PHILLAN BISHOP FINISHES SCORING WITH 'KISS OF THE TARANTULA'

<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/AVvXsEhjVsF5fPVImAQsXz_WBlxR7xR1MRgvsPGLlIVlFhUN7MJwcS1ky8XdBP6ow-cj67r9FMOc6-p6tRfLp-kkiMHcXtfcjinWJsIZu96NnC6p9IYmQ5DyMvuAljxKloPrmB6hidnkglA0sqr7SQvRB65sU492vdkqqJlPcJp58x9x9pcYlC7YP2jZhwdTL9n3/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-22%20at%209.24.12%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="859" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjVsF5fPVImAQsXz_WBlxR7xR1MRgvsPGLlIVlFhUN7MJwcS1ky8XdBP6ow-cj67r9FMOc6-p6tRfLp-kkiMHcXtfcjinWJsIZu96NnC6p9IYmQ5DyMvuAljxKloPrmB6hidnkglA0sqr7SQvRB65sU492vdkqqJlPcJp58x9x9pcYlC7YP2jZhwdTL9n3/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-22%20at%209.24.12%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Suzanna Ling in KISS OF THE TARANTULA Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ironic that murky synthesizer composer Phillan Bishop's last of three horror scores is the most befitting, sounding perfectly synced with the story-at-hand instead of what are his signature arcade-in-purgatory sound effects (preceded only by Les Baxter's more jarring than sinister FROGS music): that seem otherwise randomly layered throughout...<br><br>Beginning with an actual organ in-place of the strange Moog noises, the ongoing thematic melody is a hybrid of children's lullaby and funeral dirge... the latter befitting a troubled, lonely but insanely gorgeous girl named Susan: shown at three different ages, the daughter of a manor-dwelling mortician...</p><p><span></span></p>

body count, creature, ernesto macias, horror, phillan bishop, revenge, rural, seventies, spiders, thriller

PHILLAN BISHOP FINISHES SCORING WITH 'KISS OF THE TARANTULA'

Suzanna Ling in KISS OF THE TARANTULA Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2 Ironic that murky synthesizer composer Phillan Bishop's last of three ho...

JAMES CAAN AND KATHY BATES IN ROB REINER'S CLASSIC 'MISERY'

<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/AVvXsEjSIcAndYTpnIJcjMplVejMLMdVT4XAQ535mfNaATlyKPvOpnrZfb1RoGTD2kY-PdrIblDyr-uGW3B-2S02wHh4g9J67PtO8JWdjlfZSkEr9mEjOzIt1u85lf00Rls2WkQOy3cVGlpLUpgU793SQsGhJjD-KHmi4QpLdhqc_DcKPatYPeyp2Rj7kUaWvi-c/s1740/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-14%20at%2012.27.07%20PM-1%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="972" data-original-width="1740" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSIcAndYTpnIJcjMplVejMLMdVT4XAQ535mfNaATlyKPvOpnrZfb1RoGTD2kY-PdrIblDyr-uGW3B-2S02wHh4g9J67PtO8JWdjlfZSkEr9mEjOzIt1u85lf00Rls2WkQOy3cVGlpLUpgU793SQsGhJjD-KHmi4QpLdhqc_DcKPatYPeyp2Rj7kUaWvi-c/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-14%20at%2012.27.07%20PM-1%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>James Caan reluctantly book-burning in MISERY Year: 1990 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Within fifteen-minutes of MISERY (starting fifteen-minutes in before ending at the thirty-minute mark), Kathy Bates' Annie Wilkes goes from giddily eccentric to outright insane, underlining the brilliance of the relative cinematic newcomer's Oscar Winning performance... <br><br>As the equally impressive/important reactions of screen legend James Caan, and director Rob Reiner's ability to channel the works of Stephen King through a deliberately-subtle homage to his favorite director Alfred Hitchcock, providing the tightest and most uniquely satisfying King adaptation... <br></p>

frances sternhagen, horror, james caan, kathy bates, nineties, richard farnsworth, rob reiner, rural, stephen king, thriller

JAMES CAAN AND KATHY BATES IN ROB REINER'S CLASSIC 'MISERY'

James Caan reluctantly book-burning in MISERY Year: 1990 Rating: ***** Within fifteen-minutes of MISERY (starting fifteen-minutes in before ...

LINDSAY BLOOM STARRING AS 'SIXPACK ANNIE' WITH JANNA BELLAN

<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/AVvXsEgYdpMB4KX_DMCPvvwmfuDryDHFXr72DiCr22CckgkRglFugG0hIewSFzPNTfeYo9VR0WV9ZUoiUqu1ykqWGEzL_2eShAGux3rsfFPojpl0LSt3f7udO5pwCgUH3liEBVKu3QVxaAqL60oaqenQhjrCikivjq69EjZiv_qrmA5CNtUNRzDYdjXaIdroTtkv/s2292/Screen%20Shot%202025-09-02%20at%2012.09.25%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1242" data-original-width="2292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYdpMB4KX_DMCPvvwmfuDryDHFXr72DiCr22CckgkRglFugG0hIewSFzPNTfeYo9VR0WV9ZUoiUqu1ykqWGEzL_2eShAGux3rsfFPojpl0LSt3f7udO5pwCgUH3liEBVKu3QVxaAqL60oaqenQhjrCikivjq69EjZiv_qrmA5CNtUNRzDYdjXaIdroTtkv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-09-02%20at%2012.09.25%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lindsay Bloom in SIXPACK ANNIE Year: 1975 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In a career neatly balancing mainstream episodic television like THE DUKES OF HAZZARD and exploitation cinema such as <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/09/cgmodels.html">COVER GIRL MODELS</a>, Lindsay Bloom is by far the cutest starlet to appear in the latter: providing a girl-next-door innocence within the infamously risque guilty-pleasure-driven super-low-budget cinema...<br><br>Herein an aesthetically perfect fit for the rural hangout romp SIXPACK ANNIE, where her titular character realizes a plot-line halfway through... to find a sugar daddy with enough cash to help her aunt pay for the family diner, where she waitresses with <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2013/07/american-graffiti-theatrical-experience.html">AMERICAN GRAFFITI</a> carhop Jana Bellan, a cherubic brunette to Bloom's adorable blonde...</p><p><span></span></p>

