Death Curse

Starring:Steven Cheung, Kenny Kwan, Charlene Choi, Ho-Yin Wong, Alex Fong, Gillian Chung, Lawrence Chou
Director: Pou-Soi Cheang
Studio: Tai Seng
Product Type: DVD

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People who cherish the post-Terms of Endearment, post-reincarnation phase of Shirley MacLaine's career might be surprised to discover just how sexy and kooky she was in a past life--that is, the first few years of her movie career. After the triumphs of Some Came Running and The Apartment, MacLaine had a run of starring roles, including this elaborate comedy vehicle. What a Way to Go! cast MacLaine as an unlucky bride whose husbands meet early deaths, leaving her wealthy but unhappy. Gimmick casting of the hubbies adds a bit of dash: Dick Van Dyke as a simple country storekeeper, Gene Kelly as a two-bit entertainer, bearded Paul Newman as a Brandoesque, bohemian painter in Paris. In the movie's best turn, Robert Mitchum gets to play a Howard Hughes character, and Dean Martin and Robert Cummings are around for the ride.

A flabbergasting parade of Edith Head outfits keeps MacLaine hopping, and each segment has a Hollywood fantasy based on MacLaine's vision of her passing marriages (silent comedy, sexed-up foreign flick, splashy musical). Typical of a certain kind of super-production of the era, the film is impressive rather than entertaining, busy rather than funny. Perhaps hiring J. Lee Thompson, who directed The Guns of Navarone, was not the best idea for this Comden-Green script. It snuck in as one of the top ten box-office grossers of 1964, and it has one great surrealist sequence where Gene Kelly orders his house and grounds to be painted entirely pink. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews:

What a Way to Go!.......2007-04-02

I've seen this movie before and ordered it because it's one of those rare "oldies" that can be watched over and over.....I was tickled to find this on DVD so I can share it with my unfortunate friends that haven't had the privilege of seeing it before. Thank you.

Shirley MacLaine.......2007-02-27

I love comedy and Shirley MacLaine. This movie is enjoyable but i wouldn't say fabulous.

Fun, Funny Movie.......2007-01-18

This movie is full of big name stars, poking fun at the industry in a very fun way. It is a great story that is great to watch over and over. It is also a great gift for people who love all the movies and actors or the 50's.

Wild, mainly agreeable, black comedy which starts on too high a note and fails to sustain..........2007-01-17

Written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and directed by J. Lee Thompson, this super production had elaborate sets, and Shirley MacLaine with six leading men, 72 gowns and 72 hairstyles--all for the purpose of stating that money is the root of all evil!

Like "A New Kind of Love," it's a pathetic pastiche of sex comedy, satire, fantasy and pretentious techniques, which support a one-joke story: a woman wants to live a simple life, but has the "misfortune" to marry men who become millionaires, and who die shortly thereafter, leaving her hopelessly wealthy...

Newman had the good fortune to appear in only a small portion of this disaster... He's the second of five husbands--an American gifted painter who drives a taxi in Paris and has invented a machine that converts sound into oil paintings...

The couple are poor and happy until MacLaine feeds classical music into the machine, resulting in a successful painting... Newman becomes rich, builds more and more machines, and gets so involved in his work (another obsessed artist!) he ignores his wife...

Newman is surprisingly amusing when he talks about art in almost a Graziano voice, and when he "conducts" his machines into a frenzy...

A must see CLASSIC.......2007-01-03

When you have a movie with Shirley Maclaine, Dean Martin, Gene Kelley, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dick Van Dyke and Bob Cummings - it has to be fun. The story is a fun-filled love'em, marry 'em, become rich and successful, and they die tale. The songs and the dancing, not to mention the gorgeous costumes are a real treat! Most men may find this to be a sort of chick-flick, but it's still one for the CLASSIC film buff!

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I Wish You Were My Mummy
Blood From The Mummy's Tomb: The Mummy Film Based On A Stoker Book
Who - - Or What - - Must Not Be Named
Great piece of late Hammer hokum
Jewel is Right

Blood From the Mummy's Tomb
Starring: Andrew Keir , Valerie Leon , James Villiers , Hugh Burden , and George Coulouris
Director: Michael Carreras , and Seth Holt
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ASIN: B00005KHJO
Release Date: 2001-08-07

Product Description

A British expedition team in Egypt discovers the ancient sealed tomb of the evil Queen Tera. But when one of the archaeologists steals a mysterious ring from the corpse's severed hand, he unleashes a relentless curse upon his beautiful daughter. Is the voluptuous young woman now a reincarnation of the diabolical sorceress or has the curse of the mummy returned to reveal its horrific revenge? One of Hammer's most notorious productions, BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB was plagued by the sudden deaths of director Seth Holt and the wife of original star Peter Cushing, leading to rumors of a real-life curse. Andrew Keir (QUATERMASS AND THE PIT) and the luscious Valerie Leon star in this supernatural shocker based on Bram Stoker's classic novel JEWEL OF THE SEVEN STARS. Includes a 4-Page Collector's Booklet. The first 10,000 copies will contain a free bonus DVD of THE HAMMER TRAILER COLLECTION.

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Starring: Andrew Keir, Valerie Leon, James Villiers
Director: Seth Holt
Producer: Howard Brandy
Running Time: 93 Min.

Format: DVD MOVIE

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I Wish You Were My Mummy.......2006-01-20

One of the last in a long line of Hammer horror films, 'Blood From the Mummy's Tomb' is not among the best. It doesn't possess the same depth and dimension of light and atmosphere that many of the early features are famous for. The footage is dull and drab throughout appearing as though it was filmed in an old abandoned warehouse. The set is also quite spartan, there certainly didn't seem to be much of a budget available for this feature.

However the one thing Hammer didn't jeopardize in this film was there reputation for having at least one beautiful, bosomy woman among their cast of characters. That woman is British actress Valerie Leon in the dual role of the soon to resurrected Queen Tera and Margaret, daughter of the archeologist/Egyptologist responsible for the discovery of Queen Tera's tomb and remains.

Neither scary or insightful, making it quite easy to pass on this one altogether if not for the presence of Valerie Leon on-screen.

Blood From The Mummy's Tomb: The Mummy Film Based On A Stoker Book.......2006-01-09

TO: Hammer Film Fans

WARNING! SPIOLERS!

