A warrior (Christopher Rygh) mounts the heads of the monsters he has killed on the wall of his meagre home.
To recover from his monster fights, the warrior uses jars of noxious liquid to heal his wounds after each of battle…
…but when a window shutter knocks over a jar and some of the restorative liquid seeps onto the head of the latest creature he has killed… the monster’s head becomes reanimated, and so the warrior must hunt it down.
The warrior mounts the heads of the creatures he kills on a wall…
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THE HEAD HUNTER (aka VIKING VENGEANCE) was directed, co-written, produced and edited by Jordan (THANKSKILLING) Downey, who cleverly came up with a story that could be done on a low budget: basically there’s one character (plus a girl playing the daughter in some flashbacks) and a bunch of heads (we are never shown the monster fights themselves).
Also known as VIKING VENGEANCE
Monster head on a spike
On the hunt…
Some of the background secondary heads on the warrior’s wall are barely more realistic than latex halloween masks, but most of the creature heads are decently-made considering the budget.
Mounted heads
Close-up of one of the heads
Nice warrior gear
Some sword and sorcery fans find this film too small scale. After all, the story does revolve around just one warrior fighting monsters in battles that remain off camera. But I enjoyed this tightly-budgeted movie and I think the warrior’s armour looks pretty damn cool.
Mexican poster
At one point the project was named THE HEAD. Artist Christopher Shy, from Studio Ronin, created a couple of wonderful posters which used that particular title…
Gorgeous poster art by Christopher Shy
Another wonderful poster design from Christopher Shy
The bottom line is that I would certainly like to see Downey get the chance to direct a bigger-scale fantasy-horror flick.
The warrior rides off
Okay, one more look at one of the decapitated creature heads…
A nicely-lit beast bonce
Finally, here’s a gorgeous alternative movie poster created by illustrator Vance Kelly. Wow! This really makes me hope the filmmakers one day get to make a larger-scale, more expansive film about the Head Hunter’s fantasy world…
SCARS OF DRACULA breaks the continuity that had been maintained in the previous Hammer Dracula movies and begins in Dracula’s castle in Transylvania. In this opening scene we see the Count’s remains lying on a plinth in a castle chamber… and then a large (model) bat flies in and flaps over the plinth, regurgitating blood onto the Count’s remains! The remains, of course, start to react to the dripped blood and Dracula is once more reanimated!
Blood-drooling bat!
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This film, directed by Roy Ward Baker (who made one of my all-time favourite Hammer films, QUATERMASS AND THE PIT), is disliked by many, but I rather like some of the elements in this flawed, colourful Hammer romp.
Jenny Hanley and Dennis Waterman
The tone veers all over the place: one minute there’s a massacre of women and children by a flock of bats in the church, then there’s a Benny Hill-style moment with the naked Burgomaster’s daughter, then later we get Dracula torturing his servant with a red-hot sword.
The ravaged churchA victim of the church massacreBenny Hill Show regular Bob Todd played the BurgomasterGore!Some more gore!Dracula brandishes the red-hot sword
One of the real positives with this movie is that Christopher Lee does get more to do in this entry: he stabs his vampire bride (Anouska Hempel) to death with a dagger because she slept with a visitor, he commands big bats, he climbs up a castle wall and, basically, he has more time on-screen, sometimes acting civil & courteous, whilst at other times acting savagely.
Anouska HempelThe Count climbs up the wallMichael Ripper is the pub landlord
But there are quite a few silly moments… such as when Dracula’s eyes ‘glow’ through his eyelids to hypnotise the hero and the scenes with the model bats on fishing lines, which are unintentionally comical, flappy things. These bats were built by Roger (THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT) Dicken and are definitely not the best movie creatures he’s ever created. Some of these shortcomings can definitely be blamed on the movie’s budgeting problems and a short schedule.
I’m sorry, but this effect just looks plain silly
The story is rather repetitious, but Jenny Hanley looks gorgeous, there’s an attempt to add more gore (such as the attack by a bat on a priest), and Patrick Troughton, as Dracula’s servant Klove, plays an interesting role in that he disobeys his master occasionally to help the heroine.
Jenny HanleyKlove pays for his disobedience…
So, my verdict is that this film is tonally uneven, full of incident and fun.
Dracula during the film’s finale…
Death by lightning bolt
Here’s a Hammer studios promotional flyer, illustrated by Tom Chantrell, for SCARS OF DRACULA.