bruce boxleitner, comedy, exploitation, janna bellan, lindsay bloom, louisa moritz, ray danton, rural, seventies, vince barnett

LINDSAY BLOOM STARRING AS 'SIXPACK ANNIE' WITH JANNA BELLAN

Lindsay Bloom in SIXPACK ANNIE Year: 1975 Rating: **1/2 In a career neatly balancing mainstream episodic television like THE DUKES OF HAZZAR...

ROBIN MATTSON AND TIFFANY BOLLING ARE 'BONNIE'S KIDS'

<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/AVvXsEj_LYo6zUc6kGUA4ya62y92Ye6xO_wgsQTg9D3M_Ql03gXqFojoKhwISC_iWM8qOC6ZuiYLo4S_XcG99glrpPq7CIoHsp8whzcKe3knUkz1VmbKeJE_9t6fDmTvOKm38EEafiysqIXCTWlaNpjq1s_HV-hopnHIwlMgWD3IQG612oNzQVkh_4yGl4-nKgYQ/s1834/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1834" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_LYo6zUc6kGUA4ya62y92Ye6xO_wgsQTg9D3M_Ql03gXqFojoKhwISC_iWM8qOC6ZuiYLo4S_XcG99glrpPq7CIoHsp8whzcKe3knUkz1VmbKeJE_9t6fDmTvOKm38EEafiysqIXCTWlaNpjq1s_HV-hopnHIwlMgWD3IQG612oNzQVkh_4yGl4-nKgYQ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robin Mattson in BONNIE'S KIDS Year: 1972 Rating: ****</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time 1950's television turned 1970's low-budget exploitation director Arthur Marks' BONNIE'S KIDS is a little over halfway through, the anticipated plot-line... of Tiffany Bolling's confident Ellie and hunky private-eye Steve Sandor snagging the token bag of cash from black-and-white assassin pair Alex Rocco and Timothy Brown... has just begun...<br><br>The problem is that Elle's little sister Myra, played by teenage full-faced blonde beauty Robin Mattson, is stuck at their uncle's home where his trophy wife's attempting a long-game lesbian seduction... and Robin's really the central character being the most vulnerable, protected by the long tall tough older sis... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

alex rocco, arthur marks, crime, exploitation, heist, leo gordon, robin mattson, rural, scott brady, seventies, steve sandor, tiffany bolling, timothy brown

ROBIN MATTSON AND TIFFANY BOLLING ARE 'BONNIE'S KIDS'

Robin Mattson in BONNIE'S KIDS Year: 1972 Rating: **** By the time 1950's television turned 1970's low-budget exploitation direc...

NEDA ARNERIC SPREADS 'VENOM' IN 'THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST'

<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/AVvXsEjhzanOkC1P0rZLkGQFEj_9vZPfK1AxtHmiQ0rL5_aAnr7zYtgC_hLnXLK9CZptSOGpRPMNAakzdd5iHtbJLOIzyZbth7sUqz9qHCYEtatKwmaYrdb7AxX_zkVMgFsK2sm4Dg0BER4R-U86rv8OshWcybp-MiK0r6p-RlbKHnq04AdE7onjTZWlrOLPFriI/s1042/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="1042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhzanOkC1P0rZLkGQFEj_9vZPfK1AxtHmiQ0rL5_aAnr7zYtgC_hLnXLK9CZptSOGpRPMNAakzdd5iHtbJLOIzyZbth7sUqz9qHCYEtatKwmaYrdb7AxX_zkVMgFsK2sm4Dg0BER4R-U86rv8OshWcybp-MiK0r6p-RlbKHnq04AdE7onjTZWlrOLPFriI/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Neda Americ in VENOM Alternate: THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST Year: 1971 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After the grainy, low-budget VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST, British director Peter Sykes landed a job for legendary British horror production Hammer for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/BEAT-hammer-GIRL.html">DEMONS OF THE MIND</a>, with more money, bigger names and continuing the psychological-horror sub-genre, only VENOM is a lot more affective... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Mostly set in a tree-shrouded, shade-soaked, shadow-splintered forest where lovely Neda Arneric (a combination of Sarah Miles and Mia Farrow) plays Anna, a nature-traipsing wild girl with an enigmatic spider tattoo on her shoulder, following bland/handsome journalist Simon Brent around until he winds up, seemingly safe in a local tavern where, once back in the forest, he has more problems connected to a gang of muscularly rural locals liken to the 60's British thriller <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/05/shuttered.html">THE SHUTTERED ROOM</a>, only these guys are no (and there really needed someone intriguing like an) Oliver Reed...</p><p><span></span></p>

british, cult, horror, neda arneric, peter sykes, rural, seventies, sheila allen, simon brent, spiders

NEDA ARNERIC SPREADS 'VENOM' IN 'THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST'

Neda Americ in VENOM Alternate: THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST Year: 1971 Rating: *** After the grainy, low-budget VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPID...

