His recruits practice guerilla warfare by abducting drifters and hunting them through the wilderness around their base camp 70-some miles southeast of Los Angeles. (I’m guessing he’s at least a state senator if he holds elected office.) And as I’m sure you’ve already surmised, Hogan’s methods have grown even more unorthodox since he was drummed out of the service. We never will learn what the aim is, but the funding is coming from someone named Michaelson (Troy Donahue, of Monster on the Campus and Hard Rock Nightmare), who could equally well be a corrupt businessman, a corrupt politician, or both. Whatever really happened, Hogan is now pursuing the usual second career for retired action-movie Green Berets, assembling a mercenary army of dubious legality. He evidently doesn’t like to talk about the exact circumstances, but I gather it had something to do with the methods whereby he trained and maintained discipline among his men. The Zaroff analogue here is Colonel John Hogan (David Campbell, from Evil Altar and Speak of the Devil), a former special forces commander who resigned from the US Army in disgrace. This may be a Weightlifter with a Machine Gun movie first and foremost, but it’s also a riff on “The Hounds of Zaroff,” and you know how I am about those. Obviously that genre focus places most of Prior’s work outside my purview here, but Deadly Prey manages to sneak in through the back door. He’s still at it, too, although he’s slowed down considerably since the turn of the century. ![]() Sometimes the results were dreary and stultifying (as in Prior’s tragically mishandled boobs-and-bullets opus, The Mankillers, in which an ad-hoc commando team of female convicts take on a vicious cartel of international vice traders, and apparently bore them to death), but damned if he didn’t realize his ambitions. Rather, Prior aspired to make action movies of a sort that sound impossible given the resources he was able to command- the kind with mercenary armies, terrorist cells, military-grade firearms by the truckload, and lots and lots of explosions. Horror was not Prior’s real area of interest, though, if we may judge from his subsequent career. His debut feature, the surreal supernatural slasher Sledge Hammer, is the current record-holder for earliest known feature made from the outset for release on home video (indeed, it holds the further distinction of being actually shot on videotape). ![]() Prior is a much more significant figure than McCormick, however, for he appears to be the original direct-to-video auteur. ![]() Last time it was Bret McCormick, and now it’s Alabama’s David A. So I dig that these ghana prints are 14x22.It’s been a big couple of months for me discovering unsung regional filmmakers of the direct-to-video era. ![]() I'm personally more interested in vintage promo 8x10s from movies like Sorcerer or Thief or zardoz or things like that, easier to frame and not so big- I like my westworld poster, but it's just so huge, it would really overpowet the room and be a big statement. That one is pretty odd- it was a teaser poster, huge but with just text and a sort of rainbow background: "Westworld: Boy have we got a vacation for you! where nothing ever goes W o r n g." Or something like that. I do sort of accidentally have two og movie posters I found at a thrift shop years ago and never framed- petey wheatstraw (not a huge exploitation fan) and the 1974 westworld. Definitely was my favorite scene from the movie, better even than the attack helicopter fight. I wish there was an art book of all of these!įor fucks sake the ghost dog poster literally has a dog wearing a sheet like a ghost shooting lasers from his eyes. I had to order the Ghost Dog one, so sick- although they are all fantastic. Thanks so much for this post- I did not know this shop or these printsĪ big fan of "folk" art like this, (and of movies).
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