Alienator (1990)
If you’re a frequent visitor to B&S About Movies, you know we hold director Fred Olen Ray in high regard. Fred Olen Ray: Ye king of all of things boobs, blades, and blood in the ’80s and ’90s. Of aliens, bikinis, world disasters and Jean-Claude Van Damme knockoffs. He of our VHS-rental favorites The Brain […]
Terror Is a Man (1959)
Call it Blood Creature, Creature from Blood Island, The Gory Creatures, Island of Terror, Gore Creature, or its most well-known title, Terror Is a Man, but what you should really call it is the first of the Blood Island films. These movies, produced by Eddie Romero and Kane W. Lynn, include Brides of Blood, The Mad Doctor […]
Trucker’s Woman (1975)
Former test pilot Will Zens found himself a maker of hicksploitation movies, thanks to movies like this, The Road to Nashville, Hell on Wheels and Hot Summer in Barefoot County. It was originally called Truckin’ Man until the producers thought a woman’s name would draw more money. This movie was acquired in 1983 by Troma, who […]
Hotline (1982)
Originally airing on CBS on October 16, 1982, this made-for-TV movie was directed by Jerry Jameson, who also was the in the director’s chair for movies like The Bat People, Airport ’77 and the Gunsmoke and Bonanza reunion movies. Lynda Carter (TV’s Wonder Woman as well as Miss World USA 1972) plays Brianne O’Neill, an art student who is getting […]
Devil Dog: Hound of Hell (1978)
Curtis Harrington knew all about the occult, thanks to his friendships with Marjorie Cameron and Kenneth Anger. This made-for-TV movie, which originally aired on CBS on October 31, 1978, is all about a suburban family who just wants to have a nice dog and ends up with a Satanic pooch. Ah man, made-for-TV movies are […]
Ruby (1977)
Curtis Harrington had the thread of magic running through all of his films. One of the leaders of New Queer Cinema, he also directed Queen of Blood, Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, What’s the Matter with Helen?, Who Slew Auntie Roo?, the Sylvia Kristel-starring Mata Hari, tons of episodic television shows and the TV movies Devil Dog: The Hound of […]
The Devil’s Possessed (1974)
Leon Klimovsky — The People Who Own the Dark, The Dracula Saga, The Vampires Night Orgy — teams with Spain’s resident horror movie bad guy, Paul Naschy, to deliver some medieval torture and Satanic slaughter which is in no small way influenced by Ken Russell’s The Devils. Written by Naschy himself, here the actor plays Baron Gilles de Lancre, who […]
The Night of the Damned (1971)
This is Filippo Walter Ratti’s last movie, but man, just from the opening, where a couple hides and strange faces show up amongst flames while a woman screams a James Bond-like song? This makes me want to stay up even later than 3:14 AM, which I figure is probably the best time to watch Satan-themed […]
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