PHILLAN BISHOP SCORING 1973 PROTO-SLASHER 'THE SEVERED ARM'

<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/AVvXsEgZZPyFchHHYIbEf2jaRDZA0HBm0wX5AyjeibbE7mcb43VzEhL5neHZDKBvQj3AAZoTA0nYp9Gpb7fOm5XT6O4U-klkTwQ607lKU8UavIaOj_DJK-wD4_zoEwRxD8LPOByJlkW3Lqtaf1PDsmlKUXtvdPcV_NeJy_DFYAc57vdRkrLZZ987KDqTz4_lXMjC/s1306/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-22%20at%205.24.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="1306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZZPyFchHHYIbEf2jaRDZA0HBm0wX5AyjeibbE7mcb43VzEhL5neHZDKBvQj3AAZoTA0nYp9Gpb7fOm5XT6O4U-klkTwQ607lKU8UavIaOj_DJK-wD4_zoEwRxD8LPOByJlkW3Lqtaf1PDsmlKUXtvdPcV_NeJy_DFYAc57vdRkrLZZ987KDqTz4_lXMjC/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-22%20at%205.24.40%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Deborah Walley channeling </u><u>Cynthia Gabrielle</u><u> in THE SEVERED ARM Year: 1973 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A year before the groundbreaking TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE that ignited the slather genre, a super low-budget drive-in feature aptly titled THE SEVERED ARM came and went... and had actual legitimate actors including GIDGET GOES HAWAIIAN starlet Deborah Whalley, STAR TREK 2nd-pilot lieutenant Paul Carr and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/HellisACity.html">John Crawford</a>, an American bit player who had previously headlined in British b-crimers... <br><br>Then there's the most familiar in comic Marvin Kaplan and semi-familiar character-actor Vince Martorano, who, along with <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/08/AirPATROL.html">Maury Dexter walk-on Ray Dannis</a> and this production's co-producer David G. Cannon, the most ridiculous aspect sets up the entire ultra-violent revenge-driven plot-line...</p><p><span></span></p>

deborah walley, exploitation, john crawford, marvin kaplan, paul carr, phillan bishop, ray dannis, seventies, slasher, vince martorano

PHILLAN BISHOP SCORING 1973 PROTO-SLASHER 'THE SEVERED ARM'

Deborah Walley channeling  Cynthia Gabrielle in THE SEVERED ARM Year: 1973 Rating: **** A year before the groundbreaking TEXAS CHAINSAW MAS...

ROBERT BLAKE CRASHING 'CORKY' WITH CHARLOTTE RAMPLING

<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/AVvXsEj7lgxk0T-1tTzi2tHTxWCNhvGgovy6-orNwAq4L5oB2hr8M9NWtJ6MkZUsX_dRqB_EMcPtMm5-VjIQFifs0G7-SEROyV-BEZmbwqj_CALmH9no5ZSc0oIoM4GmdDFwe_QaUc_VitrSp5RnpNN-7jVauAJlxtLeUNNP1UtdmHfIff0Ln4XEr-6y4j-bxuB0/s1556/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-06%20at%204.35.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="1556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7lgxk0T-1tTzi2tHTxWCNhvGgovy6-orNwAq4L5oB2hr8M9NWtJ6MkZUsX_dRqB_EMcPtMm5-VjIQFifs0G7-SEROyV-BEZmbwqj_CALmH9no5ZSc0oIoM4GmdDFwe_QaUc_VitrSp5RnpNN-7jVauAJlxtLeUNNP1UtdmHfIff0Ln4XEr-6y4j-bxuB0/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-06%20at%204.35.40%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Blake in CORKY Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>An early 1970's hybrid of small-town-dragster TWO LANE BLACKTOP, centering on two young motorheads rolling in a souped-up hot rod, and the exposition-through-flashback IN COLD BLOOD: as CORKY also stars Robert Blake, here as a spitfire Southerner yearning to become a stock car driving champion, before eventually getting lethal... <br><br>Which occurs in the last ten minutes, feeling more like the beginning of the final act instead of the entire movie's violent conclusion in what's an otherwise creatively-shot, open road exploitation where an intense and free-wheeling, strangely optimistic yet equally brooding Blake is surrounded by some topnotch actors...</p><p><span></span></p>

ben johnson, charlotte rampling, christopher connelly, exploitation, john gruber, laurence luckinbill, pamela payton-wright, patrick o'neal, race car, road movie, robert blake, seventies

ROBERT BLAKE CRASHING 'CORKY' WITH CHARLOTTE RAMPLING

Robert Blake in CORKY Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 An early 1970's hybrid of small-town-dragster TWO LANE BLACKTOP, centering on two young ...