LANCE GUEST WITH ROBERT PRESTON IN 'THE LAST STARFIGHTER'

<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/AVvXsEipGiYCQfl5g-_AoEQ_Z_SksNItElfanALiYJFj9O5YhVF7E3JA7rBvmQcxSh92MZwVp9MfZYIWwBTXv0tsM3D8e_HNV7IdMtEtgZImvxqjhc1lxu7woT1-haf46Ib32yMbQDs05NuqTR_WW051Jog9TNlzL-RAmgRVjGxILZ7Ugbq0jikyhyphenhyphenTAelZCSXCx/s929/Screen%20Shot%202024-11-04%20at%208.10.47%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="929" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipGiYCQfl5g-_AoEQ_Z_SksNItElfanALiYJFj9O5YhVF7E3JA7rBvmQcxSh92MZwVp9MfZYIWwBTXv0tsM3D8e_HNV7IdMtEtgZImvxqjhc1lxu7woT1-haf46Ib32yMbQDs05NuqTR_WW051Jog9TNlzL-RAmgRVjGxILZ7Ugbq0jikyhyphenhyphenTAelZCSXCx/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-11-04%20at%208.10.47%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE LAST STARFIGHTER Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The connection of THREE AMIGOS, GALAXY QUEST and TROPIC THUNDER... of actors thinking they're taking part in just another paid gig that turns out to be incredibly real and dangerous... in a way began with Nick Castle's THE LAST STARFIGHTER where Lance Guest plays the oldest son of a trailer park landlady... in the kind of lonely Middle American town that Steven Spielberg practically created for CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (and a bit like the "there's something better somewhere else" planet of Tattooine in STAR WARS)...</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>Castle includes other Speilbergian touches, like a highway speed-limit-sign rattling from the power of a spaceship.... here belonging to scene-stealer Robert Preston, who, with his signature speaking voice that practically sings every line, is beyond perfect as the pre BACK TO THE FUTURE DeLoreon-driving alien-in-human-form recruiter for an actual "star war" that Guest's Alex Rogen is hired to fight in...</p><span></span>

action, catherine mary stewart, cult, dan o'herlihy, fantasy, lance guest, nick castle, robert preston, rural, science-fiction, war

LANCE GUEST WITH ROBERT PRESTON IN 'THE LAST STARFIGHTER'

Title: THE LAST STARFIGHTER Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 The connection of THREE AMIGOS, GALAXY QUEST and TROPIC THUNDER... of actors thinking ...

DOROTHY MICHAELS STEALS HUGO HASS'S BIZARRE NOIR 'PICKUP'

<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><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/AVvXsEhlQL1CwtX1jynChlOfUy3mn_u_Ve2-QGN1yHsgHzXfBjkiSu_rI8MMkAsKtbpUyjKSs4lGUT87x2TX-0M0TAYENLc1wuOcGN4HzsMbV91GHv7zm0i-FRz64FIRnx7PhQW98GhtpOMwYCpbJRz9f5C052E7cSKiNPB9Msw9bTNtuROx1GxO8ZvrojqnjEXj/s2066/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-18%20at%203.33.08%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="2066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlQL1CwtX1jynChlOfUy3mn_u_Ve2-QGN1yHsgHzXfBjkiSu_rI8MMkAsKtbpUyjKSs4lGUT87x2TX-0M0TAYENLc1wuOcGN4HzsMbV91GHv7zm0i-FRz64FIRnx7PhQW98GhtpOMwYCpbJRz9f5C052E7cSKiNPB9Msw9bTNtuROx1GxO8ZvrojqnjEXj/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-18%20at%203.33.08%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Beverly Michaels in PICKUP Year: 1951 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's nothing better than when a bad blonde steals a film noir, and none have been as bad as Beverly Michaels in director/co-star Hugo Haas's PICKUP, a take on THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE centering on Haas as a well-off, rural railroad-station-owning husband of the beautiful dame that a handsome young employee is after...</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></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>An aspect/plot that takes second stage to Michaels' non-performance performance, so natural even while practically winking her crooked prowess to the camera while playing mind games with not only husband Haas but young handsome smitten dolt Allan Nixon, who she sums up at one point with: "Never fails... Young, handsome. Broke..."</p><p><span class="caption"><span></span></span></p>

beverly michaels, desert, fifties, film noir or melodrama, howland chamberlain, hugo hass, jo-carroll dennison, rural, train

DOROTHY MICHAELS STEALS HUGO HASS'S BIZARRE NOIR 'PICKUP'

Beverly Michaels in PICKUP Year: 1951 Rating: **** There's nothing better than when a bad blonde steals a film noir, and none have been ...