The Good:
This is a great film based on a Bram Stoker book (Jewel Of the Seven Stars). It dosen't actually have a waling mummy, wrapped up in cloth. Tera is a dark queen of egypt. When a man opens her grave, his wife dies, birthing his daughter. She also dies, but Tera lives inside her. Years later when she gets a ring, tera is relesed inside her, and a ritual to reunite tera with her body begins.

The Bad:
There is one pothedic scene where a cat statue kills a woman.

FROM: The Hammer Film Reveiwer

Who - - Or What - - Must Not Be Named.......2005-10-06

The bosomy young woman Margaret wakes up screaming from a nightmare. Her father Julian comes into her bedroom to comfort her. A scar across Margaret's right wrist makes it look like she has tried to slash it in the past. What could have driven this young woman, who lives alone with her father, to try to kill herself?

Julian gives Margaret a ring with seven stars in the shape of the Big Dipper reflected in it and makes her wear it "for protection." (This movie is based on Bram Stoker's novel Jewel of the Seven Stars and is better than the book.) Margaret and her father hold each other for just a little too long, and Julian looks just a little too longingly into Margaret's eyes.

Wearing the ring, Margaret belongs to her father in a way she hasn't until now. But this relationship must be doomed.

I've read that victims of incest sometimes feel like it's happening to someone else. Margaret really is someone else - - Tera, the uncorrupted beauty Julian stole from Egypt and now keeps hidden in his basement, the woman he sneaks away to look at every night, the woman he wishes his daughter was. (Of course Tera and Margaret are identical).

Decades ago Julian and a group of archeologists found Tera in her crypt, where she had been placed by ancient Egyptian priests who chopped off her right hand (to represent the unnamed "sin" she had committed) and left her to rot. But first they obliterated all reference to Tera, and left a message over her tomb that within lay "She Who Must Not Be Named."

But Tera is "above law and taboo" and it is the priests who die, while Tera waits in her tomb for Margaret to begin to dream of her once Margaret "comes of age." In other words, once Margaret is old enough for her father.

The scientists found Tera's preserved body with its perpetually bleeding right arm (Hammer films did this kind of thing very well) at the exact moment Margaret was being born in England. Both Margaret and her mother died, but once Tera was uncovered by Julian, the baby Margaret started breathing again.

Why did Julian leave his wife in England when she was about to give birth? Egyptian sarcophagi had waited thousands of years; they'd wait another few weeks. Why did he abandon his wife to search for the beautiful Tera, or whatever Tera represented to him? Was Julian tired of his wife already? Did he already want something more? Something strange? Something forbidden?

As Tera's personality gradually replaces Margaret's, she dreams of a "land far away" with "no scheming priesthood, no repressive or archaic laws, and love is the divine possession of the soul." A place where any love is permissible.

Now we may guess what at least one of Tera's sins was. At the moment Margaret's mother died, Margaret became her relplacement.

As Julian looks down at Tera's body, wanting her, you see his knowledge of the wrongness of it in his face. I think Andrew Keir (star of Quatermass and the Pit) - - fleshy, with a sensuous Scottish accent - - was better suited to this role than the thin and flinty Englishman Peter Cushing, who started work on Blood from the Mummy's Tomb but left after his wife died. (If Cushing had played the role, I wonder if I would have even thought about the idea of incest. Which leads to more questions - - did the filmmakers intend it or did that "taboo" come from the actors' performances?)

Margaret has a boyfriend who hits her at one point. Most of the men in her life now that she's a grown, sexually available woman brutalize her in one way or another. Her father is using her, as is one of Julian's old colleagues who wants to control Tera's evil power. (Margaret's boyfriend is named Tod Browning, for the director of Bela Lugosi's Dracula and Freaks. Sometimes in-jokes just take you out of the story and are unnecessary. In a film that doesn't pretend to be anything but a comedy, like Shaun of the Dead, it doesn't matter, but in a movie that takes its story seriously it's better to resist the urge. But to be fair, when this movie came out in 1972 fewer people may have even gotten the reference.)

Julian and Margaret are shown to be matched as a couple in another way. Tera has had her right hand cut off. Julian has a stroke that paralyzes the right side of his body, leaving him unable to use (especially to raise, if I'm not getting too Freudian) his right arm.

In the conflagration at the end, Margaret and her father almost kiss. They slowly come together and almost do it. But they resist and hold hands. In the end they have to accept that they're "as meaningless as all of the dead." (One thing I like about Hammer horror movies over some Universal pictures is that Hammer makes them tragedies. There's no redemption at the end.)

The last scene is chilling and finally makes Blood from the Mummy's Tomb a "mummy movie."

Great piece of late Hammer hokum.......2005-02-01

Plenty of blood and guts, by Hammer standards anyway, in this 1971 offering from the famous "House of Horror". The story concerns an Egyptian princess being reincarnated in modern-day London, thus giving plenty of scope for both contemporary and ancient elements.

A very stylish production is directed with plenty of atmosphere by stalwart Seth Holt (Taste of Fear, The Nanny), who sadly died before filming finished. James Villiers stands out for his sliminess as the central villain, where Valerie Leon stands out mainly for her ample bosom. A great cast also includes Andrew Keir and George Coulouris. The score by Tristram Cary (The Ladykillers, Quatermass and the Pit) is pivotal to the tension.

In-joke alert: Hammer afficianados should look out for the names on the sign outside Villier's house early on in the movie.

Jewel is Right.......2004-01-21

Bram Stoker's little known novella Jewel of the Seven Stars is filled with suspense, Egyptian lore, and just the right amount of sex appeal to lure you. The film takes advantage of that by giving you the visually stunning Leon as a focal point. Backdropped by richly colored Egyptian artifacts, and tinted with that just so shade of horror, this is one of those Hammer Films that you wish they had taken the storyline a little bit further just to see what happens next. Kind of makes you wonder if H.R.R. Ryder and Bram were friends, because Ryder's story which Hammer Films also did, with Ursula Andress as "She", are similiar in nature.

