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Written by James M. Tate / 8/02/2026 / No comments / action , cult , dana andrews , drive-in , gene kirkwood , george ives , jeanne crain , laurie mock , mimsy farmer , race , road movie , sixties

MIMSY FARMER RIDING DANA ANDREWS IN 'HOT RODS TO HELL'

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action, cult, dana andrews, drive-in, gene kirkwood, george ives, jeanne crain, laurie mock, mimsy farmer, race, road movie, sixties

MIMSY FARMER RIDING DANA ANDREWS IN 'HOT RODS TO HELL'

Mimy Farmer, Gene Kirkwood and Paul Bertoya in Hot Rods to Hell Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 "The horns blowing, the lights, the brakes,...

BILL ADLER AND CYNTHIA WOOD CRUISE CROWN'S 'VAN NUYS BLVD.'

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bill adler, crown international, cynthia wood, david hayward, dennis bowen, drive-in, exploitation, hangout, jim kester, melissa prophet, seventies, susanne severeid, tara strohmeier

BILL ADLER AND CYNTHIA WOOD CRUISE CROWN'S 'VAN NUYS BLVD.'

Title: VAN NUYS BLVD. Year: 1979 Rating: *** The first five-minutes of Crown International Pictures' cruising movie VAN NUYS BLVD sums u...

SUE LYON & JENNIFER ASHLEY IN 'TOWING' WITH JOE MANTENGA

<p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEhrETL0QIEGoH2P1wMZjX_GmR4IBZoiiDBInRtBuM64W4xe30JuYkpdMeHi-xXB8YYr8Th_xXiFoOSisr-kV_Ba2qVWRPTjR0dUuXZDc83uZfJWwgqlvvo2fvqQqVr2WaAclPyQs9JTZ6jdMKvGS9fC3xXP3aPWm5acYQgsMxqi64Z5TSmEHFAxbxDBaHoG/s1866/Screen%20Shot%202025-08-07%20at%205.03.22%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="1866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrETL0QIEGoH2P1wMZjX_GmR4IBZoiiDBInRtBuM64W4xe30JuYkpdMeHi-xXB8YYr8Th_xXiFoOSisr-kV_Ba2qVWRPTjR0dUuXZDc83uZfJWwgqlvvo2fvqQqVr2WaAclPyQs9JTZ6jdMKvGS9fC3xXP3aPWm5acYQgsMxqi64Z5TSmEHFAxbxDBaHoG/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-08-07%20at%205.03.22%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jennifer Ashley and Sue Lyon verses J.J. Johnston in TOWING Year: 1978 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Before calling it quits after <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/09/sue-lyon-swan-song.html">ALLIGATOR</a>, Sue Lyon starred alongside Jennifer Ashley in what was once the Holy Grail of the former Lolita's low-budget 1970's flicks, finally coexisting with <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/09/evelyon.html">EVEL KNIEVEL</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/09/sue-lyon-tarot.html">TAROT</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/09/clockwork-lolita.html">MURDER IN A BLUE WORLD</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/09/sue-lyon-crash.html">CRASH!</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/09/AssFactor.html">THE ASTRAL FACTOR</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/09/LYON-i5.html">SMASH-UP ON INTERSTATE  5</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2015/12/lyon-end-of-world.html">END OF THE WORLD</a>...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Her penultimate feature TOWING is a low-budget street-set sex-comedy influenced by CAR WASH, with a similar funky theme playing from beginning to end, starring Ashley and Lyon as barmaid besties... </p><p><span></span></p>

bobby di cici, cult, drive-in, exploitation, indie, jennifer ashley, joe mantenga, seventies, sue lyon

SUE LYON & JENNIFER ASHLEY IN 'TOWING' WITH JOE MANTENGA

Jennifer Ashley and Sue Lyon verses J.J. Johnston in TOWING Year: 1978 Rating: *** Before calling it quits after ALLIGATOR , Sue Lyon starre...

WILLIAM CONRAD'S 'BRAINSTORM' AND 'MY BLOOD RUNS COLD'

anne francis, dana andrews, drama, drive-in, jazz-score, jeffrey hunter, kathie browne, neo noir, nicolas coster, richard kiel, sixties, strother martin, thriller, troy donahue, viveca lindfors, william conrad

WILLIAM CONRAD'S 'BRAINSTORM' AND 'MY BLOOD RUNS COLD'

William Conrad Directorial Double Feature from 1965 From his sinister beginnings as one of the two title hitmen who cast an ominous shadow ...