LANCE HENRIKSEN & ERIC ROBERTS IN 'THE NATURE OF THE BEAST'

<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/AVvXsEj5evglfBmE6u8d2gsY1Ck7OsEvHL79pDobyMZJweBX_io0Db9QTjMTSjzNhDmSPT2hL8JSLEYrKsj6JO4xmMRbYR_XbV_LYvbe2e4EoLEs-k7wTUQSe9hFzVCHwyw2W8eHeUix_nHCRkQtJvo1ibfJxnSx9Q9nyFJUgpNReNHgi24Kcv_8mBANauG9KcAi/s900/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-21%20at%2012.31.59%20AM%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5evglfBmE6u8d2gsY1Ck7OsEvHL79pDobyMZJweBX_io0Db9QTjMTSjzNhDmSPT2hL8JSLEYrKsj6JO4xmMRbYR_XbV_LYvbe2e4EoLEs-k7wTUQSe9hFzVCHwyw2W8eHeUix_nHCRkQtJvo1ibfJxnSx9Q9nyFJUgpNReNHgi24Kcv_8mBANauG9KcAi/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-21%20at%2012.31.59%20AM%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Eric Roberts & Lance Henriksen in THE NATURE OF THE BEAST Year: 1995 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>An exploitation Oscar and Felix casts Eric Roberts as Adrian, a dirty piece of human driftwood hitchhiking the lonesome desert highway where, in random stopovers, people are massacred by a phantom called THE HATCHET MAN...<br> <br> Also, a local bank was robbed of a million bucks and uptight traveling salesman Jack, played by a subdued Lance Henriksen, reluctantly gives Adrian rides throughout the scorched purgatory... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

ana gabriel, brion james, eric roberts, lance henriksen, neo noir, nineties, road movie, rural, serial killer, suspense

LANCE HENRIKSEN & ERIC ROBERTS IN 'THE NATURE OF THE BEAST'

Eric Roberts & Lance Henriksen in THE NATURE OF THE BEAST Year: 1995 Rates: ***1/2 An exploitation Oscar and Felix casts Eric Roberts a...

MARK STEVENS IN 'CRY VENGEANCE' FEATURING SKIP HOMEIER

<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/AVvXsEg6W-8T4xEExycmZJa6J2BUd3dwoxLZSjp1eznvmWmSkMJMwEC-ox3m_cYMNpFEZ5Y5uENknJeEfDbyr6Mbx49WZvFeFRnPwaC9ijq-LVsMOi4O52uKwF-KBvJ3b6Au3_UVBHQBWXfsEefUAlzJj-7knN8kcSfVTnMn8Jy9nABF8AvkJpjk8Ch3mR91W9W5/s2048/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1157" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6W-8T4xEExycmZJa6J2BUd3dwoxLZSjp1eznvmWmSkMJMwEC-ox3m_cYMNpFEZ5Y5uENknJeEfDbyr6Mbx49WZvFeFRnPwaC9ijq-LVsMOi4O52uKwF-KBvJ3b6Au3_UVBHQBWXfsEefUAlzJj-7knN8kcSfVTnMn8Jy9nABF8AvkJpjk8Ch3mR91W9W5/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: CRY VENGEANCE Year: 1954 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>With the exception of a second-act move from an American big city to rural Alaska, the film noir CRY VENGEANCE is a strange, offbeat venture... and wouldn't be if strange and offbeat Skip Homeier didn't play the primary villain... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p>Despite there being a mob boss that director and star Mark Stevens wants to kill, befitting the revenge title since his family was murdered with half his face burned and deformed before imprisonment... but the tall and lanky Homeier's hit-man Roxey Davis, with white spiked hair that would be normal decades later, soon becomes just about everything...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, fifties, film noir or melodrama, mark stevens, martha hyer, mort mills, revenge, richard deacon, rural, skip homeier, thriller, warren douglas

MARK STEVENS IN 'CRY VENGEANCE' FEATURING SKIP HOMEIER

Title: CRY VENGEANCE Year: 1954 Rating: ***1/2 With the exception of a second-act move from an American big city to rural Alaska, the film n...

ROBERT RYAN VS RHONDA FLEMING & WILLIAM LUNDIGAN 'INFERNO'

<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/AVvXsEiCF0o2oZvs4kDhD34nDSPZl0wT7oyh3Ws2PKgwVEgRSy6o1S3Kl51WT2RECAnUpi0ZDLMVAjvj3-hcTtxAOWsgskLrF0LXQpcErDqTEOJjk6PuVzrzBv53V2lQMrfUceU6Z1PANoFf6T7GVtyfNzXFlnKI4j7VESAO-y74GqWmFlro9O-jkq2nvqREUPzK/s1552/NEWEST.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCF0o2oZvs4kDhD34nDSPZl0wT7oyh3Ws2PKgwVEgRSy6o1S3Kl51WT2RECAnUpi0ZDLMVAjvj3-hcTtxAOWsgskLrF0LXQpcErDqTEOJjk6PuVzrzBv53V2lQMrfUceU6Z1PANoFf6T7GVtyfNzXFlnKI4j7VESAO-y74GqWmFlro9O-jkq2nvqREUPzK/s16000/NEWEST.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Poster for Ronda Fleming INFERNO Year: 1953 Rating: *** </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Leading <i>and</i> character actor Robert Ryan is difficult to root for since he played contentedly bitter types who didn't want rooting for... but with INFERNO his rich-husband character gets so screwed-over by his wife and her lover, left in the scorching desert — with a broken leg — to trudge through rocky terrain before he's lunch for condors, there's no other option but to have complete sympathy, if anything else for the movie (and his dire situation) to conclude...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yet the most intriguing scenes not only alleviate the halting, awkward tension but add a touch of paperback-pulpy and best yet, film noir/melodrama to the stranded-in-peril, fight-to-survive adventure...</p><p><span></span></p>

3D, action, adventure, desert, fifties, melodrama, rhonda fleming, robert ryan, rural, survival, thriller, william lundigan

ROBERT RYAN VS RHONDA FLEMING & WILLIAM LUNDIGAN 'INFERNO'

Poster for Ronda Fleming INFERNO Year: 1953 Rating: *** Leading and character actor Robert Ryan is difficult to root for since he played co...

