Showing posts with label bob kelljan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bob kelljan. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

You Say Iorga, I Say Yorga

 

 (the moviedb.org)

THE LOVES OF COUNT IORGA, VAMPIRE-aka COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE-1970-At a botched seance trying to help a woman named Donna (Donna Anders), the medium Count Yorga (Robet Quarry) is later revealed to be a vampire. He puts the bite on a woman named Erica (Judy Lang). Her boyfriend Paul (Michael Murphy) suspects the count. A doctor named Jim Hayes (Roger Perry) examines Erica and finds her anemic with two puncture wounds on her neck. Later Paul and his friend Mike (producer Michael McCready) find Erica eating a rat (?). With his odd servant Brutah (Edward Walsh), Yorga plans to make Erica his eternal bride. After Paul is captured, Donna, Paul and Hayes go to the count with the plan of keeping him up until sunrise! That doesn't work. Yorga captures Donna and Hayes confronts Yorga. The doctor becomes a victim of the Count's vampire brides (including Marsha Jordan), leaving Mike to destroy the count. He succeeds but….

Vampire narration by George McCready (Michael's father). I never really cared for this movie. It's drawn out but effective at times. Supposedly planned as a soft-core porn film, it was later changed to straight horror but still maintains a kind of cheap porno atmosphere. Could have been better but considering the time….

Former actor Bob Kelljan made SCREAM, BLACULA, SCREAM in 1973 but worked mainly in TV.

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Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Jingo!

 


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BLACK OAK CONSPIRACY-1977-Tedious hillbilly nonsense inspired by TV's The Dukes of Hazzard with a arrogant trouble making Hollywood stuntman Jingo Johnson (co-scripter Jesse Vint) going back to his hometown to visit his mom in a nursing home and uncovering a land grab conspiracy by weaselly land developer Harrison Hancock (Robert F. Lyons),who's also sleeping with Jingo's ex- girlfriend Lucy (Karen Carlson), and his not so nice father (Douglas Fowley) who he's not sleeping with. Sheriff Otis (Albert Salmi) is in cahoots with them. Lucy's father (Seymour Cassell) helps Jingo out. In the end the sheriff goes crazy and tries to blame some killings on Jingo but in a weird finale in a rock quarry Jingo triumphs and wins back his ex. 

With a quick exploding head, nudity and Phil Every doing the theme song. Filmed in Oklahoma by former actor Bob Kelljan who earlier had made the two Count Yorga movies and SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM.

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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Blacula Returns


 
SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM-1973-In this pointless sequel Blacula (William Marshall) comes back to undead-ness through a voodoo ritual gone awry. Voodoo priestess Susan Fortier (Pam Grier) is suspected and the former prince beats up two pimps. Grier's former cop boyfriend Justin Carter (Don Mitchell) helps Sheriff Dunlop (Michael Conrad) investigate the “voodoo killings”. Blacula wants Susan to perform an exorcism and get rid of the “demon” inside him. While she performs the ritual, Carter and Dunlop get rid of Blacula's vampire buddies. A voodoo doll spells his end. It's not nearly as entertaining as the original and very drawn out with a lot of jive talking and mumbo jumbo.
 
Director Bob Kelljan, a former actor, had made both COUNT YORGA movies before this.