PETER CUSHING 'LAND OF THE MINOTAUR' AKA 'THE DEVIL'S MEN'

body count, crown international, cult, donald pleasence, drive-in, exploitation, horror, import, luan peters, occult, peter cushing, seventies, thriller

PETER CUSHING 'LAND OF THE MINOTAUR' AKA 'THE DEVIL'S MEN'

Deliciously wicket poster art for the MINOTAUR Year: 1976 You can't deny the timeless aesthetic villainy of Peter Cushing, one year ...

CROWN INTERNATIONAL PICTURES EXPLOITATION OF 'THE VAN'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>One of the coolest title fonts in the seventies for THE VAN Year: 1977</u></td></tr>
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For a couple of guys who seem like Black Sabbath or Blue Öyster Cult fans, the bad country music never stops playing, but that's THE VAN by Crown International Pictures, a wall-to-wall goofy soundtrack of one young geek's journey into loose sex and vehicular savvy, as the main song croons of a Chevy Van, which his isn't: but the yellow color stands out, and the water bed breaks after one lucky screw that may not have even happened...<br>
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As much of the film has creatively shot daydream sequences of our underdog hero Stuart Goetz, the same kid that Marcia Brady didn't date when jock Nicholas Hammond told her "Something suddenly came up" on THE BRADY BUNCH. Here he's a car washer (another CAR WASH influence) under a sporadically cast Danny DeVito, one year before playing grouchy dispatcher Louie DePalma on TAXI. Funny thing, DeVito's character sits in just as tight a space, giving orders, although he's an affable (if crooked) fellow here.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Pinball girl Jane Mudrick with Stuart Goetz in THE VAN Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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Most of the picture takes place around the suburbs and outskirts of the L.A. Valley that includes the beach where a gathering of vans are shown for the mere exploitation of those vehicles, which this drive-in flick's not only named after but is exploiting from its popularity in an era of hot rods and scantily clad summer girls, including hot blonde Connie Hoffman hooked with a token muscular bully (who drives a fitfully dark van). <br>
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But the ingenue here's an uptight girl-next-door played by Deborah White, and yet her quirky friend, FADE TO BLACK quirky friend Marcie Barkin, is even more cute and effective: the girl of our guy's best friend Harry Moses, who doesn't do much but hear about his buddy's misadventurous conquests that, unfortunately, are spoken of more than actually experienced. For what THE VAN is in <i>droves</i>, it also misses out on: A circular road movie where the sky could have been the limit but is, for the most part, just a another backdrop. Still though, Quentin Tarantino is a VAN addict, and it <i>is</i> an addictive little ride.<br>

bill adler, comedy, connie hoffman, crown international, cult, danny devito, deborah white, drive-in, exploitation, jim kester, marcie barkin, raunchy, seventies, steve oliver, stuart goetz

CROWN INTERNATIONAL PICTURES EXPLOITATION OF 'THE VAN'

One of the coolest title fonts in the seventies for THE VAN Year: 1977 For a couple of guys who seem like Black Sabbath or Blue Öyster C...

MIMSY FARMER 'HOT RODS TO HELL' TO 'RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP'

aldo ray, counter-culture, drama, drive-in, drug culture, drugs, exploitation, gene kirkwood, laurie mock, melodrama, mimsy farmer, music, pat renella, sixties

MIMSY FARMER 'HOT RODS TO HELL' TO 'RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP'

from Hot Rods from Hell review of Riot on Sunset Strip both 1967 In HOT RODS FROM HELL, the headliners are Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain...

VANESSA FERLITO ENHANCES QT'S EXPLOITATION 'DEATH PROOF'

action, body count, cult, drive-in, drugs, exploitation, hangout, killer car, marley shelton, quentin tarantino, rosario dawson, rose mcgowen, sydney poitier, thriller, vanessa ferlito, zeroes, zoë bell

VANESSA FERLITO ENHANCES QT'S EXPLOITATION 'DEATH PROOF'

Foreboding perspective of Tarantino's DEATH PROOF Year: 2005 Like there are two movies in GRINDHOUSE, there are also two in the seco...

