David Warbeck Movies

Sex, science fiction, and the Royal Family get mixed up into one big cocktail in this over-the-top satiric comedy. In the non-existent British colony of Condon, Queen Victoria has decreed that dissident intellectuals and "perverts" are to be prosecuted and tossed in jail. To make her edict stick, the Queen orders that a wall be built around Condon, establishing a "Monarchy of Terror." Sexual enthusiasts are driven out of sight, and form a super-secret "Cult of Perv" in order to follow their sensual instincts. The Cult is led by the Demon Nanny, who gives birth to a daughter just before she passes on. The Nanny's child, Pervirella (Emily Bouffante), quickly grows to be the new hope for the Pervs to rise from their chains, but she has a bit of a problem -- whenever someone snatches the magic amulet from her throat, she is overcome with nymphomaniacal desire which she can't help but satisfy. Pervirella also stars David Warbeck, Eileen Daly, Jonathan Ross, and Sexton Ming. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

This horror film takes place in Boston at the home of Joanna, a paraplegic (Christina Nagy). The wealthy Joanna lives with a companion, Ruth (Carroll Blumenberg), who helps take care of her needs. When young Craig (David Warbeck) comes in to help train Joanna to enter a special athletic competition for the wheelchair-bound, the two of them fall in love and make plans to marry. Craig knows that Joanna lost the use of her legs when she fell down the stairs, chased by a rapist who disguised himself as a priest. So when he starts dressing up as a priest and scaring her, the story takes a sinister turn for the worse. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

When a pilot from the U.S. Air Force teams up with angry captives of war in Cambodia, plenty of action abounds in the form of a prison uprising. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide

A fantasy-adventure story in the manner of The Raiders of the Lost Ark, this particular lost Ark is located in Turkey at the site of the temple of the Sun God, where the legendary hero Gilgamesh lies buried. Inside, Gilgamesh keeps company with a jeweled sword that is a source of power for whoever owns it. Rick Spear (David Warbeck) is a safecracker who has been sent to open the temple and retrieve the sword -- no easy task, since if anyone tampers with the temple's locks, the entire building is designed to self-destruct. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

In this routine action-adventure film patterned after the trend-setting Raiders of the Lost Ark, a GI is requested by the Allies in World War II to come back to the Philippines after the war has ended and find the Golden Cobra, a sacred image worshipped by the Awoks (predating George Lucas' Ewoks by one year). When he does return, the ex-GI, Bob (David Warbeck), is not alone. He has two allies in the form of June (Almanta Suska) and her uncle (Alan Collins), who are searching for June's twin sister, April, lost in the jungle many years earlier. Anyone who has seen Raiders is likely to stay one step ahead of the action. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

This gruesome Louisiana-set horror film opens with a 1927 prologue featuring a Satanic artist being crucified and melted alive with quicklime in the basement of an old hotel. Half a century later, pretty Liza (Catriona MacColl) inherits the hotel, not suspecting that it is one of seven gateways to Hell. A workman breaks his neck, another has his eyeball gouged out by a zombie, a woman's head is melted by a vat of acid, and an architect has his face eaten by hungry tarantulas who chew out his tongue. Dozens of cannibalistic zombies attack Liza and her disbelieving lover (David Warbeck), who joins her in Hell in the film's downbeat conclusion. The gory special effects by Gianetto de Rossi and Germano Natali are nauseatingly effective, although the script (by Dardano Sacchetti, Giorgio Mariuzzo and director Lucio Fulci) tends to wander and the pacing is a trifle slow. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

Someone must have o.d.'ed on The Hideous Sun Demon before going to work on Panic. David Warbeck plays a dedicated bacteriologist, conducting his experiments in a small-town lab. One of Warbeck's sample dishes begins exhibiting unusual properties-and pretty soon, so does Warbeck. Transformed into a horrifying mutant, the scientist inaugurates a one-man reign of terror. Janet Agren plays Warbeck's long-suffering lady friend. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Only a Scream Away was one of several videotaped chillers to be networkcast on the late-night anthology ABC's Wide World Mystery. In her American TV debut, Hayley Mills stars as a deliriously happy newlywed. Gary Collins costars as Hayley's seemingly loving American spouse. But the honeymoon has barely started before a series of mysterious, and potential fatal accidents, befall our blushing bride. Can it be that the future host of Hour Magazine plans to eliminate the onetime Pollyanna? Egad! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

This entry in Hammer Films' long-running vampire series of the '60s and '70s is one of the most evocative and original. The story features voluptuous twin Playboy centerfolds Madeleine and Mary Collinson as sisters who, without parents, are sent to stay with their oppressive uncle (Peter Cushing, looking more emaciated than ever), who happens to live near the sinister Karnstein Castle, the locale of countless vampiric happenings in two prequels (The Vampire Lovers and Lust for a Vampire). One of the twins wanders over and meets the dashing Count Karstein (Damien Thomas), a vampire who later uses the girl's blood to awaken his long-lost ancestor from the dead. Of course, the uncle predictably gives chase once trouble starts, but there is a clever plot twist as the count switches the twins before one is about to be burned at the stake for her supposed satanic involvements. Twins of Evil unabashedly exploits the twins' assets to pump up the film's sex appeal; it also seems to cater to viewers with a vampire fetish. Still, neither is necessarily a bad thing in a vampire film; Twins of Evil does create an effectively sensuous mood while also managing to sustain a fair amount of tension throughout the picture. Although Universal Pictures, the U.S. distributor, extracted nearly all of the flesh and bloodletting from its release, the original British cut retains everything and is the usual copy found on video. Like its predecessors, the script for Twins of Evil is loosely based on LeFanu's classic vampire story Carmilla. ~ Jeremy Beday, All Movie Guide

The British/American co-production My Lover, My Son stars Romy Schneider as Frances, the unhappy wife of businessman Robert (Donald Houston). When her lover is accidentally drowned, Frances turns to her teenaged son James (Dennis Waterman) for comfort. Her husband doesn't like this set-up and bundles James off to college, but upon his return the boy enters into an affair with his own mother. Robert discovers the incestuous couple in an embrace and reacts violently, whereupon Frances kills him in self defense. Knocked unconscious during the struggle, James thinks he is the killer and takes the rap. The boy is released on the grounds of self defense and returns to his mother -- only to renounce her when he discovers that he's the illegitimate son of his mother's dead lover. MGM was the American distributor for My Lover, My Son, and that low vibration you feel is Louis B. Mayer spinning in his grave. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide