Tag Archives: 1973

SYNOPSIS: A black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim REVIEW: Shot and released in 1973, “Coffy” was indeed the kick-start movie for Pam Grier’s femme fatale series of films that followed (most notably “Foxy Brown”). Pam who wears her afro like none other, brings a unique beauty to the screen (that …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After being forced to drink a special chemical he created in the science lab (that turned his gentle guinea pig that he used as a test subject into a violent little monster) high school nerd Vernon becomes a  homicidal monster himself and goes on a killing spree, taking out all the people that bullied him. REVIEW: …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A whacko in a hokey mask goes around killing and dismembering blonde women at a hotel. Shot in “Duo-Vision.” REVIEW:

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Peter Martin and John Blane decide to take a holiday in a high tech amusement park, Westworld. Here they get to play cowboys – saloon brawls, saloon girls and quick draws against the town’s gunslinger – with lifelike robots. All is well for the first few days but when the park’s central computer malfunctions, the built-in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the interlocking golden map, and they mount a quest across the seas to solve the riddle of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Five men trapped in the basement vault of an office building share visions with each other of their demise. Stories revolve around vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims’ deaths. REVIEW: Right off the bat, 1973’s The Vault of Horror has all the hallmarks of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Police Sergeant Neil Howie arrives on a Scottish island looking for a missing teenager girl, Rowan Morrison. The place belongs to Lord Summerisle and is famous because of their plantation of apples and other fruits and their harvest. Sergeant Howie realises that the locals are pagans, practicing old rituals, and Rowan is probably alive and being …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After shot gunning his unfaithful wife and her lover, a 1930s gangster is injured in a car crash. His estranged daughter Lila, a ward of the church, receives a mysterious note apprising her of her father’s whereabouts and promptly embarks on a perilous journey into the deepest Southern backwoods where she encounters a lesbian vampire who …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: English country squire Sir Hugo Cunningham searches for immortality by literally ‘bottling up’ the Spirit of the Dead, or Asphyx.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond. REVIEW: Don’t Look Now (1973), directed by Nicholas Roeg; written by Allan Scott and Chris Bryant; based on the novella by Daphne Du Maurier; starring …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A scientist specializing in the study of snakes, believes that human beings will never survive the coming disasters and holocausts he foresees. His solution is to create a composite creature from the DNA of a man and a king cobra that will be better suited for survival. REVIEW: Before I get into my review of Sssssss, …

SYNOPSIS: When Alexander von Salmenau and his family come across a young woman being tortured by the ruthless inquisitor Natas, he tries to save her. Natas shoots him in the back, and the poor woman is killed. In order for the authorities to mount a legal defense, von Salmenau’s brave seven-year-old son is accused of aiding the devil. The devious …

SYNOPSIS: Running away from the police, Aden goes to the desert where he meets an uncivilized man who has a special link with Mother-Earth. He ends up by convincing the hermit to come along with him into another desert… the big town! REVIEW:

SYNOPSIS: In Serbia, Baron Frankenstein lives with the Baroness and their two children. He dreams of a super-race, returning Serbia to its grand connections to ancient Greece. In his laboratory, assisted by Otto, he builds a desirable female body, but needs a male who will be super-body and super-lover. He thinks he has found just the right brain to go …

SYNOPSIS: An eccentric psychiatrist introduces a colleague to four particularly bizarre cases, each being the subject of a short story. There’s a boy and his lethal imaginary friend, an antique dealer who slips back and forth in time, a man who becomes romantically involved with a tree stump, and a Hawaiian author planning a very ghoulish luau. REVIEW: Since 1924’s …