Marilyn Joi Movies

In the first episode of a two part story, Hunter (Fred Dryer) comes home to find the body of a murdered woman sprawled over a chair in his living room. Almost immediately thereafter, the corpse disappears--and with it all evidence of the killing. Though he doesn't know it at first, Hunter has unearthed a hotbed of intrigue involving a mysterious beauty, a Russian defector, and ruthless special agents from an unidentified Federal agency. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Poverty-row horror auteur Al Adamson jumped on the Exorcist bandwagon with this twisted demon-possession exploiter. The thin plot involves a demented professor of the occult, whose soul jumps into the curvaceous body of Nurse Sherri (Jill Jacobson) shortly before he dies on the operating table. The possessed lady in white then begins stalking, seducing and decimating members of the cast with gory abandon -- even menacing her boyfriend with a pair of meat cleavers -- until her roommates exhume and destroy the evil professor's corpse, snapping her out of his spell. Fans of the TV series One Step Beyond may recognize snippets of the show's theme, particularly during the sleazy scene where the evil ghost has his way with the terrified Sherri. Originally titled Nurse Sherri; also available on video under a plethora of alternate titles, including Hospital of Terror, Killer's Curse and Hands of Death. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi

Comedy writers David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams of Airplane and The Naked Gun fame got their start at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, when they formed a theatrical group known as The Kentucky Fried Theater. The Kentucky Fried Movie is based on the KFT's gag-filled theatrical skits. Including well-known stars such as Bill Bixby, Donald Sutherland, Tony Dow, George Lazenby and Henry Gibson, the film has over 22 different segments of varying lengths. Some are seconds long. Longer segments include such highlights as: "Zinc Oxide," which spoofs school educational films; "Cleopatra Schwartz," a spoof of female blaxploitation action films, whose heroine is married to a rabbi; "Sex Record," which depicts a couple who are attempting to follow the step-by-step instructions of a how-to-do-it record; "Catholic High School Girls In Trouble," and "A Fistful of Yen," (the longest episode), which is an elaborate spoof of martial-arts films. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Although Spalding Gray would probably like to forget this first of three sequels to Ilsa, She-Wolf of the S.S., he does indeed appear as the mad oil baron El Sharif. The sadistic Ilsa (Dyanne Thorne) is in charge of his elite harem guard and struts about with two topless Amazon guards, Satin (Tanya Boyd) and Velvet (Marilyn Joi), who do things like ripping off men's testicles with their bare hands. Don Edmonds' film is a real freakshow, as Ilsa fattens up a huge fertility goddess and trades in white slavery while devising her usual clever tortures. Highlights include an exploding dildo and a head-cage in which a hungry rat is trapped against the victim's face. Subplots deal with the Sheik's son (Bobby Woods), who is kept feral in a dark pit to keep him from claiming the throne, and the usual blond American stud (Michael Thayer) whom Ilsa cannot resist. Despite its smarmy sleaze and gory special effects by Joe Blasco, this is a gorgeous-looking film, with the sort of expansive photography and flamboyant action one might expect from a desert epic costing ten times as much. Although its predecessor and Jesus Franco's follow-up Greta, Haus Ohne Maenner (1977) are more notorious, this is the best and most entertaining film of the series. Cult actors Ivan Rassimov, Sharon Kelly, and Uschi Digart also appear. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi