Ellissinema Podcast

Taking an ill-advised detour en route to California, the Carter family soon run into trouble when their RV breaksdown in the middle of the desert. Stranded, the family find themselves at the mercy of a group of monstrous cannibals lurking in the surrounding hills. With their lives under threatm the Carters have no choice but to fight back by any means necessary.
Starring Russ Grieve, Virginia Vincent, Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Dee Wallace, Martin Speer, Janus Blythe, James Whitworth, Michael Berryman, Lance Gordon, John Steadman, Cordy Clark, and more. Music by Don Peake. Director of Photography Eric Saarinen. Written and Directed by Wes Craven.

Now successful writer Jennifer is back to where it all began to face the wrath of the families of those she murdered. Kidnapped along with her daughter Christy, it's tense game of hunt-or be-hunted against a ruthless gang of degenerates overseen by a violently unhinged matriarch, Becky.
Starring Jamie Bernadette, Camille Keaton, Maria Olsen, Jim Tavare, Jonathan Peacy, Jeremy Ferdman, Holgie Forrester, Roy Allen, Alexandra Kenworthy. Director of Photography Pedja Radenkovic. Written and Directed by Meir Zarchi.

This woman has just cut, chopped, broken, and burned five men beyond recognition. But no jury in America would ever convict her. Starring Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor, Richard Pace, Antony Nichols, and Gunter Kleemann. Cinematography by Yuri Haviv. Written and Directed by Meir Zarchi.

A year after her boyfriend Eric burns to death in a mysterious fire, Melody vows to put her traumatic past behind her. But the past isn't ready to Melody go.
When Melody and her friends get jobs at the new mall, haunting reminders and inexplicable events begin to occur.
With the help of a newspaper photographer, she learns the truth about Eric and the trail of grisly murders at the mall.
Starring Derek Rydall, Kari Whitman, Morgan Fairchild, Jonathan Goldsmith, Rob Estes, Pauly Shore, Kimber Sissons, Gregory Scott Cummins, Tom Fridley, Ken Foree, and more. Music by Stacy Widelitz. Director of Photography Harry Mathias. Screenplay by Scott J. Schneid, Tony Michelman, and Robert King. Directed by Richard Friedman.

Izumi is a high-schooler forced to grow up quick when her father dies and she finds herself next in line as the boss of a moribund yakuza clan. Wrenched from the security of her classroom and thrust into the heart of the criminal underworld, she must come to terms with the fact that her actions hold the key to the life or death of the men under her command as they come under fire from rival gangs. Starring Hiroko Yakushimaru, Tsunehiko Watase, Yuki Kazamatsuri, Makoto Sato, Rentaro Mikuni, Masaaki Daimon, Shinpei Hayashiya, Toshiya Sakai, Akira Emoto and more. Music by Katz Hoshi. Director of Photography Seizo Sengen. Screenplay by Yozo Tanaka. Original novel by Jiro Akagawa. Directed by Shinji Somai.

A young girl named Sayuri is reunited with her estranged family after years in an orphange - but trouble lurks within the walls of the large family home. Her mother is an amnesiac after a car accident six months earlier, her sullen sister is confined to a hidden attic room, and a young housemade dies unexpectedly of a heart attack just before Sayuri arrives... is it all connected to her father's work studying venomous snakes? Starring Yuko Hamada, Sachiko Meguro, Yachi Matsui, Mayumi Takahashi, Sei Hiraizumi, Yoshiro Kitahara, Kuniko Miyake, and more. Music by Shunsuke Kikuchi. Cinematography by Akira Uehara. Original Story by Kazuo Umezu. Screenplay by Kimiyuki Hasegawa. Directed by Noriaki Yuasa.

Whiskey Mountain entails a group of friends who set off into the backwoods on a treasure hunt for valuable civil war guns which turns sour after encountering some unhinged drug dealers. Starring Christopher George, Preston Pierce, Roberta Collins, Linda Borgeson, John Davis Chandler, Robert Leslie, and more. Music by Charlie Daniels. Cinematography by Julio C. Chavez. Written and Directed by William Grefe.

Sonny Stein, a man who develops the ability to communicate telepathically with man-eating sharks, begins to use his animals to attack anyone that crosses him. Starring Richard Jaekel, Jennifer Bishop, John Davis Chandler, Harold Sakata, Buffy Dee, Ben Kronen, and more. Cinematography by Julio C. Chavez. Screenplay by Robert W. Morgan. Directed by William Grefe.

A frustrated matron finds solace away from her wealthy, wheelchair-bound husband in the arms of aspiring young writer, Terry. But the coupling was doomed from the outset, and soon leads to deadly consequences. The Naked Zoo stars Rita Hayworth, Stephen Oliver, Fleurette Carter, Ford Rainey, Willie Pastrano, Fay Spain, and more. Cinematography by Gregory Sandor. Story by Ray Preston. Written and Directed by WIlliam Grefe.

Originally entitled ELECTRIC SHADES OF GREY, a young priest embarks on a whacked-out road trip across America after accidentally drinking Coca-Cola laced with acid. The Psychedelic Priest stars John Darrell, Carolyn Hall, Joe Crane, Ken Keckler, Larry Wright, Susan Hayes, Chubby Jackson, and more. Directed by William Grefe.