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R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Direct</B><B>or...........Fred Olen Ray (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Spirits)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.....Fred Olen Ray (Alien Dead, Haunting Fear, The Tomb)</B></div> <div> <B>Music..............Drew Neumann & Eric Rasmussen</B></div> <div> <B>Producer.........The Eel</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....</B></div> <div> <B>Based on a Story by T.L. Lankford, John Ray, & Fred Olen Ray</B></div> <div> <B>Special Make-up Effects Created by Chris Biggs, Jon McCallum, </B></div> <div> <B>                                   & Bart J. Mixon</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>D.J..................Jo Ann Robinson</B></div> <div> <B>Randy/Black Claw.....Richard Hench</B></div> <div> <B>Hershaw Ellerbe......Roger Maycock</B></div> <div> <B>Ellen Corman.........Barbara Magnusson</B></div> <div> <B>Ben Murphy...........Frank McDonald</B></div> <div> <B>Louise Landon........Carol Sue Flockhart</B></div> <div> <B>Professor Machen.....Kirk Alyn (Atom Man vs. Superman)</B></div> <div> <B>Prospector...........Frank Scott</B></div> <div> <B>Billy Ironwing.......George Randall</B></div> <div> <B>Kyle Deane...........Jay Walker</B></div> <div> <B>Ann..................Cynthia Hartline</B></div> <div> <B>Professor Trentwood..Forrest J. Ackerman</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Sharon Reynolds..Carroll Borland (Mark of the Vampire)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critiqu</U></B><B><U>e</U></B><B>: </B><B>*WARNING: portrayal of rape. </B><B>One of</B><B> the few cases where there is a beginning to end rape which marks this film as a no message, pure exploitation effort from the portrayal of scalping Indians to the rape. He hunts the group down but do we care? Wanna see a really bad movie? Gory. You can get some laughs out of the incredibly stiff acting. Often they couldn't get actors together who are supposed to be conversing so that we have painfully obvious lighting changes with each droned line. This movie is very badly made. Expenses were spared. No one will be offended by the language or ideas of the students as they are a bit too stupid to be offensive. The intermittent cuts to the zombie Indian warrior are agonizingly stupid, the touching scenes of flirtation appallingly so. The dialog is so bad we were almost able to overcome our anger and laugh . That didn't happen until Ben shouted hey look and the other idiot thereupon digs up an completely invisible artifact. Our theory is they blew up the dead blind rubber Indian's head when they got sick of it. The beginning is typical of the film's incomprehensibility. The crew goes to great lengths to show a magazine held by Dr. Fischer for a joke; the title however is not legible due to film quality. The acting is only better than that in </B><I><B>Blood Cult</B></I><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: An unknown bearded man is beheaded by a zombie Indian warrior. An archaeologist drives to the desert in his mid-sixties Chevy truck and begins digging when he sense something and is seized by an ancient force portrayed in flashing visions of a lion-headed figure quietly snarling and an ancient Indian face chanting. He cuts his own throat. Professor Machen, who wears his pith helmet in the office, sends his archaeology students, D.J., Louise, Hershaw, Ben, and x, on a dig as he must stay at the university to catalog his stolen artifacts. Ostensibly, the dig is for geological samples on a field trip, but illegal burial remains are the real quarry and Dr. Machen instructs them to go beyond the original site so as to better their chances for a find. They need some stop leak and stop in a town which cannot be understood when its name is pronounced. At the gas station the rubber blind Indian face appears again to the horror of D.J. They are warned by drunk Billy Ironwing to stay away from the battlefield. Many Indians died there and became part of the land. While Billy speaks, visions of the zombie Indian warrior flash on the screen. Indian ghosts accompany the students as they drive into the dessert and past the skeleton of the unknown archaeologist.Visions of Indian ghosts haunt the graduate students until they stop to camp as an eagle follows them. D.J. takes a walk, Hershaw is sent to find her but she declines the help. The idiot students have breakfast and head for the hills. Ben is looking for the black trees "where they became part of the land", where the Indian told them not to go, "because that invariably will be the place to dig". The day of digging is a great success although Louise breaks a nail. Ben and Hershaw argue over the ethics of grave-robbery. D.J. tells Hershaw they are all doomed for desecrating the icons. That night Ben's cup fills with blood after he sees the rubber dead blind Indian face. Ellen is attacked by the lion-man. The whole group hears drums and chanting vibrate from the ground. D.J. hypothesizes it's coming from hell. The dead blind rubber Indian's head explodes and startles the idiot students. Randy, now in black face from the explosion, seems to have undergone a personality change. Louise begins to see the monetary value of the archeological finds. Hershaw's uncharacteristically drunk Randy says these things will never leave this land. That night, Randy clutches some artifacts and suggests to Louise that they go for a walk. The rape takes place and then Randy calls to Louise and then he's at her with one of the knives that were dug up. He chases her down and her throat is cut and she is scalped surprisingly realistically. Randy mutters that there's been a terrible accident. The others find Louise and now Randy's disappeared. Randy gave D.J. an amulet before he left. They check the car not by trying to start it but by immediately opening the hood and noting that the distributor has been cut loose. The special effects guys go to work, resulting in some pretty unassuming Indian spirits. Krenshaw relates that Black claw was a practitioner of black magic known for his murder sprees, and a renegade to boot, takes possession of Randy. Next Randy comes behind Ben who was working on the truck. As he is struck from behind, a piece of his skull flies off JFK-like. Ellen is drawn by really cheap voices. She sees Ben and then the corroded Indian hits Ellen with arrows who seems unaffected by the arrows that have pierced her. Hershaw finds part of Ben's scalp. There is a struggle with the Indian and Hershaw hits him with the tomahawk. Unfortunately, he doesn't finish off Black claw who returns with a war-cry. We have more cheap scenes of Black claw being shot until finally Hershaw gets him through the head. They turn black claw over and he is once again Randy. Just when he thought it was over, D.J. lops his head off to the wiggling fingers we saw in the opening clips. The professor shows up calling to the kids but there's no one there to greet him. The Atlanta chant starts up as he pokes around the empty campsite. The Professor gets an arrow in the eye. It appears D.J. is the new Black cloud. </B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>