastery, which happens off-screen... providing looser blonde Albino Graziani an anticipated sacrifice/encounter with the titular medieval knight zombies straight from <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/01/blinddead.html">Amando de Ossorio's 1970's BLIND DEAD franchise</a> (here resembling cheap skeleton mannequins created for a last-minute Halloween party)...</p><p><span></span></p>

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ELISA VELA WITH LINA ROMAY IN 'MANSION OF THE LIVING DEAD'

Elisa Vela in Mansion of the Living Dead/La mansión de los muertos vivientes Year: 1983 Rates: *** Infamously campy Spanish Exploitation-Hor...

MARIBEL MARTÍN VAMPING AS 'THE BLOOD SPLATTERED BRIDE'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbx7qdXTKS9vNmf4YJ7OfnZVzTAF5uIS3AaffbdntkcU1pbkZ3u8SOUT98O54exRXDRX29h6SKFwSGRrbZ0AWLwFpjQ19_K77Wr1vAxyMQkR5yOPOUdRWiYzgMEw_vjONFUYLspkj588fbKNijJTK7aL0m-LNP-8vzKQal_EK5mpDZYlAZlJPN3Z27_V98/s1740/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1064" data-original-width="1740" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbx7qdXTKS9vNmf4YJ7OfnZVzTAF5uIS3AaffbdntkcU1pbkZ3u8SOUT98O54exRXDRX29h6SKFwSGRrbZ0AWLwFpjQ19_K77Wr1vAxyMQkR5yOPOUdRWiYzgMEw_vjONFUYLspkj588fbKNijJTK7aL0m-LNP-8vzKQal_EK5mpDZYlAZlJPN3Z27_V98/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Maribel Martín in THE BLOOD SPLATTERED BRIDE Year: 1972 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Based on the Gothic vampire novel, perhaps second only to Bram Stoker's DRACULA, Sheridan Le Fanu's CARMILA gets adapted into Spanish horror after the British Hammer film <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/12/vamplovers.html">VAMPIRE LOVERS</a>...<br><br>Only there's no tangible lesbian element other than a dominating female vampire seducing a young and docile, newly-married wife... making <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/01/THTS.html">THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED</a> young-teen actress Maribel Martín (just turned eighteen) the titular BLOOD SPLATTERED BRIDE...</p><p><span></span></p>

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MARIBEL MARTÍN VAMPING AS 'THE BLOOD SPLATTERED BRIDE'

Maribel Martín in THE BLOOD SPLATTERED BRIDE Year: 1972 Rating: ***1/2 Based on the Gothic vampire novel, perhaps second only to Bram Stoker...

MARIBEL MARTÍN AND MARY MAUDE IN 'THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiggY9Y3cCBMC5htaj8P1JEdC5CVsvmLecnprJFxhuGXB9jHlIDz23MgGKgyfX4toca-QaphcxRfule0uccwiG4aiCziaZa5tKFTsuIcx3FBhMxvbZ91VpM44czFs596GmSK79E5Jrd0KrOL0F8CyL6n6636yufaFNZ6YIUd1vIjtnLT-PR5ojRC0Jw1TSC/s2088/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-18%20at%207.01.01%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1190" data-original-width="2088" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiggY9Y3cCBMC5htaj8P1JEdC5CVsvmLecnprJFxhuGXB9jHlIDz23MgGKgyfX4toca-QaphcxRfule0uccwiG4aiCziaZa5tKFTsuIcx3FBhMxvbZ91VpM44czFs596GmSK79E5Jrd0KrOL0F8CyL6n6636yufaFNZ6YIUd1vIjtnLT-PR5ojRC0Jw1TSC/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-18%20at%207.01.01%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Maribel Martín in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED Year: 1969 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It initially seems like a tremendous flaw in Spanish horror director Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's girls boarding school horror/slasher THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED that three of the girls looks so much alike... </p><p></p><p>Beginning with vulnerable and quiet new arrival Cristina Galbó; chaste and docile Cristina Galbó; a mischievously sexual Conchita Paredes; and bullying older girl Mary Maude, whose tyrannical character overrides evil spinster/headmistress Lilli Palmer, whose son has two secret innocent trysts with the first two girls, and is a bit too predictably creepy...</p><p><span></span></p>

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MARIBEL MARTÍN AND MARY MAUDE IN 'THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED'

Maribel Martín in THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED Year: 1969 Rating: **** It initially seems like a tremendous flaw in Spanish horror director Narci...

MARÍA ELENA APRÓN SLASHING 'THE FISH WITH THE EYES OF GOLD'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5k0jnWkbVqEmzA2VEOxAtQAsv1zF-YVrXDbt1JXS-St1H7J_nJNJKFZat_BkM6STLoNKqwp3ma4T4Un8RO829wXhWik0-nrLYEMgpg51Eh92OxfvTH2cU9_oYqwgw1jRWNkiVYlP4qmaXEvNYe8UnAZyB0j4nrhBx3S1bwb0sNhIAc8qPXoYNFCgu0QU7/s2088/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1438" data-original-width="2088" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5k0jnWkbVqEmzA2VEOxAtQAsv1zF-YVrXDbt1JXS-St1H7J_nJNJKFZat_BkM6STLoNKqwp3ma4T4Un8RO829wXhWik0-nrLYEMgpg51Eh92OxfvTH2cU9_oYqwgw1jRWNkiVYlP4qmaXEvNYe8UnAZyB0j4nrhBx3S1bwb0sNhIAc8qPXoYNFCgu0QU7/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>María Elena Arpón in The Fish With The Eyes Of Gold/ El pez de los ojos de oro Year: 1974 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The primary cover art for Pedro L. Ramírez's Spanish Giallo THE FISH WITH THE EYES OF GOLD is a composite of two actresses, one killed in the opening, the other towards the conclusion: both by an unseen/unknown man with very large knife, and right on the beach... as he has an obsession with those titular fish... <br><br>The gorgeous round face with full lips belong to Spanish Scream Queen María Elena Arpón, the scene-stealing vampire girl from TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD, making her final acting appearance here... and the hair-length/color's for longer-faced Susana Taber, violently kickstarting what's both Thriller and Mystery while using one of the most popular universal Neo-Noir tropes...</p><p><span></span></p>

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MARÍA ELENA APRÓN SLASHING 'THE FISH WITH THE EYES OF GOLD'

María Elena Arpón in The Fish With The Eyes Of Gold/ El pez de los ojos de oro Year: 1974 Rates: ***1/2 The primary cover art for Pedro L. R...

