Bloody Horror

 

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NIGHT OF BLOODY HORROR-1969-Wesley Stewart (Gerald McRaney) seems to have a few problems like his nagging mom and having spent 13 years in a mental hospital for accidentally killing his brother. When he goes out to a bar and gets drunk, 3 jerks beat him up and take his money. He's helped by a nurse. They begin a relationship that's shown in still pictures. Unfortunately, Wes it seems has psychotic episodes that make him kill. When he leaves the nurse on the beach alone (at night), he comes back and kills her with an axe. Or does he? 

This shot in New Orleans, no budget horror bore has scenes that are way too dark. Director/co-writer Joy N. Houck Jr. (THE BRAIN MACHINE (1972)) followed this up the next year with WOMEN AND BLOODY TERROR, also featuring the co-star of TV's “Simon & Simon”.

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Thomasine and Bushrod

THOMASINE & BUSHROD-1974-This neglected blaxploitation film is set in 1911 and follows the exploits of Thomasine (Vonetta McGee from HAMMER and BLACULA), a bounty hunter when she teams with outlaw Bushrod (Screenwriter Max Julien, a year after starring in THE MACK).  They rob banks, dressed in various outfits and make their getaways in a car (and later a motorcycle with a sidecar) stolen from a banker Thomasine killed. They give a lot of their stolen swag to poor folks and are obviously patterned on BONNIE & CLYDE (made by Arthur Penn in 1967). They are pursued by a U.S. Marshall played by George Murdock. After they become infamous "folk heroes" they start to argue a lot about money. When Thomasine is captured and held in an old church Bushrod dresses as a nun to rescue her. Veteran actress Juanita Moore plays a blind Comanche mystic who tells Bushrod: "you don't have much time". Glynn Thurman (J.D.'s REVENGE) shows up toward the end as their weird friend Jomo who plays blues harmonica before he's dropped into a snake pit by the Marshall.

The film isn't bad but the ending could have been better. The one kind of dumb part is when the duo steal the car. At first they look at it with awe, having never seen one before but then they steal it and Bushrod has no trouble operating it! Herb Robins (director of THE WORMS EATERS) is also in it. Arthur Lee & Love perform the theme song which Lee wrote. It was one of only four movies directed by Gordon Parks Jr., made between SUPERFLY and THREE THE HARD WAY. He made one more film AARON LOVES ANGELA before being killed in a plane crash in Kenya in 1975.

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