Promotional flyer
And here are some b/w studio photos of posed shots that were used by Chantrell for reference for the flyer…
Based on the 1938 novella WHO GOES THERE? by John W Campbell, THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD tells the story of a U.S Air Force crew, plus some scientists, who discover an alien being in the ice near a crashed flying saucer in the Artic. The block of ice that encases the extraterrestrial melts (after an electric blanket is thrown over it) and everyone is forced to defend themselves against the single-mindedly vicious killer alien.
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Some advice: don’t put an electric blanket on this ice block…
This is an extremely good 50s sci-fi horror movie that will always remain one of my all-time favourite flicks.
The iconic moment the crew mark out the shape of the spacecraft buried beneath the ice
I love this movie’s overlapping dialogue, the way characters don’t finish what they’re saying as someone else cuts in. The cast acts naturalistically, are likeable, and Kenneth Tobey, playing Captain Patrick Hendry, is such a cool bastard!
Tobey is a really cool character in this film. Fact.
This movie’s ensemble cast is ace!
The Thing itself is a memorable creation: it is a hairless, sentient vegetable-being that can regrow its limbs, has thorn-like spikes on its hands and can reproduce asexually via seeds that germinate when fed on blood. This otherworldly killer (played by James Arness) regards humans (and Huskies) simply as food and has a raw intellect that is without passion or empathy.
One of the standout sequences involves the characters fighting off the Thing by hurling kerosene at the creature and setting it alight. It’s very thrilling stuff!
Flamingly good action!
Tom Steele did the full-body burn stunt
The shutting-the-door-fast scene is another great moment!
Our level-headed heroes finally defeat the Thing, but will more be coming?
In feudal Japan the capital is under threat from a mix of bandits and some demons/wizards, who are being led by Shuten-doji – so the warriors of the Genji clan are tasked with getting rid of the threat.
Cool poster
DEMON OF MOUNT OE is a Japanese period horror movie that was directed by Tokuzō (ZATOICHI’S VENGEANCE) Tanaka, produced by Daiei Film and based on a novel by Matsutarō Kawaguchi. It stars Kazuo Hasegawa, Raizô Ichikawa, Kôjirô Hongô and Shintarô Katsu.
Director Tanaka also made THE HAUNTED CASTLE (1969), KILLER WHALE (1962) and the witch film THE WOMAN OF THE SNOW (1968).
This bull-beast is lookin’ at you
This colourful movie, inspired by Japanese folklore, features a sympathetic villain and some cool supernatural characters.
One demon woman loses her clawed hand and then comes back to reclaim it, another ‘wizard’ can turn into a kind of horned, pantomime demon bull and another transforms into a giant spider.
Severed demon arm!
Demon bull monster!
Samurai take on the demon bull!
The spider-monster confrontation is my favourite scene: a bunch of samurai battling a fine-looking, full-scale puppet arachnid. Coooooooool!
Giant spider alert!
I’ve included another pic of the giant spider because, well, I wanted to
Okay, yes: this is another shot of the spider!
And yet another pic of the arachnid!
DEMON OF MOUNT OE is a well-shot, pretty decent fantasy samurai flick, so track it down and give it a watch.
Each latex mask has a microchip made from a piece of Stonehenge!
The film’s rather batty story includes murderous androids and a stolen piece of Stonehenge being used to create microchips for killer halloween masks! The villain’s plan involves synchronising a nation-wide sacrifice of little kids on Halloween night, via a television commercial, in order to help kickstart a new golden age of pagan celebration! When it was originally released, this sequel, directed by Tommy Lee Wallace, was not liked by many HALLOWEEN fans because it didn’t feature Michael Myers, but I think the movie is most definitely a fun watch (and Myers is actually featured, very briefly, in a few scenes from HALLOWEEN that are shown in a television commercial advertising the airing of the film).
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Wiring pulled out of the innards of a downed android
There’s a lot to enjoy with HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH. I especially like the Silver Shamrock commercial jingle that counts down the days: it’s a real earworm! Tom Atkins is a likeable lead and Dan O’Herlihy is good as the quite charming villain Conal Cochran, who accepts his defeat at the end with good grace, applauding Atkins before he gets zapped. There are some gore moments too, including a woman getting blasted in the face by a faulty microchip, and a tramp being decapitated.