MARÍA ELENA APRÓN DYING FOR 'HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq4I8k5CK3AOweYVE7FW8r7uXAbkAj3PV_CVfQ022A-Y9oLwKQtPzsmqVXuRfqVWgfpjjisd8JJMaOEo-BOZoSysZfEsZaXxuYv6VXoJePUEKEdd15ZD3wIq9G-4XFIrJfor_Z0ZT7nX2PDhZUHAXY0tgzrNO5sC-nizWiLvpnqEZioE3G8ENodLG_zO4p/s2084/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.53.34%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1210" data-original-width="2084" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq4I8k5CK3AOweYVE7FW8r7uXAbkAj3PV_CVfQ022A-Y9oLwKQtPzsmqVXuRfqVWgfpjjisd8JJMaOEo-BOZoSysZfEsZaXxuYv6VXoJePUEKEdd15ZD3wIq9G-4XFIrJfor_Z0ZT7nX2PDhZUHAXY0tgzrNO5sC-nizWiLvpnqEZioE3G8ENodLG_zO4p/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.53.34%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>María Elena Arpón in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE/ EL JOROBADO DE LA MORGUE Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>From Dracula to The Werewolf, Paul Naschy played every single classic monster in Spanish b-horrors, and in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE he's actually more Igor than Quasimoto, serving a creature-creating mad scientist/Dr. Frankenstein-type by fetching body-parts, and eventually kidnapping doomed girls from a mental hospital...<br /><br />But by this time the movie feels like its own choppy trailer... as the set-up's the most important, with María Elena Arpón returning to a medieval cavern like the previous years' <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/01/blinddead.html">TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD</a>... only here she's dead-on-arrival, and the gloomy locale's converted into a working bubbling-beaker laboratory... <br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghFt6OiBqfiaYwRSvTv0HwuGfe2P7dM4be8-2MffQWjIPE_iAfJYwD3Uuwq6YQ9NmhhqTdNRe3ZOfav9U98oYqAehgm2DPzDF_Vu5JeWOwWAHUAs6QExV6zz6R9K2hAeLreGWkix3HjPERAGv50WRovrgQAZ_VDe1qszfH0YxAk3FbogbgJ0cwKAgv9cae/s2084/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.10.56%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="950" data-original-width="2084" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghFt6OiBqfiaYwRSvTv0HwuGfe2P7dM4be8-2MffQWjIPE_iAfJYwD3Uuwq6YQ9NmhhqTdNRe3ZOfav9U98oYqAehgm2DPzDF_Vu5JeWOwWAHUAs6QExV6zz6R9K2hAeLreGWkix3HjPERAGv50WRovrgQAZ_VDe1qszfH0YxAk3FbogbgJ0cwKAgv9cae/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.10.56%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Paul Naschy and Alberto Dalbés </u><u>in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>But Paschy's Wolfgang Gotho only does the mad doctor's nefarious bidding with the promise of reviving childhood friend Arpón... which never occurs since she's only in the catapulting first act, lying there, dying gorgeously...<br /><br />Enter another lovely ingenue in Rosanna Yanni, the only kind nurse to the titular hunchback, fitfully ambiguous and yet, with a kind of TV-movie aesthetic combined with a 1970's Hammer-vibe, his countenance is far more vulnerable than formidable — and ultimately, more monstrosity (beyond the last-minute creature) is needed. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgifgVFw1VCM1SGVi-rtCazLxs2KTlaBCpLrC16hDb6s3PHcphntAGhBWuVqcADVgy07oazbguX43IkWe6enBQQcX8K6mnfAoYJL99fJ1iYSnyPIGVdzNlbRJpFfdGHOInvaxz3FhZB75vzxkgAYDr2RTO1NfzlyhOqRlGB6IMCIGZJ3TxgHBP6dzFyD1AY/s1744/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.12.23%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1744" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgifgVFw1VCM1SGVi-rtCazLxs2KTlaBCpLrC16hDb6s3PHcphntAGhBWuVqcADVgy07oazbguX43IkWe6enBQQcX8K6mnfAoYJL99fJ1iYSnyPIGVdzNlbRJpFfdGHOInvaxz3FhZB75vzxkgAYDr2RTO1NfzlyhOqRlGB6IMCIGZJ3TxgHBP6dzFyD1AY/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.12.23%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rosanna Yanni in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWEV0htAf1_WWRjNBFaB7rQc1O1skzVsgyi2FP8JygCvO4XKOxu-6NQ043GEe3h5Oq_A7Mndm4audsuES6VuCbRftC0wlpRSm7EOWQDf41BebfnVc1dpKNyT4Th-bl8kILKNu7zLVL5FaPzh8bU1bsXOjCR7T7EvYHX4RNM66SqtEdxRmc-EXsPTmB9lmq/s1746/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.12.32%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWEV0htAf1_WWRjNBFaB7rQc1O1skzVsgyi2FP8JygCvO4XKOxu-6NQ043GEe3h5Oq_A7Mndm4audsuES6VuCbRftC0wlpRSm7EOWQDf41BebfnVc1dpKNyT4Th-bl8kILKNu7zLVL5FaPzh8bU1bsXOjCR7T7EvYHX4RNM66SqtEdxRmc-EXsPTmB9lmq/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.12.32%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rosanna Yanni in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4xOHg3ERfsRP4EJZQxo0wvej8ZaQf0NRjGeo-bsiAGcFf9ANS4X9H_J0UKDvO6RVFXo-Inq4WGPLWrikrCezAndLm3Oc8wBq6dcRh92CyY1vywHJcEBfvBFsAt0_3AtpzHsRgD6HDuL7evWXtdygUgdkkXl1zk3j5xn6xKrWixVmn3YxX8iy-F5feebQ4/s1746/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.12.43%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="928" data-original-width="1746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4xOHg3ERfsRP4EJZQxo0wvej8ZaQf0NRjGeo-bsiAGcFf9ANS4X9H_J0UKDvO6RVFXo-Inq4WGPLWrikrCezAndLm3Oc8wBq6dcRh92CyY1vywHJcEBfvBFsAt0_3AtpzHsRgD6HDuL7evWXtdygUgdkkXl1zk3j5xn6xKrWixVmn3YxX8iy-F5feebQ4/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.12.43%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rosanna Yanni in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX7AmfZqGd2WowwfxUMgvRj4UlLplB2s5WSA_RtyYkJapi3JL6W1HVCm-5r4hyDLD5u32iIdRpb_va-Uct4Yb3kkYXc2rdadZdwxWTbb-jdmwpH0Uh2YaXOaRpLz-6ejJ4v6XLFaKGQnQIZ-UdaZT-GAspBxX5bJzTjLBi1OMlPmMlteaOkm6IjxAKuqq9/s1734/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.13.22%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="882" data-original-width="1734" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX7AmfZqGd2WowwfxUMgvRj4UlLplB2s5WSA_RtyYkJapi3JL6W1HVCm-5r4hyDLD5u32iIdRpb_va-Uct4Yb3kkYXc2rdadZdwxWTbb-jdmwpH0Uh2YaXOaRpLz-6ejJ4v6XLFaKGQnQIZ-UdaZT-GAspBxX5bJzTjLBi1OMlPmMlteaOkm6IjxAKuqq9/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.13.22%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rosanna Yanni in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE with Paul Naschy<br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG8mxuDshiIxp-srjtqCF2WoKyLcInoinVO1ni5NjEZIKC0Zqod5WSr2U_1JYuq6UYofii-RROPN8I8gia1lmGRv37ua-xS3pSMOcYdYRNRyVYzcmSP3Vg6GKViPJ_K_78jydxYGtA7UbsdhqU5_AsLoSMLpP0NBwFHCNSGl4RBs5PxoeooaULh1BP-z5s/s1662/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.13.30%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="910" data-original-width="1662" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG8mxuDshiIxp-srjtqCF2WoKyLcInoinVO1ni5NjEZIKC0Zqod5WSr2U_1JYuq6UYofii-RROPN8I8gia1lmGRv37ua-xS3pSMOcYdYRNRyVYzcmSP3Vg6GKViPJ_K_78jydxYGtA7UbsdhqU5_AsLoSMLpP0NBwFHCNSGl4RBs5PxoeooaULh1BP-z5s/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.13.30%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rosanna Yanni in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE with Paul Naschy</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYy_-50KDKvLlIXUdE5ihLibpIWkm32KSd1xn3IOWn2zSZOFUJGLEfld8Z8GCFyXXtoXIySxd8oKcGVEkrd4DIkhd_LWjvNaGi4a6bGIWopJv2b8Lir6sLEHWUI324f3ivrWhAzvmvWmg_tRLKEbWrAKh687yBhIHJQ_BjQV7i6gt5QWXnbn8cgsm9KY3I/s1730/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.13.38%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="916" data-original-width="1730" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYy_-50KDKvLlIXUdE5ihLibpIWkm32KSd1xn3IOWn2zSZOFUJGLEfld8Z8GCFyXXtoXIySxd8oKcGVEkrd4DIkhd_LWjvNaGi4a6bGIWopJv2b8Lir6sLEHWUI324f3ivrWhAzvmvWmg_tRLKEbWrAKh687yBhIHJQ_BjQV7i6gt5QWXnbn8cgsm9KY3I/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.13.38%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rosanna Yanni in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE with Paul Naschy</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl_e3DDKc9GJ8lC84_29bKSeAUjjEY7DwSnzPcpcAHr3kvBitCoDTPLvwOnVwU1-5yBmomzOr5ktXbX64TXuTZZEIlGvaTYE35-yhyphenhyphendYmyaaclfSFJUIX4ceI9X6jsNeYjoQzbACbcGUU4PSojNmMPv4d7CddKm2vvD_9VQ16z17EQXlDYuTkVTVlJ42-8/s1684/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.14.24%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="906" data-original-width="1684" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl_e3DDKc9GJ8lC84_29bKSeAUjjEY7DwSnzPcpcAHr3kvBitCoDTPLvwOnVwU1-5yBmomzOr5ktXbX64TXuTZZEIlGvaTYE35-yhyphenhyphendYmyaaclfSFJUIX4ceI9X6jsNeYjoQzbACbcGUU4PSojNmMPv4d7CddKm2vvD_9VQ16z17EQXlDYuTkVTVlJ42-8/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.14.24%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Paul Naschy </u><u>in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9T3YCSz5pM7n2rCPt2ScRYhsoCTviQaqMRfDZ0Mz1LxfrQTVIKN5y6KyfnDL031CPX2kDPZR-K60ewnp8DeM2G6wBxaP5oIJdRexaagKt5g5vk6OdC40HXe_fGr0kAjKHLqwnJ24TcFCgm7amw7cNtTr4QEuRwigUWblYw3PK4lo7DydzFCjegFhPL1wf/s1718/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.14.36%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="1718" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9T3YCSz5pM7n2rCPt2ScRYhsoCTviQaqMRfDZ0Mz1LxfrQTVIKN5y6KyfnDL031CPX2kDPZR-K60ewnp8DeM2G6wBxaP5oIJdRexaagKt5g5vk6OdC40HXe_fGr0kAjKHLqwnJ24TcFCgm7amw7cNtTr4QEuRwigUWblYw3PK4lo7DydzFCjegFhPL1wf/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.14.36%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rosanna Yanni in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA5PHS_oeuPjJ8MbUxDAcre52ECJsQhEznGmeXp3jAfJiivmRvrPobaSmDd126XDzE1Yvbix_XaTiZG0KzvA1_ucv4SxmGxSzJ7zb9WY1SeMdSJ44WIUOoqc6RcXy1uyIqrjh9S8DT5VRNgmtc95NI8lBePccQgXrNT3drLywYgJfk7Pw311CIkWtK_Ee6/s1692/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.14.43%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="884" data-original-width="1692" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA5PHS_oeuPjJ8MbUxDAcre52ECJsQhEznGmeXp3jAfJiivmRvrPobaSmDd126XDzE1Yvbix_XaTiZG0KzvA1_ucv4SxmGxSzJ7zb9WY1SeMdSJ44WIUOoqc6RcXy1uyIqrjh9S8DT5VRNgmtc95NI8lBePccQgXrNT3drLywYgJfk7Pw311CIkWtK_Ee6/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.14.43%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Maria Perschy in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjht3YifqZd1IsgTRv6bvWKoqLeQxv_QbQ6A_wCdpt3MHbuYxZOSYeD7Y3cxQcnn3xPRYvZpJssC5atPKMJogTFRQp0HDEuS6lErz2mKB1UekcsHTIdD9GGKv6z7E0rNlddxQtYc46XkDaSq5psDORM_7g6HcN4ma9whufJWB3dYukxWHvpFQU-V3QemAxA/s1706/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.15.34%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="916" data-original-width="1706" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjht3YifqZd1IsgTRv6bvWKoqLeQxv_QbQ6A_wCdpt3MHbuYxZOSYeD7Y3cxQcnn3xPRYvZpJssC5atPKMJogTFRQp0HDEuS6lErz2mKB1UekcsHTIdD9GGKv6z7E0rNlddxQtYc46XkDaSq5psDORM_7g6HcN4ma9whufJWB3dYukxWHvpFQU-V3QemAxA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.15.34%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rosanna Yanni in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLsNXWNyhBirX4XO77JfRThcHxQMDjdfoZNeRzzUt-punAQukwubpBstfGuvXsveC60ZUcFzaHHvEtHXL-ZxpDf_UKCnt6Ebm4uAF47atK-qu1MU6igQ3ptltoxaXfrIiXeVzcOkpFjh1ObpVe5sXdPgJfTCDxP3IGE3CBx1r5HToLZ4ITVkDJzfBAcRiv/s1670/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.15.55%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="910" data-original-width="1670" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLsNXWNyhBirX4XO77JfRThcHxQMDjdfoZNeRzzUt-punAQukwubpBstfGuvXsveC60ZUcFzaHHvEtHXL-ZxpDf_UKCnt6Ebm4uAF47atK-qu1MU6igQ3ptltoxaXfrIiXeVzcOkpFjh1ObpVe5sXdPgJfTCDxP3IGE3CBx1r5HToLZ4ITVkDJzfBAcRiv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.15.55%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Paul Naschy in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia3i_iofPBli1zsWCrMwnzKQiDR8T5rO9BuUWvPVt_PpRK0tT7xwDyj1Qe9NePLc_BSsC9kNYGhNvzM27SvUjiXHYTFmFpehYKY20bLsQ9PG682H-Eq0o01fD2uam_3SUtO9tbKk46b9bg0oDosS-xfeHb2i2pzymvOshDlGBZdhe6W7dW7nXsHc2C1JKX/s1620/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.16.03%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="912" data-original-width="1620" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia3i_iofPBli1zsWCrMwnzKQiDR8T5rO9BuUWvPVt_PpRK0tT7xwDyj1Qe9NePLc_BSsC9kNYGhNvzM27SvUjiXHYTFmFpehYKY20bLsQ9PG682H-Eq0o01fD2uam_3SUtO9tbKk46b9bg0oDosS-xfeHb2i2pzymvOshDlGBZdhe6W7dW7nXsHc2C1JKX/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.16.03%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Paul Naschy in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDif8_3Sxeb2mc8YxjTJuucfIGzTkBzagYfOXMACvHCzdMqGH9QbSYk0IUtqdtJjtOmgy4tX9vehAmBYWKLKMga_PRlAd9VXq6VYpJum1vv1eZvIRtkR3Gt4bCqK0K72jNhcUqLB7zAKvmqZdkAxzQ-1asS79Tt9IuhpXd52L5QVbK4szD9veDbFmwAY4T/s1702/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.16.12%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="926" data-original-width="1702" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDif8_3Sxeb2mc8YxjTJuucfIGzTkBzagYfOXMACvHCzdMqGH9QbSYk0IUtqdtJjtOmgy4tX9vehAmBYWKLKMga_PRlAd9VXq6VYpJum1vv1eZvIRtkR3Gt4bCqK0K72jNhcUqLB7zAKvmqZdkAxzQ-1asS79Tt9IuhpXd52L5QVbK4szD9veDbFmwAY4T/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.16.12%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>María Elena Arpón in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE </u><u> with </u><u>Paul Naschy</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMcbfQj7egzDJ-b5CXw8bf-5yBanzxTlEQvkMfO_PMouo5cdsiPUVhDsOmnBIJpQLM2x8ZeOyQwDSFFDCjl5itp7mv69POB4ZXB5QN6UQFVJw_-mgT-hYMwDWx-k79QMEgMN5OY7-IUKAHsjXgzxNrYLIoxWewYuq339jZWA01oFKI5HO59ax1ObGZz1LK/s1744/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.16.29%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="1744" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMcbfQj7egzDJ-b5CXw8bf-5yBanzxTlEQvkMfO_PMouo5cdsiPUVhDsOmnBIJpQLM2x8ZeOyQwDSFFDCjl5itp7mv69POB4ZXB5QN6UQFVJw_-mgT-hYMwDWx-k79QMEgMN5OY7-IUKAHsjXgzxNrYLIoxWewYuq339jZWA01oFKI5HO59ax1ObGZz1LK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.16.29%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>María Elena Arpón in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE with </u><u>Paul Naschy</u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

