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Written by James M. Tate / 7/24/2026 / No comments / anitra ford , body count , charles dierkop , cult , gloria katz , horror , joy bang , marianna hill , michael greer , phillan bishop , seventies , walter hill , williard huyck , zombie

PHILLAN BISHOP SCORING WILLARD HUYCK'S 'MESSIAH OF EVIL'

<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/AVvXsEj5vyhyIkZe03K3Bfp14mfj6c3BClQSrI8yU-2FL6t1N4sFfndwzWoZvzhrm_ol7S6yQI1NeuS4KRB51RXJcNCj9wZwxib2rJsxvZzJLZlO85rjOCynDovpDBL1tdrqhyphenhyphenS4VaO1ZUI0apgKRFgUZhWETIQTu-YRfRJNT93o3Rqz7-jP3Vwt_v6XLhvm8MO2/s1712/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-24%20at%204.47.51%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="1712" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5vyhyIkZe03K3Bfp14mfj6c3BClQSrI8yU-2FL6t1N4sFfndwzWoZvzhrm_ol7S6yQI1NeuS4KRB51RXJcNCj9wZwxib2rJsxvZzJLZlO85rjOCynDovpDBL1tdrqhyphenhyphenS4VaO1ZUI0apgKRFgUZhWETIQTu-YRfRJNT93o3Rqz7-jP3Vwt_v6XLhvm8MO2/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-24%20at%204.47.51%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joy Bang in MESSIAH OF EVIL Year: 1974 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Married filmmakers (and AMERICAN GRAFFITI co-writers) Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz's arthouse horror MESSIAH OF EVIL has hauntingly gorgeous scream-queen Marianna Hill's narrated story-line about the search for her artist father at a beach community, pieced together in long sequences of gothic dialogue, neatly combined with three of the most eerily suspenseful moments of low-budget exploitation cinema... Wherein monotone Michael Greer seems to be the title character, a tall stranger holed-up at her missing father's pad (his journals providing exposition) with two lovely girls, Anitra Ford and Joy Bang, each making their own separate horror-trope mistake of leaving an otherwise safe location to venture out alone... in this case into the small beach town, inland from a wave-lapping, moon-lit beach...

anitra ford, body count, charles dierkop, cult, gloria katz, horror, joy bang, marianna hill, michael greer, phillan bishop, seventies, walter hill, williard huyck, zombie

PHILLAN BISHOP SCORING WILLARD HUYCK'S 'MESSIAH OF EVIL'

Joy Bang in MESSIAH OF EVIL Year: 1974 Rating: **** Married filmmakers (and AMERICAN GRAFFITI co-writers) Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz'...

BURT REYNOLDS AS DETECTIVE NAMED 'HAWK' WITH MARIANNA HILL

<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/AVvXsEhZK6NtEdlOwJJ7X9Qvz3tFrZRNcTVoToENXIXv-ALI-pZpWfvtbZR9-hsDHV1Cy48S4upRG6FAwCBCEG4GdlPcgWFL4TgvC8mGID2bp8vLQAniohltn0TOtmF-0oVn0ThxF13LMg53eqJqCOeCz-AVgSbd6ooCy5pr7ILRbp9v17Hft4-PnUW-xytyq3Kb/s1628/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="1628" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZK6NtEdlOwJJ7X9Qvz3tFrZRNcTVoToENXIXv-ALI-pZpWfvtbZR9-hsDHV1Cy48S4upRG6FAwCBCEG4GdlPcgWFL4TgvC8mGID2bp8vLQAniohltn0TOtmF-0oVn0ThxF13LMg53eqJqCOeCz-AVgSbd6ooCy5pr7ILRbp9v17Hft4-PnUW-xytyq3Kb/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burt Reynolds as HAWK: The Hands of Corbin Claybrooke Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Before playing a monotone detective in the 1970 series <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/09/burt-reynolds-headlines-neo-noir-cop.html">DAN AUGUST</a>, young mustache-less/Marlon-Brando-looking Burt Reynolds played a monotone detective named HAWK... the difference being he's, like the initial breakthrough role on GUNSMOKE, part Indian... and instead of investigating old friends mostly during daylight, the twist here's  a seedy gumshoe style world after midnight...In this case, one of the few episodes available, THE HANDS OF CORBIN CLAYBROOKE, centering on an offbeat artist with gorgeous assistant Marianna Hill teamed with a handsome criminal that had murdered another artist, both involved in a scam a bit difficult to follow, for the audience more than Burt's titular detective, knowing the girl's involved as if he'd seen enough noir films...

burt reynolds, cop, crime, marianna hill, neo noir, sixties, tv series

BURT REYNOLDS AS DETECTIVE NAMED 'HAWK' WITH MARIANNA HILL

Burt Reynolds as HAWK: The Hands of Corbin Claybrooke Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 Before playing a monotone detective in the 1970 series DAN A...

