The VHS Archives: Robert Slatzer's BIGFOOT (1970)

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BIGFOOT

Robert Slatzer's Bigfoot (1970)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: World Video, Inc.

Catalog: WV-1013

Box Type: Clamshell

Year of Release: ?

Runtime: 83:26

Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs

Extras: None

About the Film

Director: Robert Slatzer

Year of Release: 1970

Country of Origin: U.S.A.

Stars: Joi Lansing, John Carradine, Chris Mitchum, Judy Jordan, John Mitchum, Haji

AKAs: Big Foot; Bigfoot vs. the Rock Band; Big Foot: The Biggest Monster of All Time; King Kong's Son 

Verbatim Box Synopsis

In the wilds of the rigged Northwest, humans are captured by the legendary "BigFoot". It soon becomes evident that a whole colony of these creatures exists, and that they intend to mate with their captured prey!

An exciting and dangerous manhunt ensues...

A breathtaking, surprise ending!

U.S. World Video Pictures, Inc. sleeve! 

German Video Medien Pool (VMP) sleeve,

courtesy of Video-Museum.net! 

A selection of promotional shots from the Cinema Arcana Archives! We own the original negatives to these photos, along with the positive proofs (which is what we scanned here). They actually offer much better views of the creatures than you find in the film itself!

Fun video promo, created and uploaded by CheezyFlicks!

Looking for Bigfoot on VHS? It's available on Amazon here. There's also a bootleg DVD from those hucksters at CheezyFlicks, if you just want to see the movie. 

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© 2014 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

The VHS Archives: David Neil Gottlieb's THE HOLLYWOOD DREAM (1977)

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THE HOLLYWOOD DREAM

David Neil Gottlieb's Game Show Models (1977)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: Super Video, Inc.

Catalog: SV25

Box Type: Clamshell

Year of Release: 1985

Runtime: 88:29

Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs

Extras: None

About the Film

Director: David Neil Gottlieb

Year of Release: 1977

Country of Origin: U.S.A.

Stars: John Vickery, Gilbert DeRush, Diane Thomas, Diane Sommerfield, Dick Miller, Thelma Houston

AKAs: Game Show Models, Teenage Models, Game Show, The Hollywood Game, The Seventh Dwarf

Verbatim Box Synopsis

Dozens of gorgeous but naive young women move to Hollywood in search of stardom. They sign on with a talent agency that promises them their "big break."

Roger, the president of the agency, uses his power and charm to seduce the girls and fulfill all his sexual fantasies. A young writer for the agency discovers the swinging activities and decides to have an affair of his own with one of Roger's prize clients.

The star-struck lovelies all parade through Roger's bedroom giving him sexual favors in exchange for fame. They soon realize he's exploiting them when their bodies are used as prizes in a wild game show orgy!

U.S. Super Video, Inc. sleeve!

Looking for The Hollywood Dream on VHS? It's available on Amazon here. An even better bet is the excellent DVD release from Vinegar Syndrome; transferred from the original negative, it contains both Sam Sherman's sexed-up Game Show Models reedit and the original, hardly-seen The Seventh Dwarf assembly, along with director's commentary, outtakes and more!

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© 2013 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

The VHS Archives: Nick Millard's CRIMINALLY INSANE (1975)

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CRIMINALLY INSANE

Nick Millard's Criminally Insane (1975)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: World Video, Inc.

Catalog: WV1059

Box Type: Clamshell

Year of Release: ?

Runtime: 59:10

Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs

Extras: None

About the Film

Director: Nick Millard

Year of Release: 1975

Country of Origin: U.S.A.

Stars: Priscilla Alden, Michael Flood, Jane Lambert, George "Buck" Flower

AKAs: Crazy Fat Ethel, The 250 lb. Butcher

Verbatim Box Synopsis

250 POUNDS OF MANIACAL FURY!

A 250 lb. female psychopath is prematurely released from an asylum for the criminally insane. What little is left of her mind soon gives way, as her gluttonous appetite for food is shockingly equalled by her appetite for blood! ... A "must" for horror fans!

 

U.S. World Video Pictures, Inc. sleeve!

Original theatrical trailer, uploaded by DangerCinema!

Looking for Criminally Insane on VHS? It's available on Amazon here. There's also a nice special edition DVD from E.I.'s Retro Shock-O-Rama label, billed with Millard's Satan's Black Wedding (1975) and Criminally Insane 2 (1985).

