MICHELLE JOHNSON WITH MICHAEL CAINE IN 'BLAME IT ON RIO'

<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/AVvXsEjsPyu4i7FlkPuukrFYdzjZ2MW7N8lfmc3CcA5oG271z0Hz5Gh62SW0yjytHkRpUkGK7hg0wzs4Ss5CXXFx5N7IgbCVO9xUYPNpzRS9oWbxCz8XBoiRG7BG-LkUL3yDBMb3zJLCDmw2ugYDzILAcmHducr2hGjfPqukDPA1GQRxqPdRfA_pMtybde6E6Wf4/s2752/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-06%20at%209.53.23%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1466" data-original-width="2752" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsPyu4i7FlkPuukrFYdzjZ2MW7N8lfmc3CcA5oG271z0Hz5Gh62SW0yjytHkRpUkGK7hg0wzs4Ss5CXXFx5N7IgbCVO9xUYPNpzRS9oWbxCz8XBoiRG7BG-LkUL3yDBMb3zJLCDmw2ugYDzILAcmHducr2hGjfPqukDPA1GQRxqPdRfA_pMtybde6E6Wf4/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-06%20at%209.53.23%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sherwood Productions logo for Stanley Donen's BLAME IT ON RIO Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In Stanley Donen's 1980's glossy/uptempo Americanized French-remake BLAME IT ON RIO, one creative sequence really stands out: when Michael Caine, on his way to the titular location for a busman's holiday with business partner Joseph Bologna, gazes through the airplane window and sees plane-wing-dancing footage from the Golden Age of Hollywood that Donen had reignited with SINGIN' IN THE RAIN... <br><br>After that, RIO is the usual older-guy-hooks-up-with-hot-young-dream-girl comedy, where real life model Michelle Johnson's mere perfection provides its own novelty, allowing actor's actor Michael Caine a chance to do light comedy before it would garner an Oscar in Woody Allen's upcoming HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (as Caine's 4th-wall-breaking narration is straight from ANNIE HALL)...</p><p><span></span></p>

demi moore, eighties, joseph bolonga, michael caine, michelle johnson, sex comedy, stanley donen, valerie harper

MICHELLE JOHNSON WITH MICHAEL CAINE IN 'BLAME IT ON RIO'

Sherwood Productions logo for Stanley Donen's BLAME IT ON RIO Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 In Stanley Donen's 1980's glossy/uptempo...

MICHELLE JOHNSON MELTS 'WAXWORK' WITH DEBORAH FOREMAN

<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/AVvXsEiPSgWscMm8yXlAP3mYgGkpzSgT73f7IKKl_HKR8zHf8KCO4DbHMnRymgaf26ohmQvEhpvgpRwAApsjP8a9ZMpvyQvAcSTMhbgaWV3D9yz03mUqP9xkZ_72qdK0NLch26XLQSZg8vxhUnJde3OjytLQmfgYp1xY6mFOLHXqkY8bQw34Cj9tG2E-G6B6m-mf/s2576/22.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1342" data-original-width="2576" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPSgWscMm8yXlAP3mYgGkpzSgT73f7IKKl_HKR8zHf8KCO4DbHMnRymgaf26ohmQvEhpvgpRwAApsjP8a9ZMpvyQvAcSTMhbgaWV3D9yz03mUqP9xkZ_72qdK0NLch26XLQSZg8vxhUnJde3OjytLQmfgYp1xY6mFOLHXqkY8bQw34Cj9tG2E-G6B6m-mf/s16000/22.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: WAXWORK Year: 1988 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>British director Anthony Hickox sets up what initially feels like a normal teen-slasher by the eclectic high-school students' contrary personalities: all of them gathered on otherwise empty campus bleachers, deciding what to do for the upcoming night...<br><br>Ironically, one couple wants to stay home to watch a horror flick while the others go to the local WAXWORK museum run by British villain-actor David Warner, wielding his usual nefarious charm: and not in the picture enough... </p><span></span>

anthony hickox, dana ashbrook, david warner, deborah foreman, eighties, fantasy, horror, michelle johnson, patrick macnee, vampire, werewolf, zach galligan

MICHELLE JOHNSON MELTS 'WAXWORK' WITH DEBORAH FOREMAN

Title: WAXWORK Year: 1988 Rating: ***1/2 British director Anthony Hickox sets up what initially feels like a normal teen-slasher by the ecle...

