John Hayes Movies
- 1989
- R
Donna Stanley stars in the raunchy Mona's Place, but we're not sure whether she plays Mona or "just one of the girls." Most of the action takes place in a brothel, smack-dab in the middle of a rough-and-tumble mining town. It's Saturday night, and the miners are hungry for female companionship. This time, however, they're forced to do battle against a rival mining gang. Mona's Place is pretty raw, though we've seen worse at a few recent bachelor parties. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Dr. Andrew Boran (Kirk Scott) is picking up strange signals from outer space that seem to predict natural disasters. When he and his wife (Sue Lyon) decide to investigate, they find themselves held captive in a convent that's been infiltrated by aliens with plans to destroy the world. As alien leader Zindar (Christopher Lee) explains, the earth is a hotbed of disease that cannot be permitted to continue polluting the galaxy. ~ Fred Beldin, All Movie Guide
- 1975
- PG
A disturbed woman slips over the edge into violent madness in this low-budget horror story. Grace (Brooke Mills) was abandoned by her parents as an infant, and grew up in an orphanage. As an adult, Grace is engaged to Patrick (Paul Prokop), a medical student, and she performs as a high-dive artist in a bizarre Christian revival show staged by Patrick's brother Jesse (Michael Pataki); Grace shares enough of Jesse's religious convictions to insist on abstaining from sex before marriage, though she struggles with her physical desires. The scars from Grace's unpleasant childhood cause her to drift in and out of a world of her own, and she wants to find closure by locating her long-lost father. While looking for her dad, Grace finds her way to a cheap hotel, where a pimp (Marc Lawrence) informs her that he knew her father, and that he died the night before. When Grace sees the dead body of her father (Edmond O'Brien) in the morgue, she snaps and imagines that the corpse has come to life. As Grace drifts deeper into her fantasy world, she goes on a spree of violence and lust fueled by the demons in her mind and the actions of her re-animated dad. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- 1974
- R
After several daughters inherit the family business from their mobster mother, they manage to live up to their promise to be successful. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
This dark, violent British production stars Michael Pataki as a brutish vampire apparently lacking in Dracula's powers of seduction, since he finds it necessary to brutally rape a young woman (Kitty Vallacher) in order to sire a child. The product of this unholy mating is a half-human, half-vampire baby boy, bottle-fed on the blood of his now-insane mother (a truly sickening sight) until her eventual death from anemia. Later as a young man, the son (William Smith) is able to spend short periods in daylight, and his bloodlust is considerably lesser than that of his father. Tormented nevertheless by his evil condition, he curses his bloodline and defies his vampire heritage, tracking his father down to the university where he teaches occult sciences. Aside from Pataki's coarse but imposing performance, this low-budget film is a fairly routine genre entry, but the climactic, bloody duel between father and son vampires is quite gripping. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- 1972
A low-security prison labor camp is about to be closed down due to the excessive brutality of the warden (Lee Frost), whose strict manner has embittered the convicts and damaged his career. The inmates are engaged in the production of formaldehyde, which they also use to get high by sniffing the fumes. While under the influence, a group of prisoners begin digging a secret escape tunnel, and they threaten their non-huffing bunkmates with death if anyone exposes their plan. The getaway attempt is thwarted by overzealous prison guards, and the escaping prisoners are shot down and buried in a nearby cemetery. However, the massive exposure to formaldehyde has a curious effect on the corpses; they won't stay dead and they crawl from their graves to exact bloody revenge upon the prison camp. The zombies arm themselves with axes, shovels, and dangerous lawn-care items from the prison tool shed, while the living convicts have to join forces with the warden and his guards in order to stay alive. Also known as Garden of the Dead. ~ Fred Beldin, All Movie Guide
This plodding, low-budget zombie film is set in a maximum-security prison, wherein a group of convicts "just say yes" to a combination of chloroform and formaldehyde, triggering a fit of uncontrolled rage. In the subsequent riot, the crazed cons are all shot dead by the brutal guards, but remain so well-preserved that they manage to rise up from their mass grave to seek the blood of their tormentors -- including the warden -- armed with a variety of sharp implements from the prison toolshed. Dreary and uninvolving stuff, from the director of the more interesting Grave of the Vampire. Also released as Tomb of the Undead. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- 1970
This "regional" comedy was also released as Kin Folk and The Closest of Kin. Two backwoods high school grads, Mady Maguire and Jay Scott, try their luck in the big city. Their luck runs out in a hurry as they're slickered and conned. Meanwhile, kissin' cousins Mady and Jay go well beyond kissin'. All the Lovin' Kinfolk is rated R for sex and nudity; it probably should also have gotten a D for dumb. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1970
The American Film Institute Catalog of the 1960s incorrectly describes John Hayes' Sweet Trash as being about a dockworker lured into the loanshark racket. It actually concerns a nasty, homophobic cop named Bob Walsh, who rescues a foxy young girl named Angel from a massage parlor just before a raid. He lets her stay in his crummy apartment, and before too long they're having sex in the shower. But Angel is actually only 17, and it's all a set-up. Angel's pimp (who is first seen wearing clown makeup and has a hilltop mansion full of half-naked maids) is working for a rich, powerful man named Kelljan, who was caught in a vice raid by Bob and his partner (both in drag). He has Angel lure Bob to a hippie commune, where a girl rides naked on horseback and a guy with an eyepatch makes out with two women. As soon as Bob and Angel join the fun, the rest of the hipsters snap incriminating photos and Bob is in big trouble. Kelljan blackmails him, but the worst part for Bob is that he feels betrayed by Angel, whom he thought really loved him. He gets drunk and rapes her on an open window-ledge in retaliation, then sets about turning the tables on the pimp, even though he accidentally kills Angel in the process. She absolves him of any wrongdoing before she dies, telling him that she really loved him after all. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- 1970