THE INCREDIBLE 2-HEADED TRANSPLANT

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The strangest thing about the THE INCREDIBLE 2-HEADED TRANSPLANT... overshadowed by the following year's blaxploitation camp classic THE THING WITH TWO HEADS wherein football titan Rosey Grier and once Oscar-winning Ray Milland shared the larger guy's body... is that Bruce Dern, famous for playing crazy to the hilt, is, as a bonafide Mad Scientist, extremely subdued: Rarely has the actor been so calm, cool and collected.<br />
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Meanwhile, with sexy wife (and MUNSTERS babe) Pat Priest yearning for affection, Dern's Roger is just too busy trying to morph his bizarre experiment from animals to human. And everything connects in the middle from what occurred during a violent pre-credit prologue: a low-rent Warren Oates lookalike playing a psychopath is sentenced to the loony bin, eventually escapes and, after attacking the lovely blonde ingenue residing at a rural ranch/institute (our central location), he's shot, wounded and "secretly" captured by Dern and his scientist partner: thus the killer's head is transplanted onto a faithful, gigantic and sporadically reckless OF MICE AND MEN style village idiot/gardener's son, who, after dad's added to the body count, has no reason to live a normal life, so why not place a second noggin to consummate the perpetually labored, groundbreaking experiment?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">Signed by Pat Priest</td></tr>
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Here's where the film really takes off as the human creature, literally headed by the killer controlling the bodily strength of this once gentle giant, battles Nazi bikers (the toughest played by personal friend, cult actor <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2010/03/gary-kent-retrospective.html">Gary Kent</a>) while seeking out the kind of raging, raping and recklessly pillaging havoc that makes all things exploitation, exploitation.<br />
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And, as noted earlier, while hardly as memorable or iconic as THE THING WITH TWO HEADS (which had a corny yet genuine racial/social message), TRANSPLANT wields the kind of pointlessly awesome drive-in flavor where anything can happen; and most of it does. Added to that, our eventual savior/hero is none other than Casey Kasem as a normal (as opposed to neurotic) doctor, also providing radio voice-overs as the characters, along with the audience, are given necessary exposition between bloody bouts: Making Kasem another "two-headed" entity, only not as incredible.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Screen Captures from THE INCREDIBLE 2-HEADED TRANSPLANT</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Includes our leading lady scream queen played by MUNSTERS Marilyn actress Pat Priest</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And the eclectic casting of Bruce Dern and the equally yet differently iconic Casey Kasem</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's where Cult Film Freak's friend <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/08/satans-sadists.html">Gary Kent </a>battles the 2-Headed beast run amok</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wide shot of the fight between real life <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/11/the-hard-road.html">stuntman/actor Gary Kent </a>vs our titular creature creation</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Consider inexpensively downloading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Light-Journeys-Revolutionary-Hollywood-ebook/dp/B00C89ONOU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1445166765&sr=8-1&keywords=GARY+KENT+SHADOWS">Gary Kent's autobiography</a> on Amazon's Kindle</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5uRUAhG-dUJBAFqgtHTyQ6Jyt4OoH4uK5tq-iaQDvFIy68b0AA0yIc0cQ39e7AXId2-BiocTrjn-eqHV_D_UIj-hDC6KCaOcpc0rxpKLh16gmsxoUtw_t-cy17a-P_ttPhCMxE0mlLLM/s1600/22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5uRUAhG-dUJBAFqgtHTyQ6Jyt4OoH4uK5tq-iaQDvFIy68b0AA0yIc0cQ39e7AXId2-BiocTrjn-eqHV_D_UIj-hDC6KCaOcpc0rxpKLh16gmsxoUtw_t-cy17a-P_ttPhCMxE0mlLLM/s640/22.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Sorry, Shaggy, I'm all out of Scooby-Snacks... let the bitch eat Alpo."</td></tr>
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berry kroeger, bruce dern, casey kasem, drive-in, exploitation, pat priest, seventies

THE INCREDIBLE 2-HEADED TRANSPLANT

1971 camp value: ***1/2 The strangest thing about the THE INCREDIBLE 2-HEADED TRANSPLANT... overshadowed by the following year's bla...

Written by James M. Tate / 5/23/2011 / No comments / comedy , drive-in , eighties , emily longstreth , ensemble , exploitation , indie

