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Director: Robert Michael Lewis Starring: Andy Griffith, William Shatner, Angie Dickinson, Robert Reed, Marjoe Gortner, Lorraine Gary
Shatner MANIA continues at the HEX!....Like it ever ended...or started for that matter. Shatner Mania has just always 'been' for us - it has existed since before the end of time! Not only is this his seriously best performance post Star Trek....this movie is a really mind blowing powerhouse of a made for TV flick. Shatner, Robert Reed and Starcrash hero Marjoe Gortner work at a high level ad agency. Shatner's job and life are melting down in a big way at light speed...affairs, debt, divorce, unemployment... and its crazy palpable just under the surface...a walking, ticking time-bomb. Enter Sam Farragut - played to a 'T' by Andy Griffith - the creepy rich industrialist client with a phony good ole' boy affectation. A pampered sociopath who gets off on making others jump through hoops. Farrgut insists they all go on a week-long motorcycle bonding journey into Mexico if they are to get his account....and we will leave it the rest of it for you to discover. Lets just say you have never witnessed Griffith this unhinged or Shatner this focused. Angie Dickinson also puts in a great appearance as the adulterous voice of reason...The Cosmic Hex refuses to speculate on the level of purpose in putting the protagonists in shirts that strangely resembled those of a certain 60s science fiction show or why Robert Reed was given the red shirt.
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.
Director: Ib Melchior
Producer: Ray Dorn
Starring: Preston Foster, Philip Carey, Merry Anders, John Hoyt
Runtime: 82 min
This is an imaginative 'time machine' thriller about scientists and technical support thrusting themselves 107 years into the future. This is one of those typical mid 60s sci-fi flicks complete with mole looking inhabitants and of course, female space travelers fitted in skin tight pants. Well worth the backward look into the future.
Director: William F. McGaha
Starring: William F. McGaha, Hannibal Penney, Joanna Cook Moore
"J.C." preached love... lived violence!!
Jesus Christ is born again on Earth. He grows up, flips off his Baptist Father's uptight modern Christian ideals and leads a biker gang on an LSD fueled pilgrimage out west. A classic 'What If' story framed by 60s counterculture and 70s biker exploitation. Yet another thought provoking mainstream 70s anti-establishment release later buried by said establishment. How far we have fallen....
Japan
aka Gasu ningen dai ichigo, The First Gas Human
Director: Ishirô Honda
Starring: Tatsuya Mihashi, Kaoru Yachigusa, Yoshio Tsuchiya
More home run action from the classic Toho powerhouse team of Honda, Tsuburaya and Tanaka. Hardcore crime noir with fantastical elements....and a really great and seedy take on the Invisible Man riff. People tend to to look right over the non-Kaiju films from Toho et all and it a mistake. This film, like the H-Man, really builds a dark mood that escalates right up to the punch packing nihilistic finale. Enjoy!!! On a related note - good friend of the Hex and all around stand up guy August Ragone has penned a really awesomely detailed book on Eiji Tsuburaya called MASTER OF MONSTERS. August is one of the premiere stateside experts on Japanese monsters and this one comes highly recommended. If these films are of even remote interest, then HEED our shameless plug! - you will be doing yourself an unimaginable favor!
Download Human Vapor: avi video (1270MB) iPod video (1260MB)
Umberto Lenzi's over the top, debaucherous ode to drugs, sex, blackmail and torture! Rich people mind fucking each other over for kicks. A grim film if there ever was one...what goes around never quite comes around and the viewer will just feel shamed and dirty! Eurotrash of the first order! Umberto Lenzi made another film titled Paranoia just 2 years later that even starred much the same cast. Make of that what you will, but rest assured this is Orgasm - UNCUT, the way it was meant to be - sleazy and beautiful!
Download Paranoia: avi video (1260MB) iPod video (1034MB)
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!!!!!!!!
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