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Messiah of Evil (1974)

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Messiah Of Evil (1974)

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messiah of evil (1973)

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Messiah of Evil (Dead People, 1974)

"Hard to remember back on things... but I - I remember the red moonlight Daddy told me about, only once. Mama gave him a bad look when he talked about it. He was only a boy himself, then. He called it the blood moon. He said that was the night that he lost religion. He learned that men could do... could do horrible things... like animals."

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«The Big Bird Cage plays at Chicagoland theaters and drive-ins October 13 1972»

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Messiah of Evil (1973, dir. Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz)

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Messiah of Evil (1973)

Dir. Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck

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Horror Movie of the day 2: Messiah of Evil (1973)

Areltty's father Joseph is a fairly renowned artist in the West Coast of the United States, but has suddenly gone missing. In the wake of fiding a cryptic letter that tells Arletty to not look for him as he's being consumed by darkness, she decides to investigate the beach town of Point Dume, where the art gallery who holds Joseph's paintings resides. She comes across Thom, a portuguesse aristocrat, and his groupie-like companions Toni and Laura. A local man tells them about the Dark Stranger who appeared 100 years ago, and the Blood moon that shall see his return. As said man is viciously murdered not much later, a bizarre set of events is set in motion as strangly silent crowds of people start appearing, who very much look at Arletty and company's way.

Directed by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, this film is effectively the crossroads of a cult story, a zombie story, and the mystery of a Lovecraft tale. It's intentionally uneven in pacing, punctuated by a dissonant synth to break the eerie silence that dominates the run time, and an unwelcoming atmosphere is present from the start. Even before things go awry there's a tangible sensation of uncanniness, with locales that border in liminality for how empty they look, and an art direction that may as well be the American answer to Dario Argento's Suspiria; the movie makes use of intense and ecclectic colors at intervals, with abstract compositions and some camera angles that evoke the sensation of being watched by something out of frame.

It's definitely a slow burn withe appropriate lower budget flavor of being an indie film, but when it strikes down, it does so in an uncompromising, surprisingly artful yet nevertheless horrifying way. An underappreciated gem, it's honestly a must watch if you crave for a different take on the traditional zombie narrative.

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Miniskirt Monday with Anitra Ford. From the awesome but defunct Retrospace blog.

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Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973)

My rating: 4/10

You know, I did not expect the bee-ification of a woman to involve quite that much marshmallow fluff. Poor lady must've been sticky in the most uncomfortable places...

Anyway, this is mostly a lazy, dull excuse to get women to take off their clothes. Funky little theme song, though.

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Anitra Ford as Molly wearing just a white mini dress on Starsky & Hutch

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Messiah of Evil (Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz, 1974)

Cast: Marianna Hill, Michael Greer, Joy Bang, Anitra Ford, Royal Dano, Elisha Cook Jr., Charles Dierkop, Bennie Robinson. Screenplay: Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz. Cinematography: Stephen M. Katz. Art direction: Jack Fisk, Joan Mocine. Film editing: Scott Conrad. Music: Phillan Bishop. 

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the longest yard (1974)

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Anitra Ford in Messiah of Evil (1974)