Do you trust your Government? The Hex doesn’t! When Space Science and Railroads meet – weapons ready space viruses are the obvious culprit...except you are on a rolling train instead of a secure underground Government laboratory. Keystone Cops bungle the scene and lay the blueprint for the Department of Homeland Security. A certain three lettered agency seems to be more occupied with illegal moonshine than the safety of the human race. Picture Robert Wise spilling his drink. Be warned. Amazingly relevant.
aka Commando Mengele
Dircetor: Andrea Bianchi
Writer: Jesus Franco, Georges Friedland
Starring: Christopher Mitchum, Suzan Andrews, Fernando Rey, Howard Vernon, Dora Doll
Christopher Mitchum - the OTHER, other Mitchum - stars in this Jess Franco penned Nazi oddity-de-force. Strong vampire overtones as a Van Helsing like Jewish commando team hunts out Josef Mengele - who has survived WWII and is now covertly continuing bizarre human experimentation including virgin impregnations that may...or may not....be Hitler. Just one of the many heavy handed setups that are strangely never followed through (Franco was reportedly 'let go' during production so there may be some legit excuses for continuity issues)....no matter, because we have neglected to mention that Mengele has an army of kung fu experts....that do battle with the Jewish commando team...WHO ARE KUNG FU EXPERTS! We know...amazing coincidence!!! Just keep in mind, as par for the course in this film, they may...or may not....actually battle with kung fu. Designer jeans and circuses - it just HAS to be visionary, right? Jess Franco and Nazis....like peanut butter and jelly!!
Download Angel of Death: avi video (667MB) iPod video (296MB)
Director: Don Edmonds
Starring: Robert Viharo, Sherry Jackson, Michael Heit, Gloria Hendry, John Daniels
IIlsa director Don Edmonds brings us some sweet 70's grindhouse action!! Unsung B-movie powerhouse Robert Viharo brings down the house as bounty hunter Zachary Kane in this gritty urban street fighter epic. Sometimes other people just manage to say it best: from IMDB:
"A bounty hunter in Los Angeles sets out to track down and stop a masked serial killer who murders women by using kung-fu moves."
That's pretty much all you need to know. Just let us add that the action, music, scenery and tone are just about perfect! It's Seedy, it's 70's and it totally and completely delivers the goods. Make sure the popcorn is hot and the beer is cold because "Zack and Black--Manhunters...Back to Back!"
Download Bare Knuckles: avi video (878MB) iPod video (307MB)
Canada
aka New York Blackout
Director: Eddy Matalon
Starring: James Mitchum, Robert Carradine, Belinda Montgomery, June Allyson, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Ray Milland
Runtime: 92 min
What if Robert Mitchum was Snake Plisskin? But it ended up being his son Jim Mitchum...and it wasn't the future...and the government wasn't at stake...but a whole lotta NYC punks needed some discipline! 70s siege movie extraordinaire. Massive ensemble cast including a heavily medicated Ray Milland. Thank god there were no meteors or mudslides... Lost Canadian 70s gem.
Italy
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Starring: Joey Travolta, Ana Obregón, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, John Steiner
Margheriti MACH 2!!!! That's right - Antonio Margheriti tackles the world of car racing as only he can...the great title sequence might lead you to believe that this story has a time travel component as well...but we think they just got a little carried away with the stock footage. Who knows, maybe it WAS a meticulously constructed time travel tale and all the SciFi elements got chopped for the US release - no matter, it seems to be primarily about stock car racing. A pretty standard tale; you have the underdog hotshot car racers, the girl and bag guys that want races thrown...but add Joey Travolta in the lead role and, whew, things just always seems a little, well...off...like, a weird edge that's hard to describe. Somebody sure did decide to put all their starpower eggs in a strange basket! It must've sounded great at investor clam bakes we suppose...Margheriti is always a fun trip though, and Car Crash is no exception. Racing aficionados trying to place all the found footage to actual race car classes and eras will have a fun drinking game on their hands!
