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Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0615692450103 Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC Label: Woodhaven Ent Manufacturer: Woodhaven Ent Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Woodhaven Ent Release Date: March 21, 2000 Running Time: 90 minutes Sales Rank: 51903 Studio: Woodhaven Ent
Rating: - Hail! Hail! The Albino Man!!
I have this flick in a 10 DVD compilation called "Nightmares From the Crypt" (a must-own for the price vs. entertainment ratio). The movie is very schlock early 70's horror with an outrageously silly theme-song. The movie is sort of slow-moving, but not boring in the least. It also has a very attractive leading lady, a corny rich playboy with 2 of his sleazy girlfriends, and an awesome horror character known as the "Albino Man". This freak is really tall, cross-eyed and eats beach rats while listening to Wagner, driving around the living dead in the bed of his pickup truck. For me, this guy ... Read More
Rating: - Messiah of Evil is a sleeper
Rare and OOP. 1973 Video Gems. Any movie with Joy Bang and Anitra Ford is ok with me. Meet the Albino man driving the pickup truck who listens to Wagner Music and eats Beach Rats. Yikes. This movie has everything.
Essentially, the film revolves around the full moon event every 100 years when a mysterious stranger comes to the seaside community of Point Dume. On that night, the townspeople (sic) turn into flesh eating zombies. Now, this is NOT a new idea. I used to live in a seaside town where this actually happened during my lifetime. (Real Estate values rise and fall every 100 years or so.) ... Read More
Rating: - Night Of The Living Dead meets Easy Rider
Exceptionally disturbing cannibal zombie flick about a town that turns on it's ear and becomes purely populated by flesh eating zombies every hundred years or so when the moon turns red and a certain dark stranger returns to visit. Corny monologues, bad acting, and lousy theme song aside, this flick holds your attention from beginning to end.
Rating: - Sometimes horror is best expressed through silence
The 1970s gave us many interesting horror movies, atmospheric pieces of creepiness and morbidity quite unlike the more direct, flamboyant movies of recent years. Messiah of Evil does some things very well, producing one quite memorable scene in particular, but it proved a little too vague for me to be able to proclaim it a must-see film. The opening scene is effective, but it basically has almost nothing to do with the events that soon unfold and is quickly forgotten. The movie itself is one big flashback, which is a technique that rarely succeeds perfectly, especially when further layers are added ... Read More
Rating: - Artsy kind of zombie flick
Messiah of Evil is not your typical zombie horror movie in that there is almost no gore at all. This movie follows the story of a woman searching for her father who lives in a coastal town called Point Dume. Most of the people in this town have been changed due to a prophesy that is coming to pass. This movie has been released over the years under many different titles such as Dead People, among others. This movie has a slower pace to it, and it has a strange almost art film quality. There are a couple standout scenes such as in a supermarket meat counter and a really great scene in a movie theatre. This ... Read More
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