JOHN BROMFIELD WITH KATHLEEN HUGHES IN 'THREE BAD SISTERS'

<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/AVvXsEh_RQy15U1rVCwGortt3YqRaMvK1dC7DeJooVpdwURear6QCpnvZ1uzDYCvtxbGyDgb5HGOw1z6f9q3GYLtLY_GqajgHR1PGkV0hB49dd4Yn6ltfRh7gHV4tiPuZX3hynbQj8Noq2SFiEtwBRAa50fYsYSkrZkP1_6OpqHHJZ0aKBrCBgLGag4tSapaZ7RK/s1574/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-20%20at%208.18.58%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="1574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_RQy15U1rVCwGortt3YqRaMvK1dC7DeJooVpdwURear6QCpnvZ1uzDYCvtxbGyDgb5HGOw1z6f9q3GYLtLY_GqajgHR1PGkV0hB49dd4Yn6ltfRh7gHV4tiPuZX3hynbQj8Noq2SFiEtwBRAa50fYsYSkrZkP1_6OpqHHJZ0aKBrCBgLGag4tSapaZ7RK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-20%20at%208.18.58%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THREE BAD SISTERS Year: 1956 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It seems impossible that a 1950's b-movie titled THREE BAD SISTERS wouldn't be totally fantastic, because all three actresses look... totally fantastic: and while technically it makes sense/and is realistic having them look similar, but the token femme fatale villain Kathleen Hughes and her sadistic harassment of lookalike blonde Sara Shane gets a bit confusing...</p><p></p><p>Shane has a pointier face, isn't as outright gorgeous but has the mousy-vulnerable thing down... as production studio <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/11/HotCars.html">Bel Air's HOT CARS star John Bromfield</a>, a small plane pilot involved in a crash that killed the three heirs' millionaire father, is instantly smitten... </p><p><span></span></p>

bel air productions, brett halsey, exploitation, fifties, film noir or melodrama, john bromfield, kathleen hughes, sara shane

JOHN BROMFIELD WITH KATHLEEN HUGHES IN 'THREE BAD SISTERS'

Title: THREE BAD SISTERS Year: 1956 Rating: *** It seems impossible that a 1950's b-movie titled THREE BAD SISTERS wouldn't be total...

BEVERLY GARLAND NURSING ROGER CORMAN'S 'NOT OF THIS EARTH'

<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/AVvXsEgJXftNAIqJbd9a_-aTAMUJZBJwD2HHv-Uhyphenhyphen-KCl2xupGZrz_aiwCQvlgV9LMh5zntI36aUxH3fTBeMFiYt2Fpn8I6iGl9-6PzFzl6E9OPlfckXz13PLJXw8-NIaKYVyux6VV8C-738cvjkDQE5e6ov5FL1FOa9liknq1Wb4bv5DfTf9YgG_Xg6YEBK4oYd/s1694/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1084" data-original-width="1694" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJXftNAIqJbd9a_-aTAMUJZBJwD2HHv-Uhyphenhyphen-KCl2xupGZrz_aiwCQvlgV9LMh5zntI36aUxH3fTBeMFiYt2Fpn8I6iGl9-6PzFzl6E9OPlfckXz13PLJXw8-NIaKYVyux6VV8C-738cvjkDQE5e6ov5FL1FOa9liknq1Wb4bv5DfTf9YgG_Xg6YEBK4oYd/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: NOT OF THIS EARTH Year: 1957 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Roger Corman's underrated NOT OF THIS EARTH is a hybrid of science-fiction... a man wearing sunglasses gathering blood for his dying planet... and horror: particularly since this alien stealthily stalks and kills like a vampire... <br><br>In that, veteran actor Paul Birch is the perfect fit, especially given his crisp monotone narration, making EARTH his own story... with help from young loser Jonathan Haze as his driver/housekeeper, and the lead ingenue who not only winds up being this film's final girl, but has enough intriguing stuff to do leading up...</p><p><span></span></p>

