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Director: Ralph Nelson
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Frank Langella, Rita Hayworth, John Colicos
Lavish early 70s incomprehensible period piece. Rambling 1920s Central American coup plot and a mute Native woman - what is it with 70s films and mute rape victims? Peckinpah this ain't. A visibly drunk Robert Mitchum plays the iconic machine gun toting renegade priest (which is funny as Victor Buono actually 'plays' the drunk in the film). A great ensemble cast - including a very young Frank Langella - can't really save the onscreen story, but its sure fun to watch them try and it looks like a blast was had filming it *HIC*. An odd big budget entry by Soldier Blue director Ralph Nelson that fell through the cracks.
Download The Wrath of God: avi video (1382MB) iPod video (1300MB)
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Starring: William Shatner, Lynn Carlin, Ossie Davis, Stephen Macht
SHATNER mayhem continues here at the HEX!!!! Would you have it any other way? This is a pretty mind blowing made for TV teleplay........all shot on video and performed live in big chunks...it feels like a stage play and a soap opera......but one with Shatner as a Nazi sympathizing psychologist determined to find the point at which people break.....going head to head with non other that Ossie Davis. This is one of those rare gems thats really deep and amazing. Tenth Level is also taylor made for Shatner's special brand of acting and he shines bright. It requires some effort be put in to watch, but the payoff is absolute. There were some really special movies made for TV and, unfortunately, many of them have just fallen through the cracks.....
Download The Tenth Level: avi video (1659MB) iPod video (1096MB)
Journey to the Unknown - "The Indian Spirit Guide" (1968)
British Television
Co-produced by Hammer Films
Starring: Julie Harris, Tom Adams, Tracy Reed, Catherine Lacey
Runtime: 50 min
Another notable entry in Hammer's Journey to the Unknown TV series penned by Robert "Psycho" Bloch. A wealthy widow wishes to contact her dead husband and hires a cunning detective to help root out counterfeit clairvoyants. Did we mention how much we love the title sequence in this series? Yeah.
Download Journey to the Unknown - "The Indian Spirit Guide": avi video (611MB)
Director: Robert Michael Lewis Starring: Andy Griffith, William Shatner, Angie Dickinson, Robert Reed, Marjoe Gortner, Lorraine Gary
Shatner MANIA continues at the HEX!....Like it ever ended...or started for that matter. Shatner Mania has just always 'been' for us - it has existed since before the end of time! Not only is this his seriously best performance post Star Trek....this movie is a really mind blowing powerhouse of a made for TV flick. Shatner, Robert Reed and Starcrash hero Marjoe Gortner work at a high level ad agency. Shatner's job and life are melting down in a big way at light speed...affairs, debt, divorce, unemployment... and its crazy palpable just under the surface...a walking, ticking time-bomb. Enter Sam Farragut - played to a 'T' by Andy Griffith - the creepy rich industrialist client with a phony good ole' boy affectation. A pampered sociopath who gets off on making others jump through hoops. Farrgut insists they all go on a week-long motorcycle bonding journey into Mexico if they are to get his account....and we will leave it the rest of it for you to discover. Lets just say you have never witnessed Griffith this unhinged or Shatner this focused. Angie Dickinson also puts in a great appearance as the adulterous voice of reason...The Cosmic Hex refuses to speculate on the level of purpose in putting the protagonists in shirts that strangely resembled those of a certain 60s science fiction show or why Robert Reed was given the red shirt.
aka Cemetery Girls, The Devil Is a Woman
Director: Stephanie Rothman
Starring: Michael Blodgett, Sherry Miles, Celeste Yarnall
Anyone who calls this a "Rip Off" is clearly too young to know the early 70's and is also probably a narc...cut them off immediately! Stephanie Rothman--on the heels of Student Nurses--makes the ultimate vampire move that struggling Hammer House was trying to do much earlier with its female driven vampire pics...way hipper, intelligent and more relevant...that this movie exists, gives us a small hope... If you don’t like this movie or dune buggies, then we DO NOT trust you...seriously. When movies are this immensely watch-able, erotic and important...and you can feel the influence dripping onto all of your other favorite films...well, you know the drill...WORSHIP!
Download The Velvet Vampire: avi video (698MB) iPod video (215MB)
UK
aka Evil Heritage
Director: Norman J. Warren
Starring: Michael Gough, Yorke
Martin Potter, Candace Glendenning, Barbara Kellerman
Runtime: 86 min
Ah yes, the Satanic rituals here are so very tasty...so British...so seventies...and exactly the way we remember them: sexy, bloody and a guy with a goat head. And the rest of the flick is surprisingly good too.
A young girl is caught up in a devil cult run by her evil uncle and cousin. She can trust no one and even people she thought were dead come back to haunt her.
aka Operation M., Smashing the Crime Syndicate, Swastika Savages, The Fakers
Director: Al Adamson
Starring: John Gabriel, Anne Randall, Broderick Crawford, Scott Brady
More Al Adamson and this time its one of his rarer and definitely more inspired works....Hell's Bloody Devils is a masterpiece of twisted and determined vision. Rumors fly as to how long this film was in production....movies and filmmakers like this are what fuel the modern day Jim Van Bebbers to provoke through chemistry fueled celluloid. You get the distinct feeling that Adamsom lived this shit while still holding it together enough to get to it, if you know what we mean....Outlaw Biker gang "The Bloody Devil’s", the FBI, and the remains of Hitler’s inner circle all collide in a shockwave of groovy, groovy destiny that will pop your little mind! Seriously – name another Nazi outlaw biker movie that actually contains real honest to god Nazi's? We really miss what was truly a golden age when maniac visionaries like Adamson could get a budget to pull this off – the craziest outlaw Nazi movie EVER!... ..Al Adamson is a classic provoker and a true rebel genius - we bow before Hells Bloody Devil's!!!!!!!!
Download Hell's Bloody Devils: avi video (681MB) iPod video (303MB)
