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Original Title: Demonoid: Messenger of Death Year: 1981 Director: Alfredo Zacarias Writer: David Lee Fein (writer), F. Amos Powell (writer), Alfredo Zacarias (screenplay, story) IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082257/ Genre: Horror synopsis: A British woman visits her husband at the Mexican mine he is attempting to reopen and discovers that the workers refuse to enter the mine fearing an ancient curse. The couple enter the mine to prove there is no danger and inadvertently release a demon which possess people's left hands and forces them to behave in a suitably diabolical manner. The only way for a possessed person to free themselves from this torment is to cut off their left hand after which it scurries away in search of its next victim. blerg.... Hot damn I love this poster though!!! I've cheated once again... but to my credit this time I really thought this film would be a better Mexploitation example than it actually was. I think my poodle sitting here beside me now h...

Original Title : El tesoro del Amazonas Year : 1985 Director : René Cardona Jr. Writer : René Cardona Jr. , Jacques Wilson IMDb : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090200/ Genre : Adventure synopsis: An action adventure about a group of fortune hunters who search for gold and jewels in the jungles of South America. This is the Cardona film I have been waiting for! I've sludged through a few days to finally get to a fun yet exploitative film that will leave me with a good taste in my mouth as I move on to the greener pastures of Mexican horror to close out my theme month. Take Indiana Jones and throw in a surly drunk, profanity, tits, blood and gore, and you have The Treasure of the Amazon. It's not a great film, and suffers a little from Cardona's talkative down times, but this one is worth the time most definitely. Stuart Whitman plays the aforementioned surly drunk, Gringo, a man who has spent years in the jungle looking for treasures that may or may not even exist. He's...

Original Title: Guyana, el crimen del siglo Year: 1979 Director: René Cardona Jr. Writer: René Cardona Jr. , Carlos Valdemar IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080833/ Genre: Horror?, Exploitation synopsis: An horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy, this story traces the steps of Rev. Jim Johnson, who, after years of evangelism and good deeds, starts his own church in the United States, becomes increasingly obsessed and paranoid, and emigrates with his congregation to Guyana where he plans to create a utopia. When the United States government probes deeper and deeper into the true nature of this utopia, Rev. Johnson leads his followers where no one may have expected. For those of you who do not know, this film is the dramatization of the events leading up to and the 1978 mass suicide by the followers of Reverend Jim Johnson. It was released less than one year after the suicide of more than 900 people by their drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. Let me put that out there again. T...