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a line at editor er online com or stop by the new er site at er online com for more details pain is temporary film is forever dan taylor dan taylor is the editor publisher of exploitation retrospect and the hungover gourmet he has been cranking out zines for two thirds of his existence he s not sure if this is an achievement or a character flaw posted by dan at 5 50 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels exploitation reviews zines sunday march 01 2026 the devil s rain 1975 starring ernest borgnine and william shatner give corbis what belongs to him we finish out the first ten years of 60 for 60 with yet another william shatner vehicle hot on the heels of 1974 s sweat soaked gigolo shocker impulse though this baby belongs lock stock and barrel to oscar winner ernest borgnine after his father melts in front of his mother ida lupino and him mark preston shatner heads down to old abandoned redstone to make a deal with john corbis satan s minister on earth ernie b seems the preston family is in possession of corbis book of possessed souls and he wants it back so mark bets his soul freedom against the book is mark s faith stronger than that of corbis it s not so it s up to dr tom preston tom skerritt to return home and figure out what happened to his family along for the ride is tom s wife julie who had visions of covens upside down crosses and satanic rituals during her recent esp experiment and seems to be somewhat of a wax expert when julie gets abducted by corbis and his minions including john travolta it s up to tom and his pal dr richards eddie albert to save the day and make it rain the devil s rain i m not sure how or why this slice of satanic seventies sinema flew under my radar for so long it s got the desolate vibe of the hills have eyes 1977 and race with the devil 1975 but always had a bit of a crappy reputation but as i ve learned in the past like in the case of the sentinel and prophecy other people are idiots and their opinions should never be trusted director robert fuest abominable dr phibes and its sequel packs the flick s 86 minute running time with sacrifices explosions flashbacks pilgrim borgnine and plenty of melting eyeless minions but this is borgnine s show from his aw shucks toothy grin and extra husky satan robes to his transformation into a goat horned demon he really seems to be having a blast dan taylor posted by dan at 1 09 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 1970s 60 for 60 horror reviews the oily maniac 1976 starring danny lee everybody s a suspect except for the cripple i grew up on a steady diet of hong kong cinema focused on the most chop sockeyest of the genre saturday afternoons on philly uhf were packed with every bruce le bruce li dragon lee bruce lai and bruce lo movie you could imagine but i don t recall getting a whole lot of the hong kong horrors of the era it wasn t until the days of video stores and grey market tape trading circles that i saw things like infra man 1975 wolfen ninja 1982 or black magic 2 1976 even in their worst forms the oily maniac 1976 has long been talked about by my friends as one of the wildest flicks of an era where hong kong martial arts cinema intersected with the new wave of 70s horror after the success of flicks like the exorcist they were not wrong danny lee the killer dr lamb infra man stars as shen yuan a downtrodden polio afflicted office worker in a sleazy law firm his boss makes a fortune working both sides of business deals and pushing clients into pursuing phony cases when a coconut oil plantation owner is forced to sell his business and ends up killing someone he s sentenced to death yuan visits him before his execution and traces a talisman tattooed on his back despite the crippling polio that forces him to walk with crutches yuan follows the talisman s instructions uses a pickaxe to dig a hole in the middle of his home chants an incantation and emerges as the oily maniac a sort of proto toxic avenger who dispenses justice to rapists would be rapists sleazy lawyers and their mistress kung fu henchmen unlicensed plastic surgeons and more it s as nutty as it sounds with yuan hopping into vats of bubbling goo and dousing himself with gasoline to transform into the titular hero nobody in the flick is all that defensible the cops are idiots as usual and the whole thing is a chaotic mess but who cares you ll love the ripped off jaws theme dollar tree transformation sequences asian bill hader regenerating limbs and head and more t a than your typical slice of asian cinema dan taylor posted by dan at 1 04 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 60 for 60 hong kong monsters reviews shaw brothers saturday february 21 2026 impulse 1974 starring william shatner you can t judge a hot dog by its skin william shatner stars as matt stone a sleazy con artist gigolo who prowls florida