Ray Dorn Movies
Producer Ray Dorn specialized in independent exploitation and horror films during the 1970s. He entered the entertainment industry in the 1950s as a prop maker. In 1965, Dorn founded Hollywood Stage, a company that provided sound stage facilities and constructed sets for independent films. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide- 1971
- PG
This ridiculous '70s exploitation quickie is notable mainly for its casting: Bruce Dern toplines as the crazed doctor Girard, with Munsters star Pat Priest as his beleaguered wife and top-40 DJ Casey Kasem (who also lends his talents to various voice-overs throughout the film) as a medical colleague. Girard's semi-successful attempts at surgically attaching additional heads to various lab animals leaves him a bit unfulfilled, and it's no time at all before he goes about performing the operation on a human being. He chooses as his first subject his caretaker's simple-minded but kindly son Danny (John Bloom), onto whose massive shoulders he adds the head of a demented killer (Albert Cole) who was recently gunned down while trying to invade Girard's home. The result is less frightening than pitiful as the morose Danny's personality is subjugated to the evil will of his unwelcome new head, whose psychotic rage continues unabated in his hulking new physique. Shoddy effects, a cheesy (and horribly miscued) psychedelic score and laughably bad dialogue have ingratiated this film to many bad-movie buffs' top-ten lists. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Bruce Dern, Pat Priest, (more)
- 1969
- R
Film editor Bill Brame directed this violent biker film featuring an intense performance by Bruce Dern as Keeg, the sadistic leader of a vicious gang of cyclists. When Keeg's girlfriend Lea (Melody Patterson) poses nude for an artist named Romko (Chris Robinson), the hooligan goes on a drunken rampage and rips up Romko's sketches, beating the artist severely. Later, Romko retaliates with some beatings of his own, leading to a grisly scene of revenge in which the artist's hands are slowly crushed in a metal vise. Brame's quickly paced film also includes the requisite drugged orgies and a gang-rape. Genre veterans Gary Littlejohn, Scott Brady, and Steve Brodie also appear in this brutal exploitation entry, which is fairly well-cast save for co-executive producer Casey Kasem's notion that he could be believable as Bruce Dern's brother. Trivia buffs should note that Kasem appeared in Brame's Free Grass the same year, and that his production partner for this film was California Lt. Gov. Mike Curb, who went on to lead the musical Mike Curb Congregation. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Bruce Dern, Chris Robinson, (more)
Time Warp is the alternate title for the moderately budgeted Journey To the Center of Time. The scene is a research center, where experimental time-travel is in its formative stages. The center's directors are informed that, if they don't prove the efficacy of their research within 24 hours, they will lose their funding. A journey through time, commandered by scientist Lyle Waggoner is rapidly set in motion. Zapping 5000 years into the future, the time travellers confront a hostile band of extraterrestrials, who intend to conquer the world. The problem: how to get back to the "present" to avoid such a catastrophe (their first return attempt lands the travellers smack dab in the middle of the stone age). The all-former-star cast includes Scott Brady, Gigi Perreau and Anthony Eisley. Time Warp director David L. Hewitt had been here before in his The Time Travellers (1964). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors; Return from the Past; The Blood Suckers; Gallery of Horrors. No, that's not a quadruple feature at the Highway 194 Twin Drive-In. All four titles have been applied to the same film, which also travels under the name Alien Massacre. This multipart scarefest contains five short stories about magic, the occult, the "walking dead" and vampirism. John Carradine serves as narrator of "The Witch's Clock"; Lon Chaney Jr. plays a mad doctor in "The Spark of Life"; Vampire Mitch Evans figures into "Count Alucard"; "Monster Raid" features onetime movie ingenue Rochelle Hudson; and "King Vampire" spotlights a cast of no-names. The above-named veteran performers look suitably embarrassed in this low-budget farrago, which may not be the worst of its kind ever made, but certainly comes close. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