Download Car Crash: avi video (699MB) iPod video (497MB)
Spain
aka Condenados a vivir, Bronson's Revenge
Director: Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent
Commonly referred to as “the most violent western EVER filmed”, this incredibly hard to find film actually lives up to the claim. Stunning cinematography makes hay of its exploitation roots. A tough as nails Sergeant is transporting seven hardcore criminals AND his nubile young daughter across the ‘western mountains’...Whats that? Yea, not the sharpest plan you say? Anyway, they get ambushed by gold seeking robbers and lose the transport so the Sergeant does the obvious thing: chain up the scary assed criminals to himself and his daughter...but it gets better! The chains turn out to be solid gold!!! We say ‘Awesome!’ and you can put the film's claim and that plot device together for an idea of what’s ahead...although the Hex feels ‘Most Vicious Western’ might be more accurate. The superb filmmaking of this obscure 1972 exploitation pic puts it head and shoulders above the rest--stop crying and run home to your mommy with your ‘G’ Rated Fulci western’s!
Download Cut-Throats Nine: avi video (700MB) iPod video (564MB)
aka Wheels of Death
Director: Hal Needham
Starring: Shelley Hack, George Hamilton, Frank Gorshin, Peter Graves, Dinah Shore, Abe Vigoda, Morgan Brittany
Hal Needham is somewhat of a religion here at the Hex....When the world gets a little too crazy, it always seems like a healthy dose of Megaforce can always be counted on to restore the equilibrium....It is with that in mind that we proudly present his made for TV psycho van-de-force, Death Car on the Freeway. An amazing cast (Abe Vigoda AND Dinah Shore!!) brings to life the perfect vehicle for Needham's stunt background. The straightforward plot - A psycho in a 70s van is vehicle manslaughter-ing women on the freeway - finds its real footing with some tremendous car crashing and stuntwork. That and the fact the this psycho blasts mystery heavy metal on an dashboard 8 track player before he kills is priceless! Show this one to the kiddies to remind 'em how it used to be done, back when people risked more that carpel tunnel syndrome on a computer mouse to bring screen thrills to life! Needham's comments on the news cycle's hunger for violence rings truer than ever today - keep an eye our for his cameo as the driving instructor (wearing his staple silver Firebird jacket!!!)
Download Death Car on the Freeway: avi video (699MB) iPod video (305MB)
Director: Michael J. Murphy
Starring: Rob Bartlett, Debbie Stevens,
Eddie Kirby, Wendy Parsons
Ok, it's hard to find any info on this one, it seems pretty homebrew...but the most elaborate damn homebrew we've ever seen! Another weird 80's thing where all these interesting mash ups--Logan's Run, Brave New World, Mad Max--suddenly turn into camouflaged guys duke-ing it out in Central America. Your taxpayer dollars were apparently stretched pretty thin in the propaganda deptartment during the 80's. Having said that, Death Run is the new Warriors! Long Live Death Run!
Director: Franklin Adreon
Starring: Jeffrey Hunter, France Nuyen, Harold Sakata
One of the more interesting and early James Bond knock offs...Dimension 5 dusts off a Red Scare script and tosses it into a James Bond-esque universe with all the subtly of Hal Needham's Megaforce. Jeffrey Hunter seems to phone the Justin Power role in between happy hours, but that somehow seems appropriate for an International secret agent with a time travel belt. You would be jaded too if could just go back 5 minutes whenever you felt like it...Power squares off against Red China's main kingpin, Big Buddha…played by real Bond alumni Harold "Oddjob" Sakata. Justin Power--sure he's a suave less misogynist jerk...and yea, he can’t sleuth his way out of a Hong Kong Mafia Bar...but, hey, he's the guy with the time travel belt! Jeffrey Hunter--who also starred in the dynamite film, Brainstorm (directed by William "Cannon" Conrad)--ended his promising career after taking a mysterious fatal fall in his own house 4 years later.
Download Dimension 5: avi video (699MB) iPod video (448MB)
aka Esupai
Director: Jun Fukuda
Starring: Jimmy Shaw, Hiroshi Fujioka, Steve Green
TOHO dove right into the 70s with an 'everything-but-the-kitchen-sink' approach when they unleashed E.S.P.y. A pretty wild Mutant, Spy, SciFi, Psychedelic romp....Imagine James Bond...but both MI6 and Spectre are staffed by Scanners......yea, you should probably just watch it!
