I'm working my way quickly through the second disc in the Pure Terror 50 Movie Pack. Some of the movies, the ones I've already seen, I'm fast forwarding through chunks to get to the end. That way I can spend more of the evening watching the movies that I hadn't seen before. The 2nd disc only has 1 movie I haven't seen before.
The Werewolf Of Washington is a 1973 movie with Dean Stockwell as a poor sap who gets turned into a werewolf. It's easily as dumb as that poster. No matter how many times I've seen it, or parts of it, it doesn't get any better.
They Saved Hitler's Brain was released in 1968 for no apparent reason. It's based on a shorter 1963 theatrical feature called Madmen of Mandoras which was directed by David Bradley. The distributor has the movie lengthened about twenty minutes with additional footage shot by UCLA students. The differences in costumes and production values stand out quite well. The movie is about the people that saved Hitler's head. They hid out in South America while they try to rebuild the Reich. People are fighting to stop them. Sadly it's pretty poorly told. It gets a deserved 2.7 on the IMDb. I'd seen it before, it's in the Drive-In Cult Classics DVD set.
The Thirsty Dead is a 1974 film shot in the Philippines. It's one I hadn't seen before. It's directed by Terry Becker who mostly was an actor. He produced and directed some TV episodes before he directed this movie. He wrote the movie's story with Lou Whitehill and that was adapted by Charles Dennis. John Considine is the leader of a cult that kidnaps women to drain of blood to keep the tribe young. Some ladies get kidnapped and we follow them through their melodramatic journey. You can join them by clicking on the link above. It's not a great journey and it's kind of silly to boot.
The Amazing Transparent Man is a bit better than most of the other films on this disc. It's a 1960 film written by Jack Lewis and directed by Edgar G Ulmer. Some might remember seeing it on Mystery Science Theater 3000. I'm pretty sure that's where I first saw it. An ex-military man has powers of grandeur, he wants to build an invisible army of soldiers to take over the world. He's got a lab in a house, a kidnapped scientist, and a criminal to test the radiation based procedure on. It works, the criminal gets the upper hand, and things go down hill from there. Isn't that always the way it goes with world domination. You think people would learn. While it's better than it's disc buddies the movie still isn't great or anything. You wouldn't miss much if you just moved along.
So another batch down the tubes. I might watch the last movie over again in a few years, I plan to work through the MST3K discs again, so I'll eventually get to it. The rest might never be seen again, at least by me.
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