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MARÍA ELENA APRÓN DYING FOR 'HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE'

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MARÍA ELENA APRÓN & MARÍA SILVA 'TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmI4c0sFBiy4dL6A6BKNA5LSYeGf0BgLRxlhSeMfjUwFrdiRt8DhQXHSqFEDqjowp4M5FOrnth3Vv3MffTsw9we01z-ULleaLFajsfLMG60PpqmaLH5MT5NbMsnG09d79TOz0l013s2SIWGU7pFCeaYinYxfmyJbU8Sy8imeSbpZ_Ac9xZOgDZxtDQxvK3/s1946/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%206.37.51%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1256" data-original-width="1946" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmI4c0sFBiy4dL6A6BKNA5LSYeGf0BgLRxlhSeMfjUwFrdiRt8DhQXHSqFEDqjowp4M5FOrnth3Vv3MffTsw9we01z-ULleaLFajsfLMG60PpqmaLH5MT5NbMsnG09d79TOz0l013s2SIWGU7pFCeaYinYxfmyJbU8Sy8imeSbpZ_Ac9xZOgDZxtDQxvK3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%206.37.51%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>María Silva in TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD/LA NOCHE DEL TERROR CIEGO Year: 1972 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Two years before TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD, a gorgeous woman is sacrificed in the same Spanish director <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/01/NOTS.html">Amando de Ossorio's NIGHT OF THE SORCERERS</a>... there it's a missionary from the early 1900's while this goes way back to The Middle Ages, where the extremely gorgeous Carmen Yazalde never rises again...  <br><br>Instead there's a horde of sinewy Medieval Knights, facially resembling prototypes of the Iron Maiden logo, having been buried in an abandoned monastery, looking as terrifically gothic as those antagonists that wind up stalking gorgeous girls, seeming straight from another kind of horror flick...</p><p><span></span></p>

amando de ossorio, carmen yazalde, lone fleming, maría elena arpón, maría silva, spanish horror, verónica llimerá, zombie

MARÍA ELENA APRÓN & MARÍA SILVA 'TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD'

María Silva in TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD/LA NOCHE DEL TERROR CIEGO Year: 1972 Rating: ***1/2 Two years before TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD, a gorge...

LORETA TOVAR NECKS KALI HANSA IN 'NIGHT OF THE SORCERERS'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9VCJw0Jr3nRcK-oYJACz0YnTlAXXsCrfq5B74WHDnaN0CWUkkeULeo-oldyvUWV_2YsbVwxGz849rpNcViNGbtPiY6jgime2UB1CmPLWsgAqpO67Iy2pRs92O0yJCB2bux6NpQhVzC8-W7CLgICZ3I4HQeRHsPOqnCGif89GJpgHzOFu0XnMbrjxgQ0Aw/s2092/1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1038" data-original-width="2092" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9VCJw0Jr3nRcK-oYJACz0YnTlAXXsCrfq5B74WHDnaN0CWUkkeULeo-oldyvUWV_2YsbVwxGz849rpNcViNGbtPiY6jgime2UB1CmPLWsgAqpO67Iy2pRs92O0yJCB2bux6NpQhVzC8-W7CLgICZ3I4HQeRHsPOqnCGif89GJpgHzOFu0XnMbrjxgQ0Aw/s16000/1.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Loreta Tovar in NIGHT OF THE SORCERERS/LA NOCHE DE LOS BRUJOS Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Spanish director Amando de Ossorio brings back <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/01/LGrasp.html">THE LORELEY'S GRASP</a> flirtatious schoolgirl Loreta Tovar as a safari photographer in NIGHT OF THE SORCERERS... and while she was the last hot ingenue to be attacked there, here she's the present-time first girl, making the reliable mistake of wandering out alone...<br><br>Beginning with gorgeous red-haired missionary Bárbara Rey killed by an African native zombie tribe in 1910, we cut to modern times where Loreta Tovar's part of a safari including another gorgeous blonde María Kosty, coveted by handsome guide Simón Andreu's voluptuous brunette girlfriend Kali Hansa...</p><p><span></span></p>

amando de ossorio, bárbara rey, body count, exploitation, horror, jungle, kali hansa, loreta tovar, maría kosty, seventies, simón andreu, slasher, spanish horror, vampire, zombie

LORETA TOVAR NECKS KALI HANSA IN 'NIGHT OF THE SORCERERS'

Loreta Tovar in NIGHT OF THE SORCERERS/LA NOCHE DE LOS BRUJOS Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 Spanish director Amando de Ossorio brings back THE L...

HELGA LINÉ SHADOWING SILVIA TOROSA IN 'THE LORELEY'S GRASP'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_XZW3VioKBNawihHwAI3IzVy4iockRlazS6R77XmW5bWIeFVWSe9YK5iQayUsXIyVFLnC6nDBr8IZXKwQbYRYPJ6FGxUvVMyp5cc0oAz23DS5rLsun2W0_3sLmLReRZolgfeJ5MoS0uxrxA05H7OWWitOrd4ObCqDwfewPlwOn2l-aJVqB9IMm6Mn8GU2/s2088/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-12%20at%2012.37.18%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1084" data-original-width="2088" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_XZW3VioKBNawihHwAI3IzVy4iockRlazS6R77XmW5bWIeFVWSe9YK5iQayUsXIyVFLnC6nDBr8IZXKwQbYRYPJ6FGxUvVMyp5cc0oAz23DS5rLsun2W0_3sLmLReRZolgfeJ5MoS0uxrxA05H7OWWitOrd4ObCqDwfewPlwOn2l-aJVqB9IMm6Mn8GU2/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-12%20at%2012.37.18%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Betsabé Ruiz in THE LORELEY'S GRASP/LAS GARRAS DE LORELEI Year: 1973 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>A year before the Peter Cushing/Christopher Lee reunion HORROR EXPRESS, Spanish filmmaker Amando de Ossorio brought train passengers Helga Liné and Silvia Tortosa back for a rural-village-set creature-slasher flick THE LORELEY'S GRASP... where Helga has the titular role while Tortosa's the vulnerable ingenue...<br><br>Who's the prettiest teacher taking care of a male horror fan's dream: a boarding school for super-hot young ladies, being stalked by a shadowy lizard-monster that's actually the equally lovely Liné by day... and who leading man Tony Kendall, hired to protect the girls from the stealthily menace, eventually falls in love with...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

amando de ossorio, body count, creature, helga liné, loreta tovar, seventies, silvia tortosa, spanish horror, tony kendall

HELGA LINÉ SHADOWING SILVIA TOROSA IN 'THE LORELEY'S GRASP'

Betsabé Ruiz in THE LORELEY'S GRASP/LAS GARRAS DE LORELEI Year: 1973 Rating: **** A year before the Peter Cushing/Christopher Lee reunio...