MURRAY LANGSTON UNKNOWN TRILOGY INCLUDING 'NIGHT PATROL'

<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/AVvXsEg9-8W7qnc96S79clT44fiVOCjtmuEhW0zkzGvVII6XfCNG_yQIsm_77bzuQcESnkljXPu1Wuzd8WTTVqHzWxVuKq1EP4TFbzTd0xypEwIEoeWmGfCxU-jP0_Nh7AUfNBto6vzGwpzuhLrX02c6r3THpGgmL7UpVcSFwOsRFYdGxEStlf_SZiygUrIdKxqb/s852/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="852" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9-8W7qnc96S79clT44fiVOCjtmuEhW0zkzGvVII6XfCNG_yQIsm_77bzuQcESnkljXPu1Wuzd8WTTVqHzWxVuKq1EP4TFbzTd0xypEwIEoeWmGfCxU-jP0_Nh7AUfNBto6vzGwpzuhLrX02c6r3THpGgmL7UpVcSFwOsRFYdGxEStlf_SZiygUrIdKxqb/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: NIGHT PATROL Year: 1984 Camp Value: ***<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Murray Langston is not a hack comedian. Well actually, he is, deliberately... but when he appeared on stage for THE GONG SHOW, he was really a sack comedian: covering his face with a generic paper bag with poked holes for eyes and one for the mouth: And thus all those corny jokes became funnier, and with a skinny body nervously meandering around the stage, a cult star was born...<br><br>And eventually, finally unmasked, it was time for a motion picture... despite the fact that low-rent director Jackie Kong's NIGHT PATROL (written by Langston and GONG SHOW co-star Jaye P. Morgan) plays out like exactly what it has become: a straight-to-video train-wreck that only appears on cable stations well past midnight... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

andrew dice clay, billy barty, comedy, cop, cult, eighties, jack riley, jackie kong, jaye p. morgan, linda blair, lori sutton, lou mulford, michelle johnson, murray langston, parody, pat morita, pat paulsen

MURRAY LANGSTON UNKNOWN TRILOGY INCLUDING 'NIGHT PATROL'

Title: NIGHT PATROL Year: 1984 Camp Value: *** Murray Langston is not a hack comedian. Well actually, he is, deliberately... but when he app...

ROBERT CARRADINE & KIMBERLY BECK 'MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH'

<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/AVvXsEhSh0MaA2a81W-4Xo25voiFqSRhdnqztSF17vMxSKlPi3szM2zTYh6UOhoCTzWWgXN4ZDAy7-HICYD_6HYe0EyexYVOnz9JHz1pmXpTJRCbakjxNnYEHqb7uJEn9rYCfr3vic6Id9-wN0Fv-54AErfKnhx6m81UoAheA0SHu8G26VYAXTJlMn-TvJts_1pA/s2320/1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1510" data-original-width="2320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSh0MaA2a81W-4Xo25voiFqSRhdnqztSF17vMxSKlPi3szM2zTYh6UOhoCTzWWgXN4ZDAy7-HICYD_6HYe0EyexYVOnz9JHz1pmXpTJRCbakjxNnYEHqb7uJEn9rYCfr3vic6Id9-wN0Fv-54AErfKnhx6m81UoAheA0SHu8G26VYAXTJlMn-TvJts_1pA/s16000/1.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Carradine in MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH Year: 1976 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In one of the strangest high school bully pictures ever made, MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH begins like an <i>Afterschool Special</i> (including a cheesy opening song)... until future picked-on REVENGE OF THE NERDS star Robert Carradine gets slammed around by popular jocks for having a swastika on his locker... adding to the overall bizarre nature in what's both completely ambiguous and horribly melodramatic... <br><br>Where new-kid-on-campus Derrel Maury's reunited with childhood friend Andrew Stevens... the latter a passive middleman for the trio of square-jawed/blond-haired bullies, who actually terrorize all weaker students with angry venom more befitting A CLOCKWORK ORANGE before than MY BODYGUARD after... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

andrew stevens, body count, cheryl smith, damon douglas, dennis kort, high school, horror, kimberly beck, lani o'grady, ray underwood, rex steven sikes, robert carradine, seventies, steve bond

ROBERT CARRADINE & KIMBERLY BECK 'MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH'

Robert Carradine in MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH Year: 1976 Rating: ***1/2 In one of the strangest high school bully pictures ever made, MASSACR...

