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Director: Robert Clouse
Starring: Joe Lewis, Bong Soo Han, Sonny Barnes, Richard Norton
Director Robert Clouse - who would later go on to shake the pillars of cinema with GYMKATA - lays his trademark groundwork for tightly plotted, well-acted, deep, original, though-provoking narratives with Force: Five! Martial arts experts/religious fanatics go to some island to rescue somebody's very rich daughter from some other religious fanatics who are comprised of....wait for it......an army of martial arts experts! Funny how that always works out.
Seriously though, as far as hilarious, nonsensical, non-wire work American martial arts films goes....this is non stop fun that can't be beat.....besides religious fanatics are always creepy and this film's strange open ending is really, well, something.....who does win in a battle of religious fanatics? It's hard to really draw a bead on where the filmmakers were really coming from on this one and that's just part of its creepy, cheezy charm! These movies were seemingly churned out more than all the Nurse, Doberman and Women's Prison films combined!
Download Force: Five: avi video (667MB) iPod video (309MB)
aka Beyond the Door III
Director: Jeff Kwitny
Starring: Mary Kohnert, Bo Svenson, Victoria Zinny, Savina Gersak
Ok, I've got another idea for ya...so, there's this chick and her friends make fun of her cuz she's still a virgin, right? And she goes on this school trip to some Eastern European village, like Bulgaria or something maybe, only its a trap cuz the villagers are Satanists and they need to sacrifice a virgin to bring Satan to life! Get it? So, she needs to lose her virginity to save the world! Awesome, huh? Ok, and then there's this train, right? And its just totally running amok! I wanna call it Amok Train...either that or Beyond the Door III, I can't decide...are you still with me? ...hello? ...hey, where'd everbody go?
aka Psycho Puppet
Director: Peter Maris
Starring: Turk Cekovsky, Nick Panouzis, Terry TenBroek, Debi Chaney, Barron Winchester
The HEX bring you some obscure social relevance - from IMDB:
"An ex-soldier is hired by local right-wingers as a vigilante to clean up criminals and street people. However, he freaks out and starts killing off everybody."
Why does no one ever see the blowback coming?
Download Delirium: avi video (698MB) iPod video (290MB)
Italy
aka I Pianeti Contro di Noi, Planets Around Us, Hands of a Killer, The Man with the Yellow Eyes
Director: Romano Ferrara
Starring: Michel Lemoine, Maria Pia Luzi, Jany Clair, Marco Guglielmi, Otello Toso, Peter Dane
Straight from Italy: another groovy groovy 60's human duplicate alien invasion pic. This time aliens select a random airplane crash survivor --who happens to be the son of a famous scientist--and stamp out (literally) a pre-invasion force of cyborgs based on his image. Lead cyborg Bronco (EuroTrash hero Michel Lemoine) tries to integrate himself into society to...well, uhh...do pre-invasion stuff... YOU know! Creepy Bronco doesn't fit in at all and so, naturally, falls right into the hip young urban professional party scene! Mod scenery, wild parties and a slow as molasses plot that really adds an ominous creepy quality to the film. We couldn't stop thinking of this as the evil version of The Day the Earth Stood Still. Planets Against Us also leant a lot of cues to the off kilter film No Survivors Please. In the 60s, alien duplicates always seem to develop a soft spot for the human condition. One can't help but wonder what they would think of us now--wow, maybe that question just answered itself...
Download Planets Against Us: avi video (780MB) iPod video (284MB)
Weird Phenomena Documentaries...while always an exciting prospect at the Hex, there is always a bit pf apprehension prior to first screenings. The flood of these films at the height of the genre's popularity in the mid-70s lead to what some would call a large, gaping fissure in quality control. This is why we are proud to bring you Mysteries from Beyond Earth. This one stands out from the chaff--the sheer number of topics it covers prevents it from ever dragging on a technical level...but it also approaches all the subjects at hand with an earnest seriousness and appreciation. TV character actor extraordinaire Lawrence Dobkin (who also took a stab at Pontius Pilate with In Search of Historic Jesus) hosts the piece with a gravitas that makes you feel like you are part of a 2am gentleman's debate of the topics in the study with 25 year old Scotch and Cuban cigars. Telepathy & Psychokinesis, Bigfoot to Black Masses, UFOs & Atlantis, Kirlian Photography, Cloning, Cryonics...and that's just the beginning of this awesome film. Are we indeed the new Atlantis?
Download Mysteries from Beyond Earth: avi video (700MB) iPod video (468MB)
Japan
aka Goddo supiido yuu! Burakku emparaa
Director: Mitsuo Yanagimachi
Ok, it's pretty much impossible to live up to a title like Godspeed You! Black Emperor but this is nonetheless a truly one of a kind documentary. Filmmaker Mitsuo Yanagimachi follows the exploits of the "Black Emperors", a rebellious young Japanese motorcycle gang. The gang loves to ride but is full of dichotomies: embracing Nazi imagery one minute and running home to mommie at the slightest hint of trouble the next. Somehow these pop culture damaged kids, combined with an equally meandering storyline and shot with a low budget b/w video news camera, create a sort of weird, mesmerizing and almost otherwordly viewing experience. Or I don't know, maybe its just what we've been smoking...
Download Godspeed You! Black Emperor: avi video (699MB) iPod video (455MB)
Director: Charles B. Griffith
Starring: Oliver Reed, Sunny Johnson, Maia Danziger, Virgil Frye
A real Oliver Reed mind popper here…..and one that sends Robert Louis Stevenson for a few Halloween loops in his grave! A groovy groovy party comedy that seems to have accidentally pulled psychedelia into the 80s..….In a distinctly fantasy Dick Tracy-ish universe - a hard drinking wanna be womanizer turns into a hard drinking creepy womanizer! We'll let you discover the rest - suffice to say, its one of the rare films that we have no idea how it got made but are ecstatic it did!
Download Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype: avi video (1352MB) iPod video (1137MB)
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!
