SYNOPSIS: A group of people staying at the home of a reclusive artist are killed off one-by-one by a mysterious murderer. REVIEW: Even though it was made back in 1971 I didn’t know a whole lot about Crucible of Terror. I’d heard of it and knew that it existed but I had no clue what it was about or anything …
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Film Review: The Return of Count Yorga (1971)
SYNOPSIS: Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of female vampires REVIEW: The Return of Count Yorga is, unsurprisingly, the sequel to the 1970 film, Count Yorga, Vampire. This time, the Count (played by Robert Quarry), having purchased an old …
Read More »Film Review: Viva La Muerte (1971)
SYNOPSIS: At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father’s arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father’s arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for …
Read More »Film Review: The Corpse Grinders (1971)
SYNOPSIS: A Gourmet cat food company needs a cheap ingredient to add to its cat food which causes them to turn to a local grave digger and his insane wife for fresh corpse meat to grind up ( get the title now, clever huh ? ). The flesh of the recently deceased cause the docile felines to develop a taste …
Read More »Film Review: A Bay of Blood (Twitch of the Death Nerve) (1971)
SYNOPSIS: The wealthy Countess Federica (Isa Miranda) is brutally murdered and the crime is made to look like a suicide. Someone has conspired to take control of her beautiful bayside estate and turn it into a resort to reap the monetary benefits. Little do the conspirators know that death is stalking them. Their greed is soon rewarded with absolute carnage. …
Read More »Film Review: Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
SYNOPSIS: Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade. REVIEW: Goodbye Uncle Tom works as a fake documentary (yet mostly shot as a film) where journalist from the present day go back in time to interview slave owners and show raw footage of the harsh realities of the slave trade …
Read More »Film Review: The Devil’s Nightmare (1971)
SYNOPSIS: Seven tourists are stranded in an old European castle for the night when they realize that that are soon going to have their souls offered up to Satan himself. REVIEW: Director: Jean Brismee Starring: Erika Blanc, Jean Sevais, Daniel Emilfork Our movie begins during World War II where Officer Baron von Rhoneberg (Jean Servais) is about to become a …
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