DAVID CARRADINE AND ROBERT CARRADINE DRIVING 'CANNONBALL'

<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/AVvXsEgRAQfpmHFQHLEu0SXorm69coBMJj0UVjOwyRW6BP1F-iDa6VQJOxhx8tdP9ugKTitmQLQg1r8X5y1rSSjOYTKi3wuLEGksc6pQmGsRYYns3pN_uNgq1ztV0qRGOoLZg-Mjm8G-qM7xTZiU6xyql8k1aWVW72HOcJLQjC2-fPMmegnXb2aiEPn1Oe1ShdoC/s2474/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-24%20at%206.29.04%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1528" data-original-width="2474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRAQfpmHFQHLEu0SXorm69coBMJj0UVjOwyRW6BP1F-iDa6VQJOxhx8tdP9ugKTitmQLQg1r8X5y1rSSjOYTKi3wuLEGksc6pQmGsRYYns3pN_uNgq1ztV0qRGOoLZg-Mjm8G-qM7xTZiU6xyql8k1aWVW72HOcJLQjC2-fPMmegnXb2aiEPn1Oe1ShdoC/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-24%20at%206.29.04%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: CANNONBALL Year: 1976 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It would be as surprising if roughshod stuntman director Hal Needham made a sophisticated Shakespeare adaptation as classy/gentlemen Paul Bartel being one of the best high-octane car-race/chase auteurs in the grungy 1970's and, following the popular dystopian-future dark-comedy <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/08/DR2000.html">DEATH RACE 2000</a>, he made the first and least known action-flick based on the genuinely real and extremely illegal no-rules cross-country <i>Cannonball</i>...<br><br>Created and manned by Brock Peters, who only appeared in the famous 1981 Needham ensemble with superstar Burt Reynolds, making <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/09/burt-reynolds-in-hal-needhams.html">THE CANNONBALL RUN</a> the only legitimate showcase... </p><span></span>

belinda balaski, bill mckinney, david carradine, exploitation, garrit graham, hangout, mary woronov, paul bartel, race car, robert carradine, seventies, sylvester stallone, veronica hamel

DAVID CARRADINE AND ROBERT CARRADINE DRIVING 'CANNONBALL'

Title: CANNONBALL Year: 1976 Rating: **** It would be as surprising if roughshod stuntman director Hal Needham made a sophisticated Shakespe...

MEMORIAL POST OF ROBERT DUVALL IN 'ROUTE 66: THE NEWBORN'

<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/AVvXsEj883IzC-EiXGj4ZzV7YyjpxTJcteW9oIncE51x1ddnxlzKmiFkYcztvb8f1Ob6NwsIwnOwzejzoH8CahLGPIL0ULBAW7Vn3RwQb_0YgrFK7LXrJnnp3fgra5SagkrhXDdSBK8F_eQD7lKpKgFcQ6o1aQp22BNZEGPr4DbzEUn6D5oXFsFS0gFNL7CniBK4/s2472/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-21%20at%206.54.12%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1534" data-original-width="2472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj883IzC-EiXGj4ZzV7YyjpxTJcteW9oIncE51x1ddnxlzKmiFkYcztvb8f1Ob6NwsIwnOwzejzoH8CahLGPIL0ULBAW7Vn3RwQb_0YgrFK7LXrJnnp3fgra5SagkrhXDdSBK8F_eQD7lKpKgFcQ6o1aQp22BNZEGPr4DbzEUn6D5oXFsFS0gFNL7CniBK4/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-21%20at%206.54.12%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Duvall in ROUTE 66: THE NEWBORN Year: 1961 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In two episodes of ROUTE 66 featuring Robert Duvall that starred both lead actors Martin Milner and George Maharis, someone winds up very physically ill and the boys have to stick around to help...<br><br>The episode where Duvall's most known is BIRDCAGE ON MY FOOT, as a heroin addict suffering violent withdrawals, using his intense method-acting realism that'd become his signature legacy... supported in a dingy apartment mainly by Maharis, who, a bad boy from the slums of New York, knows not only about addiction but the consequences... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

albert dekker, george maharis, martin milner, memorial, robert duvall, sixties, tv series, western