beverly garland, dick miller, exploitation, fifties, gail ganley, horror, jonathan haze. william roerick, morgan jones, paul birch, roger corman, science-fiction, thriller

BEVERLY GARLAND NURSING ROGER CORMAN'S 'NOT OF THIS EARTH'

Title: NOT OF THIS EARTH Year: 1957 Rating: ****1/2 Roger Corman's underrated NOT OF THIS EARTH is a hybrid of science-fiction... a man ...

BRUCE LEE, NORA MIAO, MARIA YI, MARILYN BAUTISTA 'THE BIG BOSS'

<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/AVvXsEi8p6WGUUgA77c2jGbqAmOucKGpeAbGkPxvR2RosOq_wv9xbEyJSXcrPWK_TxyRTSwVKP-RVwcCyKUzzEXF8o4YGzVIjRgxVi7dRR46PDRlSG6EPgGbQcYlDE-mhcytqkaUQL0cbRLh9bD5pUe9Q_90K8oCmaN7nr4lXFI2ODS__ooBrapbgX8y30Q3S7RQ/s2098/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="832" data-original-width="2098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8p6WGUUgA77c2jGbqAmOucKGpeAbGkPxvR2RosOq_wv9xbEyJSXcrPWK_TxyRTSwVKP-RVwcCyKUzzEXF8o4YGzVIjRgxVi7dRR46PDRlSG6EPgGbQcYlDE-mhcytqkaUQL0cbRLh9bD5pUe9Q_90K8oCmaN7nr4lXFI2ODS__ooBrapbgX8y30Q3S7RQ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE BIG BOSS Year: 1971 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The <i>Kong-Mark</i> is around 45-minutes into a movie when what's anticipated finally occurs... the giant titular ape KING KONG rampaging after the kind of expository needed to build the characters and overall tension...<br><br>And that's when otherwise meditative Bruce Lee finally springs to life against an extremely small rural village's bevy of goons at a central ice factory.... although this first of two karate fights only lasts about a minute... <br><span></span></p>

action, bruce lee, exploitation, james tien, karate, maria yi, marilyn bautista, nora miao, seventies, wei lo, ying-chieh han

BRUCE LEE, NORA MIAO, MARIA YI, MARILYN BAUTISTA 'THE BIG BOSS'

Title: THE BIG BOSS Year: 1971 Rating: **1/2 The Kong-Mark is around 45-minutes into a movie when what's anticipated finally occurs... ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

LORETA TOVAR NECKS MARÍA KOSTY 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 MARÍA KOSTY 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...

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...

CHRISTINA GREGG RIDING ROGER CORMAN'S 'THE YOUNG RACERS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEhskYDTYU1LHatBfFbs_yFBBsY-IEHHQhptfDyj1eA_jN8IcOSPut72ukEUH1zim2_68l0xhMGdOXg6HogTN-JRrwVIz9-qOUVLbwy9fHWLR9SLKIMBxB4JC4vcskqXIfj5Iq7MabW6inoHo-k8JiksjwVSVPWaREp_2MzGNAwCIRfspzwXvU5vhL-KjZ2E/s1612/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-13%20at%2011.04.54%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="1612" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhskYDTYU1LHatBfFbs_yFBBsY-IEHHQhptfDyj1eA_jN8IcOSPut72ukEUH1zim2_68l0xhMGdOXg6HogTN-JRrwVIz9-qOUVLbwy9fHWLR9SLKIMBxB4JC4vcskqXIfj5Iq7MabW6inoHo-k8JiksjwVSVPWaREp_2MzGNAwCIRfspzwXvU5vhL-KjZ2E/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-13%20at%2011.04.54%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Christina Gregg with Mark Damon in THE YOUNG RACERS Year: 1963 Rates: ** </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There are bad b-movies that are still entertaining, and then there are those that simply don't work — as is the case of Roger Corman's THE YOUNG RACERS,<i> that does use</i> genuine European Monte Carlo Grand Prix racing locations that don't resemble stock footage thrown into the melodramatic romance sequences, which this has far too much of...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Howard Hawks fared much better (though not financially) with what this picture seems a precursor of, RED LINE 7000, following womanizing racers and their female conquests, some stronger than others, in particular Luana Anders as the central ingenue, stuck between THE YOUNG RACERS... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, christina gregg, exploitation, luana anders, marie versini, mark damon, melodrama, race car, roger corman, romance, sixties, sport, william campbell, william shatner

