JONATHAN SCOTT-TAYLOR DEVILS DESTINY FOR 'DAMIEN: OMEN 2'

<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/AVvXsEiwJTIfqT54G_nqT4KOjhM4gp-190HNLVkZFXjExDvUQfo9_3HO62tPuaXwOKoVB0NkFBXxvzFTSAGbdjRVwNSDnJAqp3Z-93xy4UJklDfMLqvK13YZJisUKMKGW7_cKVMQJq0gUgQPSA3krd9tmYa2luC9vXNV0L1OxsEzmN7eBNwTOKwxiPtyEwAuGx7Y/s2018/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-14%20at%2012.38.32%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="2018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwJTIfqT54G_nqT4KOjhM4gp-190HNLVkZFXjExDvUQfo9_3HO62tPuaXwOKoVB0NkFBXxvzFTSAGbdjRVwNSDnJAqp3Z-93xy4UJklDfMLqvK13YZJisUKMKGW7_cKVMQJq0gUgQPSA3krd9tmYa2luC9vXNV0L1OxsEzmN7eBNwTOKwxiPtyEwAuGx7Y/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-14%20at%2012.38.32%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jonathan Scott-Taylor in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 Rates: ****</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Just as pint-sized demonic toddler Damien Thorn from <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/07/omen.html">THE OMEN</a> (inspired by Linda Blair from THE EXORCIST) grew up into a young military school teenager for DAMIEN: OMEN 2, the demonic horror genre progresses into a slow-burn body-count thriller, more violently meticulous than suspensefully-spooky, and ultimately pretty satisfying...<br><br>And it's all the work of two directors, initially shot by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/12/getCarter.html">GET CARTER</a> British auteur Mike Hodges before being replaced (with some scenes reshot) by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/04/escAPE.html">ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES'</a> Don Taylor... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

allan arbus, body count, don taylor, elizabeth sheperd, franchise, horror, lance henriksen, lee grant, lew ayres, mike hodges, robert foxworth, sylvia sidney, thriller, william holden

JONATHAN SCOTT-TAYLOR DEVILS DESTINY FOR 'DAMIEN: OMEN 2'

Jonathan Scott-Taylor in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 Rates: **** Just as pint-sized demonic toddler Damien Thorn from THE OMEN (inspired by Linda Blair ...

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...

RAY LIOTTA VS STUART WILSON IN 'NO ESCAPE' WITH ERNIE HUDSON

<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/AVvXsEh70fXoT4QMcnRii_a3Eb_hDbXhf1tumHHpn4gIyQtsvY_PTpcLZlfnHTzPbn82LHRU1KvUzMCZ9Urnnf06HVp7ETYoLW6Kv9P3o8AKiySuz1TXw9fvca6dA0wnplSC1VNY7bhtCmP7dEp8AAHgEozhOaJwOJb7Vtdek_yTiFefBSbcFbDqwU0sQw8qHry6/s2634/Screen%20Shot%202025-08-30%20at%2010.44.08%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1154" data-original-width="2634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh70fXoT4QMcnRii_a3Eb_hDbXhf1tumHHpn4gIyQtsvY_PTpcLZlfnHTzPbn82LHRU1KvUzMCZ9Urnnf06HVp7ETYoLW6Kv9P3o8AKiySuz1TXw9fvca6dA0wnplSC1VNY7bhtCmP7dEp8AAHgEozhOaJwOJb7Vtdek_yTiFefBSbcFbDqwU0sQw8qHry6/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-08-30%20at%2010.44.08%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: NO ESCAPE Year: 1994 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>An action-packed b-movie that takes itself way too seriously, which is what makes NO ESCAPE great fun as Ray Liotta's only in an actual Fascist-future prison for a brief time, ironic since it's a prison-genre flick but taking place on a penal island like PAPILLON following the survival rules and ragged costume design of THE ROAD WARRIOR...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Genuinely cool and fit, Liotta is, of course, the toughest and strongest and a completely handy stranger in a fortress world run by a passive yet formidable Lance Henriksen, polar opposite of British actor Stuart Wilson ruling the woodsy outskirts, whose insanely overboard, monologue-spouting dictator makes Dennis Hopper's WATERWORLD performance seem tame (and all but drowns out the prison's computer-monitor-monitoring warden Michael Lerner)... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, ernie hudson, escape, ian mcneice, kevin dillon, lance henriksen, nineties, prison, ray liotta, stuart wilson

RAY LIOTTA VS STUART WILSON IN 'NO ESCAPE' WITH ERNIE HUDSON

Title: NO ESCAPE Year: 1994 Rating: ***1/2 An action-packed b-movie that takes itself way too seriously, which is what makes NO ESCAPE great...

