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Bloodstalker Ltd./Not Rated</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.........Robert W. Morgan</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Robert W. Morgan</B></div> <div> <B>Music............Stan Webb</B></div> <div> <B>Producer.........Robert W. Morgan</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Ben Morse</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects and Make-up by Doug Hobart & Matella-Maria</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Daniel........Kenny Miller (Little Laura and Big John)</B></div> <div> <B>Jeri..........Celea Ann Cole</B></div> <div> <B>Mike..........Jerry Albert</B></div> <div> <B>Kim...........Toni Crabtree</B></div> <div> <B>The Old Man...Herb Goldstein</B></div> <div> <B>Jarvis........Robert W. Morgan</B></div> <div> <B>Lester........John R. Meyer</B></div> <div> <B>Regge.........David Moris</B></div> <div> <B>The Mute......Stan Webb</B></div> <div> <B>Deputy........Lane Chiles</B></div> <div> <B>Preacher......Joe Hilton</B></div> <div> <B>Choral Group..The Williams Singers</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: A real rentable piece. A redneck movie in the truest sense with the Yankee fear and mistrust, poachers, a conspiracy, inbred marginal characters, some suspenseful gags, etc. There is something delightfully seventies about the dialog, the clothes, the insipid subplot of Dan and Jeri's marital problems concerning her desire to continue her career as an exotic dancer, etc. There's a combination "Scooby-Doo" unmasking of both local myth and the bad guys with a "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2", dog eat dog business rationale at the end combined with a Nazi Germany conspiracy of fear, guilt and silence on the parts of the villagers. This is particularly the case for the leader of the black Baptist congregation. He's got the only survivor in his church and kicks him out, forcing him back into the jaws of the slashers. As in most woods movies, there's a lot of dark scenes and the focus becomes quite muddled during Mike's search for help but returns with the showdown. Not bad but entertaining in a "not very good" kind of way. 70's horror movie background music and a great chambre des morts at the end. The isolation of the camp site, the alienation of the Yankees, with their lack of familiarity of local customs and legend send a chill down the spine of anyone who might be interested in a redneck (Yankee), here country/city movie. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Mike has nearly completed the 13 hour drive to the Everglades when his wife Kim laments, "There's nothing out here, not a blessed thing!" Mike Akin is given a very cold reception by "a cranky old swamp rat" who tells the party not to go out to the Akin cabin "That's Bloodstalker country now". For five years even the locals and swampdwellers know not to venture into Bloodstalker territory at night. Mike stubbornly insists that no one can stop him from visiting his own cabin, but is stopped by a trio of armed drinking swamp hunters which doesn't calm the nerves of Kim, Dan, and Jerri. They meet an inbred chickenman who doesn't understand their questions, but giggles when they proceed toward the cabin. The overgrown road to the house necessitates the vacationers leave the car out on the road and hike . As they approach the house something is watching through the brush. Kim insists she saw something moving in the house before skeptical mike enters the place of his fondest childhood memories for a to week stay. Kim notes that everything but the table are covered with dust eight years of. When Mike returns to the car he hears a frightening growl and the car covered with giant paw prints. The men settle down to fishing and drinking. Mike tells Dan the legend of the Seminole Indians Showanochoie, "a huge, hairy creature that comes out in the night and steals bad children away." Mike explains that it's not the sounds in the woods one has to fear, but the silence, which indicates the presence of a bear or something. It appears this thing is watching as Mike and Kim skinny-dip later that evening and a foreboding silence is followed by a roar. Mike wants it to be a mountain lion and promises to search for cat tracks the next day. If he finds them, Kim promises to stay. Mike toast his friends and uses the unfortunate phrase "from the cradle to the grave" to describe his friendship with Dan. After his emotional toast, Dan tells Jerri of Mike's institutionalization after accidentally killing a group of civilians in Viet Nam. As they then prepare for bed a hairy arm busts through the wall and grabs Jerri before mike sickles and shoots it into withdrawing only to return pounding endlessly at the walls until Mike shoots and a trickle of blood comes under the door.</B></div> <div> <B>Jerri's catatonia forces a run for the car by Mike, who leaves Dan instructions to sickle the monster in the neck in case of attack. Although the tires are flat, Mike does find a two-sided axe  for later. He gives squeamish Dan the gun and makes a run for town which should take about an hour but he is turned away from every house until he chased by the three hunters from the first village scene. He finds his way to an African-American gospel choir practice where he is likewise shown no compassion. As Mike runs back to his wife and friends the final showdown has already begun in the cabin and there are more than one monster.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>