Ghost?

THE BLACK DOLL-1938-Forgotten murder mystery that goes from serious mystery to comedy murder case. A mean millionaire (C. Henry Gordon) with a second wife (Doris Lloyd) and a no good stepson (William Lunigan) also has a long suffering daughter (Nan Grey) who's in love PI Nick Halstead (Donald Woods). When the millionaire is killed Halstead and a dumb sheriff (Edgar Kennedy) and his deputy (Syd Saylor) investigate. It seems the millionaire and three cronies were responsible for the death of his wife's original husband years before. After every death a weird voodoo like black doll is found. Is the dead man still alive or is it his ghost? 

This average whodunit was the first of 11 features directed by Otis Garrett, a former film editor for Universal who produced this as an entry into their 11 part “Crime Club Mystery” series.

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Barf Up Another

FRANCES STEIN-2015-Doctor Frances Stein (director/writer PJ Woodside) working on “memory retrieval” goes mad and plots revenge on her ex-husband and his new wife. Steve Hudgins, the usual director of these Barfing Pig productions (he produced it though), puts himself in a showy character role where he thinks his idiotic non-acting abilities are on par with Olivier (well, Olivier Gruner maybe...). It's also told in flashbacks and flash forwards. The actors all seem like they were rounded up from an insane asylum.

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More Shaw

CLAN OF THE AMAZONS-1978-In this Shaw brothers production a detective (Tony Liu) searches for “The Embroidery Killer”, an assassin who blinds his victims with needles. The detective teams up with the daughter of one of the victims to find the mysterious “Red Shoes Gang”. Guess why they're called that. Great fights but too much talk. 

Director Yuen Chor also made THE WEB OF DEATH, DEATH DUEL and over hundred more films!

https://moviemeltdown.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-shaw-brothers-strike-again.html

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AKA 7 GUARDIANS.

7 GUARDIANS OF THE TOMB-2018-The CEO (Kelsey Grammar) of a large pharmaceutical company leads an expedition to find an ancient elixir that extends life. He'd send out two guys earlier but after finding a secret chamber only one came back. His group includes Jia (Bingbing Li; THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM, TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION), a venom expert looking for her missing brother, the survivor of the pair who went first and Jack (Kellan Lutz; THE LEGEND OF HERCULES), a dumb ass macho guy. The group is menaced by poisonous spiders along the way. 

This Chinese Australian co-production has mediocre acting, a bad script and terrible SFX. Director Kimble Rendall also made CUT. My review is here:

 https://moviemeltdown.blogspot.com/2015/09/down-under-murder.html

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LOL

BIG BAD BUGS!-2012-Amateurish badly acted and directed crap about giant insects invading Earth from another dimension. The SFX are terrible. I think it was a comedy but it was so bad it was hard to tell! This was directed by Peter Paul Basler who also made ICE: THE MOVIE.

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More Badness

MANIAC ON THE LOOSE-2008-Stupid amateurish junk about an escaped mental patient. It's mostly talk with the nut ranting at two kidnapped victims. The twist is one of the victims is the escaped psycho while the kidnapper is just a random nut. I think it was suppose to be a comedy but the acting and dialogue is so inane it's hard to tell. Later after he kills the rando loony, the escaped patient has a party for his dead victims. 

The director of this junk Steve Hudgins seemed to think he was making some high art horror film with flashbacks and strange twists but it's just a waste of time.

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Low Budget Vampires

THE CARETAKERS-2014-After a weird looking guy named Jack (Nick Faust) shoots another guy in the head, a dweeb named Jimmy (Michael Coon) kills an old woman. He chains up Rachel, either his sister or wife or both. Later he kills a guy in a men's room and we learn he's giving the victims' blood to Rachel because she's a vampire. Meanwhile Jack is the caretaker for the vampire and he must train a father and daughter to take his place...well..something like that.

 Bill Johnson (Leatherface TCSM2) has a small role. It's boring and the acting, direction and sfx stink and to top it all off Joe Estevez is in it too! Director Steve Hudgins has made lots of shot on video crap under his Big Biting Pig Productions banner.

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