TV Guide: Athena Massey

Video: Star Portal

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:58:43 -0500

This low-budget sci-fi horror film from the Roger Corman stable stars Athena Massey as an alien vampire jellyfish who takes over the body of an Earth woman. Operating from a dead fortune-teller's house, Massey proceeds to kill a lot of people, hanging them upside-down and draining their blood before zapping them with pink electric bolts from her eyes. Steven Bauer is the doctor who falls in love with Massey, and there's an alien biker cop who comes after her with murder on his mind. The effects are pretty silly, but Massey and Bauer are engaging leads, and fans of the genre should be mildly amused. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide.

Video: Harold Robbin's Body Parts

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:57:31 -0500

A man bent on delivering his own brand of justice isn't sure who his friends and enemies really are in this thriller based on a novel by Harold Robbins. Ty Kinnick (Richard Grieco) is a United States Naval officer stationed in Hong Kong, whose good friend, J.J. Kemp (Will Foster Stewart), has fallen in with a dangerous crowd. Ty finds out just how deep J.J. has gotten in with the criminal element when J.J. uses Ty as a fall guy for a scam that leads to murder and the theft of a fortune in stolen cocaine. Ty finds himself serving a long term in a barbaric prison, but when control of Hong Kong is handed back to the Chinese, Ty is one of a number of prisoners released early as a goodwill gesture. Ty cut off contact with his wife, Rachel (Athena Massey), when he became convinced she was in cahoots with J.J., but when he returns home to California, Rachel finds Ty and tells him J.J. is still after him, and will kill him as soon as he can find him. Ty is eager to get revenge against his former friend, and takes Rac

Video: Termination Man

Video Detective — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:04:54 -0500

When America's safety is threatened, America's greatest secret agent comes to the rescue in an action-adventure yarn produced by Roger Corman. Yurdovich (Alexander Ilyin) is a notorious Serbian terrorist who has discovered a diabolical new weapon -- a super powerful nerve gas which can penetrate even the strongest gas masks and toughest anti-chemical suits. After Yurdovich takes out a platoon of American soldiers with the deadly gas and threatens to hit larger targets unless his demands are met, the U.S. security chief (James Farentino) calls in Dylan Pope (Steve Railsback), one of the free world's greatest undercover agents. Pope teams up with top agent Ed Marks (Eb Lottimer) and beautiful but ruthless field operative Delilah Shane (Athena Massey) as they set out to infiltrate Yurdovich's secret compound in the Adriatic Sea. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.