PETER CUSHING AND CHRISTOPHER LEE RIDING 'HORROR EXPRESS'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAVKl-t9sIBucE82vHgdG3WR35-2WzQi7goMrM-aotKZergo-_YWaTUNIeGmhhkLVUe341AGgmRhzFwCsE0nf9HZr4oVE4RVdWytz_eE4nXNXb2s_thEiquHdZmRF0Q7cDMrVKFziaXcDY-GJavigInQUm28XRf3dOLMuMsbbFSk33M_jyVVm8AwQi6I2E/s2002/1%20he.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="2002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAVKl-t9sIBucE82vHgdG3WR35-2WzQi7goMrM-aotKZergo-_YWaTUNIeGmhhkLVUe341AGgmRhzFwCsE0nf9HZr4oVE4RVdWytz_eE4nXNXb2s_thEiquHdZmRF0Q7cDMrVKFziaXcDY-GJavigInQUm28XRf3dOLMuMsbbFSk33M_jyVVm8AwQi6I2E/s16000/1%20he.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Helga Liné painted into HORROR EXPRESS/PÁNICO EN EL TRANSIBERIANO Year: 1972 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In-between the original THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD and John Carpenter's remake THE THING is HORROR EXPRESS, initially seeming like another period-piece Hammer film starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing — when it's really a low-budget Spanish studio's adaptation of John W. Campbell's THING-based short story <i>Who Goes There?</i></p><p></p><p>Beginning with Lee's brooding archeologist, having discovered a man-ape fossil that he cages into the titular snowbound train... joined by Cushing's affable surgeon, part of the crowded coach including beautiful countess Silvia Tortosa; psychotic monk Alberto de Mendoza; seductive stowaway Helga Liné; Miss Marples-style snoop Alice Reinheart; and Julio Peña as the intense onboard lawman who, with a lean build and brooding mustache, looks way too similar to Christopher Lee... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, alberto de mendoza, body count, christopher lee, faith clift, helga liné, julio peña, peter cushing, science-fiction, seventies, silvia tortosa, spanish horror, telly savalas, train

PETER CUSHING AND CHRISTOPHER LEE RIDING 'HORROR EXPRESS'

Helga Liné painted into HORROR EXPRESS/PÁNICO EN EL TRANSIBERIANO Year: 1972 Rating: **** In-between the original THE THING FROM ANOTHER WOR...

ANNE FRANCIS & LESLIE NIELSEN IN THE CLASSIC 'FORBIDDEN PLANET'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMNSBv-fVfTZKWvAQNvPDopAW_0ZdNq2kLhLM1VT_pEfp9UFI7A_WiH9W4Z0K4AvAcGKU0E73m0kJPl6jsL0BVlnblhyphenhyphen58PJnycOSKL5hIc-P4Z14Vr_thOuGXS70GxMECbbGv8IEGRfRSRQCRR_lRs8UWAfjrmilsnGzITKEV_DcUgHxGopzUKhm-Aefi/s802/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-02%20at%208.34.00%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMNSBv-fVfTZKWvAQNvPDopAW_0ZdNq2kLhLM1VT_pEfp9UFI7A_WiH9W4Z0K4AvAcGKU0E73m0kJPl6jsL0BVlnblhyphenhyphen58PJnycOSKL5hIc-P4Z14Vr_thOuGXS70GxMECbbGv8IEGRfRSRQCRR_lRs8UWAfjrmilsnGzITKEV_DcUgHxGopzUKhm-Aefi/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-02%20at%208.34.00%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: FORBIDDEN PLANET Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The 1950's science-fiction classic FORBIDDEN PLANET not only influenced the use of beaming people for STAR TREK, also including a crew of human explorers slowly learning that their investigative situation is dire, even deadly, but Disney's THE BLACK HOLE is basically a remake...<br><br>Both involving an old scientist and a giant sidekick robot... who remained on the titular planet, once inhabited by brilliant aliens: while his entire crew vanished on the way home, providing the search/mission for Leslie Nielson's spaceship to explore the same place that he's warned not to land on... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

anne francis, earl holliman, fifties, jack kelly, james drury, leslie nielsen, richard anderson, robert dix, science-fiction, walter pidgeon, warren stevens

ANNE FRANCIS & LESLIE NIELSEN IN THE CLASSIC 'FORBIDDEN PLANET'

Title: FORBIDDEN PLANET Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2 The 1950's science-fiction classic FORBIDDEN PLANET not only influenced the use of bea...

ANNE FRANCIS, DANA ANDREWS & GEORGE MAHARIS 'THE SATAN BUG'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHZxwLmSUlwbSnQ5T_f8jTL0Q1avLUu1n5L8M97BuLyoCQQCuDLlhhIXMvJ30aLcUFf8VsqYRAamfWMnxrU0gL91arVqd_dU9w8_Asek5a0bFvOs-qJlJYl5RuFm45gFcYCiNDjXv_wlX3u_x-C947DWX98usxCjXxJ0Yc49YORVgNYmjTLyo1lafvMBSV/s1866/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="1866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHZxwLmSUlwbSnQ5T_f8jTL0Q1avLUu1n5L8M97BuLyoCQQCuDLlhhIXMvJ30aLcUFf8VsqYRAamfWMnxrU0gL91arVqd_dU9w8_Asek5a0bFvOs-qJlJYl5RuFm45gFcYCiNDjXv_wlX3u_x-C947DWX98usxCjXxJ0Yc49YORVgNYmjTLyo1lafvMBSV/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>George Maharis and Anne Francis in THE SATAN BUG Year: 1965 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>On the television series ROUTE 66, Martin Milner played a preppy college graduate traveling America with no-nonsense, ultra-intense Hell's Kitchen-born/street-wise George Maharis... and while both are good guys, Maharis is a comparable antagonist by his edgy attitude, and that persona eventually made a far better TV-episodic villain than the few attempts as a big screen leading man...<br><br>The first being a lethargic neo-noir <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/06/citizen-sleep.html">SYLVIA</a>, contrasting from his famous ROUTE character that practically burst through the small screen... and THE SATAN BUG, originally offered to Charlton Heston, whose overboard style might have worked more effectively against what's director John Sturges's slow-moving/slowburn thriller with even higher technical stakes than the then-popular world-dominating James Bond franchise... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

anne francis, dana andrews, ed asner, espionage, frank sutton, george maharis, heist, john sturges, lee remick, richard basehart, richard bull, sixties, thriller, virus

ANNE FRANCIS, DANA ANDREWS & GEORGE MAHARIS 'THE SATAN BUG'

George Maharis and Anne Francis in THE SATAN BUG Year: 1965 Rating: **1/2 On the television series ROUTE 66, Martin Milner played a preppy c...

ANNE FRANCIS AND ANNE JACKSON BREAKOUT IN 'SO YOUNG, SO BAD'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL0_bq7yAzh9XW39mI3TT3RwQXAHNjPHRsiD8VDIENfVCM0Ju3XwmESY4IV5sJnl8tEXCoIKYOu5G4R66AYxC1ArJvjQFdqXR-XtM0djdAC_bDIGG-08_XUXo8Iv12zBVnWkBbtQICSyV5lbxS_Rf6915pt5tw6DBt2XOs88jWWOj1ZXZKSbKTJMeITRi3/s2086/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-27%20at%2010.27.38%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1238" data-original-width="2086" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL0_bq7yAzh9XW39mI3TT3RwQXAHNjPHRsiD8VDIENfVCM0Ju3XwmESY4IV5sJnl8tEXCoIKYOu5G4R66AYxC1ArJvjQFdqXR-XtM0djdAC_bDIGG-08_XUXo8Iv12zBVnWkBbtQICSyV5lbxS_Rf6915pt5tw6DBt2XOs88jWWOj1ZXZKSbKTJMeITRi3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-27%20at%2010.27.38%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anne Francis in SO YOUNG, SO BAD Year: 1950 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A decade after CASABLANCA, nice guy Paul Henreid was still somewhat of a box office draw, or at least a recognizable name... and he took a risk to work for a low-budget production company that, yet another decade past, made the British teenage-girl-reform-school vehicle <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/10/evilyoung.html">SO EVIL, SO YOUNG</a>, basically a remake of the American SO YOUNG, SO BAD that's far superior, particularly since Henreid's psychologist character is pushed up front...</p><p><br>In most teen-prison programmers, the friendly shrink contrasting to the abusive warden/guards is peripheral: as most of the action takes place with the girls and their captors... which still happens here, but since the motivating plight's in check with Henreid (alongside pretty/uptight social-worker Catherine McLeod), there are less soapy elements and more character-driven suspense relying on how to stop the in-house tyranny... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

anne francis, anne jackson, catherine mcleod, enid rudd, exploitation, fifties, lesbian, melodrama, mike kellin, paul henreid, rita moreno, women in prison

ANNE FRANCIS AND ANNE JACKSON BREAKOUT IN 'SO YOUNG, SO BAD'

Anne Francis in SO YOUNG, SO BAD Year: 1950 Rating: **** A decade after CASABLANCA, nice guy Paul Henreid was still somewhat of a box office...

HELENA CARTER HEADLINES THE ORIGINAL 'INVADERS FROM MARS'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikqGdU9nwlb7CN906x_x4XIijftbjcB0U28ZBJRJxknHxRS0Daalpyv2vCiMLkIyBxX-SlDBhp03OIGDYdUmVyJHFQDWEISsU-nYT1gfgU0FvzPR4FIRNEcUkR0NVeBbFMi18d01oKMwRZQLe7uEtWua5dfHkxv64S_4oEBzPKj-BninZawPCSwFTaZINH/s2088/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-27%20at%208.02.14%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1344" data-original-width="2088" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikqGdU9nwlb7CN906x_x4XIijftbjcB0U28ZBJRJxknHxRS0Daalpyv2vCiMLkIyBxX-SlDBhp03OIGDYdUmVyJHFQDWEISsU-nYT1gfgU0FvzPR4FIRNEcUkR0NVeBbFMi18d01oKMwRZQLe7uEtWua5dfHkxv64S_4oEBzPKj-BninZawPCSwFTaZINH/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-27%20at%208.02.14%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Helena Carter and Jimmy Hunt in INVADERS FROM MARS Year: 1953 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>With sparsely minimalist yet highly stylized interiors ranging from a police station to an astronomical observatory along with deliberately over-scored, melodramatic human closeups, the most complicated set from INVADERS FROM MARS is the most familiar in the 1950's: a Norman Rockwell-style suburban-rural home where the leading character, a pulp-reading young boy... only child to affable dream parents... witnesses a spaceship landing outside his window... <br><br>An iconic view duplicated for the 1980's remake: a rocky-stairwell/hill leading to a sudden crest, where the boy witnesses his father throwing a General over: becoming one of many locals sucked into the same sand-hole the initial spaceship vanished into, and that initially only the kid... played by wide-eyed boy-next-door Jimmy Hunt... had seen...</p><p><span></span></p>

arthur franz, bert freed, fifties, helena carter, hillary brooke, janine perreau, leif erickson, milburn stone, morris ankrum, science-fiction, thriller

HELENA CARTER HEADLINES THE ORIGINAL 'INVADERS FROM MARS'

Helena Carter and Jimmy Hunt in INVADERS FROM MARS Year: 1953 Rating: *** With sparsely minimalist yet highly stylized interiors ranging fro...