Download ESPY: avi video (1700MB) iPod video (1638MB)
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)
France
aka Fantômas se déchaîne
Director: André Hunebelle
Starring: Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot
Oui, oui ma chère! Fantômas Strikes Back. The second episode in the Hunebelle/Marais Fantômas film trilogy ups the ante with even more James Bond gadgetry, Keystone Kops meets the Pink Panther hijinks and Jean Marais now in a triple lead role. Why is it the French have the coolest anti-hero? We need a few more good super villians. Merde! Did we mention his Citroen jet car!?! Mon Dieu!
Download Fantômas Strikes Back: avi video (683MB) iPod video (430MB)
Director: Al Adamson
Starring: Russ Tamblyn, Jennifer Bishop, Lon Chaney Jr., Alesha Lee
Wanton. Satanic. Drug Abuse... Nasty = Enticing. Shocking = Erotic. Heroin = Lesbian Sex! This film is pure, unhinged Al Adamson. Expect your guests to leave in a kerfulffle!! Epic women's-compound modern western revenge story...this film pushed some serious buttons and will leave the normals in a stunned state of shock. Godspeed we say!!!! Russ Tamblyn's best role ever...this is seriously fucked-up and amazing shit--topped only by Adamson’s own Angel's Wild Women. Adamson was ultimately found murdered and buried in the foundation of his own hot tub. Shot on location at Manson’s Spahn Ranch.
Download The Female Bunch: avi video (699MB) iPod video (486MB)
Director: Michael Winner
Starring: Sophia Loren, James Coburn, O.J. Simpson, Eli Wallach, Anthony Franciosa, Billy Barty
Firepower is a drinking game. Each time something explodes or bursts into
flames you must take a shot...ten minutes in...you're WASTED!!! This is a rare
Michael Winner 70's effort with no Bronson in sight. The ultimate replacement
recipe equals James Coburn, O.J. Simpson and Billy Barty. What arises is
arguably the last bad ass Coburn role and the completion of the O.J. holy
trinity which began with The Klansman and Capricorn One.
Enter at your own risk...full bottle recommended.
Download Firepower: avi video (699MB) iPod video (510MB)
Director: Robert Clouse
Starring: Joe Lewis, Bong Soo Han, Sonny Barnes, Richard Norton
Director Robert Clouse - who would later go on to shake the pillars of cinema with GYMKATA - lays his trademark groundwork for tightly plotted, well-acted, deep, original, though-provoking narratives with Force: Five! Martial arts experts/religious fanatics go to some island to rescue somebody's very rich daughter from some other religious fanatics who are comprised of....wait for it......an army of martial arts experts! Funny how that always works out.
Seriously though, as far as hilarious, nonsensical, non-wire work American martial arts films goes....this is non stop fun that can't be beat.....besides religious fanatics are always creepy and this film's strange open ending is really, well, something.....who does win in a battle of religious fanatics? It's hard to really draw a bead on where the filmmakers were really coming from on this one and that's just part of its creepy, cheezy charm! These movies were seemingly churned out more than all the Nurse, Doberman and Women's Prison films combined!
Download Force: Five: avi video (667MB) iPod video (309MB)
Japan
aka Bijo to Ekitainingen, Beauty and the Liquidman
Dircetor: Ishiro Honda
Starring: Yumi Shirakawa, Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata, Koreya Senda
Simply wow....Toho knocks it out of the park again. Heroin , gangsters, blobs and Weapons of Mass DESTRUCTION....and this was all in 1958. Stunningly gorgeous and a serious, haunting meditation on humanity. The definition of a classic - at the top of his game, Ishiro Honda's masterpieces still cannot be touched. Always intelligent, elegant and thought provoking......Japan hit their groovy groovy age way earlier and way higher!