MEMORIAL POST OF ROBERT DUVALL IN 'ROUTE 66: THE NEWBORN'

Robert Duvall in ROUTE 66: THE NEWBORN Year: 1961 Rating: **1/2 In two episodes of ROUTE 66 featuring Robert Duvall that starred both lead a...

CLINT WALKER WITH VINCENT PRICE IN 'MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE'

<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/AVvXsEg7DHXDTS-f721WGNysDhCx84BcOyh_p4gkBB4GrZvxKE06cnJ4s6sNK13-t-vqA1pTuQP_9u13fXp9mN3_uw9I3zTiO_7iQ2A1waAjGWPSBDOA37QuX6bekPztZIJKG4XOBY794SOOtyy_ZDaHMXwNxrJsNhYId9-BdeQA6p-iakpKfwywSmt2p3ZqskaB/s1772/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-21%20at%207.07.39%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1022" data-original-width="1772" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7DHXDTS-f721WGNysDhCx84BcOyh_p4gkBB4GrZvxKE06cnJ4s6sNK13-t-vqA1pTuQP_9u13fXp9mN3_uw9I3zTiO_7iQ2A1waAjGWPSBDOA37QuX6bekPztZIJKG4XOBY794SOOtyy_ZDaHMXwNxrJsNhYId9-BdeQA6p-iakpKfwywSmt2p3ZqskaB/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-21%20at%207.07.39%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Clint Walker in MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE Year: 1969 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Opens with the kind of shoot-em-up gusto of the otherwise cliche Western, MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE stars gentle giant Clint Walker as a formerly infamous gunslinger who basically stands around inside a fort-like prison while his muscular doppelganger Mike Henry violently busts out his own gang...<br><br>What was needed in this extremely strange/offbeat 1969 Western was a prologue before the prologue: like how Clint Walker went to prison in the first place, since his character's brutal past means pretty much everything...</p><p><span></span></p>

anne francis, beverly powers, clint walker, emile meyer, harry lauter, mike henry, paul hampton, sixties, vincent price, western

CLINT WALKER WITH VINCENT PRICE IN 'MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE'

Clint Walker in MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE Year: 1969 Rating: *** Opens with the kind of shoot-em-up gusto of the otherwise cliche Western, MORE D...

MONTSERRAT PROUS & KALI HANSA 'SINNER: DIARY OF A NYMPHO'

<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/AVvXsEhceUCPhQcxe46TyFbRtsSpI_twql-Z_pWd1pu1vB0c5cxrnTlEQRNyx4LVa1Tvlj0F2lAyIW8cwnI38gizz4EQT_xWsKD91bQE98IRKUFH4BCxHddpulB-qelBu2rzvUAtZC8QCxBPwIoxn21byraLEYQbbVJxFrrrAuT90G1VDeK22W3NmymH8AVMLThy/s2102/11.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1338" data-original-width="2102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhceUCPhQcxe46TyFbRtsSpI_twql-Z_pWd1pu1vB0c5cxrnTlEQRNyx4LVa1Tvlj0F2lAyIW8cwnI38gizz4EQT_xWsKD91bQE98IRKUFH4BCxHddpulB-qelBu2rzvUAtZC8QCxBPwIoxn21byraLEYQbbVJxFrrrAuT90G1VDeK22W3NmymH8AVMLThy/s16000/11.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Montserrat Prous in SINNER: THE SECRET DIARY OF A NYMPHOMANIAC Rates: *</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Spanish horror auteur <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jes%C3%BAs%20franco">Jesús Franco's</a> regular starlets <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/montserrat%20prous">Montserrat Prous</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/kali%20hansa">Kali Hansa</a> were battling for inheritance in his crime/slasher <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/02/orloff.html">THE SINISTER EYES OF DR. ORLOFF</a>, were stuck on a murderous island in the mystery/thriller <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/02/prou.html">THE SILENCE OF THE TOMB</a>... </p><p>And in SINNER: THE SECRET DIARY OF A NYMPHOMANIAC they pose together sexually (for seductive Anne Libert providing a backstory to Lacqueline Laurent)... but without sharing any deep lesbian kisses and with zero chemistry, it's a complete waste of two of Franco's hottest starlets... a shame since the wide-eyed brunette Prous deserved much better. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