A face is mangled by a faulty microchip
Dan O’Herlihy plays a villain with a touch of class
A memorable scene involves Cochran trying out the effectiveness of his masks on the Kupfer family in a test room at his novelties plant. As the Silver Shamrock commercial plays on a television, a flashing signal triggers the microchip in the mask that the Kupfer son is wearing, causing his mask to writhe & squirm as it absorbs the energy of Stonehenge, then a mass of insects and snakes crawl from the mask to kill the rest of the family!
The original script was written by Nigel (Quatermass) Kneale, but he asked to have his name removed from the credits after his screenplay was altered and extra gore was added.
A victim loses his head
I like this shot from the movie
Don Post designed the skull, witch, and jack-o’-lantern latex masks that are the focus of Cochran’s plan. The skull & witch masks were actually adaptations of existing Post Studios masks and the jack-o’-lantern was created specifically for the movie.
The three latex mask designs
The ending’s pretty gripping as Daniel Challis (Atkins) tries to stop the Silver Shamrock commercials going live on TV
After the film’s disappointing reviews and lacklustre box office performance, Michael Myers was brought back in HALLOWEEN 4: THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS in 1988, but I think this movie is a very entertaining standalone horror/science fiction flick… and I can still hear that Silver Shamrock jingle playing in my head!
Don’t watch that commercial, kid!
Private commission illustration by Graham Humphreys
These winged devourers digest their victims whilst they’re still alive!
The villainous high priest Maax (Rip Torn) attempts to thwart a prophecy by sending one of his witches to kidnap and murder the unborn son of King Zed. The witch uses magic to transfer the baby from the queen’s womb to the belly of a cow! Before the witch can kill the child, however, a villager intervenes, killing the hag-faced woman and raising the boy as his own son.
UK quad poster
The boy, named Dar, is taught how to fight and it’s revealed that he has the ability to telepathically communicate with all kinds of animals (presumably because he was born from an animal).
Dar and his eagleDar and his pantherDar and his ferretsDar and his (dead) dog
Dar (Marc Singer), now a man, witnesses his village being wiped out by a horde of masked barbarians called Juns, who are allied with Maax. Dar, the only survivor of the massacre, sets out to avenge his people. Along the way Dar is joined by an eagle, a pair of ferrets he calls Kodo and Podo, and a great panther.
Ruh the pantherA road lined with withered corpses
As the adventure continues Dar teams up with King Zed’s younger son Tal, bodyguard Seth (John Amos) and slave girl Kiri (Tanya Roberts), who turns out to actually be a warrior woman. After the death of King Zed, there’s a showdown with Maax atop a sacrificial pyramid, and then there’s a final battle with a mass of Jun warriors.
Can Dar and his allies survive all this? Yes they can… with a little help from some weird, winged devourer beings.
KiriDarSeth and Tal
Fight on the pyramid
Fiery finale
Don’t mess with Dar!
Director Don Coscarelli’s sword and sorcery movie is a fun romp, with Marc Singer proving to be a likeable hero and Tanya Roberts sticking in the memory as the attractive, feisty love interest Kiri. Then we have Rip Torn, who does a bit of scenery-chewing as the hawk-nosed bad guy Maax: he’s a high priest who is rather too fond of child sacrifice.
Maax is mad!
The screenplay, written by Paul Pepperman and Don Coscarelli, was based on a 1959 novel called THE BEAST MASTER, though the book is pretty different to the film: the novel’s hero is a Navajo warrior in a futuristic setting.
An amusing moment where Dar pretends his panther Ruh is a threat to Kiri
THE BEASTMASTER is a colourful adventure yarn that features a fine score by Lee Holdridge, witches with the bodies of young women and the faces of hags, spike-gloved berserker madmen, a ring with an eyeball that can spy on the heroes, and the aforementioned bird-humanoid creatures that wrap their victims in leathery wings to digest them alive!
A winged devourerWitches!Glowing-eyed berserker!Another berserker pic
The eyeball ring!
The fiery, climactic battle with the Jun horde is a well-mounted, exciting finale, where Dar has a one-on-one fight with the Jun leader and, basically, this modestly budgeted fantasy flick is a very, very enjoyable watch.
There’s an impressive explosion when the oil-filled moat is ignitedThe Jun leader!
I love this movie!