looking for rich women to seduce and bilk out of their money when his current mark confronts him after seeing him playing tonsil hockey with a belly dancer stone kills her in a fit of rage in search of his next payday stone gains the confidence of julia ruth roman a wealthy older woman who introduces him to ann jennifer bishop a lonely widower coincidentally stone had recently given a ride to ann s precocious daughter tina kim nicholas after almost running her down don t ask matt and ann strike up a relationship while tina grows suspicious of the leisure suit wearing lothario the film s working title was the icky want a ride little girl when stone s old cellmate karate pete goldfinger s harold sakata rolls into town in his rv it s not because he misses his buddy karate pete has heard stone is working a hustle and wants in on the action the reunion turns deadly tina discovers what stone is capable of and must convince her mother that he s up to no good before it s too late also it s fun to write karate pete directed by william grefé stanley mako the jaws of death whiskey mountain with christopher george impulse is a sweaty grimy sleazer that predates the similar scream for help 1984 and the stepfather 1987 shatner embarking on the low budget era that would bring us the devil s rain my 1975 selection and the creepy kingdom of the spiders was still five years away from reviving his flagging career with star trek the motion picture here he looks both bemused and embarrassed by the material though grefé makes sure to placate his star by having a bevy of women throw themselves at the shat one wonders what would have become of shatner without the career rebirth that resulted from the success of star trek ii the wrath of khan 1982 and subsequent trek flicks as well as the tv series t j hooker is there a multiverse where that shatner embraced and excelled in the exploitation underbelly carving out a straight to video career to rival that of wings hauser up next more shatner with 1975 s the devil s rain dan taylor posted by dan at 6 04 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 60 for 60 horror reviews the crazies 1973 directed by george a romero after dabbling in melodrama 1971 s there s always vanilla and bored housewives spicing up their lives with witchcraft 1973 s hungry wives george romero returned to his horror roots with the crazies aka code name trixie though it shares some small town horror elements with night of the living dead 1968 the crazies is broader in scope and deals with evans city a small pa town north of pittsburgh faced with an unexpected disaster when a military plane crashes nearby and releases its deadly cargo into the water supply those exposed either die or well go crazy after the army moves in to cut off the town and prevent the virus from spreading across the country a band of locals finds themselves on the run had romero kept the story focused on their struggle to survive escape the crazies might be more successful unfortunately he tries to juggle a half dozen storylines including frustrated military personnel government brass wrestling with the idea of having to nuke the town a scientist searching for a cure and squads of gas mask clad soldiers trying to round up the locals who are becoming more and more resistant the result is a lot of shouting overacting and dialogue filtered through radio speakers or muffled gas masks eventually the crazies finds its footing and focuses on buddies dave and clank and dave s pregnant girlfriend judy a nurse for the local doctor can they get past the army s tightening perimeter will the military seal off evans city and find a cure will the politicians really nuke a small town in order to save their own ass the crazies is as ambitious as hell but may have been better suited to romero s studio days after the cult success of dawn of the dead 1978 it was remade in 2010 with timothy olyphant and danielle panabaker there are definite seeds of dawn in the film s core relationship the levelheaded hero and his increasingly loose cannon sidekick but by the time you care about them it s a bit too late dan taylor posted by dan at 4 17 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 60 for 60 horror reviews horror express 1972 starring christopher lee peter cushing telly savalas whatever you have here is unholy and must be destroyed this was a tough year to select an entry for my 60 for 60 horror watchlist it s a classic year for horror filled with ripe for the picking choices like tales from the crypt hunchback of the morgue and the night stalker but i couldn t resist a rewatch of this underrated spanish horror production starring christopher lee longtime buddy peter cushing a pre stardom telly savalas and a guy who is most definitely not paul naschy alberto de mendoza a 1906 expedition led by professor saxton lee unearths an ape like creature frozen in a cave which is crated up and