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Unique and darkly funny
Interesting and Overlooked
finally on dvd!
this is an ancient story. . .
Unusual and interesting

Commandments
Starring: Aidan Quinn , Courteney Cox , Anthony LaPaglia , Shirl Bernheim , and Peter Jacobson
Director: Daniel Taplitz
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ASIN: B0003JAOP4
Release Date: 2004-11-23

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Aidan Quinn plays a man so aggrieved by his misfortunes that he vows to break each of God's Ten Commandments in revenge. But even that act of profound defiance doesn't quite work out the way he planned, and the character undergoes a mythic--some would say biblical--experience of a different kind. Quinn is fine, as is Anthony LaPaglia as his friend and Courteney Cox as a love interest. But the heavily stylized film by Daniel Taplitz makes puffery of the drama, and the atmosphere is more silly than smart. --Tom Keogh

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Unique and darkly funny.......2007-05-01

This is a unique, imaginative movie about a Job-like character who sets out to break the 10 C's as revenge against God. But I think people of any religious persuasion (or none) can enjoy it. If you can appreciate a dark comedy, you'll love this movie.

Interesting and Overlooked.......2006-12-08

After a string of otherwise-inexplicable disasters (the loss of his wife, his job, and his house), Seth becomes convinced that, for some reason, God is out to get him. Since prayer doesn't help him--on the contrary--Seth decides to break every one of the Ten Commandments. That puts him on a strange path, where he reencounters his sister-in-law, who's stuck in a miserable marriage; and literally faces death. The end is strange, unexpected and quite beautiful.

finally on dvd!.......2004-11-22

I have been waiting for this movie to be released on dvd for years! Sad but not depressing -- and the ending is pitch-perfect.

this is an ancient story. . ........2002-08-02

This is a retelling of the Job story from the Old Testament. And the genius of the film is that (even though the movie includes another biblical story to wind up Seth's story) it ends much like the book of Job; there is no answer to why all these things happen to humans, but still there is the overwhelming sense that you just have to know more about this God. I'm sure this film doesn't sit well with conservative Jews or Christians--too much sex. That's okay--not much sits well with conservative viewers. It is a nice counterpoint to the notion on our culture that if you love God, nothing bad will ever happen to you. Here, Seth perseveres in this relationship even though he is terribly angry with God.

Unusual and interesting.......2002-03-04

Seth (Aidan Quinn) is in a bad way. His pregnant wife drowned a year ago, his house has been demolished in a tornado, and he's lost his job. "Why, God?" he asks. God responds with a carefully aimed lightning bolt which not only hits Seth, but also manages to maim his pet dog.

Homeless and jobless, Seth goes to stay with his late wife's sister, Rachel (Courteney Cox) and her no-good husband, Harry (Anthony LaPaglia). And Harry's collection of priceless guitars. We know that Harry is no good because the first time we see him, he's cheating on Rachel with gusto. Seth is lost and confused - why has God chosen to punish him, a good, loyal, hard-working religious man, rather than someone like, say, Harry? Not only is he confused, he's getting pretty angry. So he makes up his mind to break each of the Ten Commandments, one by one.

"Commandments" raises some interesting questions - very few of which it actually manages to answer. Most of the time, it doesn't even make an attempt at this. Rather than trying to figure out exactly *why* God is punishing Seth, it turns into a comedy as Seth wife-covets, ignores the Sabbath and blasphemes his way across the screen. More interesting than Seth is Harry, who is nasty in a refreshingly human way, while Courteney Cox as Rachel is lovely, but more than a little distant.

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THE BONE YARD starring Phyllis Diller.......2002-03-30

The only reason I want this movie is because it was filmed here in our little town and my son was one of the "extras" in it. It has been very difficult to find. As for the movie - it's funny in spots and grotesque in spots. It's certainly not the worst movie I have ever seen nor was it the best. It's not something that I would ordinarily buy.

It's kinda boring, but kinda funny too!.......2001-05-09

I give it 2 stars because it is really boring. It doesn't get going until way into the movie, then it isn't even that much fun. Phillys Diller, her dog, and the scary little creep kids are the stars here, and they get about 10 minuntes total of the film. The other characters aren't interesting or funny in the least bit, and aren't even tolerable, honestly. They're on the screen waaay too long. It took me two sittings to get through this one. When it's funny, it's weak, but if you love B-films, although I do, you might want to try it out. It seems to be more sought after now that it's no longer made.

This will definately keep any b-movie fan pleased.......2001-02-14

This movie has almost everything to keep a cheesy movie fan pleased. It has zombies, phyllis diller, a psychic, and a big zombie poodle. Yes, a zombie poodle. The zombie poodle didn't get as much screen time as it should've but its worth the price for that alone. The original box had a picture of the poodle on it with the quote "keep repeating to yourself, it's only a poodle" and thats why I originally watched this. The only reason it didn't get a higher review was because the movie drags until the last half.

Great Late-Nite Pizza flick!.......2000-02-06

This movie has it all! Spooky ghouls, Occult practices, blood splatter, and Phyllis Diller as the diabolical Poopinplatz! This is a great flick to kick back and watch with friends and just have fun. I loved the cheese factor and the surprisingly interesting concept. I think everyone should see this at least once; heck.. I even bought it so I could show my friends the wierdest "horror" movie ever made! I have to admit.. there are several points that actually made me jump in surprise!

Pure Cheese...........1999-06-12

Ok, yes, it is bad. BAD. But it's soooo cheesy that it's funny. if you sre looking for something to scare you, this will only work if you're a film major. Then you will be scared that this movie was made. But, it's a comedy (in my eyes). Just remember that when the killer poodle appears!

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THE KISS IS SEXY AND SCARY 80's MOVIE!!!!!!!!
another bad movie
good thriller..
Seemed a bit boring on tv

The Kiss
Starring: Joanna Pacula , Meredith Salenger , Mimi Kuzyk , Nicholas Kilbertus , and Sabrina Boudot
Director: Pen Densham
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ASIN: B00014X8JK
Release Date: 2004-02-24

Description

This supernatural horror tale features Joanna Pacula as a mysterious fashion model who, as a child living in the Belgian Congo, was possessed by an evil spirit as the result of a kiss administered by a voodoo priestess. Twenty-five years later, Pacula shows up for the confirmation of her niece and soon the blood begins to flow. Stars Golden Globe nominated actress Joanna Pacula (Gorky Park).