PAIGE CONNER POSSESSES EXPLOITATION HORROR IN 'THE VISITOR'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioWm-7otfaYqH16YUigeTJJf_gvGb9g0OGxKGFdsL6tzh6zEGjq9nyOiZPTerzM8PRC5IU1OXSw1pw8xm0lrZEWnH-9AdiOKc3LCXoB5BB-lc2mPljqLwS5r-QbBVpZ-lS2LHfpzTvrQxk/s1635/Screen+Shot+2021-01-22+at+9.20.01+PM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1270" data-original-width="1635" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioWm-7otfaYqH16YUigeTJJf_gvGb9g0OGxKGFdsL6tzh6zEGjq9nyOiZPTerzM8PRC5IU1OXSw1pw8xm0lrZEWnH-9AdiOKc3LCXoB5BB-lc2mPljqLwS5r-QbBVpZ-lS2LHfpzTvrQxk/w400-h311/Screen+Shot+2021-01-22+at+9.20.01+PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Paige Conner in THE VISITOR Year: 1979</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>THE VISITOR has many cult influences starting with THE BIRDS since the blonde-haired, blue-eyed eight-year-old girl, possessed by supernatural forces, has a lethal fine-feathered friend who keeps her safe: Especially from a detective played by the most famous of the "special guest" stars, Glenn Ford, a rudimentary tether to hold onto but not for long before a gritty exploitation element takes charge, ultimately making Ford a cameo... </p><p></p><p>Which can't be said of the titular star, John Huston, an Obi-Wan Kenobi type who, after a meeting with Franco Nero as an intergalactic utopian Christ, ventures to Earth to take down this little monster...</p><p>In that, Paige Conner turns in one of the greatest possessed kid performances ever, more the proverbial verb to Linda Blair's devilish noun i.e. this shaking bed gets around: The daughter of a basketball team owner's girlfriend, entering another homage, ROSEMARY'S BABY (Lance Henriksen as the John Cassevetes soul-seller). And despite the low-budget effects showing what's beyond our world, VISITOR takes to the streets with precision, and looking downright professionally choreographed... <br></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfFZUlC-JEnRSpdB9RFiQ6O_5XZnFtNKPZppYPu-hyhDOpdYPex0CnURBCzOtqNC7VWnxU8PHr731yR4OFp_DSBJlC7HAM9Gxp0g5Qi_5l3JwKLCeHS2Ct50N0JpXDj0pOQZt0-vqy2Emz/s1941/Screen+Shot+2021-01-22+at+9.09.58+PM.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1269" data-original-width="1941" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfFZUlC-JEnRSpdB9RFiQ6O_5XZnFtNKPZppYPu-hyhDOpdYPex0CnURBCzOtqNC7VWnxU8PHr731yR4OFp_DSBJlC7HAM9Gxp0g5Qi_5l3JwKLCeHS2Ct50N0JpXDj0pOQZt0-vqy2Emz/w400-h261/Screen+Shot+2021-01-22+at+9.09.58+PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Paige Conner in THE VISITOR Rating: ****</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Veering into INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS or even CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND when the film's only human antagonist... the lovely mom in Patrica Nail... is abducted by some kind of aliens that, well... </p><p>There's a lot of THE VISITOR that shouldn't be spoiled, and it's not as insufferably campy as its reputation implies... John Huston, along with tough nanny Shelley Winters, seem more into this Italian import than TENTACLES. Making this dusty gem a great fixture for the time and genre...</p><p></p><p>And despite the flaws, it's still original — but goes on twenty-minutes too long while the climax is remarkably creepy with insane violence, and the Italian director seems to know he's punishing his characters as well as even his intended cult audience. And least we forget one of the most borrowed if overused multi-mirror peaks derived by Orson Welles for THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI. Yet by this time you'll be either stunned or entertained, or a combination of both.</p><p><span></span></p>

action, exploitation, glenn ford, horror, indie, john huston, lance henriksen, ovidio g. assonitis, paige conner, patricia nial, sam peckinpah, science-fiction, seventies, shelley winters

