A pretty boy danceractor who had a few small parts in the late 1960s including one in russ meyers vixen, carpenter would coproduce, cowrite and star in blood mania in 1970, and quickly follow it up performing the same chores on point of. A study in terror 1965 letterboxd social film discovery. Climax of the film appears a bit dragged episode of bomb diffusing in basement. Greetings from the world of every 70s movie with a brief housekeeping update. The film is also known as the five at the funeral, and has been screened in u. Holmes john neville and watson donald houston are patrolling whitechapel before the most gratuitous killing of mary kelly englishhungarian starlet edina ronay in a study in terror, 1966. Nurse andrews has an excon former boyfriend who is after the womans money. Three bizarre horror stories all of which star karen black in four different roles playing tormented women. In fact, only the writer and the director had a complete screenplay. The tamarind seed 1974 full movie starring julie andrews and omar sharif duration. Brians friend improved his three point shot after mimicking the shooting style of one of the boston celtics. Aug 21, 2014 vhs trailer for the 1973 suspense thriller point of terror, directed by alex nicol.
Point of terror is a 1971 american erotic drama horror film directed by alex nicol and starring peter carpenter and dyanne thorne. Vhs trailer for the 1973 suspense thriller point of terror, directed by alex nicol. All of the marketing materials for point of terror sell the movie as a horror film. That night, andrea goes to watch tony perform at his regular oceanside california club. A nightclub singer has nightmares about being involved in adultery and murder, only to wake up and find that they may not be nightmares. The campaigns were carried out according to the general line, often by direct orders of the party politburo headed by stalin. It also appears to have had beta release around 1987. Making a complete wide world of mystery episode guide. Warren, a film that became famous by the satirical tv show mystery science theater 3000. It was granted a bbfc certificate on 14 september 1972, not long after its completion. Directed by sergei goncharoff, this film was released around 1972 1973.
Edward carruthers marshall thompson, the lone survivor of the first manned flight to mars. Blood maniapoint of terror classic horror film board. With karen black, robert burton, john karlen, george gaynes. Tales that witness madness almost finds a thematic and tonal unity in its offkilter, black humored look at the subtle viciousness of the modern milieu, but the penny farthing episode disrupts this a bit. In this lowbudget drama, an aspiring rocker makes bad choices in his desperate bid for stardom.
John ripley glenn ford is the fbi agent called in to investigate a bank robbery that appears to be an inside job. However, the execution is so cheap and cheesy that its impossible not to laugh at the thing, despite the best intentions. To ensure that these locations would not shut their doors on such a controversial film, there was no preproduction publicity. The film is, rather, a sexploitation melodrama about a ruthless, ladderclimbing lounge singer, tony trelos peter carpenter who gets involved both intimately and professionally with andrea dyanne thorne, the sexstarved, alcoholic wife of a wheelchairbound. He guesses right the victims must be street whores, and doesnt need long to work his way trough a pawn shop, an aristocratic. When watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near whitechapel in a few days, sherlock holmes sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail. The film is a weird mix of psychodrama, musical, thriller, romance and horror, swinging wildly from one genre to the next, sometimes midscene. Brief descriptions and expanded essays of national film registry. Its the future 1973 and a rescue team is sent to fetch col. This couldnt be much further from the truth, unless lounge music gives you jump. Marked by a foreboding sense of an unending terror no one can escape, the film concludes with its famous. Nov 10, 2005 which he later, found to his dismay, was a handshake deal only between his father and bernard delfont, two old variety club buddies.
The best way to support myduckisdead is to buy a nitroflare premium account from the links you find on the blog. An aspiring rocker dumps his lover and starts a tawdry affair with a music publishers wife. Demons long locked in the depths of the mind come to destroy the weak and believing. I was particularly reminded of the excellent hammer film, a taste of tear. Easily one of the most famous unfinished movies in worldcinema history, orson welles elusive the other side of the windfilming for which spanned 1970 to 1976finally entered public view, more or less, when producer frank marshall supervised assembly and postproduction of welles decadesold footage, leading to a 2018 debut at the venice international film festival. And since netflix now stocks less movies online than the corner gas station that used to have a video store in it with seven beta tapes when i was a kid id have to buy it or rejoin netflix to see it, and thats not going to happen. With peter carpenter, dyanne thorne, lory hansen, leslie simms. Singersongwriter harry nilsson wrote and produced this touching animated tale in 1971, and contributed some classic songs for the soundtrack. His first mistake is to agree to dump his loyal lover and embark upon a tawdry affair with a music. You would be hard pressed to find any other film company in england pumping out that many films.
