thorr-3 This was such a boring, confusing movie!.....very slow moving! ........after 6 minutes I lost interest and couldnt understand a single scene. ......I shut it off and watched Candyman 3 ......now that is an awesome scary movie. Avoid this garbage and watch Friday the 13 series or Candyman.....you will be glad you read my review~

akoaytao1234 Messiah of Death(1973)MoD tells the story of Arletty .She is trying to locate her father whom she has lost contact of. Going to his beach-side home in a remote coastal town, she find herself entailed with more mysteries than answers in her search. MoD is a particularly noteworthy horror flick for its rather eerie horror aesthetic that implies rather tell. Though a bit too rough around the edges primarily due to its low budget aesthetics and rather conservative styling (i.e. not that bloody compared to your average horror), MoD is a moody and surrealistic experience in vein with my other favorite let's scare Jessica to Death that creeps its viewer. [4.5]

melvelvit-1 Screenwriters Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz took time off from "American Graffiti" to make MESSIAH OF EVIL, an art film in every sense of the term. Narrated by a woman confined to an insane asylum, the film opens with her warning "They say nightmares are dreams perverted..." as she proceeds via flashback to relate how and why she came to be locked away. Arletty (eternal starlet Marianna Hill, nee Marianna Schwarzkopf, cousin to the general) travels up the California coast to an isolated seaside town in search of her artist father and teams up with a well-dressed hippie (Michael Greer) and his two groupies (exotic Anitra Ford & spacey Joy Bang) to unravel the cryptic diary she finds in her dad's abandoned beach house. The walls are bizarre paintings that blend '70s pop art with Edward Hopper-style imagery and the film soon becomes a nightmarish fever dream indistinguishable from that artwork. The apocalyptic "mystery" involves a malediction dating back to the Donner party and doesn't make much sense but so what -the ladies are lovely and the set piece slaying's sure unsettling in this quasi- surreal, one-of-a-kind film, the closest Hollywood ever came to fantastical Eurotrash in the early 1970s. Elisha Cook, Jr as a town drunk who talks too much and Royal Dano as Arletty's missing dad make the most of their screen time and Joy Bang attends a midnight screening of what would prove to be the prophetic KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE with coming attractions showing Sammy Davis Jr & James Caan in GONE WITH THE WEST, a film not released until 1975. The MESSIAH's become a cult classic that actually lives up to that appellation.

udar55 Arletty (Marianna Hill) travels to the coastal town of Point Dune, CA to look for her father after his letters stopped arriving. She finds his art studio/house in a normal state but he is nowhere to be found. The only clue she has in a journal where he has written some increasingly bizarre entries. To say any more would give too much away. I've always known of this film, but never knew anything about the plot. When the new Code Red DVD hit, I read lots of great reviews. So, naturally, my interest was piqued and I ordered it. I was not disappointed as the film kept me enthralled from the opening frame. What surprised me the most about the film was the art house aesthetic it seemed to adopt. The film has atmosphere galore with the movie house scene being the highlight. Also, if you love to ogle 70s stores/houses/parking lots, this is the film for you. I haven't dug into the extras yet, but I'm looking forward to finding out tons more about this unique horror flick.