CHARLES BRONSON & ROBERT DUVALL BAND APART FOR 'BREAKOUT'

<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/AVvXsEgEhvd0Sb_UlVtNIuL63ZQOfL81SqBuBygSDz1JTK1ukn63MWGpGT5WAnnmPIqSvDQ1tgOhFDw3GSbju3ss6EQTBxhF5xEfrc14PuDtwQm06WKkDO9wAUzNfAkYptgNHbGnYIB4hEoVULKiQxGMOZKtCfOFhyreqzWr7cOlSa3CFML6vUoewq8OST7WCw/s2182/2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1114" data-original-width="2182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEhvd0Sb_UlVtNIuL63ZQOfL81SqBuBygSDz1JTK1ukn63MWGpGT5WAnnmPIqSvDQ1tgOhFDw3GSbju3ss6EQTBxhF5xEfrc14PuDtwQm06WKkDO9wAUzNfAkYptgNHbGnYIB4hEoVULKiQxGMOZKtCfOFhyreqzWr7cOlSa3CFML6vUoewq8OST7WCw/s16000/2.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in BREAKOUT Year: 1975 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The violent prologue of the 1975 Tom Gries jailbreak flick is so Sam Peckinpah you could call it BRING ME THE HEAD OF ROBERT DUVALL, and the Bloody Sam similarities include echoed gunshots under the hot Mexico sun; a white shirt soaked with gory, bright red blood; a slow-motion body falling to the ground as the opening credits appear across  paused-images as Jerry Goldsmith's score opens with soft, skeletal vibes into a Spanish groove... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And even beyond all that, BREAKOUT is a modern Spaghetti Western (released the same year as Gries/Bronson's actual Western BREAKHEART PASS) wherein action hero Charles Bronson is similar to his colorful MR. MAJESTYK character, only even more playfully cocky and wisecracking... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, alan vint, charles bronson, escape, jailbreak, jill ireland, john huston, mexico, prison, randy quaid, robert duvall, roy jenson, rural, seventies, sheree north, tom gries

CHARLES BRONSON & ROBERT DUVALL BAND APART FOR 'BREAKOUT'

Charles Bronson in BREAKOUT Year: 1975 Rates: ***1/2 The violent prologue of the 1975 Tom Gries jailbreak flick is so Sam Peckinpah you cou...

CAROL LYNLEY, GIG YOUNG & OLIVER REED IN 'THE SHUTTERED ROOM'

<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/AVvXsEj9EMgCXboxY58-vdVsKrShprjoJlD0duReNMb1vD0ipBmPYPokso-hgWRbxm2Vi3pXBs1_O6KNXwTPdLMhSPG-grHBSofvYdkX6Vddt_HqcQpW8Rq7S2GiNQTh16XN58cCoaZ5GfFud09n6J8SY9nW-G2ljtk7_ISzMcX9tVpBWEmt0_d-Urubj2r8iw/s1759/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="834" data-original-width="1759" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9EMgCXboxY58-vdVsKrShprjoJlD0duReNMb1vD0ipBmPYPokso-hgWRbxm2Vi3pXBs1_O6KNXwTPdLMhSPG-grHBSofvYdkX6Vddt_HqcQpW8Rq7S2GiNQTh16XN58cCoaZ5GfFud09n6J8SY9nW-G2ljtk7_ISzMcX9tVpBWEmt0_d-Urubj2r8iw/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE SHUTTERED ROOM Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A near clone of Sam Peckinpah's STRAW DOGS only five years earlier, during the psychedelic era, which is only apparent from the bare-bone jazz soundtrack orchestrating a married couple consisting of a beautiful blonde wife with an ordinary, unassuming husband returning to her small New England-based island home (yet obviously shot in the beautifully rustic exterior of England), part of an eerie Gothic mill that's its very own living/breathing character...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Making the inevitable climax of who's hiding within the titular SHUTTERED ROOM not that important a surprise-twist having been teased during a surreal, horror-trope prologue by mostly TV-director David Greene...  </p><p><span></span></p>

body count, british, bully, carol lynley, david greene, drama, gig young, gothic, horror, jazz score, oliver reed, rural, sixties, thriller

CAROL LYNLEY, GIG YOUNG & OLIVER REED IN 'THE SHUTTERED ROOM'

Title: THE SHUTTERED ROOM Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 A near clone of Sam Peckinpah's STRAW DOGS only five years earlier, during the psych...

HUMPHREY BOGART'S CAREER SKYROCKETS FROM 'HIGH SIERRA'