In this western, a group of men travel deep into the mountains to create a gold-mining camp. Soon the campers find themselves bedeviled by a band of outlaws who destroy their food supply. When the miners begin pining for women, the leader and two miners go to town in search of prostitutes. They end up at the Fandango Saloon, where the leader is friends with the madam. Trouble ensues when the miners get caught in a gunfight with the outlaws. Shortly after the hookers are safely in camp, the outlaws and the miners tangle again until the feisty madam kills the gang leader and effectively restores the peace. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1969
This dated crime drama focuses on an undercover vice cop. Neurotic and sexually frustrated, he hangs around strip joints, gay bars and swingers clubs. He finally meets and falls in love with a young hippie girl (Sharon Matt). ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide
- 1969
- R
Jay Scott and Joanne Douglas are among the hapless Americans who stumble upon the Cut Throats of the title. Even though we're in the 1980s, the villains are unregenerate Nazis, hidden away in a remote outpost. Also in the vicinity is a fortune in gold. And did we mention all those beautiful, near-naked women? I think we've all seen this one as She Demons (1958). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1968
Two outcasts find one another as their lives go into a tailspin in this moody grade-B drama. Tony (Sebastian Gregory, aka Anthony Vorno) is a Navy veteran who was a top man in underwater demolition during his time in the service; now he's trying to put his life back together after a messy divorce and he runs a junkyard that's seen better days. Gangster Nick (Paul Bruce) gets wind of Tony's experiences in the Navy and offers him 10,000 dollars to put his skills to work as part of an armored-car robbery. Tony grudgingly agrees, and arrives at a grimy strip club to seal the deal with Nick. There, Tony meets Sandy (Rue McClanahan), a would-be actress working at the club as a dancer who has been taking heat from the management for her reluctance to bare all on-stage. Tony and Sandy soon fall in love, but good luck doesn't follow them; Sandy falls for the empty casting-couch promises of a shifty screenwriter, and the carefully planned robbery fails to go like clockwork. An early credit for Golden Girls star Rue McClanahan, Hollywood After Dark was also screened under the titles Walk the Angry Beach and The Unholy Choice; it was filmed in 1965, but wasn't released until 1968, with some brief nude inserts added so the film could be sold as a sexploitation item. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sebastian Gregory, Rue McClanahan, (more)
- 1965
Another of the many raunchy "white trash" comedies of the 1960s, The Farmer's Other Daughter stars Judy Pennebaker in the title role. The farmer is portrayed by Harry Lovejoy, while obligatory travelling salesman is essayed by Bill Michael. What plot there is concerns a beauty contest wherein the candidates are garbed in flimsy bathing suits, which disintegrate when exposed to rain. A tentative stab at political satire occurs towards the end when the impoverished farm community finds itself eligible for foreign aid. Also known as Farm Girl, The Farmer's Other Daughter was considered pretty racy in its time, but now seems as sedate as an episode of Petticoat Junction. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1964
An emotionally scarred man is thrown into the heat of battle in this low-budget war drama set during World War II. Gil (Frank Leo) and Johnny (Carl Crow) are childhood friends who were raised together in an orphanage and have been as close as brothers ever since. Gil arranges to be sent to Italy to serve in the same outfit as Johnny, but while the two are happy to see one another, Gil can see that the rigors of battle have taken a toll on his buddy. Sgt. Rance (Beach Dickerson) is convinced Johnny is a coward who's faking his anxieties so he'll be shipped out of the danger zone. When Johnny snaps into a near catatonic state during a skirmish, Rance is still certain he's pulling a fast one no matter what the medical staff says, and after Johnny is confined to his tent for rest, Rance sends him back out against orders and his buddies are forced to go behind enemy lines to find him. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Harry (Paul Leder) is a junkyard owner who runs a profitable car theft operation on the side. His two flunkies do the dirty work in exchange for the marijuana Harry provides for them, as well as regular romps in the sheets with the Pooch (Rue McClanahan), an addled prostitute who lives in a shack behind the main office. A young couple traveling with their baby has car trouble nearby, so Ben (Will Gregory) goes to the junkyard for a new starter. Harry is evasive with Ben, talking in circles to the frustrated motorist, until finally suggesting that he wait in the shack with the Pooch while he checks the yard for the proper part. Harry has plans for Ben, however, turning him over to a pair of crooked cops when they demand a scapegoat for all the stolen cars in the area. While they try to beat a confession out of him, his wife Edna (Gail Gordon) is chased through the junkyard by Harry's stoned henchman Blowhard (King Moody), who tries to rape her on a pile of tires. By the end, most of the cast is eager for revenge against the manipulative, arrogant Harry, who believes his power, money, and brains entitle him to belittle and abuse everyone in his path. This unique exploitation feature was also released as Five Minutes to Love. ~ Fred Beldin, All Movie Guide
- 1961
A cynical wanderer convinces a skeptical young girl that marriage is a flawed institution in this pretentious adaptation of William Norton's stage play. To prove his point the wanderer randomly chooses a married couple and proceeds to destroy their union by seducing the other man's wife. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Leder, Rue McClanahan, (more)
- 1961
Too downbeat and risqui for its time, Walk the Angry Beach stars Anthony Vorno as Tony, a victim of his own and society's flaws. Tony's marriage crumbles when his wife leaves him, and his life takes another tumble after his business hits the skids as well. His luck continues on a downhill slide, except for his growing relationship with Sandy (a young Rue McClanahan of TV's Golden Girls fame, in one of her earliest feature roles). Sandy is a stripper who has ambitions to act on stage in a speaking part and keep all her clothes on. Tony's ambitions at the moment, are not so exalted. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
