Sandy decided to bust out his William Grefe box set–we live in an age of wonders, and were just glad he didn’t bust out his Al Adamson box set (again). In the end he opted for Whiskey Mountain, a Hickploitation film starring Christopher George and his wife, frequent costar Susan Day George. Or so we all thought. Instead, it was Susan Day George clone Roberta Collins, which was only uncovered by Chad R later in the day. And it’s not like nobody in that room wasn’t conversant with Susan Day George, so the resemblance was striking. Anyhoo, it was your typical “northerners find the South isn’t that friendly” picture with rape and killing and, if you know your ’70s exploitation films, a predictable ending. Not bad, not great, nobody regretted the choice, but I doubt it entered anyone’s rewatch list either.
Then we moved on to La Bruja (1954). As many noted, none of us had ever seen a bad Mexican Gothic Horror, and this wasn’t it. It would be nice to have a better copy of it, but sadly Casa Negra went under years ago. This was one of those “disfigured / aging women is beautified with a serum and goes on a kill spree movie,” of which there are more than you’d think. In this case, though, atypically the woman doesn’t want to kill, she’s basically forced into it by a vengeful scientist. Never seen it before and it was neat. Several scenes seemed inspired by Lang’s M.
