Messiah of Evil (1973) - Film Review - V/M Productions

Arletty (Marianna Hill) arrives in a small, odd, creepy coastal town in California looking for her father and she quickly learns little is as it seems.   Before Romero's Dawn of the Dead and The Crazies, there was Dead People a.k.a Messiah of evil. Shot in 1971 the film was not released until 1973. Like H.P. Lovecraft's Dagon and The Wicker Man (1973), weird locals are hiding a horrific...

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Interview with Filmmaker, Harris Demel

I saw a film that moved me. It pressed buttons and made me look at my past relationships and marriages, and ask myself how I always picked a certain type of guy, allowed it to get so bad or go so far. It's ugly to put up a mirror to yourself to see you're partially to blame. It's empowering though to know with change I do have the self-worth to say "Stop." It may be a difficult choice, but it's...

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