I think that movie was called "Savage Island". It was a Euro-trash
movie made in the early 1970s. Ms. Blair's scenes used as the
"wrap-around" about 10 years later.
I love this term "wrap around". It is used by some movie fans to
describe the fine art of taking an old and forgotten piece of junk,
and then having some modern parts inserted at the beginning and the end.
The best example of this is the utterly awful "Curse of Bigfoot". Here
was a black and white movie made in the mid 1950s about a group of
highschoolers who go off to the forest and die one by one. Some weird
caveman is killing them off. Total rubbish, and very dated. Then in
1976, someone decided to re-release the movie. It starts in color,
with a nerdy college professor who tells his class about a terrible
trip he took long ago into the forest. He said he was the one survivor
who could still function. The only other survivor is still being
treated in an asylum somewhere... As he relates more, we suddenly
switch to b&w and this older movie starts...
Now of course, the viewer is tempted to look for a nerdy kid, someone
who resembles this professor, but about 20 years younger? Well, he is
strangely not there among this group. Stranger still, at the end of
the movie, every kid dies. There are no survivors at all!!
Gotta love these things. :-)
John
--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, Joy McCann
<jmmccann_at_...> wrote:
>
> I miss the island thingie that "starred" Linda Blair. That was art,
> dammit!
>
>
> On Apr 18, 2006, at 11:33 AM, tschibasch wrote:
>
> > I am amazed at the amount of bad movies out there. I have come to
> > realize that even with my best efforts, I can really only scratch the
> > surface. Consider the hundreds of stupid monster and sci-fi movies
> > made in the 50's and 60's.. Most of these trashy movies are long
gone,
> > never to have even been converted to DVD.
> >
> > One important distinction: There are 'bad bad' movies and 'bad good'
> > ones. The 'bad bad' are simply bad throughout and boring. These can
> > sometimes be saved by MST3K "Manos, Hands of Fate" is a good example.
> > The 'bad good' are sooooooo bad that they are good. They are
> > entertaining enough that they don't need MST3K. "Plan 9 from Outer
> > Space" is a good example.
> >
> > Though many old movies are forever lost, there are still plenty that
> > have survived. Furthermore, there are tons of adoring fans who watch
> > them and provide funny movie reviews. I get a kick out of reading
some
> > of them. It is doubtful that I would bother getting some of the
> > movies, though. Maybe the reviews are the best part of the movie?
Here
> > are two examples, that I recently came by:
> >
> > HORROR OF THE BLOOD MONSTERS (1970) - This is by far worse than PLAN
> > NINE FROM OUTER SPACE or anything Ed Wood has ever done. Al Adamson
> > (the director) apparently pasted together a whole slew of different
> > movies and created this incoherent story about a space voyage to a
> > planet full of Philipino vampire cavemen! The opening alone is
> > amazing, with someone doing a narration as a bunch of people get
> > turned into vampires. Then the film veers into "huh?" land with an
> > obviously inebriated John Carradine leading a mission to a red hazed
> > planet where the vampires originated from. Why go there? Obviously
> > because Al Adamson had a whole bunch of cool footage from some weird
> > Philipino horror film! Not nearly as entertaining as it sounds,
> > Adamson has released this under at least half a dozen different
names.
> > You can skip it, if you want.
> >
> > ISLAND OF DEATH (1975) - I have no idea if this was banned in a
lot of
> > countries as the DVD box implies. Those assertions usually mean the
> > movie sucks, but this one delivers! The story: A young couple are on
> > vacation on a Greek island. Unfortunately for the rest of the
> > islanders, the couple are complete psychos who want to cleanse the
> > Earth of all immorality. Well, one thing they are not shy about is
> > having sex with each other, which is a good thing in the case of the
> > young woman, who's an extremely hot looking little blonde. This one
> > delivers some sick images: Death by crucifixion, and pouring white
> > paint down the throat...sex with a goat...a male homosexual couple is
> > massacred by way of sword and gun to the mouth. A guy is hanged
from a
> > plane...a lesbian is torched in the face...an old whore is peed on,
> > then beaten to death by the guy psycho, then decapitated with a
> > bulldozer over the neck. It all ends with hetero and homosexual rape,
> > and a painful death in a pit of quicklime. Pretty sick stuff, and I'm
> > sure I left some of it out! Worth checking out!
> >
> >
> >
> >
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