Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: After a swindling land developer Marilyn Fryser (Joan Collins) throws a party for prospective property buyers in the Florida everglades their expedition swiftly goes awry as they encounter the landscape has been infested my gargantuan man eating ants. REVIEW:
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Film Review: Tentacles (1977)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A mutated giant octopus wreaks havoc on a California seaside community. REVIEW: A nightmare begins for the small, coastal town of Ocean Beach when a baby disappears and a sailor washes up, stripped of his flesh. Something is lurking in those murky waters and it appears to have something to do with the digging of a deep …
Read More »Film Review: The Car (1977)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A sleek, possessed black car terrorizes everyone it comes in contact with in a small town in Utah.
Read More »Film Review: Eraserhead (1977)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Is it a nightmare or an actual view of a post-apocalyptic world? Set in an industrial town in which giant machines are constantly working, spewing smoke, and making noise that is inescapable, Henry Spencer lives in a building that, like all the others, appears to be abandoned. The lights flicker on and off, he has bowls of …
Read More »Film Review: The Worm Eaters (1977)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Herman Ungar has a way with his worms. He keeps watch over them and is able to communicate with them. In the small town that Herman resides in, the mayor is trying to force him off his property. Once Herman is, in fact, forcibly evicted, he decides to exact revenge. Herman implants worms in the food …
Read More »Film Review: BloodLust (1977)
SYNOPSIS: A deaf and dumb accountant suffers from a psychic trauma in his childhood. He is collecting puppets and mutilates female bodies in the mortuary. After his secret love died by an accident he starts to kill.
Read More »Film Review: Cathy’s Curse (1977) – Review 2
SYNOPSIS: After a father and his daughter are killed in a fiery car crash, a young girl named Cathy (Randi Allen) is possessed by the vengeful spirit that may or may not be related to her. With those close to Cathy either going crazy or mysteriously dying. As the family attempts to solve this mystery, a mysterious doll that …
Read More »Film Review: Fight for Your Life (1977)
SYNOPSIS: A trio of escaped convicts hold an African American family hostage in their home and subject them to a number of horrible torments. REVIEW: Back in the early 2000s I was hanging around with a group of guys known as the Brains on Film that had their own public access show and website. These guys were hardcore into the exploitation …
Read More »Film Review: Satan’s Cheerleaders (1977)
SYNOPSIS: A quartet of cheerleaders set out for the big game, only to be shanghaied by a coven of Satanists. REVIEW: 1-2-3-4, let me hear you stomp the floor… It’s SATAN’S CHEERLEADERS! A title that should send any miscreant’s heart fluttering with visions those pillars of sleazy cinema—Satan and cheerleaders. To its credit, Satan’s Cheerleaders delivers both but does …
Read More »Film Review: Cathy’s Curse (1977)
SYNOPSIS: Eight-year-old Cathy and her family return to their ancestral family home where she falls under the spell of a vengeful ghost. Once possessed by the evil spirit, Cathy starts cursing like a David Mamet play and killing anyone who challenges her power. REVIEW: CATHY’S CURSE is one of the legions of low budget films that rode the coat tails …
Read More »Film Review: The Gestapos Last Orgy (1977)
SYNOPSIS: A small town strip club owner must defend her bar, her strippers and her life when violent infected patrons show up on the final closing night and all hell breaks loose. REVIEW: The filmography of Italian director Cesare Canevari is quite an interesting one in that he managed to cover all the important milestones of the exploitation cinema of …
Read More »Film Review: Oh, God! (1977)
SYNOPSIS: “Jerry Landers, a supermarket assistant manager and a good yet non-religious person, suddenly finds a note in the mail one day that grants him an ‘interview’ with God. Thinking it to be a hoax he tosses it away, but when it keeps reappearing he finally gives in. Skeptical at first, he ends up carrying His personal message – that …
Read More »Film Review: Rabid (1977)
SYNOPSIS: A young woman develops a taste for human blood after undergoing experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into rabid, blood-thirsty zombies who proceed to infect others, which turns into a city-wide epidemic. REVIEW: Rarely is an ex-adult film star ever seen in a normal role. Typically this is primarily due to lack of acting ability and being pigeon …
Read More »Film Review: The Hills Have Eyes (1977) – Review 2
SYNOPSIS: A family on vacation in a station wagon and trailer make a wrong turn into an off-limits territory that is inhabited by a family of cannibals who stake them out during the night. REVIEW: As a teenager, my introduction to the cinema of Wes Craven came in the form of his 1981 rural Amish-like outing Deadly Blessing, which starred …
Read More »Film Review: The Island Of Dr. Moreau (1977)
SYNOPSIS: “Shipwrecked Andrew Braddock washes ashore on a remote, tropical island in the Pacific. There he is attended to by the seemingly kindly Doctor Moreau and his dour assistant Montgomery. Also living in Moreau’s stockaded fort is the beautiful and exotic Maria, to whom Braddock is immediately attracted. The island’s natives appear very strange to Braddock, who questions both Moreau …
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