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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

J.D.'s Revenge (1976)




























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He came back from the dead to possess a man's soul and get the vengeance he craved! A young law student (Glynn Turman) goes to a nightclub show where is is hypnotized. While under hypnosis he experiences a weird nightmare in which he has the feeling of being someone else.

During the days and weeks that follow, his physical appearance and voice chance dramatically and a weird new personality begins to possess him. In the slow motion movements of a nightmare, he finds his way to an abandoned meat-packing plant to find out why his mind and body have been taken over by a hoodlum who has been dead for thirty years.

Hammer (1972)


















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A dock worker becomes a prizefighter, but gets mixed up with a crooked manager. A sympathetic L.A. detective tries to set him straight, but he won't listen. His manager, who is also a drug dealer, tells him that he has to take a dive during an important fight, and to ensure his cooperation, his girlfriend is kidnapped.

Drum (1976)


























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Mandingo lit the fuse... Drum is the explosion! Plantation boss and slave owner Hammond Maxwell (Warren Oates, Two-Lane Blacktop) purchases Drum (Ken Norton, Mandingo) and Blaise (Yaphet Kotto, Across 110th Street) from bordello hostess Marianna (Isela Vega, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia). Marianna is actually Drum's mother, although her lesbian lover Rachel (Paula Kelly, Top of the Heap) actually raised the boy. Thrown into the package to Hammond is Drum's girlfriend Regine (Pam Grier, Foxy Brown), who was purchased to satisfy the carnal urges of Mr. Hammond. However, Augusta Chauvet (Fiona Lewis, The Fury), setting her sites on Hammond has other plans. Drum is such a perfect specimen that neither men nor women can keep their hands off of him. Drum looks stoic until a climactic slave revolt breaks out, guaranteeing more blood and carnage than Mandingo could ever hope to provide.