Dar and Ruh
Here’s some movie concept art by Nikita Knatz…
City of Aruk concept art by Nikita Knatz
And here are some posters…
German poster
Swedish poster
Turkish poster
Japanese poster
German VHS cover art
Thai poster
German 1-sheet poster
US poster
Believe it or not: this is actually a poster for the 1983 movie Yellowbeard, starring Graham Chapman!
Okay, a final look at those winged devourers…
These critters worship eagles, you know
Behind the scenes shots of a winged devourer costume
And here’s a publicity shot of Singer and Roberts…
In the UK two boys make friends with a stranded alien that resembles a small, metal ball. They try to help the silvery being return home, but have to deal with a crook called George “Filthy” Potter. A mothership eventually arrives and it disgorges a whole swarm of alien metal balls to deal with Potter.
Bad guy Potter gets rolled away by the Glitterball’s buddies!
This low budget British kid’s flick, made for the Children’s Film Foundation, features an extraterrestrial that looks just like a metal ball bearing. This silvery alien is hunted by the military and likes to eat a lot! As so often happens in these CFF movies, the main villain is a small-time criminal (played here by Ron Pember), but there’s never any real threat: it’s all very child-friendly.
Max (Ben Buckton) and Pete (Keith Jayne)
FX-wise, in many scenes the Glitterball is just a small, metal ball rolled along the floor, but for scenes where, for instance, it gobbles-up some food, stop-motion animation is used.
Glitterball’s got the munchies!
The Glitterball prepares to eat a banana…
The Glitterball: you can’t get a simpler-looking alien creature than this!
THE GLITTERBALL was directed by Harley Cokeliss, who’d made the non-science-fiction movie THE BATTLE OF BILLY’S POND the year previously, also for the Children’s Film Foundation. Harley went on to be second unit director on THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980), then directed flicks like DREAM DEMON (1988), BLACK MOON RISING (1986) and WARLORDS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (1982).
Pete reads a copy of poster magazine SCI-FI MONTHLY
Brian Johnson did a lot of the special effects on THE GLITTERBALL, which was quite a coup for such a cheap production. Brian came on board after Harley, through a mutual friend, met up with Brian, who was supervising the model and effects work on Gerry Anderson’s SPACE: 1999 at the time. Brian was happy to help out, but needed Gerry’s okay to do so. Harley met with Gerry at his Bray Studio offices and Gerry generously gave his blessing to the project. Brian and his crew then created flying scenes of the mothership and made a working model of the Glitterball’s own min-spacecraft, complete with lights and an opening hatch.
The hatch of the Glitterball’s mini-spacecraft opens…
Barry Leith, who’d worked on the British children’s TV series THE WOMBLES, did the stop-motion animation.
Barry Leith animated sequences such as when the Glitterball eats some fruit
The novelisation of the film
THE GLITTERBALL was recently released on DVD by the BFI as part of a triple bill of Children’s Film Foundation movies, which also includes SUPERSONIC SAUCER (1956).
BFI DVD
Trend Video VHS cover
A close-up of the Glitterball’s mini-spacecraftThe mothership hovers high in the sky
Ambrose McKinley, a blind former soldier, moves with his seeing eye dog into a retirement community near a forest. He meets his neighbour Delores, but before they can get to know one another she is brutally assaulted that very same night, killed by something big and nasty. Ambrose is also attacked by the creature, his dog comes to his aid and the beast is eventually driven off, but Ambrose’s dog is fatally wounded. When the police find Ambrose the next day they assume it was an animal attack, but Ambrose knows it must be something else, something far more savage than a forest creature… and eventually he discovers that a werewolf stalks the area.
Werewolf in the house!
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As the story progresses Ambrose tries to discover who the person is that transforms during nights of the full moon, and eventually he finds himself battling a whole group of newly-created werewolves at his home.
It’s outside…
I really enjoyed this movie, which boasts a strong central performance from Nick Damici. Damici starred in and wrote the script for STAKE LAND (2010) and its sequel, and was the screenwriter for the effective, gritty crime flick COLD IN JULY (2014). In LATE PHASES he is brilliant as the stubborn, say it as it is, wilful Vietnam War vet. He really takes this role seriously and it shows on the screen.
Nick Damici is the core element that makes the film so good
The movie, directed by Adrian Garcia Bogliano, is well-plotted, with a story that kept me watching, wondering about the identity of the werewolf.
Fight!
