Warren Chile Combo

 

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CURSE OF THE STONE HAND-1965-Jerry Warren took two Chilean horror films and combined them into this kooky anthology using an abandoned house for its connection.

The first story (filmed in 1946!) is based on the short story "The Suicide Club" by Robert Louis Stevenson. A heavily in debt man joins a gambling club with some very deadly rules. He finds himself in bigger trouble with his own life at stake. 

In the second story (filmed in 1945), a guy named Charles dominates the home life of his brother Jaime's fiancé, Ruth. When Jamie returns from school, he finds Charles has married her. A handyman (spliced in John Carradine) talks to his partner about a secret room in the basement. Meanwhile Jamie kisses Ruth and she admits she doesn't know why she married his brother. This isn't really a supernatural tale and the "Dorian Gray" like ending seems tacked on. 

Warren regular Katherine Victor also appears in some Warren added scenes.

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The Stoned Movie

 

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CURSE OF THE STONE HAND-1965-Jerry Warren took two Chilean horror films (one from 1945, the other from 1946!)) and combined them into this kooky anthology using an abandoned house for its connection.

The first story is based on the short story "The Suicide Club" by Robert Louis Stevenson. A heavily in debt man joins a gambling club with some very deadly rules. He finds himself in bigger trouble with his own life at stake.

 In the second story, a guy named Charles dominates the home life of his sister. When brother Jamie returns from school, he finds Charles has married his fiancée, Ruth. A handyman (spliced in John Carradine) talks to his partner about a secret room in the basement. Meanwhile Jamie kisses Ruth and she admits she doesn't know why she married his brother. This isn't really a supernatural tale and the "Dorian Gray" like ending seems tacked on. 

Warren regular Katherine Victor also appears in some Warren added scenes.She was in Warren's THE WILD WORLD OF BATWOMAN the next year.  Bruno Ve Sota is the uncredited narrator.

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Warren Strikes Again!

 

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ATTACK OF THE MAYAN MUMMY-1964-Dr. Munson relates to a newspaper publisher (uncredited Bruno VeSota) the strange case of Dr. Redding (Ramon Gay) and his regression experiments with one Ann Taylor (Rosita Arenas), a reincarnated Mayan princess. They visit a Mayan tomb and are chased away by a scary looking mummy. 

If this all sounds familiar, it should. This is actually the first Aztec mummy movie reedited by Jerry Warren. He added around 30 minutes of new footage which is basically American actors (including Warren regular Steve Conte) talking endlessly about nonsense. 

The final shot is a wastepaper basket. Rafael Portillo was the original director.

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Jerry Warren's Frankenstein

 

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FRANKENSTEIN ISLAND-1981-4 balloonists, Curtis Ryand (Tain Bodkin), Dr. Paul Hadley (Robert Clarke), Mark Eden (Robert Christopher; a co-producer) and Dino (Patrick O'Neil) crash on an island. After going through a cave (where a familiar face watches them) they find a woman bound and then meet a whole tribe of scantily clad "native" women who take the men back to their cave. While the men have dinner, the women do a dance. The next day we learn the bound woman was being initiated into the group. A strange force surrounds their camp and the women seem "deep into witchcraft". Then two loonies Jocko (Steve Brodie) and Angus (Richard Banks) show up. They lead the small group to a laboratory complex where they find Jason (Cameron Mitchell), a sea captain held prisoner for 17 years. (his short soliloquy is pretty funny). After he's sedated the group meet Shelia Frankenstein-Van Helsing (Katherine Victor), the great granddaughter of the infamous doctor who created the island and despite being dead still controls it. Her husband Dr. Von Helsing, is a bed ridden old man who has to be jolted into consciousness to babble about the Frankenstein monster being chained to a reef. There are also a bunch of zombie like servants in sunglasses and wool hats. The girls dance some more. The real Dr. Frankenstein (John Carradine) shows up occasionally as a hologram to say things like "The power! The power!". Hadley (under some drug) winds up helping Shelia experiment on the girls (who are the offspring of aliens) to help her senile husband. When the rest of the guys revolt Shelia calls on great granddad who summons his monster (obviously trying to imitate Bela in FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN). 

The ridiculous final fight is very reminiscent of the one in "THE WILD WORLD OF BATWOMAN", but it's easy to see why. Both were directed by the usually incompetent Jerry Warren. In fact FRANKENSTEIN ISLAND was Warren's first film in 15 years after making “Batwoman” in 1966! (with Victor and Brodie). In the end the men escape and tell a colonel (Andrew Duggan) about the island but when they return everything has vanished (??). 

It seems based on another Jerry Warren movie TEENAGE ZOMBIES. This was the third Jerry Warren movie Robert Clarke (THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON) starred in. Warren threatened a sequel but it was never made. He died 1988.

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Terror of Warren

TERROR OF THE BLOODHUNTERS-1962-This no budget junk is suppose to take place on Devil’s Island but of course since it was written and directed by Jerry Warren it means a minimal cast, stock footage and a lot of talk.

Bingo! Jerry scores on all three!! Robert Clarke (THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON) is a painter/writer who tries to escape with the help of the warden’s daughter (Dorothy Haney) and another guy. Meanwhile the daughter’s fiancée Whorf (Robert Christopher) hunts for them in a surrounding jungle where we see footage of native girls dancing and panther attack. Later Whorf and his second in command (Warren regular Steve Conte) ran afoul of headhunters and Clarke tries to save them.

It’s just a lot of boring talk. Warren released FACE OF THE SCREAMING WEREWOLF in 1964.

Happy Birthday Harry Houdini where ever you are!

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Woo Baby It's A Wild World!

THE WILD WORLD OF BAT-WOMAN-1966-Poor Jerry Warren! What was he thinking when he decided to become a director?

After spending most of the ‘50’s “Americanizing” Mexican and Japanese horror films, Warren (who had occasionally made his own messes like THE INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD) thought the time was right for a parody of the Super-Hero genre (The Bat-Man TV show was very popular at the time).

Katherine Victor (from several other Warren productions including TEENAGE ZOMBIES) plays the lead role, a masked crime fighter with a large bat adhered to her chest. She commands a bevy of Go-Go dancing cuties that go into action when her arch-nemesis Rat Fink steals some kind of atomic hearing aid. Washed up actor Steve Brody (later in Warren’s last film FRANKENSTEIN ISLAND) is the head of security at the company that made the stolen device. A nutty professor (who looks a lot like the Dr. Forrester character from MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 2000; they used it in an episode too) keeps talking about the monsters he created that live in a cave. When they finally show them it's scenes of the creatures from 1956 ‘s THE MOLE MEN (an American movie directed by Virgil Vogel; I guess no Mexican movie was available!). Bruno Ve Sota shows up in a wacky scene involving a séance in Chinese! Everything in this movie is very dumb and pretty boring but the bad actors seem to be having a good time!



The strangest part however is the fact that DC Comics actually sued Warren to keep BAT-WOMAN from being released!!

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