Doggone Dogs!

 

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THE PACK-1977-Abandoned wild dogs band together to terrorize residents and tourists on Seal Island. They kill a horse then a blind man. A marine biologist (Joe Don Baker; WALKING TALL) gets concerned when his girlfriend (Hope Alexander Willis) is attacked. One unfortunate woman seeks shelter in the place where the dogs hang out. Locals Cobb (RG Armstrong) and Hardiman (Richard B. Shull) help out. The survivors barricade themselves in as the dogs get more aggressive. 

This low budget “canines gone wild” horror/survival story features a great long climax. Robert Clouse (ENTER THE DRAGON) directed and co-scripted it with David Fisher, who wrote the novel the movie is based on.

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Demon Mountain

THE CURSE OF DEMON MOUNTAIN-1977-Trader to his country and slave loving turncoat Confederate captain Wishbone Cutter (Joe Don Baker) returns from the war his people started to find his wife and house lost to the Yankee bastards. Sore loser!

 He and his "half breed" partner Half Moon (Joy Houck Jr.) team up with a geologist Amos (Ted Neeley) to find some "stones" buried in a cursed mountain in Arkansas by a dying rebel (Slim Pickens). After coming upon the remains of an Indian massacre they pick up Drusilla (Sondra Locke), a rape victim left for dead. On their way, they seem to be followed. Half Moon thinks it's evil spirits. They have an encounter with three bush-whackers Posey (Dennis Fimple), Rafe (John Chandler) & Dancer (Grady Wyatt) who they bury in a landslide. When they get to the mountain Half Moon says it's cursed by an eagle killed by an Indian chief. They lose all their horses and Half Moon is killed. After Drusilla is rescued from falling off a mountain, the trio find the diamonds. Amos is killed by an arrow through his neck. 

This is the only directorial effort by Earl E. Smith who wrote THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK and THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN. 

CURSE OF DEMON MOUNTAIN is also known as THE SHADOW OF CHIKARA and was distributed by Howco Int., the company founded by Joy Houck Sr. 

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