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Director: Larry Yust
Douglas Fowley, Ruth McDevitt, Frances Fuller, Ian Wolfe
Through an afghan darkly...a delightful little yarn about a really nice group of senior tenants. Sure, they seem content and quiet enough...but when their cozy apartment building is threatened by the construction of a new skyscraper this octogenarian crew just might muster up enough gumption and moxie to stick-it-to-the-man and stay put in their homes no matter what the cost!
Join our hard bolied all-American hero as he hits the Guatemalan jungle to investigate his partner's disappearance. See him kill a leopard (or "tiger" as they're known to the natives) with his bare hands. Watch as he orders his Carta Blanca "very cold, please". But can he save the virgin from the clutches of the savages who still worship the old gods?
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Directors: Harry Hope, Lee Sholem
Starring: Bobby Van, Mala Powers, Georgianna Bronski, James Craig, Grant Williams, Henry Wilcoxon, Essie Lin Chia, Casey Kasem, ori Scott, Scott Miller
Welcome to the Doomsday Machine – the most claustrophobic film ever made!! Strange considering it was multiple movies cobbled together....you'd think someone would have made it outside a set at some point. We really need to create a new section for red scare films that were never completed in the 60s and then resurrected and 'fleshed out' in the 70s. Speaking of flesh, there is a lot of co-ed costume changing afoot in this cramped spaceship – AMEN TO THAT!!!
Download The Doomsday Machine: avi video (899MB) iPod video (269MB)
aka The Seducers, Mrs. Manning's Weekend
Director: Peter S. Traynor
Starring: Sondra Locke, Colleen Camp, Seymour Cassel, Beth Brickell
Two ladies (Sondra Locke & Colleen Camp) hitch up with a wealthy California businessman who takes them back to his enormous pad. One disco, hot tub, 3-way seduction later and all bets are off! This film just totally switches gears into one of the most unadulterated and senseless epics of torture/crime/anarchy/torture we have ever witnessed. Those girls hate them some middle classed, middle-aged business man and they don't hold back! A completely unhinged rollercoaster of surreal Grand Guignol excess that is truly twisted and it just has to be seen to be believed! This film contains absolutely no message or moral compass...zero, nada, zilch! Just pure white-hot cleansing violence! The note this film ends on left us speechless! San Francisco, put that flower in your hair!
Dircetors: R. Winer, Barry Mahon (Thumbellina)
Starring: Jay Ripley as Santa and the "kids" from Ruth Foreman's Pied Piper Playhouse
The HEX is proud to bring you the druggiest, weirdest, obscurest Xmas story we could find!!! This kidsploitation holdiay sing-a-long train wreck makes Santa Claus Conquers the Martians look like Citizen Kane. We're not kidding! The Thumbellina insert, an oddly unsettling and nearly adept rendering of the Hans Christian Andersen tale, is also included.
We have been a bit dormant lately, but hold on for a BIG return starting in Jan '09. Deets forthcoming!!!! All hail the DEETS!!!
Download Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny: avi video (1352MB) iPod video (1495MB)
aka Nightmare
Dircetor: John Newland
Starring: Kim Darby, Jim Hutton
Runtime: 74 min
The message of this telefilm is, of course, be VERY AFRAID of the dark! We just kicked off the Dead Channels midnight series with our 16mm copy of this film and it brought down the house!
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is the legendary television movie that scared the living Hell out of an entire generation of impressionable latch key kids. – and now it's your turn!
A neurotic housewife named Sally and her business exec husband movie into Sally’s family house, a spooky two-story Victorian mansion. Sally comes across a locked door that, once finally opened at her great insistence, kicks off a series of very strange events. Sally begins to see small creatures everywhere and of course, no one believes her – nothing a valium won't cure insists her husband.....until the death starts! Is she crazy? Or has Sally released demons?
This film has been released on DVD. It is no longer available to download here but we highly recommend buying your own copy: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
aka Rocket to the Moon
Director: Don Sharp
Starring: Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Fröbe, Terry-Thomas, Hermione Gingold
Holy Shit! Don Sharp – of legendary Pshychomania fame – made a 60s Jules Verne period piece starring Burl Ives!!!!!! Obviously the main inspiration for At Earth's Core.....well, in theory we suppose. Mashing up historical figures in a Disney-esque comedy must have sounded great on paper but we question the decision to push the audience to the threshold by making a film about a rocked called BLAST OFF where nothing but a balloon ever makes it into the air....Troy Donahue also stars as Gaylord.
Download Blast Off: avi video (899MB) iPod video (309MB)
aka Express to Terror
Producer: Dan Curtis
Director: Dan Curtis
Starring: Broderick Crawford, George Hamilton, Steve Lawrence, Don Meredith, Stella Stevens
What do you get when you mix Dan Curtis with The Love Boat? A really weird Love Boat.... and instead of a boat, its set on a futuristic cross country luxury train...and instead of love there is murder!!! With its huge ensemble casts and slightly askew take - this would have been preferable to the coke frosted boat series had it come first. As par for the course with 70s TV, there is alot of drinking, sex, disco and satin......Curtis - a legendary curmudgeon - left a trail of epic tales regarding this pilot. 24 hour work shifts, mass firings and budget spirals...still, it all ultimately works when viewed outside the shadow of television circa 1979.
Norliss Tapes or Night Stalker this ain't....but its a worthwhile look at one of our favorite television prodigy's 70s swansong.
Download Supertrain - pilot: avi video (698MB) iPod video (324MB)
