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Written by James M. Tate / 3/16/2023 / No comments / action , adventure , belinda balaski , creature , eco-horror , exploitatio , ida lupino , marjoe gortner , pamela franklin , ralph meeker , seventies

BERT I. GORDON DIRECTS 'FOOD OF THE GODS' WITH RALPH MEEKER

<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/AVvXsEhNIibB5vfumfR6gRBmaMyqIIsKTS9Rl_w7zOwZjSdsRpCzlfaypeks8ibdOA7KkRiwdRRUTI8rEy1SNi3QFmTzUigtskVK3HB_X_OB1IeAlgAlTArdwgRMmnVaduU_LLZjn8i3Od1_4yrd99lin7C5ElgMo7syP75bFb67ccG8sXevSlz-HrHRoeJK3w/s1699/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1211" data-original-width="1699" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNIibB5vfumfR6gRBmaMyqIIsKTS9Rl_w7zOwZjSdsRpCzlfaypeks8ibdOA7KkRiwdRRUTI8rEy1SNi3QFmTzUigtskVK3HB_X_OB1IeAlgAlTArdwgRMmnVaduU_LLZjn8i3Od1_4yrd99lin7C5ElgMo7syP75bFb67ccG8sXevSlz-HrHRoeJK3w/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: FOOD OF THE GODS Year: 1976 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>When cult director Bert I. Gordon was a forgotten legend of 1950's and 1960's drive-in cinema, he had a comeback for two consecutive years — 1976 and 1977 — with a pair of science-fiction flicks, loosely based on 
stories by H.G. Wells, ending with EMPIRE OF THE ANTS and before that a more message-laden eco-horror in FOOD OF THE GODS, centering not on enlarged killer insects but voracious rats...Like EMPIRE, they're actual creatures made to look immense by trick photography, while the actors are superimposed like they're either battling, or, with cheap close-up practical effects, being devoured by the rodents, who exist because a rural farm couple discovered the titular slimy FOOD coming from the earth, making these GODS rise up and conquer...

action, adventure, belinda balaski, creature, eco-horror, exploitatio, ida lupino, marjoe gortner, pamela franklin, ralph meeker, seventies

BERT I. GORDON DIRECTS 'FOOD OF THE GODS' WITH RALPH MEEKER

Title: FOOD OF THE GODS Year: 1976 Rating: ***1/2 When cult director Bert I. Gordon was a forgotten legend of 1950's and 1960's driv...

MARLON BRANDO INVADES 'THE NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY'

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al lettieri, hubert cornfield, jazz score, jess hahn, kidnapping, marlon brando, neo noir, pamela franklin, richard boone, rita moreno, sixties, suspense, thriller

MARLON BRANDO INVADES 'THE NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY'

Marlon Brando in The Night of the Following Day 1969 Rating: ***1/2 There are two things that must be intentional about THE NIGHT OF THE FOL...

LOVELY, LYRICAL, LILTING SUE LYON FANTASY MEMORIAL TRIBUTE

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michele Lee, Sue Lyon and Hilarie Thompson on FANTASY ISLAND Year: 1978</td></tr>
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We learned about the death of this site's patron starlet SUE LYON only minutes ago: She's an actress featured quite extensively here on Cult Film Freak, and unlike most sites, her later, more obscure drive-in exploitation flicks are what's mostly covered here... 
 
As of the tail-end of 2019 (she died December 26th), there isn't even a LOLITA review, the titular role that made her famous, or her other temptress turn in THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA, flirting with another iconic British actor, Richard Burton, after having pretty much killed her faithfully perverse step-dad James Mason in the Stanley Kubrick classic...

drama, fantasy, hilarie thompson, michele lee, pamela franklin, seventies, sue lyon, tribute, TV

LOVELY, LYRICAL, LILTING SUE LYON FANTASY MEMORIAL TRIBUTE

Michele Lee, Sue Lyon and Hilarie Thompson on FANTASY ISLAND Year: 1978 We learned about the death of this site's patron starlet SUE...

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