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© 2013 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

The VHS Archives: Kenneth W. Richardson's MISSION TO DEATH (1966)

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MISSION TO DEATH

Kenneth W. Richardson's Mission to Death (1966)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: Super Video, Inc.

Catalog: SV23

Box Type: Clamshell

Year of Release: 1985

Runtime: 70:37

Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs

Extras: None

About the Film

Director: Kenneth W. Richardson

Year of Release: 1966

Country of Origin: U.S.A.

Stars: Jim Brewer, James McLarty, Robert Stolper, Jim Westbrook

AKAs: Deadly Mission, Missions of Death

Verbatim Box Synopsis

In just a matter of hours and -- at any cost -- American soldiers must destroy a secret Nazi radar station in France. The Allied Air Force strike taking place in 24 hours will be shot down if the radar isn't destroyed.

As the GI's ambush a German truck, the French prisoners escape and hide in a nearby hay wagon. The Frenchmen pose as peasants and drive the hay wagon past a Nazi patrol to get their attention.

Meanwhile, the American GI's infiltrate the German lines. Once the Frenchmen are discovered they are tortured and executed by the Nazis for helping the Americans. But it's too late! Despite bloody battles with the Nazis and many casualties, the GI's demolish the radar station in time for the full blown air strike!

U.S. Super Video, Inc. sleeve!

Original trailer, uploaded by Independent International Pictures!

Looking for Mission to Death on VHS? It's available on Amazon here. (Be careful: there was another, later VHS release not from Super Video.) You can also get it on DVD from Fox Lorber, if so inclined.

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© 2013 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

The VHS Archives: Brad Grinter's BLOOD FREAK (1972)

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BLOOD FREAK

Brad F. Grinter's Blood Freak (1972)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: Regal Video Inc.

Catalog: R1025

Box Type: Clamshell

Year of Release: 1985

Runtime: 75:06

Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs

Extras: None

About the Film

Director: Brad Grinter

Year of Release: 1972

Country of Origin: U.S.A.

Stars: Steve Hawkes, Dana Cullivan, Heather Hughes, Brad Grinter

AKAs: Blood Freaks, A Bloody Phenomena, Drug Story

Verbatim Box Synopsis

Lock your doors... check your windows... turn on all your lights... look under your bed... because the Blood Freak is on the loose. This horrifying, addicted monster is on the loose and has an insatiable thirst for addict's blood. To survive others must die a horrifying and slow death at the hands of the half-monster half-man mutant who stalks the night.

U.S. Regal Video sleeve! Apparently the company didn't feel promoting the film's turkey-headed monster was their best marketing choice...

U.S. Something Weird Video sleeve!

U.K. Midnite Movies sleeve!

Spanish Video Dimas sleeve!

French A.V.L. Production sleeve, courtesy of Nanarland!

Its key art is actually taken from Jess Franco's Manhunter (1980)!

French Colombus sleeve, also from Nanarland! This time, 

the key art is stolen from Lech Kowalski's Story of a Junkie (1987)!

Awesomely gory theatrical trailer, uploaded by Dead End Drive-In!

Looking for Blood Freak on VHS? It's available on Amazon here. An even better choice is the excellent DVD from Something Weird Video, featuring a nice transfer supplemented with a ton of related drugsploitation and turkey shorts!

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© 2013 -- Bruce Holecheck.  All Rights Reserved.

The VHS Archives: Bob Clark's CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS (1973)

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CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS

Bob Clark's Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1973)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: Gorgon Video

Catalog: MP3051

Box Type: Clamshell

Year of Release: ?

Runtime: 86:20

Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs

Extras: Trailer for Faces of Death

About the Film

Director: Bob Clark

Year of Release: 1973

Country of Origin: U.S.A.

Stars: Alan Ormsby, Jeff Gillen, Valerie Mamches, Anya Ormsby, Paul Cronin

AKAs: Revenge of the Living Dead, Cemetery of the Dead, Zreaks, Things from the Dead, Zombie Graveyard, The Siege of the Dead, Night of the Thundering Graves, Night of the Living Dead II

Verbatim Box Synopsis

While preparing themselves for an upcoming play, five aspiring actors are led to a deserted burial ground by their bizarre director/mentor Alan. (Alan Ormsby - "Deranged," "Cat People," "Porkeys II").

Alan, a "Manson type", seems to exert strange control over his group whom he calls his "Children."