anne libert, exploitation, jacqueline laurent, jesús franco, kali hansa, lesbian, montserrat prous, seventies, thriller

MONTSERRAT PROUS & KALI HANSA 'SINNER: DIARY OF A NYMPHO'

Montserrat Prous in SINNER: THE SECRET DIARY OF A NYMPHOMANIAC Rates: * Spanish horror auteur Jesús Franco's regular starlets Montserra...

MONTSERRAT PROUS & KALI HANSA IN 'THE SILENCE OF THE TOMB'

<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/AVvXsEghOAsP-KmD-Ze8cqqGA5EdpQv2yMfJD7oRi7HtfnuuB1oYv51j63Wu4STWDvNFigLNRZ8gH7SNIlayt101hfPEpSZxfvPxQX_pq1qjGtviqifXgJbgzOCiZHeb5cCXVkEtsB-54BKHPdMfUSxF2S_6DtqSECHpl-U9LoLtLuwTyO0cc04mJwWxMUOllynt/s2098/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-13%20at%204.58.27%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1134" data-original-width="2098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghOAsP-KmD-Ze8cqqGA5EdpQv2yMfJD7oRi7HtfnuuB1oYv51j63Wu4STWDvNFigLNRZ8gH7SNIlayt101hfPEpSZxfvPxQX_pq1qjGtviqifXgJbgzOCiZHeb5cCXVkEtsB-54BKHPdMfUSxF2S_6DtqSECHpl-U9LoLtLuwTyO0cc04mJwWxMUOllynt/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-13%20at%204.58.27%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Montserrat Prous in The Silence of the Tomb/Un silencio de tumba Year: 1972 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Lina Romay,  Ewa Strömberg, Maria Rohm and especially <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/01/lezvamp.html">VAMPYROS LESBOS</a> icon Soledad Miranda are scream-queen movie-household names when it comes to working with Spanish horror auteur Jesús Franco... <br><br>But a personal favorite is wide-eyed brooding brunette Montserrat Prous, starring as the central vulnerable ingenue in two obscure Franco features more thriller than killer, although there are plenty of deaths here in THE SILENCE OF THE TOMB compared to their previous <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/02/orloff.html">THE SINISTER EYES OF DR. ORLOFF</a>... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

alberto dalbés, body count, glenda allen, jesús franco, kali hansa, montserrat prous, mystery, seventies, spanish horror, thriller, yelena samarina

MONTSERRAT PROUS & KALI HANSA IN 'THE SILENCE OF THE TOMB'

Montserrat Prous in The Silence of the Tomb/Un silencio de tumba Year: 1972 Rating: *** Lina Romay,  Ewa Strömberg, Maria Rohm and especiall...

MONTSERRAT PROUS HYPNOTIZES 'THE SINISTER EYES OF DR. ORLOFF'

