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Italy
aka 7 Notes in Black, the Psychic
Director: Lucio Fulci
Starring: Jennifer O'Neill, Virginia Ducci
Runtime: 95 min
dubbed
Woah...this looks like it came right off the pages of a seventies Virgina Slims ad campaign...or maybe vice versa. Not the zombies and gore you might expect, Italian master Lucio Fulci instead delivers a wonderfully creepy and suspensful little Hitchcockian tale.
Director: Leo Garen
Starring: Keith Carradine, Scott Glenn, Hilary Thompson, Gary Busey, Robert Walker Jr., Dan Haggerty, John Carradine
Wow, whats not to like? Turn of the century period piece centered around a WW1 era Motorcycle gang (!?!?!) that stumbles into a rural Americana web of occult. An initial lighthearted tone gives way to a creepy and psychedelic witchcraft horror fable. That its called 'HEX' only sweetens the pot! It also has an outrageous cast in Keith & John Carradine, Scott Glenn, Gary Busey and Dan Hagerty! The perfect double feature with Psychomania!
Download Hex: avi video (1290MB) iPod video (1075MB)
Director: Oleg Egorov
Starring: Kelly Lynch, Daniel Grimm, Phillip Vincent
In a not-so-distant dystopian future (just think Mad Max and substitute water for gasoline) a young girl's family is murdered by an evil gang led by Mr. Big...so, how best to exact her revenge? Grow up, learn the art of the crossbow (and the art of 80's hair) and kidnap the leader's fucking BOYFRIEND that's how! All right!
Download Osa: avi video (699MB) iPod video (480MB)
France
Director: André Hunebelle
Starring: Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot
Fantômas! The ultimate French anti-hero brought to the screen here in the first of three Fantômas films directed by André Hunebelle with Jean Marais in the dual lead role. Add equal doses of James Bond cool and classic American slaptstick and glue it all together with a heaping of French snot. Great fun!
Download Fantômas: avi video (699MB) iPod video (486MB)
Director: John Trent Starring: Stuart Whitman, Sandy Dennis, Burl Ives, Tom Harvey
Burl Ives rules. This is the craziest Burl Ives Film we have ever seen. You do the math! Ives plays the quite mad Dr. T.M. Trask with ghoulish aplomb......harvesting human patients from his lavish medical research facility in a wild immortality scheme. Stuart Whitman and Sandy Dennis are on to him and the whole movie plays out like a very dark and arcane James Bond film. Engaging from start to finish...and, by the way, it really ends on a 'high' note if you catch our drift.....
Download The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever: avi video (1090MB) iPod video (825MB)
Director: Michael Campus
Starring: Daniel Ades, Harry Andrews, Zalman King, Donald Pleasence
It's Easter - whether you celebrate by dancing for the fertility gods, wishing on a giant rabbit or a quite Sunday in Church, we here at the HEX thought we would help in the best way we know how - unearthing an appropriate lost film! Welcome to the Passover Plot!
A rather large and ambitious movie at the time, its religious content brought on a huge controversy which caused this interesting film to be buried like few others we have seen. Based on the book by Hugh J. Schonfield, The film depicts a well meaning but human Jesus during a time rife with prophets of all colors. Jesus and his group of supporters known as The Zealots concoct a plan to drug him before the crucifixion. The drug gives him the appearance off being dead so they are able to then simulate a 'resurrection' and thus secure his position as a true messiah to deal with the Romans. At the time, the film generated a big boycott movement from people that generally hadn't even seen the film - not surprising (sadly), but it apparently made an impact on the studio. Passover Plot saw one measly VHS release in the 80s, despite having even won an Oscar for Best Costuming. The Hex cannot find another case of an Oscar winner shelved indefinitely? For the exploitation nuts out there, Zalman King (of Red Shoe Diary fame) stars as Jesus Christ and Donald Pleasence takes a turn as Pontius Pilate. Director Michael Campus was also responsible for another wacky and controversial HEX favorite - ZPG. He never made another film after Passover Plot.
Download The Passover Plot: avi video (699MB) iPod video (541MB)
Director: Michael Caffey
Starring: Milton Berle, Bill Dyer, Nancy Fisher, Ted Foulkes, Michael Fox
A chartered plane full of blind people crashes in the wilderness. Only the blind survive. A brilliant set-up that stars Milton Berle in a dramatic role and has the distinction of being the very first ABC movie of the week. This tele-film does justice to all of the above and also answers that timeless question: Whats worse than being stranded on a mountain with a cranky old man? Answer: Being stranded on a mountain with a cranky old blind man! This movie is also a great example of how using a sound stage for external locations can really create a creepy otherworldly tone. This film is the definition of harrowing. Classic television and classic filmmaking.
Download Seven in Darkness: avi video (2191MB) iPod video (877MB)
Director: Peter Carter
Starring: Hal Holbrook, Lawrence Dane, Robin Gammell, Ken James
From Peter Carter, the director of Bonafide Hex drinking classic - High Ballin' - comes a Hal Holbrook wilderness survival tour de force. 5 Doctors take an annual camping vacation...this time a bit deeper into the woods that normal. Things go terribly wrong.....and we really mean it. What sounds like countless other 'And Then There Were None' scenarios becomes an agonizing tale of real, honest characters thrust into absolute, violent anarchy. As people begin to die and paranoia starts to rage, the edge of your seat, gut-wrenching suspense never lets you forget what your fellow man is capable of......always amazing when movies like this still pack a punch!
Download Rituals: avi video (1321MB) iPod video (1106MB)