<span style="font-weight: bold;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhso3txDCTPodjTfwBfYX52oRwHMSiBouuyK8MO2PAaaPjlxEZEV9zPTf9njHv2WE57Y03FiI8moPSTjq0mFykPf0d1ChQy89FSDKxWcRAlY9mF6Jad0Myr5begWNrlZCHgTC-ai9EKC_ahnE-OEWtDCGt5HPFca2p-PhKQW22PCLgrBRuefO2hl5YyRQ/s1500/81no6FXP13L._SL1500_.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1207" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhso3txDCTPodjTfwBfYX52oRwHMSiBouuyK8MO2PAaaPjlxEZEV9zPTf9njHv2WE57Y03FiI8moPSTjq0mFykPf0d1ChQy89FSDKxWcRAlY9mF6Jad0Myr5begWNrlZCHgTC-ai9EKC_ahnE-OEWtDCGt5HPFca2p-PhKQW22PCLgrBRuefO2hl5YyRQ/w321-h400/81no6FXP13L._SL1500_.jpeg" width="321" /></a></div>title:</span> HIGH SIERRA<span style="font-weight: bold;"> year:</span> 1941<span style="font-weight: bold;"> cast:</span> Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Alan Curtis, Joan Leslie, Arthur Kennedy<span style="font-weight: bold;"> rating:</span> ****<br /> <br /> There's a dog that, wherever he goes, gives bad luck to whomever takes him in: this happens to be Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino, who both meet each other, then the pooch, in a rural small town hideaway whilst Bogart and three other men plan a caper to rob a plush mountainous hotel. But bad luck usually <span style="font-style: italic;">dogs</span> these kind of characters, doomed from the start while plotting their big easy score which, in this case, got Humhrey's Roy Earle cut from prison early: Although Bogart isn't altogether villainous as he, after meeting a down-home family which includes a beautiful young girl with a club foot, invests in real people, hoping for the girl's hand in marriage: but he's more suited for Lupino, a gun moll whose bittersweet performance adds to Bogart's seasoned usual, and from one scene to the next this is a thoroughly enjoyable melodrama centering on tough human beings, not your typically cliched gangsters. Unfortunately some really bad performances, like the dog's last owner, and the insertion of melodrama into what should have been a leaner, tighter, more edgy crime flick, especially if our man's flawed cohorts Arthur Kennedy and Alan Curtis along with nervous middleman Cornel Wilde had more than peripheral importance: But, either way, HIGH SIERRA, with Bogart's name after Lupino in the credits, is the last movie where that would ever happen again. <br />

arthur kennedy, cornel wilde, crime, film noir or melodrama, forties, heist, humphrey bogart, ida lupino, joan leslie, john huston, raoul walsh, rural

HUMPHREY BOGART'S CAREER SKYROCKETS FROM 'HIGH SIERRA'

title: HIGH SIERRA year: 1941 cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Alan Curtis, Joan Leslie, Arthur Kennedy rating: **** There's ...

ORSON WELLES, PAMELA FRANKLIN & LEE PURCELL 'NECROMANCY'

<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/AVvXsEjeOYTDVcq7VdkTX5auzU3YTUfqZBKWU3fxBxuFOzl4-XSilHuArmQH2o2oqTBx18Swf2hW5fwzxxGS-nG9ebfqNnMT33tVa32GDviOdKOfccRJ2APJQEevGMgxGAl1cSB9I2meyaUcuBSHwOYPkUpnxtTXbULYLPdc9Jey8ssDvlTbs8Vbu5jfMvV1Rg/s908/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-27%20at%202.21.00%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="908" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeOYTDVcq7VdkTX5auzU3YTUfqZBKWU3fxBxuFOzl4-XSilHuArmQH2o2oqTBx18Swf2hW5fwzxxGS-nG9ebfqNnMT33tVa32GDviOdKOfccRJ2APJQEevGMgxGAl1cSB9I2meyaUcuBSHwOYPkUpnxtTXbULYLPdc9Jey8ssDvlTbs8Vbu5jfMvV1Rg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-27%20at%202.21.00%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Pamela Franklin & Orson Welles in NECROMANCY Year: 1972 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Exploitation/Horror b-director Bert I. Gordon definitely knew WHO he had for the <i>Rural Satanic Hippie Cult</i> flick, THE WITCHING actually/originally titled NECROMANCY, but he didn't know enough about WHAT he had in his stellar cast including the legendary Orson Welles as the leader of a colorful coven... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>He's yearning to reanimate his dead son using the lovely, vulnerable, and soul-troubled wife of new couple in town Pamela Franklin, married to passive tagalong Michael Onkean as both are semi-seduced into the realm by one of the few women more insanely gorgeous than Franklin...</p><p><span></span></p>

bert i. gordon, harvey jason, horror, interview, lee purcell, michael ontkean, occult, orson welles, rural, seventies, thriller, witch

ORSON WELLES, PAMELA FRANKLIN & LEE PURCELL 'NECROMANCY'

Pamela Franklin & Orson Welles in NECROMANCY Year: 1972 Rating: **1/2 Exploitation/Horror b-director Bert I. Gordon definitely knew WHO ...

OLIVER REED AND GLENDA JACKSON IN 'THE TRIPLE ECHO'

<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><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/AVvXsEhX7AfKK4k-2YeVko5zXAXZBi32cEAEmjuKsgJ2wLCHS-pM91fr3i3XWTtG0d6wt3Oo7B40JLfd04AqahZblMf5KIqgPu180eL2VZmd1RD7l2lUElL765OsODut-DMAolpyiiZes0XaZlJyjXJUakSPomOfcRo4C9LtykKqEdjAe0y0Jq2W0NqrAyl43A/s966/71qLtwMalBL._SL1300_.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="966" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX7AfKK4k-2YeVko5zXAXZBi32cEAEmjuKsgJ2wLCHS-pM91fr3i3XWTtG0d6wt3Oo7B40JLfd04AqahZblMf5KIqgPu180eL2VZmd1RD7l2lUElL765OsODut-DMAolpyiiZes0XaZlJyjXJUakSPomOfcRo4C9LtykKqEdjAe0y0Jq2W0NqrAyl43A/s16000/71qLtwMalBL._SL1300_.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE TRIPLE ECHO Year: 1972 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In any movie where a man has to dress up like a woman, for whatever reason, there's the one genuine manly male who wants to give that so-called female a test ride wherein the truth will be discovered...  </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></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So when it's stocky firebrand Oliver Reed as a World War II era tank sergeant, lusting after a deserted soldier hiding out in widowed Glenda Jackson's rural chicken farm while (romancing her and) posing as his sister, this otherwise searing romantic drama turns into a heated, nightmarish thriller...</p><p><span></span></p>

brian deacon, british, drama, exploitation, glenda jackson, michael adpted, oliver reed, romance, rural, thriller, world war II

OLIVER REED AND GLENDA JACKSON IN 'THE TRIPLE ECHO'

Title: THE TRIPLE ECHO Year: 1972 Rating: **** In any movie where a man has to dress up like a woman, for whatever reason, there's the o...