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THE KISS IS SEXY AND SCARY 80's MOVIE!!!!!!!!.......2005-06-24

The Kiss is a sexy and scary 80's horror movie that was awesome back then and awesome now!!!!!! It has a wonderful cast and the story was basic which i like!!!!!! Its about this aunt that lives with her niece in New York only to give her this curse which you have to kiss the person to take the curse!!!! What more can i say about this movie is that it had style and even though its a little cheesy i would watch it again and again!!!!!

another bad movie.......2005-04-04

This is another fine example of a cheesy 80's movie. It make you wonder why anyone would even bother to make a movie if they don't want to put the time and effort into making a half way decent film. What is truly sad is the story could have been good, but the people making the movie seemed to just want to hurry up and make a movie just for the sake of making one. And had no one of 1988 heard of eyebrow waxing? The mass of unsightly hair on almost every actor and actress was by FAR the scariest thing in this film.

good thriller.........2002-09-03

When I first saw it , it was scary, I liked the scene where the daughter get's brave and takes on the scary aunt..this movie is hard to find..Can't find it in the video stores.

Seemed a bit boring on tv.......2000-05-17

I've only seen the MONSTERVISION version on tv. I want the R version so I can see the scene where the blonde girl gets ripped up in the escolater.

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Never A Flower So Lovely
Amazing Hawthorne

Rappaccini's Daughter
Starring: Kathleen Beller , Dennis Boutsikaris , Leo Cimino , Michael Egan , and Henry Fonda
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ASIN: B00082ZR3A
Release Date: 2005-05-03

Description

Seen on PBS

Written By: Teleplay writer Herbert Hartig, based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic

Starring:Kathleen Beller, Kristoffer Tabori

Directed By:Dezso Magyar

Description:Set in 18th Century Italy, RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni (Kristoffer Tabori) who falls in love with a beautiful, yet forbidden, girl who tends her father's poison garden.

However, the strange and unearthly beauty of Beatrice (Kathleen Beller) masks a terrifying curse which Giovanni must tragically discover. Her father, the mysterious Dr. Rappaccini, has made her the subject of a diabolical experiment. In Giovanni's attempt to free Beatrice from the control of her father and to escape the poisonous effect she begins to have on him, he unwittingly destroys her.

From the short story of master American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, two quintessential Hawthorne themes are explored: the sins of interfering with another's soul and the futility of trying to tamper with nature.

DVD Features:Author Bio, Actor Bios, Printable Study Guide, About the American Short Story Collection, Audio Interview - Robert Geller, Henry Fonda Intro, Trailer

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Never A Flower So Lovely.......2005-05-26

From a rented apartment overlooking an enchanting botanical garden young Giovanni (Kristoffer Tabori) observes a beautiful girl (Kathleen Beller) walking alone talking to the flowers. There is a reason why she is alone but by the time he learns the dark secret for her isolation he has fallen in love.

This 57 minute PBS Presentation was quite a pleasant surprise. Some may find it a little slow, but I found it absolutely hypnotic. Like a prolonged dream sequence, you are drawn against your will towards the enigmatic Beatrice. I've been an admirer of Kathleen Beller for quite sometime and I must say they couldn't have found a more beautiful woman for this role. She has never looked lovelier than she does here.

Amazing Hawthorne.......2005-03-26

I saw this on PBS and discovered that Hawthorne was much more than the guy who wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'. That book, my high school sensibilities found too heavy but this story had just the right touch of horror and pathos. Also a story about manipulating nature, before Shelley wrote Frankenstein, amazing.

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Another bad one from Al Adamson
Adamson's Blaxploitation Whammy
dont buy this DVD
Sam Sherman commentary makes this a Great! DVD!
Possession of Nurse Sherri, The... (1977) d: Adamson, Al

The Possession of Nurse Sherri
Starring: Geoffrey Land , Jill Jacobson , Marilyn Joi , Mary Kay Pass , and Prentiss Moulden
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ASIN: B00005Q30K
Release Date: 2005-11-22

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Another bad one from Al Adamson.......2006-05-29

Al Adamson made some truly awful movies (Blood of Ghastly Horror) and some that provides decent entertainment (Brain of Blood, Blood of Dracula's Castle). "Nurse Sherri" falls somewhere in between but closer to the awful section. It starts out about some cult and after that it's about some nurse that gets possessed by a demon and starts killing patients. Like several other Adamson movies, I guess this must be one of those movies that were patched together using pieces of other unfinished movies. It is not worth spending money on nor spending the time to watch.

Adamson's Blaxploitation Whammy.......2004-07-02

No one watches an Al Adamson movie with high expectations, but the director has been known to turn out some entertaining movies despite modest talents and miniscule budgets. With "Black Voodoo," things get off to a promising start as we join a religious cult out in the Southern California desert (I've only recently started watching Adamson's work, but it seems like ALL his movies start in the SoCal desert). At the guidance of their leader, Reanhaur (toothy Bill Roy), cult members are trying to bring a dead member back to life by chanting "Rise, William, rise!" Then Reanhaur suffers a heart attack. Rather than chant "Rise, Reanhauer, rise," an ambulance is called. But the old kook dies on the operating table. His body may be dead, but Reanhauer's spirit is very much alive. After Sherri (Jill Jacobson)--a nurse at the hospital where the cult leader was taken--is left alone by her doctor/boyfriend, an animated green blob emerges through Sherri's bedroom door and has its way with her. Perhaps the worst special effect ever for its time, this scene in which Sherri gets possessed is the movie's laugh-out-loud high point.

Things go downhill from there. Possessed by the Reanhaur's spirit, Sherri goes on a killing spree that would make Andy Milligan proud. Her doctor/boyfriend (whiny-voiced Geoffrey Land) thinks she's having an affair, but a blinded football player (Prentiss Moulden) who was raised by--get this--a voodoo priestess knows what Sherri's *real* problem is. He knows how to stop Sherri, if Nurse Tara (Marilyn Joi), who's got the hots for him, is willing to do some grave robbing for the good of mankind.