PAIGE CONNER POSSESSES EXPLOITATION HORROR IN 'THE VISITOR'

Paige Conner in THE VISITOR Year: 1979 THE VISITOR has many cult influences starting with THE BIRDS since the blonde-haired, blue-eyed eight...

MOVE OVER 'LOST BOYS' FOR 'NEAR DARK' WITH JENNY WRIGHT

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPBbX-LFRJQtaTxJfadK9vN0N2EIWFDyNZToRIQlCpreXyaWXF49RCbirq1ueU9HBj6aVl0h7kke6cLnGEBDLIVY9ca0AnhO6tFTTMtyT0k-rkVOM-T54-rP-jozUEu07P1r6BR9yhqfJp/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-03-23+at+5.59.15+PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="516" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPBbX-LFRJQtaTxJfadK9vN0N2EIWFDyNZToRIQlCpreXyaWXF49RCbirq1ueU9HBj6aVl0h7kke6cLnGEBDLIVY9ca0AnhO6tFTTMtyT0k-rkVOM-T54-rP-jozUEu07P1r6BR9yhqfJp/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-03-23+at+5.59.15+PM.jpeg" width="259" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jenny Wright in NEAR DARK Year: 1987</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Steamy vampire flick with terrific moments and memorable characters, including Jenny Wright as a shyly sensuous vamp who seduces farm boy Adrian Pasdar into her clutches. In NEAR DARK she bites him and, not yet transformed, he joins the <i>family</i>: a gang of rogue RV-riding bloodsuckers including Lance Henriksen as the brooding leader and hopped-up scene-stealer Bill Paxton as a bad boy brawler.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> The vibe throughout is spooky and intense, the starkly rural daytime setting giving a Spaghetti Western feel while the shadowy night shots channel Film Noir. But the camarawork, although making good use of light and shade, keeps too close on the actors, feeling more like a Gothic photo album than a suspensful motion picture.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4e9okogBBP2SJhSOSVDt78w_N_xLpRiKhB9SMwT4WsdKWkiseMz5jY6OaYyEUcEY6GT0cwVlutVIURZOor82Gwr-BCtqxAqq80aqpK2q-3S9KlkOFP33tiTl4bUXJ01mcHZr_7qmNjEBU/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-03-23+at+6.03.28+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="720" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4e9okogBBP2SJhSOSVDt78w_N_xLpRiKhB9SMwT4WsdKWkiseMz5jY6OaYyEUcEY6GT0cwVlutVIURZOor82Gwr-BCtqxAqq80aqpK2q-3S9KlkOFP33tiTl4bUXJ01mcHZr_7qmNjEBU/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-03-23+at+6.03.28+PM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jenny Wright and Lance Henriksen RATES: ***1/2</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Some of the music, seeming placed throughout to fill a soundtrack album, hinders what should have been more timeless otherwise...<br /> <br /> But an ultra-violent scene within a red neck bar, and a finale on a desolate street straight out of a demonic HIGH NOON, makes this a uniquely bloody ride. And although not as conventionally entertaining, there's a murkier depth than its successful competitor, THE LOST BOYS.<br /> <br /> And while Pasdar is a dependable – though somewhat wooden – lead protagonist, the best moments concern Paxton’s daredevil lunacy or Jenny Wright’s docile-doomed expressions as each inevitable dawn draws in: Perhaps NEAR LIGHT would have been a more fitting title, as these vamps are continuously playing time with loaded dice.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>

bill paxton, eighties, horror, jenny wright, lance henriksen, vampire

MOVE OVER 'LOST BOYS' FOR 'NEAR DARK' WITH JENNY WRIGHT

Jenny Wright in NEAR DARK Year: 1987 Steamy vampire flick with terrific moments and memorable characters, including Jenny Wright as a sh...