Evil of Dracula
Third & final part of the bloodthirsty trilogy. Made in 1974, several years after the previous two the film ups the gore and nudity quotient to keep pace with the more graphic 70's Japanese cinema. A teacher heads to a new job at a remote girls school and if that wasn't clue enough that he's walking into a horror movie the locals are as hostile as one would expect. It seems the school is being plagued by a vampire, a christian missionary who was captured and tortured back during Japans isolationist period. Turning his back on his faith he became a vampire and now uses the school as a feeding ground. While not as OTT as later 70's material it has some fairly severe scenes including a female vampire removing a girls face in order to wear it and become her. It has some great atmosphere and set design including a gothic sepulchre in the basement.
Devils Rain
After his brother Mark Preston (william shatner) and mother (Ida Lupino) are claimed by satanist Corbis (Ernest Borgnine) after the shat loses a contest of wills, Tom Preston (Tom Skerritt) must head out into the desert and face his family legacy and Corbis with everything on the line!
Apparantly made in collaboration with Anton laVey of the Church of satan this film has a great atmosphere and some meomorable imagery including the eyeless disciples of corbis and some grisly melting scenes. It also has a cameo from a young John Travolta who would give up satanism to become a scientologist. Ironically L Ron Hubbard nicked a lot of stuff from satanism when he came up with the idea.
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