CHRISTINA GREGG RIDING ROGER CORMAN'S 'THE YOUNG RACERS'

Christina Gregg with Mark Damon in THE YOUNG RACERS Year: 1963 Rates: ** There are bad b-movies that are still entertaining, and then there ...

LIZA GREER & ROBIN GREER IN GREYDON CLARK'S 'ANGELS' BRIGADE'

<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/AVvXsEj1mc7Xm9YingPhDDvUf4nTsSp8ny9m1wd_nzkE8WGb9UFtBLzS205f5ka8SfrkKG-xCEzBu7ADX9j5KCgDl1LI1nC18UIYAJWdlhABrueQlXWNjXa6JBFAOYs7IQhVAwQu-pvibfHl4Qud93gNuW8sLOxbBZKD954xL0oYO-iOwUGEPl9Oj_r4YkTCJlMO/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-21%20at%209.08.15%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1mc7Xm9YingPhDDvUf4nTsSp8ny9m1wd_nzkE8WGb9UFtBLzS205f5ka8SfrkKG-xCEzBu7ADX9j5KCgDl1LI1nC18UIYAJWdlhABrueQlXWNjXa6JBFAOYs7IQhVAwQu-pvibfHl4Qud93gNuW8sLOxbBZKD954xL0oYO-iOwUGEPl9Oj_r4YkTCJlMO/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-21%20at%209.08.15%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Liza Greer in ANGELS' BRIGADE Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Thank goodness that in 1979, no one told low-budget director Greydon Clark that this kind of crime-centered, revenge-driven, van-cruising exploitation had gone out of style since blaxploitation and kung fu flicks waned in popularity, but, with the then-popularity of CHARLIE'S ANGELS on television, Clark's ANGEL'S BRIGADE really hit the spot... and with more than three beautiful women... <br><br>One a lanky-cute, pig-tailed teenager, played by Liza Greer (seeming primed for her own movie), trained by real life sister Robin Greer, a cop who also helps shape tough black chick Sylvia Anderson, athletic Asian Lieu Chinh, tall blonde showgirl (and technically leading actress) Susan Kiger, spicy Latina Noela Velasco and Clark's wife Jacquelin Cole, an idealistic high school school teacher who has, not surprisingly, the best part herein...</p><p><span></span></p>

alan hale jr., exploitation, greydon clark, jack palance, jacqulin cole, jim backus, liza greer, neville brand, peter lawford, robin greer, seventies, susan kiger, sylvia anderson

LIZA GREER & ROBIN GREER IN GREYDON CLARK'S 'ANGELS' BRIGADE'

Liza Greer in ANGELS' BRIGADE Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2 Thank goodness that in 1979, no one told low-budget director Greydon Clark that ...