<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/AVvXsEh72UAT1K2O_rrBL7dTHKpRI5W0KxgvnfLUr3CA1XLXKNKUHeu3FqnZRU6TwUaaLjLDPjH1hSforDPJnH6iqur9K3cs5wrZK8PVCOB1oblDzZGLpCYFYJY0EoU8oYmic6zxvisu8UXt_AkasE0XaGsMGI2A_2jrWlomc16KWmztBopNOfwJ_exXL3-XxW7v/s2100/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-05%20at%209.46.47%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1290" data-original-width="2100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh72UAT1K2O_rrBL7dTHKpRI5W0KxgvnfLUr3CA1XLXKNKUHeu3FqnZRU6TwUaaLjLDPjH1hSforDPJnH6iqur9K3cs5wrZK8PVCOB1oblDzZGLpCYFYJY0EoU8oYmic6zxvisu8UXt_AkasE0XaGsMGI2A_2jrWlomc16KWmztBopNOfwJ_exXL3-XxW7v/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-05%20at%209.46.47%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Montserrat Prou in THE SINISTER EYES OF DR. ORLOFF Year: 1973 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Spanish Low-Budget Exploitation-Horror director Jesús Franco's THE SINISTER EYES OF DR. ORLOFF is really more of an expository-driven neo-noir crime-thriller... <br><br>Spending too much time on an inspector (and folk singing neighbor) figuring out plush manor killings and not enough on gorgeous doe-eyed brunette <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/01/TFWTEOG.html">Montserrat Prous</a>, a sickly rich girl randomly committing slasher-style murders under the hypnotic spell of the titular doctor (played by Spaghetti Western icon William Berger)...</p><p><span></span></p>

jesús franco, kali hansa, lina romay, loreta tovar, montserrat prous, neo noir, seventies, spanish horror, william berger

MONTSERRAT PROUS HYPNOTIZES 'THE SINISTER EYES OF DR. ORLOFF'

Montserrat Prou in THE SINISTER EYES OF DR. ORLOFF Year: 1973 Rating: *** Spanish Low-Budget Exploitation-Horror director Jesús Franco's...

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>

antonio mayans, eighties, elisa vela, eva león, exploitation, fantasy, jesús franco, lesbian, lina romay, mari carmen nieto, spanish horror

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...

MERCEDES MOLINA & PAUL NASCHY 'EXORCISM' WITH MARÍA KOSTY

<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/AVvXsEgNM2uvIRQkOywxW8D0Axvixsm0RXTpnwIElYWvUvDYxuuh2nSZHPz0E4J_4vEgWPtUjXEa6Ig1SzUA07wVcTENeC_LFosA4AVAgbmh6ND61UiUBnEW07TdzOzWMvU7PXOHuANefQs3TYGinT26E2W5LBLan0w3yUHLO4eSAS6fHhJIhyaU0xzNL4osuhVj/s1142/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-08%20at%203.33.08%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="1142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNM2uvIRQkOywxW8D0Axvixsm0RXTpnwIElYWvUvDYxuuh2nSZHPz0E4J_4vEgWPtUjXEa6Ig1SzUA07wVcTENeC_LFosA4AVAgbmh6ND61UiUBnEW07TdzOzWMvU7PXOHuANefQs3TYGinT26E2W5LBLan0w3yUHLO4eSAS6fHhJIhyaU0xzNL4osuhVj/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-08%20at%203.33.08%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mercedes Molina in EXORCISM/EXORCISMO Year: 1975 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Blonde-haired, full-lipped, wide-eyed, girl-next-door starlet María Kosty's second EXORCIST clone from 1975 where she has a bigger part than the cameo from Amando de Ossorio's DEMON WITCH CHILD, here as the slightly older sister of the token possessed girl who's no child this time, but tall, lithe and lovely ingenue Mercedes Molina...<br><br>She gets possessed during an opening sequence orgy that seems like the rudimentary beach party in JAWS only with naked hippies worshiping idols... the inner demon mimicking her late father, a wealthy scoundrel who wasn't friendly with classy-hot mom Maria Perschy, even prettier than her extremely pretty daughters... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

exploitation, maría kosty, maria perschy, marta avilés, mercedes molina, paul naschy, seventies, spanish horror

MERCEDES MOLINA & PAUL NASCHY 'EXORCISM' WITH MARÍA KOSTY

Mercedes Molina in EXORCISM/EXORCISMO Year: 1975 Rating: *** Blonde-haired, full-lipped, wide-eyed, girl-next-door starlet María Kosty's...