ERNEST SCHOEDSACK SHRINKS 'DR. CYCLOPS' WITH ALBERT DEKKER

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Jo9lUq-xqocSa4_gyLhj5RPRiTiD5bVNBOEFn2O6iOVGysUoRH7xtJxckpE5ldxmCQ8I-zF7ej78KVAIcH45CTNz0UAZdnewbk-qHfkPPoh1Kls-EI5CBh4CLMeeL2vBAjpPHLBBTsF32Ll2AWxVolW6ffCjMAHXeNVhsWCRyuRx3FA365Jvk_lU4PmC/s1646/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-25%20at%201.20.14%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1112" data-original-width="1646" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Jo9lUq-xqocSa4_gyLhj5RPRiTiD5bVNBOEFn2O6iOVGysUoRH7xtJxckpE5ldxmCQ8I-zF7ej78KVAIcH45CTNz0UAZdnewbk-qHfkPPoh1Kls-EI5CBh4CLMeeL2vBAjpPHLBBTsF32Ll2AWxVolW6ffCjMAHXeNVhsWCRyuRx3FA365Jvk_lU4PmC/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-25%20at%201.20.14%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: DR. CYCLOPS Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack Year: 1940 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Merian C. Cooper, the executive producer and co-director of KING KONG, considered Ernest B. Schoedsack his "cameraman" when he was really not only co-director, but, while Cooper oversaw the special effects, much of the human element from performances to overall character-movement is all his own... </p><p></p><p>Deliberately slowing things down for the first science-fiction/horror in color, DR. CYCLOPS, that also begins a jungle-traipsing, matte-painted adventure including a gorgeous woman, her handsome boyfriend, a comic relief, a curious doctor, and an eccentric old-timer, all winding up in the compound of Albert Dekker's titular mad scientist...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, charles halton, cult, ernest schoedsack, forties, horror, janice logan, science-fiction, thomas coley

ERNEST SCHOEDSACK SHRINKS 'DR. CYCLOPS' WITH ALBERT DEKKER

Title: DR. CYCLOPS Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack Year: 1940 Rating: ***1/2 Merian C. Cooper, the executive producer and co-director of KING...

BRIAN GLOVER DOGS ALFRED MARKS IN 'THE SWEENEY: THIN ICE'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPpEiW8xYmJaUeqpKEIaJKiwkvaY5uxOZx1BGPOtJPv8sfKQm8T3q21eEj_RuXhpCspCLZucx3VemPRyYgVhtByQRvio2woHwqpeabHkhDBzpl0ejUY68Cv9GTxVhVy1i-fknPNICAPLjsAYu67sMHtBTTSy7aHqV22uEK7JPlC5G2rubS9EDV6EiOFy00/s2084/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-24%20at%208.43.36%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="2084" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPpEiW8xYmJaUeqpKEIaJKiwkvaY5uxOZx1BGPOtJPv8sfKQm8T3q21eEj_RuXhpCspCLZucx3VemPRyYgVhtByQRvio2woHwqpeabHkhDBzpl0ejUY68Cv9GTxVhVy1i-fknPNICAPLjsAYu67sMHtBTTSy7aHqV22uEK7JPlC5G2rubS9EDV6EiOFy00/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-24%20at%208.43.36%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Thaw and John Flanagan in The Sweeney: Thin Ice Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The third episode of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/sweeney">THE SWEENEY</a> is the first to inject total offbeat dark comedy, where a British master-criminal sits poolside in France, having taken a ship from England to thwart The Flying Squad, and is awaiting his prized dog Archimedes to join him, being even more important than bikini-clad blonde floozy/moll Margaret Nolan (while he's advised by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/12/DemonCurse.html">CURSE OF THE DEMON</a> possessed Brian Wilde)...</p><p></p><p>Another episode featuring bickering young cop John Flanagan as DS Matt Matthews, and with John Thaw's Regan flirting with gorgeous secretary Bridget Brice when not butting-heads with meticulous police chief Peter Jeffries (while awaiting Dennis Waterman's Carter to reign in his co-agents), the scene-stealer is A<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/07/walking-meatloaf.html">MERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON</a> barfly Brian Glover, bonding with the wrong dog to the chagrin of dog-loving mobster Alfred Marks, who'd have made a terrific recurring villain who, like the entire underrated episode, perfectly combines quirky and formidable.</p><span></span>

alfred marks, brian glover, brian wilde, british tv, cop, dennis waterman, garfield morgan, john flanagan, john thaw, margaret nolan, peter jeffrey, sweeney

BRIAN GLOVER DOGS ALFRED MARKS IN 'THE SWEENEY: THIN ICE'

John Thaw and John Flanagan in The Sweeney: Thin Ice Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2 The third episode of THE SWEENEY is the first to inject tota...

JOHN THAW VS TONY SELBY FROM 'THE SWEENEY: QUEEN'S PAWN'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEW6DVh2G8jyauM0nabmjnx0b7S33MbdI7YKvfgHVc8-ZYAaL_4yFQQpFyBjbAHwSvrl-qTU4Na5YJBgTL6r52kVzEhoFOlWRC5YibJt9OP-lruDZAD02mQUkeOaMC0w6cm1b1iFyyHYEwiPgX-UstKLoP-opuBZRkLBCVC7EA1FUSxLuxIF5fuITn8j08/s938/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-21%20at%201.15.07%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="938" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEW6DVh2G8jyauM0nabmjnx0b7S33MbdI7YKvfgHVc8-ZYAaL_4yFQQpFyBjbAHwSvrl-qTU4Na5YJBgTL6r52kVzEhoFOlWRC5YibJt9OP-lruDZAD02mQUkeOaMC0w6cm1b1iFyyHYEwiPgX-UstKLoP-opuBZRkLBCVC7EA1FUSxLuxIF5fuITn8j08/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-21%20at%201.15.07%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE SWEENEY: QUEEN'S PAWN Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>From HIGH SIERRA before to CARLITO'S WAY after, the device of a famously-guilty convict freed on a technicality is nothing new... and the first half of QUEEN'S PAWN has the unapologetic gall of Tony Selby's Johnny Lyon getting Inspector Regan's goat... a whole mountain of them actually...  </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Surrounded by floozy moll Lynn Dearth, pseudo family man Tony Caunter and eventual weak link married couple Christopher Ellison and Judy Monahan, the episode has John Thaw's Regan and Dennis Waterman as Sgt. Carter putting heat on the Lyon's den of thieves; but the most intimidating is a different kind of crook...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, british, dennis waterman, gangster, john flanagan, john thaw, julian glover, lynn dearth, seventies, sweeney, tony selby

JOHN THAW VS TONY SELBY FROM 'THE SWEENEY: QUEEN'S PAWN'

Title: THE SWEENEY: QUEEN'S PAWN Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2 From HIGH SIERRA before to CARLITO'S WAY after, the device of a famously-...

JOHN THAW WITH JOHN FLANNAGAN IN 'THE SWEENEY: JACKPOT'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4CWZpeQLqoR5fhYtQcw-ujBu1hdSCPqIEIV7KXZCvcaNgKk_eauSpVwIw-ss_hYLXJ7Xq-wza3Mk4o2qKGiXoHmMZYW1p-jCuTxyT7AGJy6AT5ZH6eGUafV3hXcTy3ShiTUZzhyZhc0TIopx3cmi9I0Hj9QHpJQXex02rsss-z2lhQ_qFUSmbZT8aL_G/s1784/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-19%20at%203.25.18%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1022" data-original-width="1784" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4CWZpeQLqoR5fhYtQcw-ujBu1hdSCPqIEIV7KXZCvcaNgKk_eauSpVwIw-ss_hYLXJ7Xq-wza3Mk4o2qKGiXoHmMZYW1p-jCuTxyT7AGJy6AT5ZH6eGUafV3hXcTy3ShiTUZzhyZhc0TIopx3cmi9I0Hj9QHpJQXex02rsss-z2lhQ_qFUSmbZT8aL_G/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-19%20at%203.25.18%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE SWEENEY: JACKPOT Year: 1975 Rates: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Second episode of the British crime series THE SWEENEY decompresses from the thrilling pilot <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/04/ian-hendry-jill-townsend-christen.html">RINGER</a> and is more talky and expository... that's after the bombastic opening where The Flying Squad trashes a street-speeding getaway in process, with money flying everywhere... the opening twist being that a load of cash is unaccounted for: making JACKPOT a kind of Wrong Man Neo Noir, twofold... </p><p></p><p>As John Thaw's tough Jack Regan and his younger partner Dennis Waterman as George Carter have to interrogate jailed crook Ed Devereaux on answers to where the money went... also featuring cranky young cop John Flanagan as Matt Matthews, almost dead-ringer to (while complimenting the perfect casting of) Waterman, appearing in a handful of episodes before finally turning up in the theatrical SWEENEY 2 by this episode's director, Tom Clegg.</p><p><span></span></p>

action, british tv, cop, dennis waterman, john flanagan, john thaw, neo noir, seventies, sweeney, tom clegg

JOHN THAW WITH JOHN FLANNAGAN IN 'THE SWEENEY: JACKPOT'

Title: THE SWEENEY: JACKPOT Year: 1975 Rates: **1/2 Second episode of the British crime series THE SWEENEY decompresses from the thrilling p...