DEFENDING THE INFFAMOUS CAMP OF 'THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH'

<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/AVvXsEi1G48r4kEzhKfVFyXv8UkDplCXhcaOGMw9igjiCvwuGBg-0zdjkWSj2l75C-iTJ92ibZLv4uWYzByqxzi8wlOHYx7u4DlLpJ41WFbIuARv4hUGyBhilZzRHFgyGDgbzQliafOdmiuNJt_EuFpEIC2B9RmQFa5GueBmgiJ0QjEhPNPEWLLFi-H_wmpSI4-Z/s1886/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-20%20at%208.37.55%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1106" data-original-width="1886" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1G48r4kEzhKfVFyXv8UkDplCXhcaOGMw9igjiCvwuGBg-0zdjkWSj2l75C-iTJ92ibZLv4uWYzByqxzi8wlOHYx7u4DlLpJ41WFbIuARv4hUGyBhilZzRHFgyGDgbzQliafOdmiuNJt_EuFpEIC2B9RmQFa5GueBmgiJ0QjEhPNPEWLLFi-H_wmpSI4-Z/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-20%20at%208.37.55%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE HORROR OF BLOOD BEACH Year: 1964 Camp Value: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Starting out one of those town-crashing 1960's biker flicks, quickly transforming into a WEST SIDE STORY rumble before blasting into a BEACH BLANKET BINGO musical, the camp-driven drive-in HORROR AT PARTY BEACH has flirtatious brunette Marilyn Clarke causing good guy local John Lyon and angry biker Agustin Mayor to fight... </p><p></p><p>She's like Janet Leigh from PSYCHO, seeming like the main character before foreshadowing Crissie Watkins in JAWS, quickly murdered in the water (actually a rocky atoll) by one of the goofiest looking monster-costume-antagonists ever...</p><p><span></span></p>

cult, del tenney, exploitation, horror, music, science-fiction, sixties, slasher, surf, thriller, wayne tippit

DEFENDING THE INFFAMOUS CAMP OF 'THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH'

Title: THE HORROR OF BLOOD BEACH Year: 1964 Camp Value: ***1/2 Starting out one of those town-crashing 1960's biker flicks, quickly tran...

JUNE KENNEY MANIPULATED BY SUSAN CABOT AS 'SORORITY GIRL'

<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/AVvXsEiokiFSdoL344fSw0wLQzDKsGVgCwU7he5gNOUyShAktBQVvQqHtz1lxfX3VhqPYuMiEKzlsnQZPyGsT_zcjlsLAd8Er39qPGr7b1llqy0WA_6QDT3NM_1IYXipkCePrepxi3MvuEOMv9WtybS1_44qh5Bte2O-n3AToIPeOK07Gy8EKNrDBmDEnGZRBjwa/s1696/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-07%20at%205.22.03%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1004" data-original-width="1696" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiokiFSdoL344fSw0wLQzDKsGVgCwU7he5gNOUyShAktBQVvQqHtz1lxfX3VhqPYuMiEKzlsnQZPyGsT_zcjlsLAd8Er39qPGr7b1llqy0WA_6QDT3NM_1IYXipkCePrepxi3MvuEOMv9WtybS1_44qh5Bte2O-n3AToIPeOK07Gy8EKNrDBmDEnGZRBjwa/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-07%20at%205.22.03%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>June Kenney in SORORITY GIRL Year: 1957 Grade: C+</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Whether playing Charles Bronson's tough moll in MACHINE GUN KELLEY or a beauty queen mogul turned monstrous WASP WOMAN, Susan Cabot was b-movie director Roger Corman's greatest leading lady, combining a raw, formidable prowess with brooding melancholy, often within the same character... <br><br>With dark hair and full lips, she was pretty, even beautiful, but only when she needed to be... until morphing into a bitter scowl as intense as any comparably well-known character actress... <br><span></span></p>

barbara cowan, barboura morris, dick miller, drama, exploitation, fifties, joan lora, june kenney, roger corman, susan cabot

JUNE KENNEY MANIPULATED BY SUSAN CABOT AS 'SORORITY GIRL'

June Kenney in SORORITY GIRL Year: 1957 Grade: C+ Whether playing Charles Bronson's tough moll in MACHINE GUN KELLEY or a beauty queen m...