ANTHONY PERKINS RETURNS FOR 'PSYCHO II' WITH MEG TILLY

<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/AVvXsEhlULHBwr1wREPo36KKb8YelnA6UzQuhjm9Ac-GQ8cp9xmqchA4WAELLl0Ql3v5OoEkGbgVd9OAjAZVAJuML-tDpRFpHuK15P7D6_Am9ktopX7jZvMKlLidW4QfneKc3EdK6kd9ZjjDcEfCw5guCIDWb5nIo37cvLA78Rym5PDr4E1vBQTs1ZShk8Va3A/s2227/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1009" data-original-width="2227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlULHBwr1wREPo36KKb8YelnA6UzQuhjm9Ac-GQ8cp9xmqchA4WAELLl0Ql3v5OoEkGbgVd9OAjAZVAJuML-tDpRFpHuK15P7D6_Am9ktopX7jZvMKlLidW4QfneKc3EdK6kd9ZjjDcEfCw5guCIDWb5nIo37cvLA78Rym5PDr4E1vBQTs1ZShk8Va3A/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Meg Tilly foxes Norman Bates in PSYCHO II Year: 1983 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The infamous yet somewhat unfairly maligned PSYCHO II actually includes the surrounding town viewed clearly during daylight hours, a friendly sheriff (Hugh Gillin), a helpful shrink (Robert Loggia), and a somewhat mysterious young lady, played by Meg Tilly, who becomes a kind of little sister/ingenue for Norman Bates...<br><br>And while the passive, newly-released Anthony Perkins returns as the legendary killer, he winds up helping the vulnerable young beauty survive, in and out of the greasy spoon diner where they work, and at the spooky manor, she even takes a shower... safely...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

anthony perkins, cult, dennis franz, exploitation, horror, hugh griffin, meg tilly, richard franklin, robert loggia, rural, sequel

ANTHONY PERKINS RETURNS FOR 'PSYCHO II' WITH MEG TILLY

Meg Tilly foxes Norman Bates in PSYCHO II Year: 1983 Rating: *** The infamous yet somewhat unfairly maligned PSYCHO II actually includes the...

BURT REYNOLDS & JON VOIGHT VENTURE THROUGH 'DELIVERANCE'

<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/AVvXsEgeqaQhQE-Y3gh8Wzx-77045UDvzqPnqme0bw1hEISMywJUHl98qbZmTEqmThABnG30q8fZf0SZxUBE_f5dSPmQOdNPkveAy_hepPbc-tF9AS1Ai2MfuksgW4uKTn1I5h36-i00Hmo-jxqYkS3DG9EC6yjZCcR-Cj3OOch3yLJMiTfZYEf9zH1cMLnH8w/s1839/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="933" data-original-width="1839" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeqaQhQE-Y3gh8Wzx-77045UDvzqPnqme0bw1hEISMywJUHl98qbZmTEqmThABnG30q8fZf0SZxUBE_f5dSPmQOdNPkveAy_hepPbc-tF9AS1Ai2MfuksgW4uKTn1I5h36-i00Hmo-jxqYkS3DG9EC6yjZCcR-Cj3OOch3yLJMiTfZYEf9zH1cMLnH8w/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in DELIVERANCE Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Going backwards, many fans of Burt Reynolds happened upon DELIVERANCE later on, and the biggest difference between that and even his better-than-car-chase movies is the ensemble of four characters who get almost equal story-time and importance to the plot...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A would-be vacationing adventure of businessmen taking to the white water rapids, led by a confident and gusty survivalist-type Reynolds as Lewis, good friend of polar opposite Jon Voight, the actual main character, who, as Ed, can hardly sling a bow-and-arrow while Burt leads one of the all-time great bow-and-arrow rescues...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, bill mckinney, burt reynolds, cult, john boorman, ned beatty, ronny cox, rural, seventies, suspense, thriller

BURT REYNOLDS & JON VOIGHT VENTURE THROUGH 'DELIVERANCE'

Burt Reynolds in DELIVERANCE Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 Going backwards, many fans of Burt Reynolds happened upon DELIVERANCE later on, and ...

