The Thirsty Dead
The Thirsty Dead
PG | 06 September 1974 (USA)
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Beautiful young girls are kidnapped off the streets of Manila by a death cult that needs their blood to remain immortal.

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mark.waltz

When exotic dancer Judith McConnell wants to sign up to be kidnapped for white slavery, she gets more than she bargained for. Along with innocent buy equally buxom Jennifer Billingsley, they end up somewhere seemingly in the amazon jungles where a cult of blood drinkers hope to stay young forever. Actually, this has the look of "Lost Horizon", too, and I had to keep myself from breaking into the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David from the musical version of that James Hilton fantasy novel which came out the same year.Watchable but obviously hideous, this just continues to get sillier as it goes by. A group of unwashed jungle natives with hideously ugly long nails add even more weirdness to the film, and at times, I also expected Maria Montez to show up looking for the cobra jewel. The actors keep straight faces throughout, especially John Considine as the presumed cult leader. This is one of those bad movies that just has to be seen to be believed. I enjoyed it more for the fact that I was seeing a few veteran soap actors (McConnell and Considine) in major film roles long before I knew them from daytime.

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Wyrmis

This movie's main flaw seems to be that it takes itself too seriously. Its skirting around camp, taken in consideration with some moments that seem quite earnestly acted and scripted (however poorly it worked out), becomes an unintentional side-effect. This negates 90% of the reason to watch this movie. It is cheaply made on top of this which detracts even further in that rather than go for a more natural look, they tried for some sort of sci-fi exotica kind of thing and ended up with a office dress party.The plot works fair enough, though it probably would have worked more had they dropped the horror pretenses and moved straight into action/adventure style territory. There is no new ground here.The acting is not always wooden, and has some okay moments, but is largely inconsistent. Signs of grief or panic are often achieved by a far off look or a hand biting scene.All in all, the biggest flaw here (besides a low budget, which they could have worked around, I have seen too many good low budget movies) is that they are tapping into a 1950's era schlock flick flavor, and somehow trying to keep it fresh and end up with a poor mix altogether.

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missmonochrome

2 beauty queens, a stewardess and a stripper, are taken hostage to a remote jungle, where they are held by a group of blood drinking immortals.Oddly enough none of our captives seem too worried about it in the first half of the film, blindly following their captors with giggly enthusiasm usually seem in infatuated schoolgirls. Perhaps this is because these mutton dressed as lamb (with the exception of the token Filipino girl, whom actually looks like the young girl she's supposed to be playing)are desperate for attention from any shirtless men they can find, blood drinkers or not.Only after our heroine (who has a face like a badly used cart horse)is anointed as the prophesied queen and begins falling in love with the high priest of the cult and discovers their love for the red stuff does anyone panic.She refuses to join her lover (the living embodiment of Disco Stu, complete with man perm, leisure suit and medallion) in the sanguined feast, pissing off the high priestess in the process. (The priestess' overbite was so severe she could eat corn on the cob through a picket fence, so her being angry and not smiling was a plus) The girls mount a daring escape, with the help of disco stu and one of the drained dry zombies the cult uses as slaves. Stu dies (not so) tragically, the most irritatingly sex starved of our quartet of ladies meets her death in a rat pit, and the remaining 3 escape the jungle and fade back into the (deserved)obscurity they came from.I'm giving this a two for the sheer bravery blended with idiocy of the filmmakers for thinking that a rated PG horror flick was somehow going to become even a mild success.

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SlasherReviewer

No I didn't fall asleep while watching this but hey I could of? We had a few creepy scenes in this movie, but all in all nothing was going on. I bought this flick because it had a half naked girl on it getting stabbed by some kind of satanic devil worshipper. Well the movie inside that case had nothing like that on it? We had a tribe of weirdos running around chasing some not so bad looking 40 something year olds that were suppose to be young teenage girls? Just to many flaws and not enough action. And oh yeah no gore or anything else interesting to speak of. Slasher reviewer gives this one a thumbs down and instead of tossing it in the garbage I listed it on e-bay for some other poor soul. Who knows maybe the guy that bought it will like G Rated Horror?

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