They Have Changed Their Face (1971)
Corrado Farina was once a copywriter in advertising before he began to direct his own commercials. He moved on to direct documentaries as well as two feature films — Baba Yaga and this strange campire film. After this, he mainly worked on documentaries and wrote novels. That’s a shame, because both movies are pretty good. […]
The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971)
There is no better companion film for The Thing with Two Heads than this, a movie that’s pretty much the same idea: Dr. Roger Girard (Bruce Dern!) is a scientist experimenting with head transplantation who finally gets the chance to do the experiment that everyone says shouldn’t happen. Hijinks, as they say, ensue. Girard had a […]
Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971)
Oh Ted Post. You made Beneath the Planet of the Apes. You directed Magnum Force. On TV, you were in the director’s chair for episodes of Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, Wagon Train, Rawhide, The Twilight Zone, Combat!, Columbo, 178 episodes of Peyton Place and the TV movie that launched Cagney and Lacey. You made The Baby. If that alone […]
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 […]
Touch of Satan (1971)
Shot between 1968 and 1970 in the Santa Ynez, California area, Touch of Satan was a regionally released drive-in and grindhouse film that wasn’t well-known until it appeared on a 1998 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. There was a rumor that this movie was directed by Tom Laughlin, who made the Billy Jack filmns and used […]
The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971)
In his BBC documentary series A History of Horror, Mark Gatiss referred to this film, along with Witchfinder General and The Wicker Man, as the prime example of a short-lived subgenre he called folk horror. It’s directed by Piers Haggard, who also was behind The Quatermass Conclusion, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu and Venom. He’s […]
Beast of the Yellow Night (1971)
Eddie Romero directing and John Ashley starring? That was all I really needed to know. Man, anything remotely connected with these two — like the Blood Island films — and I’m ready to go. This was also the first release for Roger Corman’s distribution company New World Pictures. After successfully distributing Beast of Blood in […]
Sweet Savior (1971)
The man named Matt Cavanaugh who wrote this doesn’t exist. It’s really Willie Gilbert, the author and playwright. Once he left Cleveland for New York City, he discovered that his physician Jack Weinstock shared his dream of being a writer. They wrote for nightclub performers, Broadway reviews, on early TV shows like Howdy Doody and Tom Corbett, […]
The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
Paul Wendkos may have directed most of the Gidget movies, but he has quite the horror pedigree. There’s the TV movie Good Against Evil, Haunts of the Very Rich, the 1985 remake of The Bad Seed and the legendary 1975 TV movie The Legend of Lizzie Borden. Because this is a Quinn Martin Production and CBS aired it extensively […]
Ape Week: Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
“Apes exist, Sequel required.” With those words, sent in a telegram from producer Arthur P. Jacobs to writer Paul Dehn, a sequel was set in motion to Beneath the Planet of the Apes. But hey — didn’t everyone die in a nuclear bomb blast at the end of that movie? They sure did. Doesn’t matter. Dehn […]
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