70s movies – Page 37 – Really Awful Movies

Beast of Blood

Eddie Romero’s Beast of Blood, aka Blood Devils, is the third and final film in the Filipino director’s “Blood Island” saga. Not having seen the first two, I felt a tad lost and confused – a feeling not dissimilar to delving straight into the “Antigone” portion of Sophocles’ Oedipus cycle. The film begins mere minutesContinue reading “Beast of Blood”

Abby

Homage is a much prettier word than knock-off, typically associated with Chinatown handbags. We’ll go one better still. Abby (1974) is a tribute to The Exorcist! (and you can probably score a knock-off copy in Chinatown, but we digress). Forget the son of a preacher man, it’s the preacher man’s wife Abby who’s the focusContinue reading “Abby”