Now, about the werewolves…
Robert Kurtzman’s Creature Corps company designed the lycanthropes with quirky, large-eared, broad-mouthed faces. I think this isn’t a look that werewolf movie purists will necessarily like, with these creatures sporting apish bodies and almost impish, furry faces that lack the long snout of other werewolf designs. They almost resemble wolf-gremlins.
Who you callin’ quirky?!
Big-mouthed werewolf!
But I like the fact the movie uses practical effects to bring the beasts to life and sometimes it is good to see a different take on the look of iconic creatures like werewolves, though many will argue the big-eyed wolf-beasts here stray a little too far into goofy-looking territory. However, as I liked the movie a lot, I just accepted these weird werewolves as part of the package.
Crashing through a window!
Leaping on a car!
LATE PHASES ends with a full-on transformation and a pretty gory showdown. With its satisfying mix of horror, humour and drama I think it makes a fine companion piece to that other wonderful, quirky horror flick set in an old folks home: BUBBA HO-TEP (2002).
The bulging, flesh-tearing transformationWolf claws erupt from his fingertips!A werwolf gets skewered through the eyes!
Also known as ZODIAC POWER 3: KICKBOXER FROM HELL, this is a cut-and-paste IFD movie that intercuts new footage featuring western martial arts actor Mark Houghton with a 1976 Hong Kong/Korean supernatural movie called THE OBSESSED, starring Nora (WAY OF THE DRAGON) Miao.
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The film begins with a woman called Sophia being chased by sackcloth-wearing bad guys. She stumbles upon a kickboxer called Sean (Houghton), who saves her. Back at Sean’s home there is a funny conversation on the couch as Sophia explains things to Sean: “It’s a long story – I’m a nun, actually – but my partner and I are working undercover against Lucifer.” Excellent stuff! This explanation works as a tenuous link to the existing footage from THE OBSESSED: the newlywed heroine in this 1976 production, played by Nora Miao, is meant to be Sophia’s partner, who has now given up being a nun and has married a stocky guy called Robert.
Cult leader wearing face paint!
In this part of the plot we see creepy things start to happen, such as a broken clock starting to work again in the family home and a scene where Robert and his wife are given their wedding photos… and each shot features the ghostly face of his dead first wife Lisa!
Back with the newly-shot footage, we cut to the dark HQ of the Lucifer-worshippers, who like to wear face paint and sackcloth. After some amusing trash-talk bickering (the dialogue in the new scenes is priceless), the two dudes who failed to catch Sophia are forced to fight to the death in a martial arts ring. One of the combatants dies when his groin is punched!
Jumping over to the haunted home yarn, we see a young maid encounter a ‘guest’ who is actually the ghost of Lisa. Lisa is always lit by green or blue lighting. At one point the slightly scabby-faced Lisa cackles as she eats some watermelon.
The Obsessed
Back with the Sean plotline, the sackcloth satanists capture Sophia as music stolen from HALLOWEEN plays on the soundtrack. The main satanist henchman, who prefers to wear shades and a red bandana rather than sackcloth, kills Sean’s brother! Before we can see how Sean reacts to this, we cut back to the ghost storyline. We see blue-lit ghostly Lisa brush her hair in a mirror and wonder whether the bent-over old housekeeper character is a nice or bad person.
The new wife is smothered by Lisa’s floating wedding gown… or is the wife imagining things? (Of course she isn’t!) The wife is then attacked in the garden at nighttime by Lisa, but hubby Robert still decides to go on a pre-planned business trip. What a caring guy!
Ah, here’s the midpoint twist: Robert is a bit of a deceitful womaniser and he’s gone to a hotel to meet his lover. Ghostly Lisa shows up and throws Robert into the sea, but Robert just brushes off this supernatural encounter like it was nothing and meets-up with his mistress in his hotel room. What a hound! As Robert’s lover takes a bath… a floating blue-lit hand appears, then Lisa strangles the mistress and throws her from a balcony!
Astounding special effects!
After we see the Lucifer worshippers perform a ceremony, burning a photograph of the wife, we see her become compelled to attack her nephew.
Robert returns home soon after and is shown photos of his house taken by some real estate guys. Each shot shows Lisa’s ghostly image, but Robert just blames the realtors for taking bad photographs!
