Author Archive: Retro

A Nightmare of Unexpected Terror!

A writer suffering from agoraphobia rents an isolated house so she can concentrate on her writing. She doesn’t know that the house is a former brothel, and is inhabited by the ghosts of dead prostitutes.

An old man who lives in an old house conducts a correctional institute for girls. But he does not realize that the date is the present as he’s been cooped up in the house. He is assisted by a matron who likes to get the girls into trouble and present them in front of the old man who thinks he is the law and passes out punishment. Afterwards the girls are tied to a cross and whipped. Meanwhile the matron’s son falls in love with a girl at a party and brings her to the house.

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.