placed on the trans siberian express scientific rival doctor wells cushing is also on board and can t help but wonder what saxton has in that giant crate faster than you can say there s the stink of hell on this train the thing is turning people s eyeballs egg white and boiling their brains puzzled by the murders and those smooth boiled brains saxton and wells set out to solve the mystery while not paul naschy has a complete breakdown kojak shows up with his cossacks and that detective won t take his one hand out of his pocket cushing lost his beloved wife just prior to filming and leaned on his old pal lee to get him through the shoot which gives the entire affair a sense of melancholy the whole endeavor has an endearing turn of the century period sci fi vibe and this fun claustrophobic period take on who goes there deserves more love dan taylor posted by dan at 3 37 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 60 for 60 horror reviews saturday february 14 2026 the wizard of gore 1970 directed by hg lewis are you certain you know what reality is next up in my 60 for 60 horror watchathon is this surreal bonkers gorefest from the one and only godfather of gore herschell gordon lewis for those of you unfamiliar with his work lewis who became a millionaire thanks to his expertise in direct mail advertising started out making nudie flicks in the 1950s when the bottom fell out of that market no pun intended he turned his attention to films the big budget studios couldn t or wouldn t make his 1963 low budget shocker blood feast pushed the genre into gross out territory and created the modern gorefest the wizard of gore focuses on montag the magnificent ray sager a top hat clad magician who looks to be just another two bit hack after shouting at the audience about dreams vs reality and mankind s bloodthirst for spectacle montag welcomes a volunteer from the audience for the ol saw a woman in half bit but this is no hacksaw and fake limbs trickery montag fires up an electric chainsaw and paints the screen red with buckets of blood and half the meat section at the local kroger s but what s this despite all evidence to the contrary the victim appears fine and heads off to a local restaurant after the show where she promptly bleeds out all over the floor much to the dismay of her fellow diners fascinated by montag s act daytime talk show host sherry judy cler arranges for tickets for his next show despite her sportswriter boyfriend s protests not content to repeat the same gag montag proceeds to pound a metal spike into another audience member s skull and like the first victim she walks away unscathed only to die later from her wounds is there a psycho on the loose who gets turned on by montag s stunts or is montag himself killing his victims to satisfy some sick and twisted desire while you ponder those questions lewis piles on the gore with punch press pulverizing forced sword swallowing eyeball violence teeth knocked out and more all while the audience sits there dumbfounded mesmerized by montag s antics is it all in their minds is it all in montag s mind or are we just dreaming and not really watching a movie at all the wizard of gore is one of those films you re either going to love or hate sager who went on to have a successful career as a producer gives a um unique performance shouting most of his lines in a ham fisted fashion that makes more sense when you discover he was a crew member who stepped in after the original star walked off the set admittedly lewis and screenwriter allen kahn aren t really interested in tying the film up in a nice tight bow characters wonder out loud about all the same questions the viewer has and as lewis says in the intro to the flick the wizard of gore defies definition the wizard of gore remains a completely over the top head scratcher that s more fun than blood feast but not as good a movie as lewis s 2000 maniacs 1964 in 2007 the film was remade with crispin glover as montag i ve never watched it but now that i know it features jeffrey combs and brad dourif i may have to dan taylor posted by dan at 8 29 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 60 for 60 gore reviews the abominable dr phibes 1971 starring vincent price joesph cotten the 1970s roll on in my 60 for 60 horror watchlist with this oddball horror comedy starring the great vincent price as a brilliant presumed dead concert organist out for revenge in london circa 1925 when several doctors die under bizarre circumstances bee sting induced boils flesh eating bats blood drained perverts scotland yard is suitably baffled the dogged inspector trout traces the dead doctors to the team of dr vesalius joseph cotten who helps him deduce that the murders are the work of phibes authorities believed phibes perished in a car accident while racing home after the death of his beloved wife victoria an uncredited caroline munro but they surmise t...