At Alan's urging the "Children" dig up a rotting corpse and Alan attempts a revival with various occult incantations.

Unfortunately, in CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS, the dead do rise - and they are hungry.

CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS thrusts its unwitting performers into a nightmare of madness and murder in a gruesome movie that follows the infamous tradition of "Night of the Living Dead".

Occasionally campy and always terrifying -- don't see this one alone.....

(Sun-faded) U.S. Gorgon Video sleeve!

One with a little more color, courtesy reader Scott Gacek!

U.S. Gorgon Video promotional advertisement,
courtesy of Critical Condition!

U.S. VCI Command Performance slipcase, again
courtesy Scott Gacek!  Thanks a bunch!

U.S. VCI reissue sleeve, courtesy of 
the Basement of Ghoulish Decadence!

U.K. Exploited sleeve, courtesy of It's Only a Movie!

Japanese Nikkatsu sleeve!

Spanish JML sleeve, courtesy of Mondo VHS! This release tries to 

pass the film off as a sequel to Romero's Night of the Living Dead!

Italian Cinehollywood sleeve!

Greek Cinehollywood sleeve, originally photographed by "helviocult75"!

Special snackbar menus issued at theatrical screenings,
courtesy of the Temple of Schlock!

Original theatrical trailer, uploaded by "PGSegal"!

Looking for Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things on VHS? It's available on Amazon here. It was also released to DVD from VCI, by itself or paired with Roger Evans' Forever Evil (1987).

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© 2012 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

The VHS Archives: Nick Millard's .357 MAGNUM (1977)

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.357 MAGNUM

Nick Millard's .357 Magnum (1977)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: World Video Pictures, Inc.

Catalog: WV1057

Box Type: Clamshell

Year of Release: ?

Runtime: 69:40

Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs

Extras: None

About the Film

Director: Nick Millard 

(Jan Anders)

Year of Release: 1977

Country of Origin: U.S.A.

Stars: Marland Proctor, James Whitworth, Kathryn Hayes, Marianne Walter (Kelly Nichols)

AKAs: ?

Verbatim Box Synopsis

Jonathan Hightower's weapon of chose is the deadly .357 Magnum. He's assigned to the Far East to track the killer of CIA agents in Hong Kong and Tokyo. . . . International intrigue, doublecross and death follow. The only way out is the shootout!

 U.S World Video Pictures, Inc. sleeve!

An awesomely terrible clip, uploaded by "brujaria"!

Looking for .357 Magnum on VHS? It's available on Amazon here.

Not on DVD.

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© 2012 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

The VHS Archives: Chris Munger's KISS OF THE TARANTULA (1976)

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KISS OF THE TARANTULA 

Chris Munger's Kiss of the Tarantula (1976)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: Gorgon Video

Catalog: MP3053

Box Type: Clamshell

Year of Release: ?

Runtime: 84:01

Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs

Extras: None

About the Film

Director: Chris Munger

Year of Release: 1976

Country of Origin: U.S.A.

Stars: Suzanna Ling, Eric Mason, Herman Wallner

AKAs: Shudder, Death Kisses

Verbatim Box Synopsis

Little Miss Muffet has nothing on sweet little Susan. This pretty young thing has some most unusual pets -- a menacing horde of creeping tarantulas! Don't make Susan angry or you might just wake up one night and find a hairy, multi-legged vision of death crawling up your arm. Taking revenge on her enemies, Susan weaves a terrifying web of horror with the help of her arachnid friends. If bugs make you squeamish, then Kiss of The Tarantula will make you jump right out of your seat!

 U.S. MPI / Gorgon Video sleeve!

 Spanish Chapeau Video sleeve, originally scanned by "jabpc"!

 German Video Medien Pool sleeve!

 French CK Video sleeve!

Danish Dansk Video Film / HemVideo Film sleeve, courtesy of
Hans-Jorn Reimer! If you're on Facebook be sure to check out his 
Danish Ex-Rental VHS Appreciation Group!

Italian Juwel Video sleeve, taken from Xelluloid.com!

Theatrical trailer, uploaded by "Corey Obsession"!

Looking for Kiss of the Tarantula on VHS? It's available on Amazon here (though there's both Gorgon and VCI tapes available -- be sure to email the seller before purchasing!). The film was also issued multiple times on DVD by VCI: first by itself, then bundled with Don't Look in the Basement and Don't Open the Door, and most recently paired with Ruby.  

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© 2012 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.