Messiah of Evil (1973, Color): 100 years ago, a demonic priest from HeIl passed through a seaside town, carrying a blood-crazed contagion that reduced aIl the good citizens to mindless, cannibal zombies. FolIowing a frenzied, fIesh-eating orgy, the dark priest walked straight into the sea, promising to return a century later to Iead a new zombie apocalypse. This time around, the viIe contagion precedes him. As spaced-out folIowers gather on the beach, awaiting their master's return, the town is aIready in the grip of a carnivorous epidemic of madness. When innocent young Arletty comes to town searching for her missing father, she realizes too late that the demon priest of the "blood moon" is coming for her. Starring Mariana Hill, EIisha Cook Jr., Joy Bang, Royal Dano; Directed by WiIIiard Huyck.
Sisters of Death (1977, CoIor): A secret sorority stages mock executions during their initiation ceremonies, but when someone slips a live round into the ritual revoIver, a pretty girI's brains are blown out. Seven years later, the surviving sisters have been cleared of the kiIling and have returned to normal Iife, when they are invited to a reunion. Driven to a remote desert villa surrounded by an eIectric fence, the girls become prisoners of the dead girI's psychotic, grief-crazed father - a madman intent on revenge. Terror reigns supreme as the beautifuI corpses begin to piIe up. Starring CIaudia Jennings, Arthur Franz, Joe Tata, Paul Carr, Sherry Boucher; Directed by Joseph Mazzuca. |