One of the very best films ever covered at the B-Movie Enema blog is now the 8th episode of B-Movie Enema: The Series! Geoff watches and fawns over Messiah of Evil!
Tag: thriller
Huntress: Spirit of the Night (1995)
Okay, so here we are in the third week of Full Moon Fever II: Torchlight Diaries and we’re done with the space babes for the month, but we’re not done with another reference I’ve been making all month long.
This week, I’m gonna take a look at Huntress: Spirit of the Night from 1995. This is about a family curse, some aristocratic family, and it appears to be about some mood. Now, that said, it’s still a mid 90s erotic thriller from Full Moon, so you can bet your ass that we’re gonna get a lot of sexy with that heaving mounds of mood. Oh yeah… That reference I said I would be making…
The film is directed by Mark Manos. Now, early on in his career he directed some episodes of Freddy’s Nightmares. In fact, he’s done a shitload of TV shows even as recently as the new MacGyver show and Interrogation. So that’s not for nuthin’. He did a handful of Full Moon’s horror movies, including their pseudo-superhero film Dark Angel: The Ascent, which I covered last fall. So he was a bit of Full Moon bullpen kind of guy.
But what else did he do?
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B-Movie Enema: The Series Episode #1 – Eyes Behind the Stars
It’s the first episode of B-Movie Enema: The Series! Join B-Movie Proctologist Geoff Arbuckle as he and his faithful companion, Nurse Disembaudee, as they watch the 1978 Italian sci-fi/horror/sort of thriller Eyes Behind the Stars!
Abby (1974)
B-Movie Enema’s October 2020 theme of Exorcist Rip-Off Month is back, and this time we got a pretty well-regarded one.
This week’s film is Abby, and it’s best described as one of the handful of blaxploitation horror films alongside Blacula, Blackenstein, Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde, and Ganja and Hess. This was part of a trio of blaxploitation films by William Girdler. One of those, Sheba, Baby, will someday be on this blog because I LOVE blaxploitation. I’ve talked about Girdler before, though. He’s probably best known for making Grizzly in 1976. However, his final film, The Manitou, dealt with Native American themes and was something I covered over at Film Seizure on my Monster Mondays show earlier this year.
Abby isn’t without some prestige, though. It stars Carol Speed who was in several exploitation films of the 70s, and Blacula himself, William Marshall! It also has Academy Award nominated actress Juanita Moore. So it is not at all lacking in talent here. Continue reading “Abby (1974)”
Seytan (The Turkish Exorcist, 1974)
Welcome back to B-Movie Enema and my Exorcist Rip-Off Month!
Say! Remember last week when I said that I couldn’t just write about The Exorcist because I’d probably be run out of town for having a blog called B-Movie Enema and doing movies that aren’t just A movies in money, but also in quality? Yeah, well fuck that. I found a way to do it.
For this week’s movie, I’ll be digging right into the shitty bowels of 1974’s Seytan from Turkey. Seytan is pretty much a direct copy of William Friedkin’s masterpiece The Exorcist in just about every way it possibly can be. It’s a little shorter, but I remember the first time I ever saw Seytan, I kept looking at the screen and thinking… “Is the audio just fucked on this movie, or what?” Continue reading “Seytan (The Turkish Exorcist, 1974)”
Shock (aka Beyond the Door II, 1977)
It’s October! It’s the spoooooookiest month of the year!
In years past, I generally would find some sort of loose theme to tie all the movies covered in the month (with usual exception to the actual Halloween “special” article). This year is no different! This is B-Movie Enema and that means I can’t do no movies like The Exorcist or its sequels. They are hardly “B” in quality of production, even if Exorcist II really fucking tried pretty hard. I can, however, do the next best thing.
Welcome to the 2020 October theme month I’m calling Exorcist Rip-Off Month! We’re getting things started with Mario Bava’s Shock from 1977. Here’s the thing about Shock… It’s a possession movie, yes. However, it may only be an Exorcist Rip-Off in sort of name only. You see, Shock was released in the United States as Beyond the Door II. Beyond the Door was a 1974 rip-off of The Exorcist and a B-Movie Enema alum. I really really really needed to cover this. Continue reading “Shock (aka Beyond the Door II, 1977)”
Satan’s Slave (1976)
Well hey there! It’s another Norman J. Warren joint!
If you’ve been around the site for a while, you know I’m a fan. Prey is a good little home invasion story that is wrapped up in an alien invasion story – that also features lesbians. Terror is a fun supernatural flick that has a vengeful witch – that may or may not have included a near miss for a fat guy on a train to have sex with a really pretty British lady. Bloody New Year is just… Well, it’s just bonkers, silly fun – that also happens to include an experimental plane that broke time and space.
Satan’s Slave is the first horror film that Warren made that pre-dates all of the above mentioned greatest hits. As it turns out, it’s not the first of his films I covered in 2020 and it won’t be the last. That said, I should maybe hold up because I’m quickly running out of his movies! Continue reading “Satan’s Slave (1976)”
Don’t Answer the Phone! (1980)
It’s a new B-Movie Enema and, this time, Don’t Answer the Phone!
By 1980, there was a weird feeling in the country. The 70s were pretty tumultuous with the Vietnam War and President Nixon leading to many feeling they can’t trust the federal government. The entire decade felt as though the counter culture was putting their stamp on the new Hollywood, but that was about to come crashing down. Indie exploitation was about to be scrubbed away by the religiously-charged, great white hope of the Reagan era.
One of the things that would play out for the next 20-25 years after the conclusion of the Vietnam War would be the psychological damage of the vets that returned home. Whether it was by way of dramatic films like Coming Home and The Deer Hunter, or action films like the Rambo series, Vietnam vets played a huge part in many films. But there was also a darker side to it as well… Continue reading “Don’t Answer the Phone! (1980)”