JUNE KENNEY, FAY SPAIN AND JOHN BRINKLEY IN 'TEENAGE DOLL'

<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/AVvXsEhuKOUmVvHuhtFWBTh-BFNIacNwYq22MV23500ZBEHH9EJPffr0sYCmuaFtUYp_DHOsxL5_XyinL0KdS6fncrkKSJuTgOLVg8WJKDd4eGDmy4P5czF-Y-LB_nYM5JRBy0RGiR2v2lKwlkEGgjmQh6vl0yKAnP1vh9NGQ1fa01oiLoeacM4BJZpFoki_Mfrf/s1818/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="1818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuKOUmVvHuhtFWBTh-BFNIacNwYq22MV23500ZBEHH9EJPffr0sYCmuaFtUYp_DHOsxL5_XyinL0KdS6fncrkKSJuTgOLVg8WJKDd4eGDmy4P5czF-Y-LB_nYM5JRBy0RGiR2v2lKwlkEGgjmQh6vl0yKAnP1vh9NGQ1fa01oiLoeacM4BJZpFoki_Mfrf/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TEENAGE DOLL Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The opening scene in Roger Corman's 1957 girl-gang melodrama TEENAGE DOLL feels like you walked in ten minutes late... as The Black Widows leader Fay Spain is explaining to her underlings about what happened to one of their own girls, lying already dead outside a dark warehouse... </p><p></p><p>Turns out it was an uptight goody-goody who somehow committed the murder, and, hiding in the shadows, June Kenney's listening to the conversation, knowing these tough young locals are now after her...  </p><p><span></span></p>

barbara wilson, barboura morris, colette jackson, exploitation, fay spain, fifties, gang, jay sayer, john brinkley, june kenney, richard devon, roger corman, sandra smith, ziva rodann

JUNE KENNEY, FAY SPAIN AND JOHN BRINKLEY IN 'TEENAGE DOLL'

Title: TEENAGE DOLL Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2 The opening scene in Roger Corman's 1957 girl-gang melodrama TEENAGE DOLL feels like you w...

JUNE KENNEY WITH JOAN LORA AND ROBERT REED IN 'BLOODLUST!'

<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/AVvXsEj7MJSQHeF0kjZ_84Db6x1tjcXcfLJr0eobdX8JPhuCx8ySIEw-8DXGAFH2G3VEQvyBIyGm286Hzp8Z8EFwd1EfbDlHVF-QdbYX3Po1IahQdwkHjI7DO5RxtnaC3vm9Wv-6z_L7BL1E4JuTVe0KaJCDLnDKm8T1l8r_YMpM8ECVkob7UMQgXOLa-LH3vo4I/s1838/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-08%20at%201.25.55%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1146" data-original-width="1838" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7MJSQHeF0kjZ_84Db6x1tjcXcfLJr0eobdX8JPhuCx8ySIEw-8DXGAFH2G3VEQvyBIyGm286Hzp8Z8EFwd1EfbDlHVF-QdbYX3Po1IahQdwkHjI7DO5RxtnaC3vm9Wv-6z_L7BL1E4JuTVe0KaJCDLnDKm8T1l8r_YMpM8ECVkob7UMQgXOLa-LH3vo4I/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-08%20at%201.25.55%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BLOODLUST! Year: 1961 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Novelist Richard Connell's THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME has been adapted countless times... about a reclusive island-owning hunter who stalks and kills humans instead of the big game he grew tired of... the best known version filmed alongside the original KING KONG and featuring Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong... <br><br>Unlike 1961's infamous BLOODLUST!, there was creative camerawork built into the suspense, particularly during the action-packed second half... while here the camera's stagnant on the four 20-something's that, having chartered a boat for a sightseeing vacation, decide to venture off onto a nearby island... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, bobby hall, eugene persson, exploitation, joan lora, june kenney, lilyan chauvin, robert reed, sixties, thriller, troy patterson, walter brooke, wilton graff

JUNE KENNEY WITH JOAN LORA AND ROBERT REED IN 'BLOODLUST!'

Title: BLOODLUST! Year: 1961 Rating: *** Novelist Richard Connell's THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME has been adapted countless times... about a ...

