Kato Kaelin Movies
Jeff Rector, Billy Drago, Christina Campbell and Fred Williamson star in this nocturnal tale of terror concerning a successful businessman seduced into the treacherous world of the undead. Transformed into a bloodthirsty vampire by the kiss of a beautiful night-walker, businessman Richard Clarke (Rector) is seduced into a world where the supernatural is very real. But don't believe the romantic myth, because to become a vampire is to wage a never-ending fight for survival. As a heavily armed group of vampire hunters known as the S.T.A.K.E. Team learns of Richard's existence, they quickly set out to dispatch him and ensure that the vampire virus is eradicated once and for all. With the S.T.A.K.E. Team fast closing in on Richard, his only hope for survival may lie with a vicious underground gang of vampires known as the Bleeders, who won't stop the killing until every last day-walker has been savagely drained of their life blood. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jeff Rector, Christa Campbell, (more)
- 1994
- R
Exploitation king Fred Olen Ray was well entrenched in his "Erotic Thriller" phase (typified by films like Inner Sanctum) when he turned out this oddball mix of salacious schemes and demonic possession. When creatively blocked horror writer Howard (Ted Prior) buys an oversized jar containing a silly-looking pickled monster from a tiny shop in Chinatown, he quickly falls under the thing's supernatural influence. Not only can he churn out reams of manuscript pages like never before, he also becomes more sexually aggressive -- a change which troubles his reserved wife Peggy (statuesque Sandahl Bergman), particularly after the arrival of sexy blonde live-in secretary Carol (Shannon Tweed, whose presence had become ubiquitous in films of this kind). The plot thickens when we learn that Carol is also conspiring with her partner Murray (Frank Sivero), Howard's greedy agent, to steal his manuscript. Carol soon becomes the puppet of the thing in the jar as well, playing violent sexual games with the couple, terrorizing Peggy at every turn, and ultimately turning on Murray -- leading to a hyper-violent climax which has nearly every character blasting away at his/her co-conspirator with automatic weaponry. Despite the heftier financial backing of Columbia Home Video, this is still exploitation in the classic Ray tradition, filled with the usual bucketloads of nudity and kinky sex, and featuring cameos from such familiar B-movie faces as Ray Silva and Turhan Bey, as well as Kato Kaelin as a busboy in the restaurant scene with Bey. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
Randolph Cohlan both wrote and directed the unrelentingly grim Night Shadow. Brenda Vance plays a prodigal daughter who comes home after long absence. En route, she picks up mysterious hitchhiker. Once she reaches her home town, her passenger disappears into night; shortly afterwards, a series of brutal murders occurs. Held responsible for bringing on this killing spree, Brenda sets about to catch the murderer herself., ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
