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Italy
aka La Morte negli occhi del gatto
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Starring: Jane Birkin, Hiram Keller, Françoise Christophe, Venantino Venantini
There are many threads that bind the Hex...you may have noticed that Antonio Margheriti in one of them...his catalogue of work speaks volumes and his name means something to us here in the catacombs. This may be one of his most beautifully realized works--a film that combines the popular Italian Giallo films with a Hammer sensibility. Dripping with gothic sexuality: Clue meets Vampyros Lesbos. We are very proud to offer you Seven Deaths in a Cat's Eye in full anamorphic glory. The good old days were very good indeed!
Download Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye: avi video (700MB)
Director: Romain Gary
Starring: James Mason, Stephen Boyd, Curd Jürgens, Jean Seberg
Holy christ on a stick did we find a keeper.......Early Alexander Salkind production starring Sword and Sandal regular Stephen Boyd, James Mason and the amazing Jean Seberg. Huge budget thriller with ex-interpol assassins trying to shut down porn/drug rings in Pakistan. This one way delivers on all fronts. The musical sex slave number has to really be seen and experienced. Oddly, this film also reminded us of the original Howling without the Werewolves. Uncut high brow Euro-exploitation at its finest!
Download Kill!: avi video (1423MB) iPod video (1157MB)
Director: Melville Shavelson
Starring: Paul Michael Glaser, Sally Struthers, Adrienne Barbeau, Bill Bixby, Peter Cushing
More lost TeeVee action here at the Hex. A Houdini biopic starring Adrienne Barbeau, Paul Michael Glaser, Bill Bixby and Sally Struthers and....Peter Cushing as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle......just wow. This movie set off an epidemic of school children brutally punching each other in the stomach the day after it originally aired! Not as much mysticism as we would have liked but a fun find nonetheless. Have fun with this very hard to find lost gem! "Speak in Yiddish so I know it’s you!!!!"
Download The Great Houdini: avi video (898MB) iPod video (325MB)
Director: Frank De Felitta
Starring: James Brolin, Susan Clark, Earl Holliman, Robert Hooks
Surprisingly brutal television take on the Doberman film rage of the time....this movie definitely out - crazies the theatrical scene proving, once again, that the early 70s movie of the week scene was really firing on all cylinders to compete with cinemas. Super suave James Brolin (smoking a cigarette in a holder!) gets mugged in a groovy indoor mall (at the height of their rage) men's room......right before closing........RIGHT before the viscous guard dogs are set loose to protect things overnight! Its always the simple plots that are the most riveting - when handled right....and they really had a firm grasp on this one. One does wonder however, just how many pot smoking teen's mauled bodies were morgued out of that mall every Sunday due to their zero tolerance security system?.....Oh yes, and we would be remiss if we didn't mention that writer director Frank De Felitta also penned Zero Population Growth, which is very near and dear to the HEX.
Download Trapped: avi video (1021MB) iPod video (844MB)
AKA Boris Karloff's Thriller
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Starring: Boris Karloff, William Shatner, Elizabeth Allen, Robert Cornthwaite, Henry Daniell
Happy Halloween indeeeeed! - Beware the flood for this this event! First up is classic Shatner/Karloff in a gottadavidababy! Bill and Lovey flirt in a way that makes the Creepshow cast shudder...and indeed they should because only the twisted aristocrats always get theirs right? Well??? Only Shatner knows for sure and you better watch this or else! See how good television can and should be?
Download Thriller - "The Grim Reaper": avi video (698MB) iPod video (165MB)
Director: Fredric Hobbs
Starring: Christopher Brooks, E. Kerrigan Prescott, Turk Murphy
The tagline for this uber weird entry was "A satanic journey into the depths of black magic" ...heh, that makes it sound like Devil's Rain when what you are really getting is the comedown from Skidoo, Greaser's Palace, Blood Feast and Song of the South... and you just woke up naked next to Criswell!
Our new favorite film... ...They sure don't make 'em like this anymore. You will be forcing this unsung gem on everyone... over... and over... and over..
Once again, Hollywood really blew it when they remade this as The Fountain... or was that the LSD talking? By the time the Vampires and Elephant show up, you WILL be scouring the medicine cabinet for that lost stash box...you know the one...from that party...in the desert!? Looking at this film as the McDonalds of Jodorowski, it truly delivers.
aka Nightmare
Dircetor: John Newland
Starring: Kim Darby, Jim Hutton
Runtime: 74 min
The message of this telefilm is, of course, be VERY AFRAID of the dark! We just kicked off the Dead Channels midnight series with our 16mm copy of this film and it brought down the house!
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is the legendary television movie that scared the living Hell out of an entire generation of impressionable latch key kids. – and now it's your turn!
A neurotic housewife named Sally and her business exec husband movie into Sally’s family house, a spooky two-story Victorian mansion. Sally comes across a locked door that, once finally opened at her great insistence, kicks off a series of very strange events. Sally begins to see small creatures everywhere and of course, no one believes her – nothing a valium won't cure insists her husband.....until the death starts! Is she crazy? Or has Sally released demons?
This film has been released on DVD. It is no longer available to download here but we highly recommend buying your own copy: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
West Germany aka Der Chef wünscht keine Zeugen Director: Hans Albin, Peter Berneis Starring: Maria Perschy, Robert Cunningham, Uwe Friedrichsen, Karen Blanguernon, Gustavo Rojo
Nothing really new about the duplicating of world leaders as the lynchpin of a world domination plot, but this sure is a fun take on the perennial plot-line. Vaporous aliens are taking over world leaders...and boy do they like to drink. Seriously, there is alot of drinking going on on this film - groovy age indeed! This film seems incredibly relevant with scenes of world leaders and industrialists whooping it up while worrying about "Word Peace breaking out!.....It must be stopped at all costs!!" These scenes feel as though they could be security cam footage from recent G8 Summits. Apparently, getting smashed helps put some perspective on the human condition, however, when cracks in the plot appear as some of the aliens start to feel envy for love and horniness. No Survivors, Please takes a while to get off the ground, but when it does, its a great mix of a solid, forward moving plot balanced with boozy, unintentional humor - all framed by very grim overtones and consequences....the sober Futureworld can't compare....
Download No Survivors, Please: avi video (699MB) iPod video (418MB)