This film has been released on DVD. It is no longer available to download here but we highly recommend buying your own copy: Icons of Sci-Fi: Toho Collection
aka Operation M., Smashing the Crime Syndicate, Swastika Savages, The Fakers
Director: Al Adamson
Starring: John Gabriel, Anne Randall, Broderick Crawford, Scott Brady
More Al Adamson and this time its one of his rarer and definitely more inspired works....Hell's Bloody Devils is a masterpiece of twisted and determined vision. Rumors fly as to how long this film was in production....movies and filmmakers like this are what fuel the modern day Jim Van Bebbers to provoke through chemistry fueled celluloid. You get the distinct feeling that Adamsom lived this shit while still holding it together enough to get to it, if you know what we mean....Outlaw Biker gang "The Bloody Devil’s", the FBI, and the remains of Hitler’s inner circle all collide in a shockwave of groovy, groovy destiny that will pop your little mind! Seriously – name another Nazi outlaw biker movie that actually contains real honest to god Nazi's? We really miss what was truly a golden age when maniac visionaries like Adamson could get a budget to pull this off – the craziest outlaw Nazi movie EVER!... ..Al Adamson is a classic provoker and a true rebel genius - we bow before Hells Bloody Devil's!!!!!!!!
Download Hell's Bloody Devils: avi video (681MB) iPod video (303MB)
Director: Peter Carter
Starring: Peter Fonda, Jerry Reed, Helen Shaver, Chris Wiggins
Any movie called High Ballin' already has a top slot at the HEX but add in PRIME era Peter Fonda and "classic" is thy name...70's trucker movie that has Fonda paired with Jerry Reed. No slag on Burt but man...what if this pair ended up in Smokey and the Bandit? Seriously...sorry Hal...this almost hits Road Warrior status! Closest a 70's trucker movie ever got to being an outlaw biker film. Oh, and there should be a law stating Jerry Reed has to sing EVERY movie theme for any movie released. Check it out goddammit cuz' its AWESOME!!! 10-4 son!
Download High-Ballin': avi video (698MB) iPod video (500MB)
aka I Love to Kill, Want a Ride, Little Girl?
Director: William Grefe
Starring: William Shatner, Ruth Roman, Jennifer Bishop, Kim Nicholas, James Dobson, Harold Sakata
This is the Pinnacle...the Epoch...the Zenith of William Shatner cocaine excess. While no actual snow gets hoovered onscreen, it’s quite apparent that the coke influence permeated every corner of this cinematic gem. A 70's update of Night of the Hunter sans religious overtones--Shatner delivers a completely unhinged performance as Matt Stone that seriously defies description. His damaged childhood paves the path to an adult lothario preying on rich widows...and what would have been a pretty standard and well made thriller is transformed into a complete classic by Shatner. You will never hear the term ‘dog food’ or see balloons again without laughing a little...just a little...mommy? Are you there?
Download Impulse: avi video (683MB) iPod video (281MB)
Italy
aka L'Isola degli uomini pesce, Screamers, Something Waits in the Dark
Director: Sergio Martino, Miller Drake
Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Richard Johnson, Beryl Cunningham
Genius. Atlantis...Bigfoot...Barbara Bach...Mayans...1979. 'Nuff Said--A.W.E.S.O.M.E...until you turn around...and see...Hey, did that guy just call your Dad "jackoff"? This film is the embodiment of the Independent Order of the Hex Cosmic.
Download The Island of the Fishmen: avi video (696MB)
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)
Italy
aka Bloody Avenger, Sangue di sbirro
Director: Alfonso Brescia
Starring: George Eastman, Jack Palance, Jenny Tamburi, Roberto Giraudo
Massive Italian crime sleaze epic showcasing a Jack Palance tour-de-force right before he entered his own 70s 'blackout phase' (we are looking at you, 'Things To Come'.) Palance, + Crime Syndicate = Sloppy Goods!
