Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Movie review - "Beast of the Yellow Night" (1971) **1/2

Decent John Ashley-Eddie Romero flick which is a kind of mash up of werewolf movies and Faust. Ashley has one of his juiciest roles as a dirty piece of work who sells his soul to the devil (Victor Diaz) in exchange for the change to live. He possesses the body of a man, married to a beautiful woman, then turns into a creature that runs around killing people.

This isn't bad - it's not amazing, but it's solid. It mixes up enough stuff to be a little bit original, the handling is brisk.

Mary Wilcox is Ashley's wife and the two of them have a number of sex scenes. People like Ken Metcalfe and Eddie Garcia pop up - they would be in a lot of these movies.

The horror stuff comes along at decent intervals. The make up is good.

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