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Blood Beach<\/em><\/strong> – 1980, US, 85m. Director: Jeffrey Bloom.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

High Desert Kill<\/em><\/strong> – 1989, US, 90m. Director: Harry Falk. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tower of Evil <\/em><\/strong>– 1972, UK, 89m. Director: Jim O’Connolly. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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BLOOD BEACH <\/em><\/strong>(1980)<\/em> A subterranean creature is pulling beachgoers into the sand and to their demise in this cheap offshoot of Jaws<\/em>. The public is put on alert after a dog is found with its head bitten off, but that doesn’t stop the masses from frolicking on the seashore and meeting a bloody end, the majority of victims being bikini-clad beauties. The movie’s high body count doesn’t keep Blood Beach<\/em> from feeling stale, although the film is not without humor\u2014the scene where a rapist gets his schlong torn off by the beast is amusing. When we finally see the creature it comes off as an oversized Venus flytrap. The movie’s tagline\u2014”Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… you can’t get to it!”\u2014turns out to be the best thing about this snoozer, which was a mild box office success when released in 1981 by New York City distributer Jerry Gross (I Spit on Your Grave<\/em>, The Boogey Man<\/em>). C<\/strong>–<\/p>\n\n\n

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HIGH DESERT KILL<\/em><\/strong> (1989)<\/em> Three friends (Marc Singer, Micah Grant, Anthony Geary) get sucked into an alien mind control experiment while on a hunting excursion in the New Mexico desert. A lack of wildlife is the first sign of danger our callous protagonists ignore. The men meet an old timer (Chuck Conners) whose horses mysteriously disappear into thin air. Two female campers become sexed up nymphs and turn the men’s camp site into an orgy of drinking and fornicating\u2014viewers expecting some titillation in the form of T&A will be disappointed because High Desert Kill<\/em> was made for network television. Upon returning from hunting Singer stumbles upon his friends eating the raw remains of a bear. The alien takes the form of Grant’s deceased uncle and watches from a distance as the characters become increasingly paranoid and go for each other’s throats\u2014until Scientist Geary realizes they’re “rats in a cage.” When rifles don’t work the men use mind warfare against the alien in the foolish climax. Up to that point the movie is engaging, well acted, and nicely paced. B<\/strong>–<\/p>\n\n\n

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TOWER OF EVIL<\/em><\/strong> (1972) <\/em>(AKA: Beyond the Fog; Horror of Snape Island<\/em>) The inexplicable massacre of several people on Snape Island ignites interest in a group of treasure seekers who believe the place is loaded with gold. Once they arrive shore they too are systematically slaughtered. The main plot is briefly overlaid with flashbacks of the earlier murders so the viewer isn’t kept waiting around for the gory action, which the film delivers in spades. A man is pinned to the wall with a spear right before his girlfriend is beheaded\u2014her head is later seen rolling down a staircase in a genuinely shocking moment. Another man is butchered with a scythe after skinny dipping, his hand getting lopped off in extreme close-up. The decomposing corpse of the lighthouse keeper’s wife is found next to a smashed radio and eliminating any chance for the characters to call for help. Tower of Evil<\/em> is a nonsensical but highly atmospheric splatter flick that gained some notoriety when it was reissued in 1980 as Beyond the Fog<\/em> in order to capitalize off a certain John Carpenter film. B<\/strong>–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blood Beach – 1980, US, 85m. Director: Jeffrey Bloom. High Desert Kill – 1989, US, 90m. Director: Harry Falk. Tower of Evil – 1972, UK, 89m. Director: Jim O’Connolly. BLOOD BEACH (1980) A subterranean creature is pulling beachgoers into the sand and to their demise in this cheap offshoot of Jaws. The public is put … <\/p>\n

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