Messiah Of Evil On DVD!

Out on DVD is Messiah Of Evil (Code Red), a truly memorably bizarre 1973 horror film from the writers of American Graffiti, William Huyck and Gloria Katz. Marianna Hill plays a young woman who arrives in the California coastal town of Pointe Dune to look for her artist father only to find people transformed into cannibalistic ghouls. With gorgeous art direction (by Jack Fisk, longtime spouse of Sissy Spacek) and beautiful widescreen lensing, the film has a dreamy, creepy, stoned quality. There are several extremely chilling sequences -- the gorgeous Anitra Ford chased in a supermarket by bloodthirsty locals; and Joy Bang sitting in a movie theater slowly surrounded by living dead patrons. This is a confusing, strange film which looks great on DVD and is one of those weird little gems -- like Let's Scare Jessica To Death -- that really resonates with its fans. Look for future director Walter Hill (The Warriors) as a young man at the film's beginning who gets his throat slit.