RICK MORANIS & DAVE THOMAS AS BOB & DOUG IN 'STRANGE BREW'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXV5MzvKF0HgK1BowslDbpvqHVyXcEHD8NuHJUeKu7dBFOeSUYzS7Q5qp7UtNWlT8nqwV8Mxk-a59KqFhzAM3PQ5PqGVdZ6kEjbXG_ezLXE3JYaqPGIvTtenxx2TTSYF797-8yjMKL_O4OI-wTnTi271cO071zX9ZzS7NUHqxz1QJ_ZAkh597QYA4RkVl/s2090/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-15%20at%201.06.24%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1262" data-original-width="2090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXV5MzvKF0HgK1BowslDbpvqHVyXcEHD8NuHJUeKu7dBFOeSUYzS7Q5qp7UtNWlT8nqwV8Mxk-a59KqFhzAM3PQ5PqGVdZ6kEjbXG_ezLXE3JYaqPGIvTtenxx2TTSYF797-8yjMKL_O4OI-wTnTi271cO071zX9ZzS7NUHqxz1QJ_ZAkh597QYA4RkVl/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-15%20at%201.06.24%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: STRANGE BREW Year: 1983 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's a moment in THE ADVENTURES OF BOB AND DOUG MCKENZIE: STRANGE BREW where supervillain Max von Sydow... attempting to take over a Canadian brewery where the titular siblings sought replacement beer.. wields a hand-written laser contraption that literally pokes fun at (by glibly complimenting) the movie's special effects...<br><br>Providing selected moments where the Rick Moranis/Dave Thomas theatrical adaptation of their SCTV skit (basically reworked by Mike Myers and Dana Carvey in SNL's WAYNE'S WORLD, both involving goofballs on Canadian public-access) is a deliberate genre-spoof in the vein of Mel Brooks or AIRPLANE... in this case the Roger Moore-era James Bond franchise...</p><p><span></span></p>

angus macInnes, comedy, dave thomas, eighties, lynne griffin, max von sydow, parody, paul dooley, rick moranis

RICK MORANIS & DAVE THOMAS AS BOB & DOUG IN 'STRANGE BREW'

Title: STRANGE BREW Year: 1983 Rating: ** There's a moment in THE ADVENTURES OF BOB AND DOUG MCKENZIE: STRANGE BREW where supervillain M...

DIRECTOR ROB REINER'S ROAD MOVIE COMEDY 'THE SURE THING'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiExCxRD0qBQ2II1ORBgK2lF2-T1B_V-DYyexIntFzZ-6JntAr2XztzmgEYQeYTUs5pzy06F5Ul1bmWLlexFS5fDOL8wPmfiU4zMGUdQ7xcps0JaIHTYa-X5MgkbfHb2dJcht5B3zfqjInm0nQwvFFLzucpr2Bx994d4RMoartMyra2UavXAd1L60efudCs/s1016/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-15%20at%2012.13.55%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="1016" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiExCxRD0qBQ2II1ORBgK2lF2-T1B_V-DYyexIntFzZ-6JntAr2XztzmgEYQeYTUs5pzy06F5Ul1bmWLlexFS5fDOL8wPmfiU4zMGUdQ7xcps0JaIHTYa-X5MgkbfHb2dJcht5B3zfqjInm0nQwvFFLzucpr2Bx994d4RMoartMyra2UavXAd1L60efudCs/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-15%20at%2012.13.55%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Cusack painted like Andrew McCarthy in THE SURE THING Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In director Rob Reiner's road movie THE SURE THING, his more mainstream-vehicle-followup to the groundbreaking <i>rockumentary</i> THIS IS SPINAL TAP, side-characters played by Tim Robbins, Anthony Edwards, Boyd Gains, and Lisa Jane Persky are so overly one-dimensional, the two leads, John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga, seem even more real... <br> <br> Polar opposites Cusack, as an endearing goof, and Zuniga, an uptight hidden beauty, journey cross country to Southern California... Cusack to meet a gorgeous blonde (the sure thing) and Zuniga to see her stuffy fiance... </p><p><span></span></p>

anthony edwards, daphne zuniga, eighties, john cusack, nicollette sheridan, road movie, rob reiner, sex comedy, tim robbins, viveca lindfors

DIRECTOR ROB REINER'S ROAD MOVIE COMEDY 'THE SURE THING'

John Cusack painted like Andrew McCarthy in THE SURE THING Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2 In director Rob Reiner's road movie THE SURE THING,...

CHRISTOPHER LEE VS NIGEL GREEN IN 'THE FACE OF FU MANCHU'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM9tKnsvIlTu2T6B55VRCQbk4zNgyX5g7YdScNuXUhc7Qza63rk3w9MYIwBxQ6kkDWcIllEpJcgUisSTg-0HgCDOw0lQH5qbxpZrWshuDwYGpoY4CjSD6CjE6B6fGXV6dUG9flsxN_xwG0EHdEFlRsQDk2LriH3nChUsPq_9NeVIWB2OovSVyx4cz8JA-X/s828/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="828" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM9tKnsvIlTu2T6B55VRCQbk4zNgyX5g7YdScNuXUhc7Qza63rk3w9MYIwBxQ6kkDWcIllEpJcgUisSTg-0HgCDOw0lQH5qbxpZrWshuDwYGpoY4CjSD6CjE6B6fGXV6dUG9flsxN_xwG0EHdEFlRsQDk2LriH3nChUsPq_9NeVIWB2OovSVyx4cz8JA-X/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Christopher Lee and Deborah DeLacey in THE FACE OF FU MANCHU Year: 1965 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/08/beatG.html">BEAT GIRL</a>, Christopher Lee played a sleazy nightclub owner where his even more slimy manager berated girls into becoming strippers... and here the always-intense Nigel Green is in opposite camps of Lee's titular FACE OF FU MANCHU: the one and only time as Sax Rohmer's Scotland Yard Inspector Nayland Smith...<br><br>Later replaced by a more classy and dignified Douglas Wilmer, Green's the first and overall best lawman/adversary since he really seems to completely detest Asian mastermind/super-criminal Fu Manchu...</p><p><span></span></p>

british, christopher lee, don sharp, franchise, fu manchu, harry alan towers, howard marion-crawford, jim norton, karin dor, nigel green, sixties, spy, tsai chin, walter rilla

CHRISTOPHER LEE VS NIGEL GREEN IN 'THE FACE OF FU MANCHU'

Christopher Lee and Deborah DeLacey in THE FACE OF FU MANCHU Year: 1965 Rating: *** In BEAT GIRL , Christopher Lee played a sleazy nightclub...

HELENA CARTER, YVONNE DE CARLO & DAN DURYEA IN 'RIVER LADY'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEoExOXLtTvQva-k3ovGIBhAT0uJXmot1UGtLANQv9veSuFOj9mi2giJcv4Y9ZT2O-IYzJsX1vXRJ23m-wmLNR1f5AOXDhGeO_EI5LvjQKLIJAW6eCiazQDQ8Amqo9OOucJRaY_omTttCvOpblsgynA-pUU3JZ5_jdrDnrQWHyXl0fOb900iQ3B-4CzetF/s1738/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="1738" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEoExOXLtTvQva-k3ovGIBhAT0uJXmot1UGtLANQv9veSuFOj9mi2giJcv4Y9ZT2O-IYzJsX1vXRJ23m-wmLNR1f5AOXDhGeO_EI5LvjQKLIJAW6eCiazQDQ8Amqo9OOucJRaY_omTttCvOpblsgynA-pUU3JZ5_jdrDnrQWHyXl0fOb900iQ3B-4CzetF/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yvonne De Carlo and Dan Duryea in RIVER LADY 1948 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the James Cagney film noir KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE, full-lipped, flirtatious beauty Helena Carter was who Cagney was interested in even though he had a woman at home... while the opposite occurs here as her rich girl character's smitten with (and is quickly married to) gentle giant workingman Rod Cameron, despite his attraction to first-billed beauty Yvonne De Carlo...<br><br>Who owns the titular RIVER LADY river boat, personally managed by her scoundrel gambler cohort Dan Duryea... after giving Rod Cameron full control of a fledgling lumber mill: the main story that should have been secondary given Duryea's usual penchant for villains, needing far more screen-time throughout an otherwise semi-effective Technicolor Western/Romance/Melodrama. <br></p>

dan duryea, dewey robinson, fifties, gambling, helena carter, jack lambert, john mcintire, lloyd gough, rod cameron, western, yvonne de carlo

HELENA CARTER, YVONNE DE CARLO & DAN DURYEA IN 'RIVER LADY'

Yvonne De Carlo and Dan Duryea in RIVER LADY 1948 Rating: ***1/2 In the James Cagney film noir KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE, full-lipped, flirtati...

CORNEL WILDE INVESTIGATING DON SIEGEL'S 'EDGE OF ETERNITY'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjraQu5NSIGTO-wzK8EyZF6eOt68gLKCehXCTLbqnaZBMHb7Kwgk5UdGtawHWvBxRF7_PQDQFwkVy2CqixKfTSXuJTqtRX93vjT2wuOOZs7NxObMG4FiU7Gi3vMY9ezmuyTa9hVwFB-RBah07EEZ_MBMXyCRtuAxH0dTBqIDLod_nfvM0zH1BXfRkiiZzWM/s934/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-13%20at%2012.11.22%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="934" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjraQu5NSIGTO-wzK8EyZF6eOt68gLKCehXCTLbqnaZBMHb7Kwgk5UdGtawHWvBxRF7_PQDQFwkVy2CqixKfTSXuJTqtRX93vjT2wuOOZs7NxObMG4FiU7Gi3vMY9ezmuyTa9hVwFB-RBah07EEZ_MBMXyCRtuAxH0dTBqIDLod_nfvM0zH1BXfRkiiZzWM/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-13%20at%2012.11.22%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1959 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Don Siegel's EDGE OF ETERNITY is a Technicolor Neo Noir, a B-Movie Potboiler and a Novelty Film using actual footage of (and being based around) The Grand Canyon... where at the crest, a murder takes place before the body's mysteriously hung in a small rural connecting town's vacant office... where good deputy Cornel Wilde investigates what's also a partial Mystery/Whodunnit...<br><br>Although there aren't many juicy culprits to choose from, the most obvious being otherwise affable bartender Mickey Shaughnessy, who has played so many energetically cutthroat villains, he can't be what he seems (the same going for chain-smoking Canyon custodian Jack Elam)... <br><span></span></p>

action, alexander lockwood, cornel wilde, dabbs greer, don siegel, edgar buchanan, fifties, jack elam, jazz-score, mickey shaughnessy, neo noir, victoria shaw

CORNEL WILDE INVESTIGATING DON SIEGEL'S 'EDGE OF ETERNITY'

Year: 1959 Rating: *** Don Siegel's EDGE OF ETERNITY is a Technicolor Neo Noir, a B-Movie Potboiler and a Novelty Film using actual foot...