MERCEDES MOLINA & PAUL NASCHY 'NIGHT OF THE HOWLING BEAST'

<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/AVvXsEgD3vwi8XRxi_6dNm3Mfkp5O4tJfz53ownpW2UcU9xBqqJ8aZH4UJdukZLomzdhX7jKYM7bQpG7yN6lvlGWO2e1ls1_2CznEa3z5qn0OnBn14PRSQfWc-jlcqn_MBITdrTSHiSZAwCeiF-Xoz2MSjvTJ4Af5q3ShRTys_w2pRwzKtzotpAsIGnp5IaKaq0i/s1504/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-08%20at%209.59.39%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="766" data-original-width="1504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD3vwi8XRxi_6dNm3Mfkp5O4tJfz53ownpW2UcU9xBqqJ8aZH4UJdukZLomzdhX7jKYM7bQpG7yN6lvlGWO2e1ls1_2CznEa3z5qn0OnBn14PRSQfWc-jlcqn_MBITdrTSHiSZAwCeiF-Xoz2MSjvTJ4Af5q3ShRTys_w2pRwzKtzotpAsIGnp5IaKaq0i/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-08%20at%209.59.39%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: NIGHT OF THE HOWLING BEAST/La maldición de la bestia Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>In the 1975 exploitation/horror <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/02/exorcyst.html">EXORCISM</a>, tall beauty Mercedes Molina gets possessed by a demon, and priest Paul Naschy has to help... while in the same year's NIGHT OF THE HOWLING BEAST aka THE WEREWOLF AND THE YETI, she has to help him after a monstrous transformation...<br><br>How it happens is rather complicated, all during a snowy expedition to a hidden cavern where the legendary Yeti (Abominable Snowman) dwells... as Naschy's rogue adventurer is trapped in a cavern with two gorgeous nymphs, which sounds like a problem you want to have... but he winds up turning into a familiar monster for the Spanish actor that's played them all...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, anna maria mauri, luis induni, mercedes molina, paul naschy, pepa ferrer, seventies, silvia solar, spanish horror, verónica miriel, werewolf

MERCEDES MOLINA & PAUL NASCHY 'NIGHT OF THE HOWLING BEAST'

Title: NIGHT OF THE HOWLING BEAST/La maldición de la bestia Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2 In the 1975 exploitation/horror EXORCISM , tall beauty...

MARÍA KOSTY GUESTING THE POSSESSED 'DEMON WITCH CHILD'

<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/AVvXsEgnZs6bID1bufV6Skvu_R5vJgdUIa4C9FPt9mYfJKeoUskqVOYLWfHlbHLlBE3j3Xn1XLTWxymJIJbkPHwxTfkuEZU7Uk7wGXTWb9yrduHSCdw5H37PLnaSh69Rh4FG0eRI5QKhCTo-fhRdRSJsk5S2UDsY2yUXuStA7qv_Iya0NzNK3qFAdRYSn_mMw-kE/s1122/2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="1122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnZs6bID1bufV6Skvu_R5vJgdUIa4C9FPt9mYfJKeoUskqVOYLWfHlbHLlBE3j3Xn1XLTWxymJIJbkPHwxTfkuEZU7Uk7wGXTWb9yrduHSCdw5H37PLnaSh69Rh4FG0eRI5QKhCTo-fhRdRSJsk5S2UDsY2yUXuStA7qv_Iya0NzNK3qFAdRYSn_mMw-kE/s16000/2.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: Demon Witch Child/The Possessed/ La endemoniada Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Two years after the groundbreaking horror THE EXORCIST, Spanish director Amando de Ossorio used the William Friedkin classic as more of a jumping off point than remake, providing the central pre-teen girl not only a reason for possession, but an actual character whose ghost creeps inside her... <br><br>Which would sort of become the future plot of Stephen King's THINNER, involving a grotesque old gypsy woman's death providing an ongoing curse... here through sexy gypsy daughter Kali Hansa, leading a sacrifice that includes a dead abducted baby's blood adding to targeted Marián Salgado's soul-binding transition... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

amando de ossorio, exploitation, julia saly, julián mateos, kali hansa, lone fleming, maría kosty, montserrat prous, remake, seventies, spanish horror

MARÍA KOSTY GUESTING THE POSSESSED 'DEMON WITCH CHILD'

Title: Demon Witch Child/The Possessed/ La endemoniada Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2 Two years after the groundbreaking horror THE EXORCIST, Spa...