Thursday, May 21, 2020

Grindhouse Possession Triple Feature


A trio of second billed early seventies West Coast features with a supernatural theme (kind of). So let check the movies...


Nothing supernatural here. The film is about a sex therapist meeting some clients with various problems at his office. It's mostly sex and end with the inevitable orgy, but the film have a good cast and the male actors are fricking impressive.

Cyndee Summers
Tom Cantrell and Tricia Opal
Nancy Martin and Franklin Anthony

Now it's school time with a professor who invite a trio of students for an extra curricular lecture at his house about the Greek God Pan. Obviously he planned more than a lecture and with the help of a medallion the lecture will become something less boring. Once again it's mostly sex with a good cast, including Becky Sharp one of the most underrated actress of the early seventies.

Kip James and Becky Sharpe
Nikki Hess and Anna Jenson
Neil Perlman and Pete Fisher

A young couple new house is hunted by a couple of spirits and little by little they will be possessed. This is the only film on the program who really is in line with the supernatural theme of the disc, but on the other hand it's the worst of the three. The unknown director doesn't know how to shot a sex scenes and the fake widescreen ratio (don't forget it's a 12 years old Alternative Cinema release and for some reasons they always re-frame the films back than) really hurt the film. Sure it's an early role for Helen Madigan, but that film is just too incompetently made to be enjoyable.

Helen Madigan
Charles Orlando

So not something I'd call essential, but the first two films are enjoyable and stars some actresses who are mostly forgotten now (except for Cyndee Summers). Just skip Possessed who is a waste of time and a visual mess.

You can buy the DVD from Alternative Cinema and the better presentation of The Medallion who was on the defunct Vinegar Syndrome streaming website is available from Hot Movies.

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