Download Knell, Bloody Avenger: avi video (1393MB) iPod video (1167MB)
Director: Timothy Galfas
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Steve Forrest, G.D. Spradlin, Harry Morgan, Frank Marth, Dabney Coleman
Totally Dynamite!!! Veteran 70's TV creators bring this lost made-for-TV movie to life in a big way. If you were alive during the 70's watching television then this will cause a tsunami of nostalgia. Great 70's ensemble TV guest star cast! --Tom Skerrit, Harry Morgan, Dabney Coleman, Steve Forrest...the list goes on! A bitter drunk unleashes a slew of wild animals on an unsuspecting California suburb. We know, we know...it's already a winner!!! Containing bizarre split screen effects, Steve Forrest's amazing gigantic hair and INCREDIBLE amounts of plot padding... It's weird to watch 70's television and be shocked at the amount of drinking and sex that was going on in primetime -- we have really swung back to the crazy puritans more than realized. Did we mention that while, yes, the antagonist IS a bitter drunk, well, everyone else is completely drunk too...constantly!! There isn't exactly a whole lot of animal attacking going in this, but that's OK...give it a chance because as a time capsule it just works. Another forgotten movie in the television end of the Man vs Nature cycle...back when film and television were engaged in a total and constant cyclical balance! If you understand that last statement, then kick back, pour a bourbon and WATCH OUT 'cuz The Man-eaters are Loose!!!!!
Download Maneaters are Loose: avi video (683MB) iPod video (276MB)
Director: Bobby A. Suarez
Starring: Franco Guerrero, Jody Kay
Midgets, Drugs, Action, Sleeze, Cheeze, Martial Arts, Decapitation, Booze, Explosions, cock shots and Revenge........just fucking WOW already. Pack lots of beer and invite lots of people...........you are in for one wicked fun raucous movie night! They just don't make 'em like this anymore. This could easily be an alternate dimension prequel for MEGAFORCE. This VHS source is entertaining in its own right - the sex scenes in all of these films always have the video fallout....as if those areas were rewound over and over - we, of course, never engaged in any such behavior as pre-teens and are completely baffled...STOP Laughing!!!.....seriously though, this one really calls out for a clean anamorphic transfer and subtitles instead of the hatchet dub job......
Download The One Armed Executioner: avi video (875MB) iPod video (1010MB)
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)
Director: Douglas Schwartz
Starring: Clint Ritchie, Jess Walton, Paul Prokop, Michael Ontkean, Lavelle Roby, Nino Candido, Jon Hill, Gary Morgan
Ultra obscure biker film that was heretofore completely off our radar.....its a full blown, straight up Bikers-VS-Hippies film circa 1971. If that doesn't perk you up, then you have no pulse. We aren't talking a biker film with hippies in it either....we really mean BIKERS VS HIPPIES.....like King Kong VS Godzilla but between bikers and hippies! Simple, pure and beautiful. The movie had a budget and it shows.....Turns out the Hippies do have a breaking point. By the time the bloodlust gets turned up to 11 and the third warring faction arrives, things start going insane. To say this movie comes highly recommended is an absurd understatement indeed! It knocked our socks off. A fresh find from a time when a movie didn't need to be based on a graphic novel to lay shit down!
Download The Peace Killers: avi video (1188MB) iPod video (1014MB)
Director: Bruce D. Clark
Starring: Eddie Albert, Erin Moran, Zalman King, Robert Englund, Sid Haig
The best of the US Alien ripoofs and the hands down best exploitation effort that came out of the New World Pictures waning years equals a film that has grown to legendary status....James Cameron on B Unit and a modern wet dream cult cast - Eddie Albert, Zalman King, Robert Englund, Sid Haig and Erin Moran in a great Happy Days stereotype busting role. This movie was a late night cable mainstay in the early 80s and has aged like a fine wine. Super bloody and super grim...this legitimate SciFi epic is due for a revisting to get the respect it so richly deserves...but don't let all this gushing about the excellent acting, story, tone and alien existentialism take away from the fact that this is a hardcore exploitation flick of the first magnitude...the extended alien monster rape scene alone will clear the place of the people with weaker constitutions. GIve this one a serious watch - you'll be glad you did...