VINCE EDWARDS WITH JUDY GEESON & DIANA DORS IN 'HAMMERHEAD'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuytAqQXeWwxyhYDNS9vu6FDbA1C69hKCVyg6hwn5IfHYQvQi9qYhGPyvLh_zm2zMX7UKBLVWc3ddTSF1tVfCZztDNmZKMmcngsMuzVl4hmgNghybdeLVFo4JqhfhDfXAhRYLp5pm-KMDOvHJ82z6A2MLcPlGAL18E7F7tyo111uU38iAXZqeKqWFhGxQl/s2090/DD.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="2090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuytAqQXeWwxyhYDNS9vu6FDbA1C69hKCVyg6hwn5IfHYQvQi9qYhGPyvLh_zm2zMX7UKBLVWc3ddTSF1tVfCZztDNmZKMmcngsMuzVl4hmgNghybdeLVFo4JqhfhDfXAhRYLp5pm-KMDOvHJ82z6A2MLcPlGAL18E7F7tyo111uU38iAXZqeKqWFhGxQl/s16000/DD.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Vince Edwards and Judy Geeson in HAMMERHEAD Year: 1968 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Irwin Allen's production HAMMERHEAD is yet another James Bond clone, released at the peak of the jazz-driven, horn-blasting, colorfully-vibrant, boisterously-flamboyant, dancing-girl Swinging-60's...<br><br>Where a swarthy sex symbol from the previous decade lethargically jaunts from a British nightclub to a plush yacht to canvas-decorated castle interiors to a street party in Lisbon, Portugal... <br></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdlZ2V9h0arvCOeZcwlHkIY21BZLpZtiED2UUm8Qx2RxQmyS9lGmDt1g4gZejgD2cyIG9UdvkaH7a1rh5Pr6-CsXecflgnaF_qUfzhhKRN_BFTF2dVbQ0bp8NIf5AdsI3BmftdPEEQuMFqf9yF5rzZeYUkWwrIZKgwIN8XJc6QBn-6f2p37QiEqwZmf1bj/s2092/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-01%20at%2011.52.46%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="2092" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdlZ2V9h0arvCOeZcwlHkIY21BZLpZtiED2UUm8Qx2RxQmyS9lGmDt1g4gZejgD2cyIG9UdvkaH7a1rh5Pr6-CsXecflgnaF_qUfzhhKRN_BFTF2dVbQ0bp8NIf5AdsI3BmftdPEEQuMFqf9yF5rzZeYUkWwrIZKgwIN8XJc6QBn-6f2p37QiEqwZmf1bj/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-01%20at%2011.52.46%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Irwin Allen's HAMMERHEAD</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While the only intriguing aspect that keeps American Vince Edwards' undercover agent Charles Hood interested is British blonde beauty Judy Geeson, who flirtatiously frolics around (competing with lanky Dorothy Adams and voluptuous Diana Dors) as he investigates the titular HAMMERHEAD... <br><br>Who, played by character-actor Peter Vaughan (guarded by future Darth Vader David Prowse), is an art-collecting billionaire with the usual cliche agenda on controlling the world — but it's never quite clear exactly how, or why.  </p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, beverly adams, david prowse, diana dors, irwin allen, jazz-score, judy geeson, kenneth cope, patrick cargill, peter vaughan, sixties, spy, vince edwards

VINCE EDWARDS WITH JUDY GEESON & DIANA DORS IN 'HAMMERHEAD'

Vince Edwards and Judy Geeson in HAMMERHEAD Year: 1968 Rating: **1/2 Irwin Allen's production HAMMERHEAD is yet another James Bond clone...

CHARLES BRONSON'S LAST CANNON 'KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP_ueo47qC0tLC3nXtxNp_UFoPtS-V79vCCUZMsBoYMWad8kvA_KvJkq4wP9aqxiUhNuZPQUQQ2ul4aUKqZdjubYsQuM_r4g8ISlIx0zXbWKjRxWResSLYBU3heT0vGUXU_GO1neFKhaXWSv45dtGMya5dx-JSc67lSSTXt0scsx6aGbzCjFML9d_eJnZR/s1608/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-29%20at%202.32.07%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1014" data-original-width="1608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP_ueo47qC0tLC3nXtxNp_UFoPtS-V79vCCUZMsBoYMWad8kvA_KvJkq4wP9aqxiUhNuZPQUQQ2ul4aUKqZdjubYsQuM_r4g8ISlIx0zXbWKjRxWResSLYBU3heT0vGUXU_GO1neFKhaXWSv45dtGMya5dx-JSc67lSSTXt0scsx6aGbzCjFML9d_eJnZR/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-29%20at%202.32.07%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The final Cannon production starring Charles Bronson (and director J. Lee Thompson) couldn't be more of an exploitation flick (surpassing even DEATH WISH 2), spending more time on the underage girls of a sleazy pimp than Bronson and detective partner Perry Lopez are trying to figure things out...<br><br>In KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS, initially/ironically involving a sex-obsessed Japanese father whose daughter (Kumiko Hayakawa) winds up one the youngest, most vulnerable victims of an underground sex-slave market...</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1slfyP935-EK7xsjbuXVlt3fPXG-CwooMAYmHTRTevvv9sOsGP0pKEkARIObu9ROvICIBtCHUxVfE9OeN7fQVTCqmDY1k6rmF8cyzR96TUBdInVKdiPLCx9EFF-DfUFFPQorUV5wfmI41GuqttEBGyw8kuPQfCv1gmwDKjoxdI60fsCw01629YefmcTPa/s1724/2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="1724" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1slfyP935-EK7xsjbuXVlt3fPXG-CwooMAYmHTRTevvv9sOsGP0pKEkARIObu9ROvICIBtCHUxVfE9OeN7fQVTCqmDY1k6rmF8cyzR96TUBdInVKdiPLCx9EFF-DfUFFPQorUV5wfmI41GuqttEBGyw8kuPQfCv1gmwDKjoxdI60fsCw01629YefmcTPa/s16000/2.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Opening with blonde starlet Nicole Eggert as the most experienced, the actual leading young-lady's Amy Hathaway, even blonder, cuter and who just so happens to be Bronson's daughter, on the verge of the neon-noir-inspired criminal web led by CROCODILE DUNDEE II villain Juan Fernández... <br><br>Perhaps one of the sleaziest villains in Bronson cinema... providing the usual gun-blasting DEATH WISH-style vengeance that happens far too late to matter: overall making KINJITE more glossy expose than edgy crime-thriller. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, amy hathaway, bill mckinney, cannon, charles bronson, eighties, juan fernandez, neo noir, peggy lipton, perry lopez, sy richardson

CHARLES BRONSON'S LAST CANNON 'KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS'

Charles Bronson in KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2 The final Cannon production starring Charles Bronson (and director J...

TERENCE YOUNG'S 'SAFARI' WITH VICTOR MATURE & JANET LEIGH

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEXa3gipR3Moalve1GiLlM8_pB_aeEguiuXV9oHi71rtja_fuYFErwqyelGY3VS_LgQWzdmpmIy9unpa05_bHbjBJ8ZqZT_gQXwvFfw1VlcfB7PZIXLQwjTO8RcVuG5wsAfgv18h_aX44VUai8kZUWc_cyGlrYdbhZYhedCTFkWSWTvEnN98ggCNBcOfzW/s2042/SS.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="2042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEXa3gipR3Moalve1GiLlM8_pB_aeEguiuXV9oHi71rtja_fuYFErwqyelGY3VS_LgQWzdmpmIy9unpa05_bHbjBJ8ZqZT_gQXwvFfw1VlcfB7PZIXLQwjTO8RcVuG5wsAfgv18h_aX44VUai8kZUWc_cyGlrYdbhZYhedCTFkWSWTvEnN98ggCNBcOfzW/s16000/SS.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SAFARI Year: 1956 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1956, future James Bond franchise director Terence Young had Victor Mature playing a charming kind of scoundrel, twice... in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/11/zarak.html">ZARAK</a> his title character's an Arab bandit, and in SAFARI he's a kind of AFRICAN QUEEN Humphrey Bogart had he been in a revenge-driven b-adventure flick...<br><br>As the worst parts occur before he's hired to be a lion-hunting guide for old rich jerk Roland Culver, engaged to one of the most gorgeous actresses of all time, looking possibly her most gorgeous here... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, british, fifties, janet leigh, john justin, jungle, liam redmond, roland vulver, terence young, victor mature

TERENCE YOUNG'S 'SAFARI' WITH VICTOR MATURE & JANET LEIGH

Title: SAFARI Year: 1956 Rating: *** In 1956, future James Bond franchise director Terence Young had Victor Mature playing a charming kind o...

LOLA ALBRIGHT & GRANT WILLIAMS IN 'THE MONOLITH MONSTERS'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicQluAMPYhiUtc0yN4v-QBm2A9DxHT3xChZ0v-RrnlCs0d1Dg5-t2Y4qRsx34RjkEqn2fkob6aXvTPW5XAAVimEntudzmACTwJHOQrx9EUguXxPUOy85JxjlegD5VDguEdXmS1Z3hdWdyLaEU6ikNVHK7RvzeQy1ZY9NOQBt_XgROV6M-0Re-szKIBH-QO/s2794/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-30%20at%207.51.08%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1374" data-original-width="2794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicQluAMPYhiUtc0yN4v-QBm2A9DxHT3xChZ0v-RrnlCs0d1Dg5-t2Y4qRsx34RjkEqn2fkob6aXvTPW5XAAVimEntudzmACTwJHOQrx9EUguXxPUOy85JxjlegD5VDguEdXmS1Z3hdWdyLaEU6ikNVHK7RvzeQy1ZY9NOQBt_XgROV6M-0Re-szKIBH-QO/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-30%20at%207.51.08%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lola Albright in THE MONOLITH MONSTERS Year: 1957 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Grant Williams, with an unassumingly skinny frame, All-American blond hair and soft voice, is perfect for science-fiction as he passively allows strange things to happen around him... even when vanishing into thin air for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/05/shrinkwrapup.html">THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN</a>, and, here as a small town cop, he's partnered with a old scientist to figure out how giant monoliths are growing out of the earth...</p><p></p><p>Which eventually look fantastic as they crash into a raging river... but these titular MONOLITH MONSTERS never seem that formidable, and are more dangerous in semi-suspenseful scenes leading up... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

fifties, grant williams, horror, jack arnold, les tremayne, lola albright, paul frees, science-fiction, thriller, troy donahue

LOLA ALBRIGHT & GRANT WILLIAMS IN 'THE MONOLITH MONSTERS'

Lola Albright in THE MONOLITH MONSTERS Year: 1957 Rating: **1/2 Grant Williams, with an unassumingly skinny frame, All-American blond hair a...

