Grand Dames of Guignol
Actresses from Hollywood's Golden Era Who Starred in Exploitation or Horror Movies in the 1960s and 1970s
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- DirectorDonald WolfeStarsMiriam HopkinsDavid GarfieldGale SondergaardAn aging actress living in her Hollywood mansion with a retinue of elderly servants employs a new, mentally disturbed, personal assistant who schemes to take over the large estate.Miriam Hopkins and Gale Sondergaard in their last film. "Sunset Boulevard", Psycho", "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane", and each and every H.G. Lewis splatter fest all impart their influences. One of numerous films that paved the way for the slasher films of the 1970s and beyond.
- DirectorLee MaddenStarsJeanne CrainAlex NicolDan SpellingA woman is persecuted by Jesus freaks after they've crucified her preacher husband.Starlet Jeanne Crain stars as a babysitter under attack from Satanists. All in a day's work, I guess . . .
- DirectorDon ChaffeyStarsLana TurnerTrevor HowardRalph BatesA crippled woman takes pleasure in tormenting her son, blaming him for her condition. Years later, the son returns home with his wife and newborn only to find himself still under her influence and twisted from her prolonged mental abuse.Lana Turner looks fabulous, despite the film being a turgid gothic melodrama.
- DirectorRoddy McDowallStarsAva GardnerIan McShaneRichard WattisAn older woman uses witchcraft to keep her young jet-set friends. Based on an ancient Scottish folk song.Ava Gardner as an American jet-setting widow who jacks around with some British and European hippie types.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsOlivia de HavillandJames CaanJennifer BillingsleyA woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.Olivia DeHaviland in an ahead-of-it's-time commentary on societal decay.
- DirectorDavid WorthRichard RobinsonStarsLeslie UggamsShelley WintersMichael ChristianA wrong turn on jazz singer Elizabeth Wetherly's road trip in the American South results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by faded starlet Bertha Collins and her son - young, homicidal Elvis Presley impersonator Eddie.Shelley Winters capped off her long, twisted trail of exploitation film appearances with this. Leslie Uggams, what WERE you thinking?
- DirectorBrad F. GrinterStarsVeronica LakePhil PhilbinDoug FosterA ring of Nazis in Florida are in possession of the body of Adolf Hitler, and plan to revive him so they can take over the world.A sad, alcoholic Veronica Lake in this filmed in Miami stinker.
- DirectorRogelio A. GonzálezStarsWanda HendrixBarry CoeGisele MacKenzieA plot to murder a rich woman results in her ending up in a catatonic state and buried alive.Wanda Hendrix promptly retired after making this, a hybrid of warmed-over Hammer horror and Dark Shadows tropes.
- DirectorTito DavisonStarsLana TurnerGeorge ChakirisRichard EganA former actress clashes with her wealthy and spoiled stepdaughter over their inheritance after the death of their protector.Lana Turner. George Chakiris. LSD. 'Nuff said.
- DirectorTed PostStarsAnjanette ComerRuth RomanMarianna HillA social worker, still reeling from the loss of her architect husband, investigates the eccentric, psychedelic Wadsworth Family, consisting of a mother, two daughters, and an adult son with the apparent mental capacity of an infant.Ruth Roman puts on her best three-packs-a-day rasp to play the mother of an adult son who is kept in a crib and literally treated like an infant, while being alternately molested and shocked with a cattle prod by his weird and pervy adult sisters. Anjanette Comer as the social worker who wants to save him . . . but is that her real motive?
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsAnn SothernJohn SavageRuth RomanA young Terry Lambert returns home after serving a prison sentence for a gang rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him.Ann Southern plays the mother of a son who gets framed for a rape and does the time, only to go on a revenge killing spree when he gets released. Ruth Roman plays the boy's lawyer, who gets her comeuppance at his hands. Directed by Curtis Harrington.