Messiah of Evil aka Dead People : Zombie March Scene
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@Saunders 1962 I have that 50 DVD Box set along with M.O.E. love this movie
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Godforsaken. That's the best word I can come up with for most of these flicks. Godforsaken.
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How the hell do movies like this get made?
Incidentally, I saw this on a 50-movie DVD box set called CHILLING CLASSICS. Mostly public domain flix (I assume) from the 1970s and 1980s. I have three other similar box sets - MUSICALS, CLASSIC HORROR, and CLASSIC SCI-Fi. I highly recommend them. They're cheap and loadsa fun. I'm hooked.
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And the cast! Joy Bang (swinger chick #2) brings sssssssteam heat as does the stunning Anitra Ford. Royal Dano (!) is dad. Elisha Cook Jr. (!!) as a wino is first scary then lovable. And best of all is the great Michael Greer in a rare heterosexual role (well, nominally het).
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A masterpiece? No. But winningly godforsaken. And made by the folks who brought us AMERICAN GRAFFITI and, um, HOWARD THE DUCK (which I should probably take in now).
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Dad shows up too. Immediately after triggering a flashback (from 100 years ago!), he flays red paint onto the walls and douses his face in blue making for ever more arty (Antonioni-esque?) compositions. Soon it looks like he's staging an Otto Muehl happening.
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But the real Sammy Davis Jr. Western GONE WITH THE WEST is playing (which is odd because IMDb lists it at 1975 whereas MESSIAH is 1973).
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Eventually we learn that the entire town has become zombies. They get swinger chick #2 too in a very creepy scene at a movie theatre. KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE is on the marquee
This is actually pretty creepy, I wish this was more well known.
BenMisfit84 3 years ago 3
This looks good. Can't believe that I have missed seeing this 3 severed thumbs up!
Cleopatrastomb 3 years ago