Supposedly this movie was originally conceived as a ripoff of Roger Corman's sexploitation pic "The Student Nurses," but after producer Sam Sherman saw "Carrie" he decided to turn this into a horror movie. To make room for the spooky stuff, the sex scenes were cut, which explains why all the nurses in "Black Voodoo" are particularly libidinous ("Beth, you want to put Ed's stethoscope back in his pants?"), yet seldom act on their spoken desires. It probably explains why the busty Jacobson got the lead: She was expected to open her blouse, not her mouth. Unfortunately with the new horror story, she has to summon up some emotions but is unable to find any. Land, who delivers all his lines as if making an aspirin commercial, isn't much better. And it's obvious scenes were made with minimal takes as there are several instances were actors stumble over their lines. The pace is leaden through much of the movie (sex scenes were cut to make room for Reanhaur's three-minute ambulance ride?), and there is one scene that's so dark the viewer has no clue what's going on. With this type movie I expect bad acting, silly dialog and ridiculous narratives, but I can't forgive its being boring. And to think this was actually a hit with drive-in audiences!

Furthermore, "Black Voodoo" isn't really blaxploitation. Oh, there are some African American characters (and Xenon Entertainment is sure to use all their pictures on the box cover), but they're supporting players. No, this was originally titled "Nurse Sherri," and just retitled to get a few extra dollars from black audiences. The movie has been retitled again, as "The Possession of Nurse Sherri," in its DVD incarnation and is perhaps the better version to see. Not only does it feature commentary by Sam Sherman, but the disc also includes an unreleased cut of the movie featuring the excised sex scenes. Maybe that cut restores the movie's entertainment value as well.

dont buy this DVD.......2003-11-23

i was led astray thinking that the show might be something worth seeing,unfortunately not. I really regret buying this show as the story line sucks and there was only one nude scene. What a joke. Dont buy this and u have been warned.

Sam Sherman commentary makes this a Great! DVD!.......2002-12-15

Great movie! Really has stood the test of time! I originally saw this movie under the name "Black Voodoo". But this is the version you want! This DVD has all the bells and whistles! A very creative TV spot, kind of a strange one, but very different. The Sam Sherman commentary really adds to it, you are let in on the process of the making of the film. It is a honest commentary, from a visionary, inspiring, great man. I can listen to Sherman talk all day! If you have seen this movie before, get this version for the commentary, if you haven't seen it, get it for actors Marilyn Joi and JC Wells. A truly inspired film! Sam Sherman is a person I would like to meet and chat with in my lifetime. Great all around DVD, worth every penny...

Possession of Nurse Sherri, The... (1977) d: Adamson, Al.......2002-02-05

Taking ideas from the Roger Corman produced; Stephanie Rothman film Student Nurses (1970), and cashing in on the success of Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976) legendary exploitation filmmakers Al Adamson / Sam Sherman evolved these genres to once again please the drive-in crowd. The plot consists of a Guru cult leader who takes ill, and is taken to the hospital for an unwanted operation. Before dying under the knife, his soul manages to possess... You guessed it!... Nurse Sherri. Of course, the spirit uses the Nurse [Jill Jacobsen] to wipe out the medical personal who failed to save him. Trying hard to give the audience both sex, and thrills the evil Nurse begins to kill off many of the other characters. "...Along the way she gets to speak in a man's voice Exoricist (1973) style and whack people with cleavers and pitchforks Andy Milligan-style, while treating the viewer to some welcome T&A as well..." The movie moves along quickly, and uses it's budget well. Considering the time... Adamson, and Sherman films where very racially aware, and featured many Afro-Americans in them. The subplot in Nurse Sherri, consisting of a black football player who turns up with a voodoo amulet doesn't have much to do with the film, however it played well to a new film going audience. '...From a doomed medical operation - to - a returned evil soul" The Possession of Nurse Sherri is a great film which I'm more than pleased is available on DVD. An excellent job on this disc from shock-o-rama.com, my only complaint is lack of any original artwork. Producer Sam Sherman explains the production of the film in-depth on the commentary track, sadly Adamson doesn't appear. In August of 1995 the police found his body buried under four tons of cement, with his skull broken by a heavy object. Fred Fulford, a handyman who had been doing some remodelling was arrested and sentenced to 25 years and life in prison.

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Underrated Hammer chiller
An intriguing near-miss
Based on a novel
Joan Fontaine and the Coven of the Kooky
Excellent Hammer movie without Peter Cushing

The Witches
Starring: Joan Fontaine , Kay Walsh , Alec McCowen , Ann Bell , and Ingrid Boulting
Director: Cyril Frankel
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ASIN: 6305808171
Release Date: 2000-07-25

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Underrated Hammer chiller.......2006-10-08

I enjoyed this immensely, although it tends to get panned even by Hammer horror fans. Once the daft opening was over, I found it suitably chilling. The trio of central performances - namely Joan Fontaine, Alec McCowen and Kay Walsh - are great, and it really benefits from Richard Rodney Bennett's typically expert score. It prefigures The Wicker Man in its tale of an outsider coming to a village wrapped up in occultic religion, and also has a hint of The Birds, which I'm sure can't be coincidental - Fontaine sports a hairstyle and costume strikingly similar to those of Tippi Hedren in some scenes!

An intriguing near-miss.......2006-04-23

The Witches aka The Devil's Own is an interesting but ultimately unsuccessful attempt by Hammer to make a serious(ish) movie about witchcraft. Nigel Kneale's screenplay displays some of his customary intelligence, but here he seems hindered by working not from an original story but by adapting Norah Loft's novel. A deathly pale Joan Fontaine is the schoolteacher recovering from a nervous breakdown who takes a job in an outwardly idyllic English village only to gradually suspect that there are darker forces at work - although this could just be in her own imagination. Of course, we know that she's clearly bonkers after her horrible offscreen experience at the hands of witchdoctors in Africa (well, a soundstage in Bray) while the credits were running, but we also know that just because she's had one turn of the screw too many doesn't mean there aren't real witches at work...

It's good at the unpleasant undercurrents in ostensibly beautiful small country towns and also looks at the attraction witchcraft has for women of a certain age (it's a power thing, apparently, with magic as a substitute for waning sexual power). Unfortunately, it goes downhill pretty fast once the cat is, quite literally, out of the bag and the last reel orgy plays more like a bad amateur modern dance performance that goes on forever than a terrifying pagan ritual (the silly costume doesn't help, although it's probably the only 60s film to feature faecophiliacs at play if that's your thing).