AMERICAN DRIVE-IN

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ0R7vzY3Jd8lNVT7VrMc3Kgl-PAuaZaNr_pI1vU2S2TmWXbP_ofblD_gOU7WGuvy4YyjxQlDzaOV3DW3rJJrq40rSgz4KZbKGy0nf-Das3ABEkdF00FpL7AFPbUrBeX0kstxmpFco7QY/s1600/American%252Bdrive%252Bin%252BEmily%252BLongstreth.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610019713951919986" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ0R7vzY3Jd8lNVT7VrMc3Kgl-PAuaZaNr_pI1vU2S2TmWXbP_ofblD_gOU7WGuvy4YyjxQlDzaOV3DW3rJJrq40rSgz4KZbKGy0nf-Das3ABEkdF00FpL7AFPbUrBeX0kstxmpFco7QY/s200/American%252Bdrive%252Bin%252BEmily%252BLongstreth.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 145px; height: 200px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">title:</span> AMERICAN DRIVE-IN<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">year: </span>1985<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">cast: </span>Emily Longstreth, Joel Bennett, Patrick Kirton, Danny Nucci<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">rating:</span> ***1/2<br /><br /><div></div>An eclectic bouquet of characters, from geeks to sluts to thugs to nuts, go to a drive-in where there’s a horror movie playing, which, centering on a midget and an axe-wielding psycho, is as interesting as the real thing. This is a funny, and completely entertaining, experience you can literally call a drive-in flick. Starring the gorgeous Emily Longstreth, neatly balancing good girl, annoyed girlfriend and damsel in distress as a gang of thugs (led by scene-stealing Joel Bennett), who followed her and a wimpy boyfriend into the theater, attempt to get her alone: but she's tough as nails. Other characters include a would-be mayor, his horny daughter and curious son, two old ladies and a car-load of sexed-up vixens, to name just a few. The non-stop interplay between all the participants, leading to a pandemonium-style climax, flows terrifically in this underrated cult film that deserves a bigger following.

comedy, drive-in, eighties, emily longstreth, ensemble, exploitation, indie

AMERICAN DRIVE-IN

title: AMERICAN DRIVE-IN year: 1985 cast: Emily Longstreth, Joel Bennett, Patrick Kirton, Danny Nucci rating: ***1/2 An eclectic bouquet o...

Written by James M. Tate / 4/08/2011 / No comments / action , dennis fimple , drive-in , exploitation , jaclyn smith , moonshine , paul koslo , rural , seventies

PAUL KOSLO IN 'BOOTLEGGERS' CO-STARRING JACLYN SMITH

action, dennis fimple, drive-in, exploitation, jaclyn smith, moonshine, paul koslo, rural, seventies

PAUL KOSLO IN 'BOOTLEGGERS' CO-STARRING JACLYN SMITH

YEAR: 1974 On the surface is a rural buddy flick involving two hillbillies, Paul Koslo as quiet brooder Othar and Dennis Fimple as fun s...

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Written by James M. Tate / 8/02/2026 / No comments / action , cult , dana andrews , drive-in , gene kirkwood , george ives , jeanne crain , laurie mock , mimsy farmer , race , road movie , sixties

Written by James M. Tate / 8/09/2025 / No comments / bill adler , crown international , cynthia wood , david hayward , dennis bowen , drive-in , exploitation , hangout , jim kester , melissa prophet , seventies , susanne severeid , tara strohmeier

Written by James M. Tate / 12/02/2021 / No comments / bobby di cici , cult , drive-in , exploitation , indie , jennifer ashley , joe mantenga , seventies , sue lyon

Written by James M. Tate / 11/13/2021 / No comments / anne francis , dana andrews , drama , drive-in , jazz-score , jeffrey hunter , kathie browne , neo noir , nicolas coster , richard kiel , sixties , strother martin , thriller , troy donahue , viveca lindfors , william conrad

Written by James M. Tate / 10/03/2019 / No comments / body count , crown international , cult , donald pleasence , drive-in , exploitation , horror , import , luan peters , occult , peter cushing , seventies , thriller

Written by James M. Tate / 9/20/2019 / No comments / bill adler , comedy , connie hoffman , crown international , cult , danny devito , deborah white , drive-in , exploitation , jim kester , marcie barkin , raunchy , seventies , steve oliver , stuart goetz

Written by James M. Tate / 4/28/2019 / No comments / aldo ray , counter-culture , drama , drive-in , drug culture , drugs , exploitation , gene kirkwood , laurie mock , melodrama , mimsy farmer , music , pat renella , sixties

Written by James M. Tate / 11/28/2018 / No comments / action , body count , cult , drive-in , drugs , exploitation , hangout , killer car , marley shelton , quentin tarantino , rosario dawson , rose mcgowen , sydney poitier , thriller , vanessa ferlito , zeroes , zoë bell

Written by James M. Tate / 10/17/2015 / No comments / berry kroeger , bruce dern , casey kasem , drive-in , exploitation , pat priest , seventies

Written by James M. Tate / 5/23/2011 / No comments / comedy , drive-in , eighties , emily longstreth , ensemble , exploitation , indie

Written by James M. Tate / 4/08/2011 / No comments / action , dennis fimple , drive-in , exploitation , jaclyn smith , moonshine , paul koslo , rural , seventies

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