PHILIP CAREY WITH AARON SPELLING IN 'WYOMING RENEGADES'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxApTo5udlQXGTsvD2kBAFYYks2ZnoVSfBGXLblU7kXTzWWlX5Z0bJnonemQFEZLjqbf4ChuIhMzGdEpT7vWRafQboSO9DA-Syuqf2pGeDFmJYrcpnw1bxpIa0taTSSeyqGmL0aRdYuBEd4_sGyGALrNo6tsVpzh4tssmwhe0CgGrzv-0fqq0UOd1ovzG8/s2002/fff%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="2002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxApTo5udlQXGTsvD2kBAFYYks2ZnoVSfBGXLblU7kXTzWWlX5Z0bJnonemQFEZLjqbf4ChuIhMzGdEpT7vWRafQboSO9DA-Syuqf2pGeDFmJYrcpnw1bxpIa0taTSSeyqGmL0aRdYuBEd4_sGyGALrNo6tsVpzh4tssmwhe0CgGrzv-0fqq0UOd1ovzG8/s16000/fff%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Philip Carey and Martha Hyer in WYOMING RENEGADES Year: 1956 Rating; ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's impossible to hear about Butch Cassidy and Sundance without thinking of Paul Newman and Robert Redford... but a decade earlier, more regular-looking Gene Evans and William Bishop played the cowboy outlaws but are secondary to Philip Carey's Brady Sutton, one of their fictional gang members who splits early on...<br><br>The main problem with so many low-budget western-potboilers is expository dialogue explaining what could have been compelling/entertaining actual content as, three years later, Carey, having been imprisoned, turns up completely unwelcome in the small town he had come from...</p><p><span></span></p>

aaron spelling, douglas kennedy, fifties, fred f. sears, gene evans, george keymas, martha hyer, philip carey, western, william bishop

PHILIP CAREY WITH AARON SPELLING IN 'WYOMING RENEGADES'

Philip Carey and Martha Hyer in WYOMING RENEGADES Year: 1956 Rating; *** It's impossible to hear about Butch Cassidy and Sundance withou...

CORNEL WILDE, DONNA REED & CHRISTOPHER LEE 'BEYOND MOMBASA'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6OQskJD0q_Hc1Z6Oic6wkY7icnRlk35O2HySQpyI8rN2S88lSUCg7JPnBG1c5NsbDqf0tXS1AyctUNhKaYP-osT-958UeTdOYGxbcysamaGHZctrsStSsdKJLE005ghNWTQer53VKt7qplaOg-fkYfSRaK3D2AWXa611OG5IdZVUSH6kdkFFVm1pOW-L9/s1218/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-27%20at%201.35.12%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="1218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6OQskJD0q_Hc1Z6Oic6wkY7icnRlk35O2HySQpyI8rN2S88lSUCg7JPnBG1c5NsbDqf0tXS1AyctUNhKaYP-osT-958UeTdOYGxbcysamaGHZctrsStSsdKJLE005ghNWTQer53VKt7qplaOg-fkYfSRaK3D2AWXa611OG5IdZVUSH6kdkFFVm1pOW-L9/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-27%20at%201.35.12%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BEYOND MOMBASA Year: 1956 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The same year and basically the same plot-line of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/11/safari.html">Terence Young's SAFARI</a>,, where a scoundrel safari guide romances a lovely sophisticated woman by having nothing in common but both being attractive... <br></p><p><br>And the fact he also has a revenge-driven ulterior motive, in this case his brother having been murdered, BEYOND MOMBASA is slightly edgier since Cornel Wilde's overall rogue attitude are far more intriguing than Victor Mature's...  <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, british, christopher lee, cornel wilde, fifties, george marshall, jungle, leo genn, ron randell

CORNEL WILDE, DONNA REED & CHRISTOPHER LEE 'BEYOND MOMBASA'

Title: BEYOND MOMBASA Year: 1956 Rating: *** The same year and basically the same plot-line of  Terence Young's SAFARI ,, where a scound...

TERENCE YOUNG'S 'ZARAK' WITH VICTOR MATURE & EUNICE GAYSON

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPbdhyX3Cs3MWxMHThwMC1uDy9pHS_aweGJagSCD0YVMLe1VfDsLN3_o_-GY5YyxKJKEzgcGNEXmag1_PEkZsrGne3v5Q-2VvNOu8jmfQXwmjDFW2BW62ZN_7wC7Zx0FmlzamRpJqizj9aJ379dmyeQ6PnHtsqtYDHfTIU1jQBvL8VEaf-Hrknn5W4VRuv/s1510/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-26%20at%201.40.43%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="1510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPbdhyX3Cs3MWxMHThwMC1uDy9pHS_aweGJagSCD0YVMLe1VfDsLN3_o_-GY5YyxKJKEzgcGNEXmag1_PEkZsrGne3v5Q-2VvNOu8jmfQXwmjDFW2BW62ZN_7wC7Zx0FmlzamRpJqizj9aJ379dmyeQ6PnHtsqtYDHfTIU1jQBvL8VEaf-Hrknn5W4VRuv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-26%20at%201.40.43%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ZARAK Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Future James Bond directing icon Terence Young made the Arabic Adventure ZARAK so full of bright 1950's technicolor, it's only when the matte paintings of lush background sunsets and deserts are too obvious is it apparent this is basically yet another low-budget British potboiler... but those matte paintings are painted beautifully...<br><br>And with the kind of setup for what would seem a pre LAWRENCE OF ARABIA epic, where a powerful Arab leader father banishes his son Cain-style into the endless sandy wilderness for having an affair with his prettiest of many wives, Anita Ekberg, American import Victor Mature's title character is really a charming anti-heroic bandit straight from any American-shot b-Western...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, anita ekberg, bonar colleano, british, eddie byrne, eunice gayson, fifties, patrick mcgoohan, terence young, victor mature

TERENCE YOUNG'S 'ZARAK' WITH VICTOR MATURE & EUNICE GAYSON

Title: ZARAK Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2 Future James Bond directing icon Terence Young made the Arabic Adventure ZARAK so full of bright 1950...

STEPHEN BOYD & CAMILLA SPARV IN VAL GUEST'S 'ASSIGNMENT K'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWncnPrmIqJQ1OJhSaBD88KoopMduGHQtP1ieklFozBps5uvCQ0lgdKu8pOetkC5QpznoJnlKYrZCXA_w21QCU3GtrUUmgsEQZhW0ZqribFhKC5kJeYxq4u5E8l18JpyDM-U8InyWAVEDifDS39ps7fgnbr8Rqivp6Q66i2eieur3wytRKD71QuA7mcvy5/s1800/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWncnPrmIqJQ1OJhSaBD88KoopMduGHQtP1ieklFozBps5uvCQ0lgdKu8pOetkC5QpznoJnlKYrZCXA_w21QCU3GtrUUmgsEQZhW0ZqribFhKC5kJeYxq4u5E8l18JpyDM-U8InyWAVEDifDS39ps7fgnbr8Rqivp6Q66i2eieur3wytRKD71QuA7mcvy5/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ASSIGNMENT K Year: 1968 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>British director <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/val%20guest">Val Guest</a> and Irish actor Stephen Boyd are both underrated and only known by film buffs: Boyd the super-handsome, square-jawed, cleft-chin villain in BEN-HUR while Guest directed the more suspenseful Hammer entries including non-scary crime flicks... <br><br>Here both converging into what's basically a James Bond spy movie the same year Sean Connery replacement George Lazenby took to the snowy alps in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/04/on-her-majestys-secret-service.html">ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE</a>... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

andrea allan, british neo noir, catherine schell, espionage, jane merrow, john alderton, leo mckern, michael redgrave, robert hoffman, sixties, sport, ursula howells, val guest, vivi bach

STEPHEN BOYD & CAMILLA SPARV IN VAL GUEST'S 'ASSIGNMENT K'

Title: ASSIGNMENT K Year: 1968 Rating: ***1/2 British director Val Guest and Irish actor Stephen Boyd are both underrated and only known by...

PETER LORRE WITH ROBERT WILCOX IN 'ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi63qaa0xiIctbqdopb0jHwTW48cGiHlbKfsNogToqQnktHRhkTmLAaWw881aY3RyCoS-XyMXTK_rQfXLZz3GrvQyD55RCkiDVgkwynHbSmtbRUd0ddzqczxOS8_qCwB78SiG6B6Ydj8X-G6JGOw6b8qzHWmNXGWldTImlrrITUmx-3jfC32IH36tt4-RPS/s1892/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-19%20at%206.59.45%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1090" data-original-width="1892" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi63qaa0xiIctbqdopb0jHwTW48cGiHlbKfsNogToqQnktHRhkTmLAaWw881aY3RyCoS-XyMXTK_rQfXLZz3GrvQyD55RCkiDVgkwynHbSmtbRUd0ddzqczxOS8_qCwB78SiG6B6Ydj8X-G6JGOw6b8qzHWmNXGWldTImlrrITUmx-3jfC32IH36tt4-RPS/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-19%20at%206.59.45%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN Year: 1940 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The pulpy tagline to the 1940 thriller ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN is "Women shuddering at his cruel caress" despite the fact only one woman, the wife of evil slave-master Peter Lorre, is on the titular island: and within their balmy plantation villa interior, he hardly touches or even speaks to her at all...<br><br>As classic beauty Rochelle Hudson quickly and understandably falls for handsome, dark-haired buried-lead Robert Wilcox, whose initial wrong-man story-line fits more into a deliberately-complicated film-noir beyond what's often mistaken as a horror flick (the plot heavily infused into Lawrence Tierney's jungle-traipsing <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/06/KOBK.html">KILL OR BE KILLED</a>)... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

forties, george e. stone, kenneth macdonald, peter lorre, prison, robert wilcox, rochelle hudson, thriller

PETER LORRE WITH ROBERT WILCOX IN 'ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN'

Title: ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN Year: 1940 Rating: ***1/2 The pulpy tagline to the 1940 thriller ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN is "Women shuddering ...