Based on a novel.......2005-07-21

This movie is based on a novel, which goes by the titles "The Devil's Own", "The Little Wax Doll", and "Catch as Catch Can", depending on your geographical location and book edition.

The author is Norah Lofts, writing under the psuedonym Peter Curtis for "The Devil's Own", a wonderful author of English historical fiction. Her novels are fairly inexpensive and easy to find. Give the book a try!

Joan Fontaine and the Coven of the Kooky.......2004-04-09

In her last appearance on the silver screen, Joan Fontaine, who won an Academy Award for her performance in Suspicion (1941), stars in this Hammer Studios release of The Witches (1967). While the material here is certainly not of the caliber of some of the previous films she's appeared in, it is fun to watch. Maybe I have some lurid fascination of seeing once great stars reduced to appearing in roles they probably would have never considered in their prime.

Joan plays Gwen Mayfield, a teacher who has just been accepted to assume a position as head teacher of a private school in a small English village. The film starts off with Gwen teaching at a mission school in Africa, and, after an incident with a native witch doctor that caused Gwen to have a nervous breakdown, she has now returned to England to put the pieces of her life back together.

After formally meeting with her employers, Alan and Stephanie Bax, played by Alec McCowen and Kay Walsh respectively, the well-to-do resident benefactors of the town who are also brother and sister, Gwen settles into her new surroundings. The situation seems idyllic, a nice, quiet position in a small town where little happens, but, as the saying goes, still waters sometimes run deep. The oddness begins when two of her pre-teen students, a boy and a very weird girl, exhibit closeness to each other, one borne of a budding romance. This causes consternation among some of the townspeople, and soon the boy falls ill of a mysterious coma. Apparently there was more than just a passing concern about what might happen if the relationship between these two continued, specifically in respect to the girl.

Rumors of witchery begin to reach Gwen, and the deeper she probes, the more ominous the proceedings. As the notion of witchery becomes more and more viable, the idea that there may be more than one witch, a coven, operating within the town, involving various members of the small village. Gwen soon finds herself at odds with unseen forces, and suffers a relapse, forcing her to be institutionalized. She has also lost her memory of everything that's transpired after leaving Africa. She does regain her memory, bits at a time, and the horror begins to return as she understands what is about to transpire, and rushes back to the town in an attempt to save the girl from an unknown fate, and ultimately learn that witchery is not limited to third world peoples but is alive and well here in this small, English village.

Joan Fontaine does a great job here, still exhibiting the sheen of a Hollywood star, even if some of that sheen has dulled since her prime. I have to say, even pushing 50 she still looked pretty good, despite the oddish, bowl bouffant she sported through most of the film. Fontaine's older sister, Olivia de Havilland, didn't fare as well, career wise, in my opinion, starring in dubious films like Lady in a Cage (1964), and Irwin Allen 70's disaster pics like Airport '77 (1977) and The Swarm (1978). The creepy factor develops nicely as the film progresses, and as the mystery deepens about who's involved in the coven and what their purpose is, but this is soon replaced by a goofy factor as we see the coven in action, performing a ritual, half-nekkid dance of sorts in a decrepit, abandoned church, eating greasy dirt as their leader spouts incomprehensible mumbo-jumbo while clad in colorful robes and donning a crown with birthday candles adorning the top. I kept waiting for someone to make a wish and blow out the candles, but the others were to busy bumping and grinding to their chanting, and, as I said before, masticating the mud.

Anchor Bay Entertainment releases a great print, in wide screen anamorphic format. Special features include a theatrical trailer, television promotional spots and a World of Hammer episode titled Wicked Women. Also included in the DVD case on the flipside of the card listing the chapter stops is a reproduction of promotional material used for the film. I really find much enjoyment in these little touches, as it seems to indicate thought was actually put into the release, and a sense that one's getting their money's worth, even though this release seems a bit pricey.

Cookieman108

Excellent Hammer movie without Peter Cushing.......2003-08-19

Joan Fontaine is a teacher who was traumatized by a frightening voodoo ritual while in Africa. Years later, she accepts a job at a small private school and then strange things start to occur.

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From the title, you might expect a modern slasher picture or a serial killer drama, but Mario Bava's Kill, Baby... Kill is actually an eerie gothic ghost-story-with-a-body-count set in a quaint Italian turn-of-the-century village. When a city coroner arrives to examine the latest victim in a long string of "suicides," he discovers a town of deserted streets, suspicious and terrified townspeople, and a conspiracy of silence. The town is haunted by the specter of a homicidal adolescent girl, a creepy vision in white whose little-girl giggles become chilling as she randomly chooses her victims and sends them to their gory deaths. Bava sets a moody stage of empty streets blanketed nightly in a swirling mist and flooded with lights of red, blue, and green--an expressionist night-cum-nightmare as unreal as it beautiful. This fanciful nocturnal world becomes the stage for virtual pageants of death in which the victims become tortured puppets of the malevolent spirit and are forced to murder themselves. The often arch and operatic performances are deadened by flat dubbing and an often prosaic translation, which creates an odd dissonance between the story and style. Though hardly to the tastes of modern slasher movie mavens, Bava's imaginative horror-thriller is full of grotesque and sometimes grueling murders, but trades the gore for an unsettling mood of doom. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews:

The new edition that everyone's waiting for!.......2007-05-29

After announcing a March release, and selling some pre-orders (which is where most of these price gougers got their copies), Dark Sky delayed the initial release to a yet to be determined date.

Now, all of us Bava fans have to wait for this version to be released at a reasonable price (original listing price: $24.95) and now end up having to pay over a hundred dollars for an edition no one's rated or seen. I don't know anything about this Dark Sky Films and I will be suspicious until I see the transfer for myself.

I'll hang on to my older VCI version and suffer with a bad transfer until hopefully this version is released by this company or another.

But I do know something: I will not give in to these price gougers for an edition I don't know anything about.

wow.......................overpriced.......2007-04-07

Very overpriced for a movie that is available by anchorbay.................also isn't ilegal to sell cancelled dvd's i'm sure the studio will be upset........Hello Amazon..........

Kill, kill!.......2007-01-04

Okay, it's a stupid title for a movie, and it sounds like it belongs to a cheap slasher flick.

