By Steve D. Stones
If you thought Ed Wood made ridiculously bad films, it’s
likely you’ve never sat through a Jerry Warren Z-movie bomb. VCI Entertainment
and Kit Parker Films teamed up in 2013 to release six Warren classics on two
DVDs. Each DVD has three films with trailers, deleted scenes and interviews
with cast members – such as Katherine Victor and Geraldine Brianne Murphy – the
women who wore the Yeti costume in Man Beast (1956).
Volume One contains The Wild World of Bat Woman (aka She Was
A Hippie Vampire - 1966), Curse of The Stone Hand (1964), and Man Beast (1956).
Volume Two contains Attack of The Mayan Mummy (1964), Creature of The Walking
Dead (1965) and House of Black Death (1965) – starring horror icons Lon Chaney
and John Carradine.
Three of the films on both volumes are chopped up Mexican
imports that Warren cut then added scenes with padded, long dialog and boring
voice-over narration. The added scenes combined with the existing Mexican
footage are confusing and do not add much to the finished product. Attack of
The Mayan Mummy, Curse of The Stone Hand and Creature of The Walking Dead are
all examples of this. Creature of The
Waking Dead is the most watchable of the three, but may still test your movie
watching attention span.
Warren makes better films when he does not rely on cutting
existing footage from imports. Man Beast is a good example of this. The film
has a simple, easy to follow plot concerning an expedition that sets out to
find the existence of Yeti creatures in the Himalayan Mountains. The film may
look cheap, but at least it does not confuse the viewer, as his chopped up
Mexican imports do. It may be his best film ever.
I’m hopeful that VCI Entertainment and Kit Parker Films will
release a third volume on DVD of Warren’s films that includes three more of his
beloved drive-in fodder classics– such
as The Incredible Petrified World, Teenage Zombies and Invasion of The Animal
People. Let’s keep our fingers crossed. Happy viewing.
1 comment:
You baby boomers are the most selfish generation to ever exist. You destroyed your own children's and grandchildren's future with your short-sighted selfishness and immaturity. And then you expect them to pay for your retirement????
Can you baby boomers just hurry up and drop dead, please?
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