The Dark Side of the Moon (1990)
directed by D. J. Webster
starring
Robert Sampson (Re-Animator, Robot Jox)
Camilla More (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter)
Joe Turkel (The Shining, Paths of Glory, Blade Runner)
John Diehl (Stargate)
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 65: The Eerie Midnight Horror Show!
aka
Enter the Devil
The Sexorcist
The Possessed
Despite the “Rocky Horror” style and VHS box which was a staple of many “mom ‘n pop” video rental stores, this film is actually an Italian produced “Exorcist” imitator. One of many that flooded cinemas after the box office success of “The Exorcist”.
The film follows a sexually repressed art student named Danila who is helping her professor restore a 400 year old wooden statue of a crucified man. Danila’s aversion to sex stems from her over bearing and sexually depraved parents. Danila actually spys on her mother while she swings with much younger man and delights at being whipped with long stem roses.
The statue Danila is restoring comes to life and seduces her, because the wooden figure, now flesh, is none other than Satan himself!
Under his influence, she becomes more assertive, more sexual and much, much more deadly! Murder, sex, sadomasochism, and exorcisms ensue!
HAIL SATAN! HAIL HELL FIRE!
After last nights fest of zombies and cannibals, I decided to go with demonic possession. I’ve been wanting to see this movie forever. Since I was a wee one. I’d see it on the 9.99 VHS rack at Omni (if anyone remembers those) and it looked so cool. And actually, it’s pretty damn entertaining.
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“Scalps” 1983
Rarely seen but excellent 1983 horror film from Fred Olen Ray. A group of archaeology students go to dig up a Native American burial ground and battlefield. An elderly Apache warns them that the land is cursed by the souls of those who died there and now rest in it. They ignore his warnings and strange things begin to happen that culminate when one of the group is possessed by an Indian spirit called Black Claw and begins to murder the others in very gruesome ways.
Although it may at first seem like one of the many films of the slasher cycle of the early 80s, it is more unique in that it also adds heavy elements of the supernatural to the slasher formula, in the vein of films like “The Evil Dead” and “Superstition”.
This film is loaded with creepy atmosphere as the students trek farther and farther into the California desert. The sense of isolation gives one the impression that they might as well be on the moon they are so isolated. Combined with an unsettling score by Drew Neumann ( who composed music for “Aeon Flux” and “Rugrats”), gruesome gore effects and tight direction by Fred Olen Ray you get a very scary movie that makes even the vast deserts of the south west seem claustrophobic.
One of the great tragedies of this film is that the original negative has been lost. Its not known if it has been destroyed, but hopefully it has been simply misplaced and awaiting rediscovery. When released on DVD, Ray describes in the commentary that he had to reconstruct the film from several different sources, including VHS sources. The film was censored in one way or another all over the world, so many film elements had to be used.
Hopefully the original negative will be rediscovered and the film can be restored to its original uncut and pristine picture as it played in theaters in 1983
