Just yesterday I bought a copy of the Creature From The Black Lagoon
(Universal Studios Classic Mosters Collection) on DVD and I'm glad I did!
The DVD has an awesome Special Features bonus material section,
including "Back To The Lagoon" a short documentary on the making of
Creature. The "Production Photographs" segment is also fun, featuring
posters, lobby cards (including foreign versions), stills, story board
drawings, behind the scene and on set photos of the cast, all viewed
while the theme from Creature plays in the background.
Synopsis:
I just recently unearthed this raw gem, ANCIENT EVIL, from the bargain
bin of my local video store, among row upon row of previously viewed
copies of SCREAM 3. The Blair Witch Project 2 is a genuinely frightening movie which, unlike the original Blair Witch Project using hand held cams with a pseudo-documentary format, uses lush cinematography and graphic scenes of ritualistic slayings & spooky atmospherics.
A lost film from the time of J.C."Pat" Patterson's death in 1974 until 1987, when it was found and transferred to video tape, DOCTOR GORE is the genus opus of gore by J.C."Pat" Patterson.
Other
features are Theatrical Trailers, Cast and Filmmakers and Production
Notes. Options include English and French subtitles.
What I found
really interesting also was the segment in Back To The Lagoon explaining how the 3D process works and is filmed.
The quality of the film itself
is the best I've ever seen -- a very crisp, sharp picture. And, as we all
know, the Creature ROCKS!
(Rapid Heart Pictures) Directed by David
DeCoteau
Six archaeology students are spending the summer at an isolated rural compound with their college prof, working on an exciting discovery: an
ancient mummy found in the ruins of a temple.
Little do they realize that the mummy was the servant of the RAIN GOD,
and that one of them has the ability to bring it back to life to exact its
master's deadly revenge. Trapped inside the compound with the
murderous, unstoppable creature, they must join forces to destroy the
monster, or allow it to carry out its plans to annihilate mankind.
An Aztec mummy story filmed in Mexico,
Ancient Evil is an entertaining romp with a Monster On The Campus
meets the Aztec Mummy (without the wrestling women) with irresistible
Schlock appeal. The lion's share of the budget must have gone into the
make-up department, because the mummy is a remarkably detailed with a hideously decayed death grin, and carrying a razor sharp Aztec ritual
blade which he uses to slash and splatter his victims.
The acting is at
best passable and the characters are one-dimensional props to be
disposed of by the mummy and his vengeful master, Norman the taunted
bespeckled vengeful nerd on campus and highly improbable descendent
of an ancient bloodline of Aztec High Priests.
No -- I'm not making
this stuff up folks. If you have nothing better to do and want to spend a
couple of mindless hours soaking up some fun shlock, l recommend
Ancient Evil.
BOOK OF SHADOWS
The ghosts of the long ago slain children mentioned in The Blair Witch Project make their appearance, in period costumes, with some disastrous consequences.
Without spoiling it for anyone by giving away vital details, imagine having murdered some tourists in the woods, not remembering having done it, and seeing yourself hacking away at the victims on video tape, right in front of the police while your under interrogation? Even for the viewer, it's disorientating & grisly to the point of being unnerving.
Starring J.C. Patterson / Produced & Directed by J.C. Patterson
90 mins / color /1975
Special introduction by Herscell Gordon Lewis
The film has a fascinating introduction by Patterson's long-time friend, H.G. Lewis, well worth seeing all by its own. DOCTOR GORE has become one of my all-time favorite gore films, made on a shoe-string and laced with genius. Folks, this film is FUN!
"Pat" Patterson plays a demented scientific genius, tormented by the untimely death of his beautiful wife. Thus he sets out, with the aid of his hunchback assistant John, to create the perfect women by first murdering the women he seduces with his charms, or if in a hurry with his powers of hypnosis, then harvesting only the choicest body parts in the making of his bride. His bizarre experiments are finally successful after a series of disappointing failures, and his "perfect" bride is brought to life, a ravishing beauty, who turns out to be a nympho-maniacal monster!