But fortunately Mario Bava's "Kill Baby Kill" is much better than its hokey title suggests, as one would expect from a giallo master. Instead of a slasher movie, it's a gothic horror movie with impalements, ghosts and magic. It has all the beauty -- and terror -- of a decayed fairy tale.

When a young woman leaps onto an iron fence, young Dr. Eswai (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) is called in to do an autopsy, with the help of beautiful Monica (Erica Blanc). He finds a coin in the girl's heart, and none of the townspeople will tell him -- because if they do, they will suffer a similar fate. Eswai doesn't buy all this superstition.

He's even more annoyed when local sorceress Ruth (Fabienne Dali) begins using her powers to protect a young girl from a childlike specter -- little dead aristocrat Melissa Graps. But as the bodies pile up, and Monica is plagued by bizarre nightmares, Eswai must accept Ruth's help to save Monica from the ghost, and an evil baroness.

"Kill Baby Kill" is more gothic horror rather than straightforward "giallo." But it has the cinematic touches that Bava was known for. Bava fills the run-down village sets with broken doors, wrought-iron fences, coffins, and long fluttering canopies. It's gothically delicious.

Bava also adds dreamlike touches to his typical style-- the village is full of mist, tombstones, and green, blue and red lighting that flicks on and off. He packs this movie so full of visual opulance, it's like being locked inside a beautiful nightmare -- and it adds to the feeling of a fairy tale gone horribly wrong.

And he has a knack for the really spooky stuff too. A bouncing ball, childish giggling, and a little girl on a swing become really horrifying, not to mention all those impalements on everything from fences to, uh, candlesticks. Two particularly eerie scenes have Eswai chasing himself through endless rooms, and Monica running down an endless spiral stair.

The ghost story itself is quite simple, and the secret identities of two characters are quite obvious. But fortunately, this doesn't detract from the atmosphere. How could it? "Kill Baby Kill" is steeped in atmosphere from the first creepy scene, and rather than building in suspense, it runs steadily all the way to the end.

And the cast helps. Despite the emotionless dubbing, Rossi-Stuart and Blanc both do outstanding jobs, but the best performance of the movie belongs to Fabienne Dali, as a tragic sorceress who is trying to save the village from Melissa's revenge. The scene where she mourns her dead lover is exquisite.

"Kill Baby Kill" is a gorgeous, creepy ghost story, with good acting and stellar direction. Definitely a must-see for fans of atmospheric cult horror.

Bright and sinister.......2006-08-14

The worst thing about this film is the title..."Kill Baby Kill" is far more suitable for a schlocky blood 'n' breasts romp than this stately gothic. Everything else about the film is pretty good. The story tells of a doctor who arrives in a remote village to investigate some mysterious murders. The coach driver who delivers him will come no nearer than the village outer walls, and the villagers inside either give him the silent stare treatment or tell him to leave if he knows what's good for him. The only person to befriend him is an attractive young female scientist, who assists him in his investigation despite fearing for her own safety...because the village is being haunted by the apparition of a young blonde girl, who's appearance is said to mark the person who sees her for a violent death.

Now, after being faced with that many horror movie cliches in the opening 20 minutes, you might be forgiven for losing interest with this pretty quickly. And it's true to say that few movies starting with this premise ever approach the realms of the "classics". But stick with this one and you might see some scenes that surprise you.

Firstly, the thing that every reviewer seems to mention is the colour. Scenes are bathed in all sorts of unnatural shades of blues, reds and yellows, and the effect makes the film take on a very luxurious appearance. The photography is mostly very beautiful. Shots of the ghostly girl peering through windows, along with the general eye for compostion in most shots is very accomplished. The location the film is set in is also pretty striking, seemingly filmed in an almost totally derelict village. I don't know how the viewer is supposed to believe that people actually carry on their lives dwelling in what appear to be roofless ruins!

The atmosphere is postitively dripping with gothic trappings. Every scene takes place in either a ruin of some sort, a heavily decorated room or a cobwebbed passage or tomb. The characters all wear richly detailed period clothes. The best scenes of the movie take place in a grand, isolated villa - the source of the villager's terror and the home of the murderous phantom child who seems to be terrorizing the place. The only living inhabitant is the child's mother, a reclusive and half-mad Baroness, played up to the hilt by the actress in a full-on "Miss Haversham" style. She hates the villagers and holds them responsible for the death of her young daughter many years ago. Will she help or hinder our heroes as they try to end the ghostly reign of terror?

There's no denying the fact that although it's strikingly filmed, the movie still looks a bit cheap and formulaic. But Bava was always adept at making a lot out of a little, and he succeeds here. There's a great dream sequence that the heroine experiences at one point, plus another scene in which the hero runs through a maze of identical rooms in the Baroness's villa, running so fast he actually catches up with HIMSELF at one point - a very bizarre sequence! The ending is also quietly satisfying, if maybe a little muted.

You won't find any gore or nudity in this horror tale, but you will find plenty of flair for period gothic. The sombre ghostly girl and her bouncing ball (it often appears, plopping down a staircase or corridor, even though she is nowhere in sight) are great horror movie motifs. Sadly, the English dubbing is rather lame as usual, and the DVD's available of this film in English are reportedly not the greatest image quality. it would be nice to see this in widescreen and re-mastered, and apparently there is an Australian DVD release that has managed this...let's hope some copies of that make their way around the world.

Kill, baby!.......2006-07-16

Okay, it's a stupid title for a movie, and it sounds like it belongs to a cheap slasher flick.

But fortunately Mario Bava's "Kill Baby Kill" is much better than its hokey title suggests, as one would expect from a giallo master. Instead of a slasher movie, it's a gothic horror movie with impalements, ghosts and magic. It has all the beauty -- and terror -- of a decayed fairy tale.

When a young woman leaps onto an iron fence, young Dr. Eswai (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) is called in to do an autopsy, with the help of beautiful Monica (Erica Blanc). He finds a coin in the girl's heart, and none of the townspeople will tell him -- because if they do, they will suffer a similar fate. Eswai doesn't buy all this superstition.

He's even more annoyed when local sorceress Ruth (Fabienne Dali) begins using her powers to protect a young girl from a childlike specter -- little dead aristocrat Melissa Graps. But as the bodies pile up, and Monica is plagued by bizarre nightmares, Eswai must accept Ruth's help to save Monica from the ghost, and an evil baroness.

