cult film freak: November 2024

Written by James M. Tate / 11/03/2024 / No comments / don devlin , exploitation , frank killmond , gang , judy howard , michael granger , neo noir , pamela lincoln , ronnie burns , russ bender , russell howe , sixties

DARRELL HOWE WITH JUDY HOWARD IN 'ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjolM-KvIIMmqE1KC2qMbOwnZt_oMeiG0uVNfVFqa0IYF4KG1nTuhG8VphaWahp1qAM2yWHPusI2fckG8kioq8iPhbbXqU3VHra9YXdY9EMPRwaEDrP5c_XML6UhUqRw-7Py-gN8o61Fp5KY-T0FMQQtyYIkvWsJIIye681SB0xUIFh3prDzPF7AX_CHseu/s1164/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjolM-KvIIMmqE1KC2qMbOwnZt_oMeiG0uVNfVFqa0IYF4KG1nTuhG8VphaWahp1qAM2yWHPusI2fckG8kioq8iPhbbXqU3VHra9YXdY9EMPRwaEDrP5c_XML6UhUqRw-7Py-gN8o61Fp5KY-T0FMQQtyYIkvWsJIIye681SB0xUIFh3prDzPF7AX_CHseu/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Judy Howard in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO Year: 1962 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>When token investigator Michael Granger is kind of affably/subtly questioning local hoodlum Darrell Howe on he and his gang's whereabouts when some people got beat up the night before, Howe's facially-scared Chet lies about going to a movie... specifically <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/03/cpn.html">CRIME AND PUNISHMENT</a>... an ironic parallel the cop instantly understands...Yet is only partially what ANATOMY is inspired by... as the law's only around right after bad things happen: like a rich man's house burning because his son hooked up with Chet's loose and lithe <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/10/DragstripH.html">GHOST OF DRAGSTRIP HOLLOW</a> ingenue Judy Howard, who, with only a few scenes, smoothly combines passionate seduction with perplexed vulnerability...

don devlin, exploitation, frank killmond, gang, judy howard, michael granger, neo noir, pamela lincoln, ronnie burns, russ bender, russell howe, sixties

DARRELL HOWE WITH JUDY HOWARD IN 'ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO'

Judy Howard in ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO Year: 1962 Rating: **** When token investigator Michael Granger is kind of affably/subtly questioning loc...

MARLON BRANDO & VAL KILMER RUIN 'THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDoFiJywchg18qaRnx0kFoRLsd0Pz9qzv5cUt8dDM2KSk0bRLMLYv7eBZsaIzB-twyo9olc3eOR3enl2NEbd0H7h1FHMm2HkfcYCI53WBpu5Gy1WaHu6V0x63rL06yEZa13hVJaj-Il78vLishTMKnogJRhFrLIBX5inP_HGjXB-k0ykWqdT8PUn7vOdyh/s1869/Screen%20Shot%202024-11-02%20at%2010.20.55%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="974" data-original-width="1869" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDoFiJywchg18qaRnx0kFoRLsd0Pz9qzv5cUt8dDM2KSk0bRLMLYv7eBZsaIzB-twyo9olc3eOR3enl2NEbd0H7h1FHMm2HkfcYCI53WBpu5Gy1WaHu6V0x63rL06yEZa13hVJaj-Il78vLishTMKnogJRhFrLIBX5inP_HGjXB-k0ykWqdT8PUn7vOdyh/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-11-02%20at%2010.20.55%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Val Kilmer in THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU Year: 1996 Rating: **</td></tr></tbody></table>As the story goes, original director and screenwriter Richard Stanley was fired from THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU, replaced by veteran John Frankenheimer who, prone to making action movies, seems confused whether it's an aggressive PLANET OF THE APES creature-uprising prequel or the quirky sci-fi/horror that the quirky Richard Stanley probably intended... What's really strange is that big-budget superstar Bruce Willis was going to star in that original arthouse horror... replaced with offbeat/indie British actor David Thewlis, seeming more like Stanley's choice over Frankenheimer, who would have been able to do a high-octane Bruce Willis flick with his aged-eyes closed...

creature, horror, john frankenheimer, marlon brando, nineties, science-fiction, val kilmer

MARLON BRANDO & VAL KILMER RUIN 'THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU'

Val Kilmer in THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU Year: 1996 Rating: ** As the story goes, original director and screenwriter Richard Stanley was fired...

JACK STARRETT DIRECTS JIM BROWN VS RIP TORN IN 'SLAUGHTER'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieYnH7WtGUXz-HImPWCfsCGwX9Zxag9ath0XkbdOh0KYY0xYNftucwiAdSSUR-9bji6lMCs_tzP93cAtx1d_32_nQsuVru1iFaRX7elpUBcxxzjdtP_Btr8AWSdPaeOw9FI9WPGdWxfbuOiaJkqRkct-Sp-ywRI0p4gZjoSIoGQYcfkiBaCO4IcBHG0fGi/s2679/1111%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1296" data-original-width="2679" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieYnH7WtGUXz-HImPWCfsCGwX9Zxag9ath0XkbdOh0KYY0xYNftucwiAdSSUR-9bji6lMCs_tzP93cAtx1d_32_nQsuVru1iFaRX7elpUBcxxzjdtP_Btr8AWSdPaeOw9FI9WPGdWxfbuOiaJkqRkct-Sp-ywRI0p4gZjoSIoGQYcfkiBaCO4IcBHG0fGi/s16000/1111%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: SLAUGHTER Director: Jack Starrett Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>By the time Rip Torn as a mobster's main hit-man kills the very boss who hired him to kill Jim Brown's titular black tough guy SLAUGHTER... seeking revenge for his father's mob-ordered death... the 1972 anything-goes/gun-blasting extravaganza is only halfway through...And has already featured some worthwhile actors including Cameron Mitchell and sidekick's sidekick Don Gordon, right at home in a b-movie that passes for mainstream... like something from the Bond franchise as Jim Brown, wearing a dapper tuxedo, walks coolly into the antagonist's crooked casino, winning money and even landing a sexy moll, who at least three of the uncompromisingly racist mafiosos are after...

action, blaxploitation, cameron mitchell, jack starrett, jim brown, mafia, marlene clark, revenge, rip torn, robert phillips, seventies, stella stevens

JACK STARRETT DIRECTS JIM BROWN VS RIP TORN IN 'SLAUGHTER'

Title: SLAUGHTER Director: Jack Starrett Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 By the time Rip Torn as a mobster's main hit-man kills the very boss...

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