DIRECTOR HOWARD HAWKS RACE CAR MELODRAMA 'RED LINE 7000'

<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/AVvXsEiq9V5GMj1RxNxuAEtrhtaEPtQtPZzpmjRRPqfuoMDuWg0wT-Oc5dyeC_M7MD21iNop97kbBHRME2504k3aKm4fmh9cJXiocQYoCX4sUv7r8kmSMPRc4BmS0GkmuM0c3cqKFkIXdnf3C4aUNJvpOSnFyF6BEEVwpoHl-KEFrdUs0O4p8i9jo5UG2fp_9VDv/s1656/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-24%20at%209.42.16%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="1656" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq9V5GMj1RxNxuAEtrhtaEPtQtPZzpmjRRPqfuoMDuWg0wT-Oc5dyeC_M7MD21iNop97kbBHRME2504k3aKm4fmh9cJXiocQYoCX4sUv7r8kmSMPRc4BmS0GkmuM0c3cqKFkIXdnf3C4aUNJvpOSnFyF6BEEVwpoHl-KEFrdUs0O4p8i9jo5UG2fp_9VDv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-24%20at%209.42.16%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: RED LINE 7000 Stars: James Caan Director: Howard Hawks Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>One of the strangest race car movies of all time is also the most grounded, deliberately mundane, and, directed by an old Howard Hawks starring a young James Caan (right before shooting EL DORADO), it's well worth both watching and re-watching since there's so much going on... yet hardly on the actual racetrack...In which Caan's one of several racers though mostly holed-up at a Holiday Inn and partaking in various affairs while driving for Norman Aldan, whose pretty tomboy sister Laura Devon winds up quickly bedded with the film's buried lead in muscular drone John Robert Crawford, whose rushed backstory of a farm boy wanting to be the fastest takes away from an against-the-odds story that should have been Caan's instead...

charlene holt, cult, ensemble, gail hire, george takei, hangout, howard hawks, james caan, laura devon, marianna hill, norman aldan, race car, sixties, skip ward, sport, teri garr

DIRECTOR HOWARD HAWKS RACE CAR MELODRAMA 'RED LINE 7000'

Title: RED LINE 7000 Stars: James Caan Director: Howard Hawks Rating: ***1/2 One of the strangest race car movies of all time is also the mo...

BEWARE OF 'BLOOD BEACH' W/ DARRELL FETTY & LENA POUSETTE

<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/AVvXsEjWna3M7Gm9xHU9gqvQ2GV5-rpflEaJlTw48ChBzbp_mqwCGU2FXQb322eaFm8ZJxqjo6q9Pdyr_D1aVwxbGMSSzyhsD8UdX8tYAfRWCY6DsusZeGWIJiRjcEE-GLcUC8wX0oK0gXXnNd6JVZn2hBymIcQzZOkGwlhB4avsrS88SD7Kmp5D3SWQInQtWQ/s1000/blood-beach-570bc59f9ddff.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1000" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWna3M7Gm9xHU9gqvQ2GV5-rpflEaJlTw48ChBzbp_mqwCGU2FXQb322eaFm8ZJxqjo6q9Pdyr_D1aVwxbGMSSzyhsD8UdX8tYAfRWCY6DsusZeGWIJiRjcEE-GLcUC8wX0oK0gXXnNd6JVZn2hBymIcQzZOkGwlhB4avsrS88SD7Kmp5D3SWQInQtWQ/w400-h251/blood-beach-570bc59f9ddff.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: BLOOD BEACH Year: 1980 </td></tr></tbody></table>BLOOD BEACH is an inspired, intentionally campy Jaws-clone that intentionally never reaches the water, and with a few payoffs, including each death scene, ranging from BIG WEDNESDAY party dude Darrell Fetty as a deputy/musician  to a few doomed locals sucked into the sand... 
 
And then investigated by some great actors not only wasted, but marring the horror element including old school drably dressed Burt Young, Otis Young (no relation... Otis is the tall black dude from THE LAST DETAIL who looks nothing like Rocky Balboa's sloppy brother-in-law) and John Saxon in an investigation phase that, sadly, not only takes over the fun but practically smothers it... Basically, too much discussion on what already happened and not enough things happening makes for a rather dull beach...