Download Planet of Horrors: avi video (899MB) iPod video (262MB)
Director: William Girdler
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Gary Lockwood, Nancy Kwan, Vic Silayan
This film is very much in honor of William Girdler--quite a master and visionary filmmaker...he was cut down in his prime due to a helicopter accident while scouting locations. Most famous for his Man vs Nature trilogy: Grizzly, Day of the Animals and The Manitou (the last being more of a white man VS nature...) -- Grizzly alone testifies for his film mastery...BUT, Project:Kill was his real world political commentary sans nature...slipped in Manchurian style! Leslie Nielson--in his most serious role ever--holds it all together...Godspeed William Girdler...we shall honor you as necessary with horse decapitations and film screenings!!! May you conquer other plains like the Grizzly-esque Manitou that you were! ...
Download Project: Kill: avi video (680MB) iPod video (310MB)
North Korea
Director: Chong Gon Jo, Sang-ok Shin
Starring: Chang Son Hui, Ham Gi Sop, Jong-uk Ri, Gwon Ri
How to make a giant monster movie when you rule your own Communist country? Well, for starters you 'hire' a prominent director you kidnapped from the neighboring country...and then you use your army for large extra scenes! At least thats how Kim Jong Il rolled when he set out to produce Pulgasari....
Not you average giant monster movie....its more of a political period piece potboiler meets Pokemon on a Gollum high. Pulgasari is birthed from the hands of a common prisoner and goes on to lead the oppressed peasants in a revolt against their tyrannical overlord - leading to some great contests of strength and will. Believe us though when we say there is A LOT of planning, speculation and theorizing about revolt before it gets off the ground - all while a cute little Pulgasari grows and grows......but Pulgasari keeps growing and growing on an insatiable diet of iron. Apparently, saving the village from tyranny is not enough and he quickly turns on the peasants themselves teaching the audience that ...well....whatever....we'll leave the forced political overtones to more competent scholars and Battlefield Earth fans....
Somehow a portion of the Toho technical staff was roped into this so the giant monster and miniature effects are top shelf....that story alone probably warrants its own documentary. All in all a very interesting piece of modern film history. We do have to wonder what sort of film GWB would make if he were so inclined....would cowboy chapped giant bottles of beer and Psychlos be involved?
Director: Geoffrey Reeve
Writer: Allister MacLean
Starring: Sven-Bertil Taube, Barbara Parkins, Alexander Knox, Patrick Allen, Vladek Sheybal
Another early 70's Allister MacLean tour de force. This along with Fear is the Key contain two of the best chase scenes ever committed to film. Puppet on a Chain is dripping with action, heroin, LSD, action, LSD and a totally kick ass boat chase....did we mention LSD? Stuffy fans of MacLean's novel hated this film at the time...too bad for them! In between all the action, mystery, intrigue, heroin, LSD and boats, they manage to cram in some booze and red light districts! DAMMIT we love this film! Seriously though this film perfectly filled the gap left by a collapsed James Bond franchise in 1972.....definitely worthy!
aka Maniac!, Assault on Paradise, The Town That Cried Terror
Director: Richard Compton
Starring: Oliver Reed, Deborah Raffin, James Mitchum, Stuart Whitman, John Ireland, Paul Koslo
Another entry in our 'Visibly Drunk' series (See Wrath of God)......Welcome to our new favorite Oliver Reed oddity!! A rogue Native American is plucking off townsfolk (and cops!) with a high-powered hunting bow and demanding ransom from the towns feudal lord. Said plutocrat hires drunk Oliver Reed to take care o' bidness! We should mention that everyone else in the entire film (especially Stuart Whitman!!) looks incredibly hung over throughout. We can only fantasize about the wild after hours escapes Reed took the cast on every single night! Some mild - and sometimes mildly amusing - action, sex and plot twists keeps things humming along. The perfect film for all those no-drinking new years resolutions!
