Author Archive: Retro

This ridiculous ’70s exploitation quickie is notable mainly for its casting: Bruce Dern toplines as the crazed doctor Girard, with Munsters star Pat Priest as his beleaguered wife and top-40 DJ Casey Kasem (who also lends his talents to various voice-overs throughout the film) as a medical colleague. Girard’s semi-successful attempts at surgically attaching additional heads to various lab animals leaves him a bit unfulfilled, and it’s no time at all before he goes about performing the operation on a human being. He chooses as his first subject his caretaker’s simple-minded but kindly son Danny (John Bloom), onto whose massive shoulders he adds the head of a demented killer (Albert Cole) who was recently gunned down while trying to invade Girard’s home. The result is less frightening than pitiful as the morose Danny’s personality is subjugated to the evil will of his unwelcome new head, whose psychotic rage continues unabated in his hulking new physique. [...]

Atomic mutant monster from Ganymede steals a stunning young woman.

A Native American warrior called Navajo Joe seeks revenge on a gang of sadistic outlaws who has massacred the people of his tribe.

Brilliant historical drama centering on Russian painter who gets involved with a peasant uprising. Second part in COLOR. English subtitles. Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky.

During WWII an American ski patrol, led by a tough sergeant and a wet-behind-the-ears lieutenant, is sent behind enemy lines. Produced by Roger Corman. Dir. Roger Corman

Chuck Scott plays a country western singer who goes back home to the hills of Carolina where he gets caught up in a feud between some homeboy moonshiners and “the Revenoores”.