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It's a Fireball!

 

 

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FIREBALL JUNGLE-1968-After some guy (Tiny Kennedy) trying to sound like Screaming Jay Hawkins sings the theme, we are introduced to the world of stock car racing. A committee is investigating several deaths that have occurred on the track which seem to be connected to a fucking asshole driver named Cat Eye Mears (Allan Mixon). The real boss villain is Mr. Nero (John Russell; TV's “Lawman”) but the real crime of this stupid washed-out color nonsense is it features Lon Chaney in the last movie he was able to talk in, as Sam, a grubby junk dealer. This is full of crappy fights and stupid dialogue. The group Mercy lip syncs their hit "Love Can Make You Happy” (but it didn't become a hit till a year after this). I wouldn't even recommend this low budget bomb to Chaney completists. Directed by Joseph G. Prieto (SHANTY TRAMP (1967)) and written by pulp novelist Harry Whittington.

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Not Andy Milligan

 

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LEGACY OF BLOOD-1971-Relatives gather at the home of the recently deceased but still rich Preston Dean (John Carradine) for the reading of his will. They will all get a share of his estate, but they have to immediately stay overnight at his old house.

 They are all a bunch of neurotics with various hangups including Gregory Dean (Jeff Morrow) and wife Laura (Merry Anders; in her last film role), Veronica Dean (Faith Domgerue) and Frank Mantee (John Russell). The sheriff (Rodolfo Acosta; also in his last movie) is called when a dog is killed but he's the first victim when his bloody severed head winds up on a plate in the fridge. "This is getting to be like some kind of horror film" says one of them. All their problems seem to stem from Dean's verbal and physical abuse of his family. After death by electrocution, the weird masochistic butler/ handyman Igor (Buck Kartalian) seems a likely suspect. There's more deaths and it ends on a comical note. 

Andy Mulligan made a horror movie with the same title the same year. This LEGACY OF BLOOD resembles a Milligan production but less sleazy and shoddy. Also known as WILL TO DIE. Morrow and Domgerue, of course in better days had co-starred together in THIS ISLAND EARTH.

Director Carl Monson later made PLEASE DON'T EAT MY MOTHER! (1973), a soft-core porn version of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, which Kartalian starred in. 

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