This is more gothic horror rather than straightforward "giallo," but it has the cinematic touches that Bava was known for. Bava fills the run-down village sets with broken doors, coffins, and long fluttering canopies. It's gothically delicious. But he also adds dreamlike touches -- the village is full of mist, tombstones, and green, blue and red lighting. He packs this movie so full of visual opulance, it's like being locked inside a beautiful nightmare.

And he has a knack for the really spooky stuff too. A bouncing ball, childish giggling, and a little girl on a swing become really horrifying, not to mention all those impalements on everything from fences to, uh, candlesticks. Two particularly eerie scenes have Eswai chasing himself through endless rooms, and Monica running down an endless spiral stair.

The ghost story itself is quite simple, and the secret identities of two characters are quite obvious. But fortunately, this doesn't detract from the atmosphere. How could it? "Kill Baby Kill" is steeped in atmosphere from the first creepy scene, and rather than building in suspense, it runs steadily all the way to the end.

And the cast helps. Despite the emotionless dubbing, Rossi-Stuart and Blanc both do outstanding jobs, but the best performance of the movie belongs to Fabienne Dali, as a tragic sorceress who is trying to save the village from Melissa's revenge. The scene where she mourns her dead lover is exquisite.

"Kill Baby Kill" is a gorgeous, creepy ghost story, with good acting and stellar direction. Definitely a must-see for fans of atmospheric cult horror.

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Sting of Death - 60s B-movie can be great fun!
Great fun for the whole family
Sting of Death/Death Curse of Tartu
Plastic Bag Headed Jellyfish Monster Meets Neil Sedaka!
bad drive in fun

Death Curse of Tartu / Sting of Death
Starring: Joe Morrison (II) , Valerie Hawkins , John Vella , Jack Nagle , and Sandy Lee Kane
Director: William Grefe
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Death Curse of Tartu (1967, 84 min.) - Four archaeology students deep in the Florida Everglades activate the Death Curse of Tartu when they start making out and go-go dancing on an ancient Indian burial ground. This so annoys Tartu, a Seminole witch doctor dead some 400 years, that his decomposed corpse comes to life, changes into a variety of animals, and promptly starts killing everyone.
Sting of Death (1966, 80 min.) - A mad marine biologist sneaks off to an underwater lab, transforms himself into a mutant half-man, half-jellyfish, and attacks college kids with his Sting of Death! Why? Because he's in love! Really. And with his giant bulbous head, the jellyfish man may very well be the single most hilarious-looking movie monster yet committed to film.

Audio Commentary by director William Grefe; William Grefe Trailers for Death Curse of Tartu, The Jaws of Death, Naked Zoo, Racing Fever, Stanley, Sting of Death, and The Wild Rebels;
Bonus Short: Miami or Bust; Sing Along with Neil Sedaka with the enclosed lyrics to "The Jellyfish Song;" Almost 30 minutes of Rare Scenes from Sting of Death producer Richard S. Flinkis' glamour-girl and gore exploitation epic, Love Goddesses of Blood Island; Gallery of Horror Drive-In Exploitation Art; Horrorama Radio-Spot Rarities

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Sting of Death - 60s B-movie can be great fun!.......2007-01-02

Sting of Death and the scenes from "Love Goddesses of Blood Island" are great campy examples of Drive-In B-movies in the 60s! Great fun for the whole family as something radically different and nostalgic. "Death Curse of Tartu" is not as good as "Sting of Death".

Great fun for the whole family.......2006-12-31

I watched Sting of Death and some of the special features with my children and grandchildren (ages 7-12) and we had a ball. The kids wanted to watch some scenes over and over (such as the monster in Sting of Death, Neil Sedaka singing the Jellyfish song, and the Love Goddesses of Blood Island feature). It helped to watch much of it at double speed (if your DVD player also does sound at that speed). There are many killings and lots of gore, all of it looking very fake, but some younger children might be frightened.

Sting of Death/Death Curse of Tartu.......2006-11-14

I bought this DVD because my mother-in-law is one of the dancers in Sting of Death. She is billed as Linda Lee Craves, however, her name was actually Linda Lee Cravey. She is the dancer in the green and black bathing suit. The movie is hilariously bad. We watched it because my mother in law is in it and that is about it. This is one of those that should be watched on Mystery Theater or some show that pokes fun of really bad B horror movies. Some of the reviews on here are a little rough the movie has its moments. If you are a fan of B horror movies this one will make you laugh. Happy viewing.

Plastic Bag Headed Jellyfish Monster Meets Neil Sedaka!.......2005-03-12

You have to hand it to William Grefe, creator of these two features, and the people at Something Weird: this dynamic drive-in duo is a real treasure for any grade Z movie aficionado. Grefe, known for his extremely low budget horror films from the mid 1960s is in his absolute finest form here.

"Death Curse of Tartu" is about good looking teenagers who inadvertently trample (and dance on) an ancient Indian burial ground, with disastrous consequences (mostly involving alligators, snakes and rubber body parts). It's a howler, but the real treat is listening to the commentary track with Grefe mocking much of his masterwork.

Of the two, my favorite is without doubt "Sting of Death." A friend described this spectacle to me, but I was unable to fathom how bad the inflated plastic bag jellyfish head "special effect" actually looked until I watched it for myself (with a dropped jaw, I might add.) This movie is simply one of the most unintentionally hilarious films I have ever seen. It has everything: a ridiculous plot, terrible acting, wretched script, unexplained and embarrassing Neil Sedaka poolside dance number ("The Jilla-Jalla Jellyfish"), and one of the most ineptly conceived and executed monsters in screen history. You really must see the inflated plastic garbage bag jellyfish head for yourself to believe it.

There are numerous extras on the DVD, but best is the commentary with William Grefe himself giving surprisingly candid appraisals of his work.

For lovers of bad cinema, this is a double aquatic nightmare not to be missed.

bad drive in fun.......2002-02-24

If you were a kid in the 60's then you might have gone and seen some double features at your local drive in that will remind you of the trashy fun on this dvd.They are a lot of fun to watch especially sting of death.The scene with the glad bag jellyfish cracked me up.The quality is excellent on these movies, and if you want to have some fun, pop up some popcorn, crack up a couple root beers and prepare to be entertained, just leave your brain behind and youll have a great time.

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