JUNE KENNEY AND JOHN AGAR IN 'ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE'

<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/AVvXsEhjErLIp6miW_2uL0Mcb_TE_fmb_7Azuu3FHjMgIbxrOgTyjo1dUXG5ulDkgeZ3qplmF_zzSIu5KxyjECOvc4HVOynsJKC4krhQVpbwXR6qHzJpVp2i7Cyjh_I_0_sjxooVla0yUjXVeqEo98TGYhNFoOOL70CSYbLSTJ91BsOSfZS9HLNaukNbhWYNjRt4/s1160/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-06%20at%209.01.36%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="1160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjErLIp6miW_2uL0Mcb_TE_fmb_7Azuu3FHjMgIbxrOgTyjo1dUXG5ulDkgeZ3qplmF_zzSIu5KxyjECOvc4HVOynsJKC4krhQVpbwXR6qHzJpVp2i7Cyjh_I_0_sjxooVla0yUjXVeqEo98TGYhNFoOOL70CSYbLSTJ91BsOSfZS9HLNaukNbhWYNjRt4/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-06%20at%209.01.36%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>June Kenney in Attack of the Puppet People Year: 1958 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A better-suited title for ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE would be A CASE OF DOLLS and <i>literally</i> as dollmaker John Hoyt places real people, from strangers to former employees to, as tiny hero  John Agar goes, an employee's fiance, into sealed packages, and all with one thing in common...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Their last mistake was entering the dollmarker's backroom where a sci-fi genre laser-cannon awaits; and although director Bert I. Gordon — aptly nicknamed Mr. Big since his forte was either extra large/small protagonists in a normal sized world — is known as being campy and silly, he can tell a pretty decent story, and this is one of his best, save for that vapid title since they're NOT Puppets and never attack anyone, being totally harmless as the best sequence has the passive ensemble realizing they're all stuck together in a world that consists of a huge dial-up telephone and a phonograph... </p><p><span></span></p>

bert i. gordon, cult, exploitation, fifties, horror, jack kosslyn, john agar, john hoyt, june joceyln, june kenney, ken miller, science-fiction

JUNE KENNEY AND JOHN AGAR IN 'ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE'

June Kenney in Attack of the Puppet People Year: 1958 Rates: **** A better-suited title for ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE would be A CASE OF D...

CHARLIE SHEEN, SHERILYN FENN & NICK CASSAVETES 'THE WRAITH'

<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/AVvXsEj5NTzHk6YJcLfS1r8Lw8bM-FSVVOLnNKb1zAAkCws1kMKK_PyE3SnJdLprYHaUi4M_b3eraRRpsqU6ymqzTzITCYmcqtSOFmvCcjbuYDfu2FFcVibTRr3zuDsnS2TKj-VDjB7NlZRrUwfOA-rWzM7ep2l-dLhBlq8imoKwUZxnPJxhcktoNnuQH82iqcl2/s1866/Screen%20Shot%202025-09-21%20at%2010.42.57%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1034" data-original-width="1866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5NTzHk6YJcLfS1r8Lw8bM-FSVVOLnNKb1zAAkCws1kMKK_PyE3SnJdLprYHaUi4M_b3eraRRpsqU6ymqzTzITCYmcqtSOFmvCcjbuYDfu2FFcVibTRr3zuDsnS2TKj-VDjB7NlZRrUwfOA-rWzM7ep2l-dLhBlq8imoKwUZxnPJxhcktoNnuQH82iqcl2/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-09-21%20at%2010.42.57%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sherilyn Fenn, Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes & Matthew Barry in THE WRAITH Year: 1986 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Right before Oliver Stone flew overseas to begin filming his game-changing PLATOON, he had heard about the kind of b-movie he probably grew up watching... a small town gang of ruffians race cars along winding desert roads... <br><br>All for pink slips to own the losing vehicle, but there's a twist since one black car seems to have come from outer space... and Stone's Vietnam-opus leading man, Charlie Sheen, could have possibly ruined his potential star-power...</p><p><span></span></p>

charlie sheen, clint howard, desert, eighties, exploitation, griffin o'neal, nick cassavetes, randy quaid, science-fiction, sherilyn fenn, small town

CHARLIE SHEEN, SHERILYN FENN & NICK CASSAVETES 'THE WRAITH'

Sherilyn Fenn, Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes & Matthew Barry in THE WRAITH Year: 1986 Rating: *** Right before Oliver Stone flew overse...