Download The Ransom: avi video (1208MB) iPod video (1024MB)
Director: Cirio H. Santiago
Starring: Rebecca Holden, Chuck Wagner, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Barbara Patrick
Well, the ultimate amalgamation of every 80's Italian and American genre film...and we mean it. Road Warrior – CHECK. BeastMaster – CHECK. Sword and the Sorcerer, Warriors of the Wasteland, The Legend of Billie Jean, Escape From NY, Conan, Bloodfist, American Ninja, Solid Gold, Pirates, Spacehunter, Ghostbusters... OK, scratch that last one but you get the drift... TeeVee staple Rebecca Holden stars with Bond jailbait Lynn-Holly Johnson and......Chuck Wagner, to bring you an epic post nuclear holocaust women's lib pic...and the liberation couldn't come quick enough! The apocalypse has caused all women to be the enslaved sex toys of some apparent Alpha mutation of all men. Maybe they just didn't mention the city of bald, ineffectual accountants.... Enter the super powered band of kick ass She-Warriors – The Sisterhood! Men get theirs, laser beams eyes are unleashed, Machine Gun vs Sword fighting, Dune Buggy Fu, a matriarchal god – WE LOVE IT! Truly epic and worth your time! The perfect companion to Yor: Hunter from the Future.
Download The Sisterhood: avi video (682MB) iPod video (248MB)
Yugoslavia, Italy, Austria, West Germany
aka In den Klauen des goldenen Drachen
Director: Gianfranco Parolini
Starring: Tony Kendall, Brad Harris, Barbara Frey, Luisa Rivelli
This one's hard to describe.....a red scare playboy fantasy that thanks some ultimate god that James Bond existed. Wow, in light of that does this one deliver! The Hex bows.....
Download So Darling, So Deadly: avi video (898MB) iPod video (311MB)
Director: Clive Donner
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
Starring: Robert Culp, Gig Young, John Hurt
Runtime: 98 minutes
How Thrilling--The Absolute best Gene Roddenberry Pilot EVER! Spectre. 2 parts James Bond, 2 Parts Dr. Strange and 1 part Hugh Hefner...yea, this is the best thing--excepting Prisoner--to EVER grace TV. One of the minor crimes agaianst humanity was that Spectre was never awarded a weekly spot...lets just remember...Holmes + YoYo = Series...Now Kill Yourself.
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Starring: Grant Page,Monique van de Ven, Sorcery
If we had to pick one movie to take with us to a deserted island....a movie that we would watch over and over again.....ad nauseam....it would, without a shadow of a doubt, be Stunt Rock! Fuck man, Sorcery is one formidable fucking ROCK MACHINE!
This film has been released on DVD. It is no longer available to download here but we highly recommend buying your own copy: Stunt Rock
aka Express to Terror
Producer: Dan Curtis
Director: Dan Curtis
Starring: Broderick Crawford, George Hamilton, Steve Lawrence, Don Meredith, Stella Stevens
What do you get when you mix Dan Curtis with The Love Boat? A really weird Love Boat.... and instead of a boat, its set on a futuristic cross country luxury train...and instead of love there is murder!!! With its huge ensemble casts and slightly askew take - this would have been preferable to the coke frosted boat series had it come first. As par for the course with 70s TV, there is alot of drinking, sex, disco and satin......Curtis - a legendary curmudgeon - left a trail of epic tales regarding this pilot. 24 hour work shifts, mass firings and budget spirals...still, it all ultimately works when viewed outside the shadow of television circa 1979.
Norliss Tapes or Night Stalker this ain't....but its a worthwhile look at one of our favorite television prodigy's 70s swansong.
Download Supertrain - pilot: avi video (698MB) iPod video (324MB)
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)
Join our hard bolied all-American hero as he hits the Guatemalan jungle to investigate his partner's disappearance. See him kill a leopard (or "tiger" as they're known to the natives) with his bare hands. Watch as he orders his Carta Blanca "very cold, please". But can he save the virgin from the clutches of the savages who still worship the old gods?
UK
aka Secrets of the Phantom Caverns
Director: Don Sharp
Starring: Robert Powell, Timothy Bottoms, Lisa Blount, Richard Johnson, Anne Heywood, A.C. Weary, Liam Sullivan, Jackson Bostwick, Richard Beauchamp
All right! The Hex brings you Don Sharp - Hammer Studio veteran (The Kiss of the Vampire, The Face of Fu Manchu , Rasputin: The Mad Monk etc.) and Psychomania mastermind - and his low-budget 80's action creeper What Waits Below! Well what? What does wait below? Well, you'll just have to wait. It builds slowly but be patient brothers and sisters...it pays off and the solid cast, creative plot and special effects make it well worth the wait.
