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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: Joe Catalanotto, Martin Folse
Starring: Keith Barker, Chuck Bush, Gerald Daigal
Something about Louisiana is scary. Something about the swamp or the Cajuns
maybe. Or is it the corrupt cops, the crooked governors or all that loose drinking? Houma, Louisiana is scary; anyone who's driven thru there will tell you that. There is a monster in this film, a giant Nutria (swamp rat in southern
terms) in fact. But the real monster is Houma. A place that defines scary. There is a plot to breed a new life form to harvest more fur. Splicing humans with swamp rats deliver a man-thing. But it still is the swamp that
is scary and the people that live there that is the real horror. It almost seems through the entire film that a stones throw away Cajuns and National Guard are locked in a bloody fight to the death over canoes. Frightenly Authentic.
Download Terror in the Swamp: avi video (589MB) iPod video (452MB)
The crystal skull of LSD scare industrial films.....narrated by non other that the drug of the hour himself...LSD! The textbook example of a film juicily exploiting what it purports to 'warn' about.....brilliantly well made.
Download LSD 25: avi video (563MB) iPod video (272MB)
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.
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?
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)
aka The Redeemer: Son of Satan!
Director: Constantine S. Gochis
Starring: Damien Knight, Jeanetta Arnette
Fuck class reunions. The bridge between the 70s and the 80s was a hard worn path not completed by many films. The three Ps - Party Sex, Performance Art and Pestilent Satanism sail this one right over the void. This movie fucking earns it’s A+ with honors...somebody call the Devil’s Rejects and tell them that Don Coscarelli’s bus already left. Fucking Awesome!
Quality: good
Dedicated to Thorgeir Gudmundsson
Download The Class Reunion Massacre: avi video (620MB)
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Starring: Michael Sarrazin, Jennifer O'Neill, Margot Kidder, Cornelia Sharpe, Paul Hecht,Tony Stephano
What if you could remember the details of a past life? And what if you found that in that past life you were a total dick? Such is the fate of Peter Proud (Michael Sarrazin) whose past life has come back to haunt him. J. Lee Thompson (director of the original 1962 Cape Fear) directed this offbeat sexed-up thriller and really gives us a great taste of 70's culture. The outstanding cast also features a pre-Superman and Amityville Horror Margot Kidder and Jennifer O'Neill, star of Lucio Fulci's Sette Note in Nero and Luchino Visconti's last film L'Innocente.
Download The Reincarnation of Peter Proud: avi video (697MB) iPod video (519MB)
