Donald G. Jackson Movies
- 1998
This is yet another zero-budget video atrocity from the makers of Ride With the Devil, and it's even worse. After a title sequence featuring stock footage of bombs intercut with a fantasy-costumed Julie Strain licking a sword, a young bikini-clad woman is shown swimming in a pool with a handgun. She tries to shoot a man named Jacobs, who disarms her and shoots a hitman with the gun before kissing her. Later, Jacobs meets a sinister rival crime boss, Rinaldi, with whom he has reached a stalemate. Strain, dressed as a queen, sits next to her king and sends the jester, Jack B. Quick, to take care of all the bloodshed caused by the war between Jacobs and Rinaldi. An Asian woman somersaults down a hallway and is strangled. Another woman stumbles smiling across a bridge and down an escalator to a subway for no apparent reason. She tells Jack that he has to help them avert a bloodbath. A pimp's henchman picks up a pretty hitchhiker in his jeep and forces her to strip at gunpoint in the woods before she knees him in the crotch and runs naked down a trail with the gun in her hand. The pimp talks to customers on the phone. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- 1993
- PG13
This bargain-basement budgeted sci-fi horror movie pays a kind of tribute to 1930s sci-fi serials such as "King of the Rocket Men." It is set just after the Frog Wars of the preceding film Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988). Following that terrible battle, the Froggie mutants were placed on the special Frogtown Mutant Reservation. The story begins as the leader of Frogtown, Zar abducts Professor Tanzer and forces him to perfect a terrible serum that will turn the Earth's remaining population into croaking, fly-eating amphibians. Zar then sends out an android version of Commander Toady (a character who died in the first film) to bring in some subjects to test. Toady's first catch is the muscle-bound Rocket Ranger Jones who is injected by the lovely Nurse Cloris. To save Jones from a terrible fate, fellow rocketeers send out the courageous Ranger Sam Hell to save them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1990
In this sci-fi adventure, beautiful women don in-line skates to thwart the plans of a malicious mutant. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1989
This clunky horror parody opens with a series of lawnmower mutilation murders at the Tall Grass Country Club, days before the opening of a televised Pro-Am tournament. Fearing bad publicity, the club owner enlists the aid of alcoholic pro Roy Kent (Robert North) -- a has-been who can't seem to live down a flub that caused his career to take a nose-dive years ago -- to undertake a very low-key investigation. Roy's chief rival, young Kelly Lange (Victoria Scott), insists they close the club pending capture of the killer. When the murders are pinned on the gruff Deke Slade (Jeremy Whelan), it seems the case is closed... but the real killer is still lurking about. This Troma flavored spoof plays like a scene-for-scene parody of Jaws, especially during the climax when our three "heroes" wage a battle of wills with -- big surprise here -- a demonic lawnmower. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
The great nuclear holocaust has come and gone, and humanity is hanging on a string. Women rule what's left, and the world is filled with giant mutant humanoid frogs who have started their own communities. Fertile human males have become one of the rarest things on Earth. This really low-budget sci-fi adventure chronicles the exploits of one of those men, the wandering loner Sam Hell (as played by former wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper). The tale begins as Hell is caught and tried for raping a woman. Realizing that he is fertile, Medtech, the organization devoted to repopulating the world, takes him and forces him to wear high-tech underwear designed to control his lusty tendencies and to keep him from squandering his seed on infertile ladies. The organization then forces him to go deep into froggy territory to bring back the fertile women stolen by the amphibian's leader. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Roddy Piper, Sandahl Bergman, (more)
- 1985
This low-budget martial arts fantasy adventure is set in LA after WW III and chronicles the battle between the wheelchair-bound peacenik nun Mother Speed and the wicked Dr. Saticoy. It seems that Mother possesses a special crystal (used in their worship of a big yellow "have a nice day," smiley face). The bad doctor and his skate-boarding goons are desperate to get it. Unfortunately, she is protected by her roller-blading beauties and he must send in a decoy in order to get it. Yes, it is as campy as it sounds. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Suzanne Solari, Jeff Hutchinson, (more)
Promotional materials for this Michigan-based occult turkey (aka Devil Master) proudly proclaimed, "At last! The truth about demons!" So much for truth in advertising... unless the ads refer to the personal demons haunting writer/producer/director/honeywagon driver Donald G. Jackson and his partner in crime Jerry "Nine Fingers" Younkins, who helped finance the film with insurance money after injuring his hand. Younkins also plays the title character -- a dorky, kung-fu hippie satanist who conjures demons to whack various backsliding ex-members of his cult. Gory antics ensue, including a squirm-inducing scene wherein one victim gets an arrow to the crotch... which could be seen as a metaphor for this film's overall effect on the viewer. "Leatherface" Gunnar Hansen also puts in a quick cameo as an occult historian. Amazingly, this no-budget nonsense was the subject of a little-seen documentary titled Demon Lover Diary. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- 1970
- R
A young woods-walking female scientist tangles with a roving murderer when she's just trying to do her job. ~ All Movie Guide