STROTHER MARTIN & GERI REISCHL 'THE BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN'

<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/AVvXsEiOSCL41w8ZAN9zIJUikpF2-39sw5iqPf0lweTA938eWqmJsGzFw5eYiofM3FSX4HRyzIfYTuOsJhdUPz3CV6_JwMx2VuSs_LUfJuysrNc2oyhIFznuCUxfU-K2i8zIIBVVlfy6f0CKPuogQFvpJQ3QQBQv-70NXDhXfJjVZ3PqYeGXP8ZukT_M6x2xvfNU/s2012/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-22%20at%209.33.23%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="2012" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOSCL41w8ZAN9zIJUikpF2-39sw5iqPf0lweTA938eWqmJsGzFw5eYiofM3FSX4HRyzIfYTuOsJhdUPz3CV6_JwMx2VuSs_LUfJuysrNc2oyhIFznuCUxfU-K2i8zIIBVVlfy6f0CKPuogQFvpJQ3QQBQv-70NXDhXfJjVZ3PqYeGXP8ZukT_M6x2xvfNU/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-22%20at%209.33.23%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Geri Reischl in THE BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN Year: 1971 Rating: *</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Produced and featuring actor L.Q. Jones, co-starring his fellow Sam Peckinpah stock member Strother Martin and directed by Bernard McEveety, THE BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN is 90-minutes the very, very, very long way... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>With a perfect married couple and their perfect blonde daughter getting stranded in a rural town that, as we learn halfway through, consists of Satan-worshiping old folks led by Strother as the local doctor under the secret protection of L. Q. as sheriff: the town recruiting children (including Debi Storm) for the cause...</p><p><span></span></p>

charles bateman, debi storm, exploitation, geri reischl, horror, l.q. jones, rural, seventies, small town, strother martin

STROTHER MARTIN & GERI REISCHL 'THE BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN'

Geri Reischl in THE BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN Year: 1971 Rating: * Produced and featuring actor L.Q. Jones, co-starring his fellow Sam Peckinpah ...

EDGAR WRIGHT & SIMON PEGG'S BUDDY COP HOMAGE 'HOT FUZZ'

<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/AVvXsEjInrVZYBgF3BsIazIaIM8lMo5_PEAE_qyA7tlQxYczAKPJnSKUi4_9FyB6FehAQVbWdjJgjYi75T4gfRhljNu4Wy6BnQsb9LdI5cTGe0S_MEt9LB7MYviGEZYldGqOA8ammYtkMSm3WJofUIqhbPyRJv27CiTG_Zq4Yp8atTKIMlAlE_qp0hSUfcksyA/s1713/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="737" data-original-width="1713" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjInrVZYBgF3BsIazIaIM8lMo5_PEAE_qyA7tlQxYczAKPJnSKUi4_9FyB6FehAQVbWdjJgjYi75T4gfRhljNu4Wy6BnQsb9LdI5cTGe0S_MEt9LB7MYviGEZYldGqOA8ammYtkMSm3WJofUIqhbPyRJv27CiTG_Zq4Yp8atTKIMlAlE_qp0hSUfcksyA/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Edgar Wright's HOT FUZZ Year: 2007 Rating: *****</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After British director Edgar Wright and his leading man and writing partner Simon Pegg scored with the zombie comedy SHAUN OF THE DEAD, it was time for straight-out action that, while also loaded with hijinks, takes the cop genre more seriously, especially Pegg's against-type performance as a tough guy instead of the usual shrugging slacker from DEAD and before that he and Wright's pop-culture-referencing sit-com, SPACED...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And there are even more nostalgic homages here as HOT FUZZ is a mega-satire on mainstream American buddy-cop flicks ranging from LETHAL WEAPON to POINT BREAK... and for the British it's loaded with iconic cult actors of that country's more cerebral crime genre past...</p><p><span></span></p>

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EDGAR WRIGHT & SIMON PEGG'S BUDDY COP HOMAGE 'HOT FUZZ'

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Edgar Wright's HOT FUZZ Year: 2007 Rating: ***** After British director Edgar Wright and his leading man an...

GERALDINE JAMES & GEORGE HARRIS STEAL 'THE SWEENEY: PAY OFF'

<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/AVvXsEjZQqMk8WIsGFRU2TI231gjCqdC3OPRnWOCfMYEK7As7xwbiqkP7BVIfvapdq294-OvaQM6T4mSsshR5CXdx1nfVl-qKL3mfmHURm_6jlMlD7_BHHarvq5sYk4yDFWPpRvmHCZhvLe4AjEAmPWPuPKUCEiWXSYjtsRUOL-LjMCEPSIEvD7gvg6nST4P2w/s1868/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1145" data-original-width="1868" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZQqMk8WIsGFRU2TI231gjCqdC3OPRnWOCfMYEK7As7xwbiqkP7BVIfvapdq294-OvaQM6T4mSsshR5CXdx1nfVl-qKL3mfmHURm_6jlMlD7_BHHarvq5sYk4yDFWPpRvmHCZhvLe4AjEAmPWPuPKUCEiWXSYjtsRUOL-LjMCEPSIEvD7gvg6nST4P2w/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Geraldine James and George Harris in THE SWEENEY: Pay Off Year: 1976 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>THE SWEENEY episode PAY OFF combines two of the British cop show's two most wielded devices: the <i>woman in need</i> and the <i>band of backstabbing thieves</i>, in which this dame is part of, working at the low-rent casino for, and she meets Dennis Waterman's Carter in what seems just another of many one-night-stands when it's anything but...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Instead, classic-beauty Geraldine James is trying to get some inside information about her possibly dead or perhaps just hiding-out-with-the-stolen-cash ex-partner, member of a violent gang of forest-fleeing thieves wearing creepy animal masks during the boisterous cold open/prologue...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

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GERALDINE JAMES & GEORGE HARRIS STEAL 'THE SWEENEY: PAY OFF'

Geraldine James and George Harris in THE SWEENEY: Pay Off Year: 1976 Rating: ****1/2 THE SWEENEY episode PAY OFF combines two of the British...