Later, blue-lit Lisa watches Robert kiss his new wife, then there’s a flashback of Lisa’s funeral from a few years ago. In another scene there is some kind of seance/ceremony that takes place in the cemetery and the bent-over housekeeper starts speaking with Lisa’s voice, claiming that Lisa was murdered. Yikes!
Robert goes fishing and thinks back to when he was married to Lisa, who we see accusing him of marrying her just for her money. The flashback ends with Robert strangling Lisa.
Back with the Sean plot thread, he fights a sackcloth dude (who I’m sure I saw being killed at the start of the film). Wearing a red vest, Sean kicks ass and beats the satanist. He then fights another Lucifer-lover: “I don’t know what pain is, but you do!”
Meanwhile, the ghost story reaches the point where we see Lisa’s grave being dug up and there’s no body! After the old housekeeper is knifed to death by Robert, we see him go to the garden and dig up Lisa’s corpse. But why? Nobody knows it’s buried here, so why dig it back up? Anyway, Robert is soon taunted by Lisa’s ghost, which now has fangs. Robert is attacked by her and he is eventually captured by the authorities.
But what I want to know is this: why did Lisa’s ghost initially taunt and attack the innocent new wife and Robert’s mistress, rather than immediately target the murderous husband? I guess it will remain a mystery.
Lisa suddenly has vampire fangs!
Now the Sean-vs-satanists section of the film reaches its climax (“You’ll pay for my brother!”) as the hero confronts the Lucifer-worshipping bad guys at their HQ, where Sophia the young undercover nun is being held prisoner.
Sean and the main henchman fight each other with sledgehammers (as the theme from RE-ANIMATOR plays). The fight ends when Sean breaks the guy’s neck. Sean now begins to smash a series of skulls (that each have a candle) because he realises this is the way to remove the satanists’ power.
Sledgehammer fight
The cult leader, who sports KIϟϟ-style face paint, brings the broken-necked main henchman back to life, but Sean dodges a swinging sledgehammer blow and the final sacred skull gets smashed, causing the cult leader to die.
This guy is obviously a KIϟϟ fan
And then… we get an abrupt IFD-style finish: the end!
The scenes from THE OBSESSED are well enough done, with the story possessing a little bit of mystery, but not much effort is made by IFD to make this plot line seem at all relevant to the satanists story.
The new footage with Houghton (who appeared in such Hong Kong actioners as TIGER ON THE BEAT 2) is fun to watch, however, and I enjoyed listening to the sackcloth-wearing bad guys pettily swear amongst themselves. Some of the fighting was okay, too.
People are hunted by a tall humanoid extraterrestrial that kills his victims using spinning, living projectiles.
‘It preys on human fear’…
Kevin Peter Hall played the alien‘Man is the endangered species’
Directed by Greydon (SATAN’S CHEERLEADERS) Clark, this low budget film is structured like a backwoods slasher movie but with an alien instead of a maniac.
WITHOUT WARNING features lots of shots of people falling victim to the flying, fleshy, toothy blobs, showing the red tendrils sinking into human flesh to suck blood and exude yellow gunk.
Red tendrils sink into a victim’s face
Though the film’s pace sometimes flags, the attack scenes are messy, gory fun, with loads of close-ups of the tendrils digging under the skin or through clothing!
Tendrils pierce through clothing
Predating PREDATOR by seven years, WITHOUT WARNING has a (mainly unseen), silent, blue-skinned alien hunting humans (using those killer pancake organisms) for sport. The extraterrestrial hunter is played by Kevin Peter Hall, who also played the Predator in the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.
Eek! It’s the alien!
The colourful cast, which enthusiastically chew the scenery, includes Jack Palance, Martin Landau, Neville Brand, Cameron Mitchell and Ralph Meeker. The movie also features a young David Caruso wearing very small shorts!
Martin Landau plays unhinged Vietnam vet Fred ‘Sarge’ DobbsBig ol’ Jack Palance
Watch out, Cameron!
David Caruso
The grungy, satisfying practical FX were created by Greg (VAN HELSING) Cannom. Makeup effects legend Rick Baker did uncredited work on the film, too, building the alien’s big-domed head.
The fleshy projectile has teeth!
Belgian poster
Oh no! Another pic of Caruso playing an obnoxious character in very, very small shorts!
Finnish VHS cover
German VHS cover
French poster
UK VHS cover
Fun, squishy, gooey double feature
A couple more posters
The alien trophy hunter lurks by a shackBoom!
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