Fred Lincoln Movies
- 1989
In this film, a successful Las Vegas businessman decides to relive his days as a CIA agent when he sets out to seek revenge on the people who murdered his friend. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi
- Starring:
- Don Scribner, Michelle Bauer, (more)
This comedy, also known as Manny's Orphans, tells the story of a heterogeneous, ill-spoken, team of Little Leaguers that goes from a bunch of young losers into a championship winning team thanks to the assistance of their new coach, a police rookie. This film was created on the heels of The Bad News Bears. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Richard Lincoln, James Zvanut, (more)
- 1973
Looking for a project after producing the successful Last House on the Left, genre filmmaker Sean S. Cunningham (Friday the 13th) took on Brad Talbot's idea of filming a softcore sex comedy in Florida. When the money disappeared, Cunningham was left to finish the project on his own, and its troubled production is evident in every painfully unfunny frame. Sheila Stuart stars as Emma, a voyeuristic female vampire who orally drains her victims. Detectives Fred J. Lincoln and Ron Browne sleep with several suspects in the course of their investigation and Harry Reems appears as a reporter. Complete with hardboiled 1950s-style narration, the film is apparently intended as a parody, but looks terrible and isn't funny. Except -- it should be noted -- to Australians, because the film was a surprise success down under and nowhere else, even when it was re-released with additional hardcore footage and peddled as porn. Debbie Craven, Cathy Walker, and Jean Jennings co-star. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
Wes Craven's first film was a crude but shocking horror opus that, like George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968), became a grind house hit largely because it went much further than terror films before it had been willing to go. Often compared to Ingmar Bergman's stark medieval rape drama The Virgin Spring (1960) (though one wonders whether this was influence or just coincidence), Last House on the Left follows a group of teenage girls heading into the city when they hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a horrible revenge. Like Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre two years later, Last House on the Left was an unrelievedly dark vision of contemporary horror that inspired many future films which copied its effects without achieving its visceral impact. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- 1971
Cult Staten Island filmmaker Andy Milligan directed this exploitation film, one of his rare non-horror efforts. The fleshpot in question is Dusty Cole (Diana Lewis), who runs out on her surly lover and takes to prostitution, moving in with an aging drag queen (Lynn Flanagan) who hustles as well. Dusty sleeps with a rough customer named Jimmie (Paul Matthews), who beats her with a belt and then sets up a group-date at a poker party. In the meantime, Dusty meets Bob (Bob Walters), who lives on Staten Island and promises her a way out of the hustling life. Alas, a series of unforeseen complications arises. An obligatory in-joke has a character suggest going to a double-feature horror show of Milligan's Torture Dungeon and Bloodthirsty Butchers. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
