Messiah of Evil

Name: Messiah of Evil
Genre: Horror
Released: December 11, 1974
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Anitra Ford, Bennie Robinson, Charles Dierkop, Elisha Cook Jr., Emma Truckman

1974

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International Cine Film Corporation | Release Date: December 11, 1974 | R

Starring: Anitra Ford, Bennie Robinson, Charles Dierkop, Elisha Cook Jr., Emma Truckman, Joy Bang, Marianna Hill, Michael Greer, Morgan Fisher, Royal Dano

Summary: A young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult.

Director: Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck

Genre(s): Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 90 min

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Budd Wilkins

Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz’s eerily brooding Messiah of Evil remains an undervalued gem of American gothic filmmaking. Read full review

IndieWire Jamie Righetti

Messiah of Evil is an underseen gem that manages to creep under the skin despite its very low budget. Read full review

Collider Jay Liu

Given its troubled production history, Messiah of Evil is far from perfect. Mood can only get you so far when not much happens for a good hour of the film. But it flows with the blood of New Hollywood in its veins, defining the wave as more than just gritty dramas and excessive blockbusters. Read full review

Erik Piepenburg

The film melds a “California Girls” sensibility (the Beach Boys song, to be clear) with boho fashion and depraved supernatural horror in a way that’s feminine, mesmerizing and lurid. There’s no other horror film quite like it. Read full review

Anton Bitel

Co-writers/co-directors Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz confound life and art, reality and dreams, sanity and madness in their surreal vision of conservative America succumbing to – or biting back against – the encroaching counterculture. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Incoherent horror film about a woman, Hill, searching for her father, a surrealist painter in a small California coastal town that has become overrun with flesh-eating zombies. Katz and Huyck, who enjoyed great success as the writers of George Lucas' AMERICAN GRAFFITI, stooped to ripping off George Romero's low-budget masterpiece NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Read full review

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