The fun starts as lounge singer tony trelos carpenter belts out a song over the main credits in an eyesearing red fringe outfit, only to wake up on the beach screaming from his own performance. The film is an rrated soap opera, mind you nicol turns a sexonthebeach scene into a onscreen checkerboard but full of melodramatics nonetheless. The great purge began under nkvd chief genrikh yagoda, but reached its peak between september 1936 and august 1938 under the leadership of nikolai yezhov, hence the name yezhovshchina. A nightclub singer has nightmares about being involved in adultery. Indeed, its a pretty dry melodrama whose various twists and turns arent very effective, especially the films final reveal, which is eyerollingly bad and groaninducing, to say the least.
The soft liverpudlian lilt of exbeatle ringo starr narrates the tale, telling the story of oblio. Vinegar syndrome is an exploitation film focused distribution company. It wasnt a trio of horror tales but a light mystery set on board a passenger train starring comedian david steinberg, meg foster and keenan wynn. Rent the point 1971 starring ringo starr and paul frees on dvd and bluray. The lengthy title list that runs down the right side of this blogs layout was recently updated, fixing a nettlesome issue that began a few years back when the listing functionality started behaving unpredictably. Kelly lee remick is the terrified bank clerk who confides in ripley when the. The late peter carpenter is something of an enigma among exploitation movie fans. Directed by sergei goncharoff, this film was released around 19721973. His costar from the latter film, dyanne thorne, returns here and of course went on to sleaze infamy in ilsa, shewolf of the ss and its sequels.
It is, after all, an ego vehicle for carpenter, who overestimated his value as a leading man and sadly died two years before point got around to being released. Her name is andrea hilliard, and she is a wealthy woman whose crippled husband martin owns a record label. The marketing plan was to advertise on the alex jones network including prison planet and infowars as they are the leading websites that deal in what. Jennifer bishop plays jennifer andrews, a nurse who is hired to look after a mans unstable and ill wife. The film was released vhs by trans world entertainment twe. Aspiring singer tony trelos cant believe his good fortune when he meets sexy andrea hilliard, the wife of an influential record producer, who agrees to bed him and guide him through the process of becoming a star. Unfortunately he died a few years after completing his mighty trilogy the.
After a participant views a film clip, she administers some basic tests. The film ends up being one of those anthologies that never has a real, sustained breakthrough due to its peaks and valleys of quality. Get a group together to witness point of terror which, as others will have noted, is not a horror movie but is pretty horrible. That conclusion is a philosophically complex film that has remained fresh and relevant. Nov 19, 2014 a nightclub singer has nightmares about being involved in adultery and murder, only to wake up and find that they may not be nightmares. Theres no nudity although bishop sports a couple of pointed bras and blanton spends most of the film without a shirt and the pgrated gore could easily play on television. However, he makes frequent interjections in the first. Claudio gizzi flesh for frankenstein 1973 aka andy warhols frankenstein a grisly splattercomedy directed by the great american nosetweaker. Film je napravljen u produkciji studija warner bros.
Point of terror has much in common with the psychothriller genre that flourished in the wake of hitchcocks psycho. We respect your email privacy seriously, signup for our newsletter or freddy will hunt you in your dreams. Starring peter carpenter, dyanne thorne, lory hansen. Lounge singer tony trelos is approached by a woman on a beach one afternoon. The best known z film, manos, the hands of fate 1966 pictured, was an extreme lowbudget film made by fertilizer salesman hal p. Also, the film is fairly bloody by uk tv standards of the time, though relatively restrained compared to some of hammers other 1970s offerings. There are no songs in the film and sai karthik has scored background music well. Kelly lee remick drives home through the bay area in the opening title sequence from blake edwards 1962 thriller experiment in terror, costarring glenn ford. Rather than succeed in the setting of one particular vibe, carpenter and co have audaciously failed in nailing any. Walkers brothers were used as standins and the film was successfully completed. This, terrors second film within a film, is tame in comparison with the full frontal nudity of the erotic dancer at the nightclub where ann and viv work.
Point of terror 1971 opens w tony trelos peter carpenter singing and dancing in fullon tom jones mode, complete w red, ultrafringe outfit, and sporting massive sideburns and poodle hairdo. This lengthy sequence, undoubtedly excised from the original uk release, makes the film far more akin to european exploitation, as do the lingering shots on the gory aftermath of the grisly. The best known zfilm, manos, the hands of fate 1966 pictured, was an extreme lowbudget film made by fertilizer salesman hal p. Which scenario best illustrates the concept of a night terror. After years of harassment, this infamous act proved a tipping point and led to three days of riots.