Experiment #359

Movie Lineup

1. 1

   Scarab

   1984 · 1h 32m

   Dr. Wilfred Manz performs a magical experiment on a beetle-shaped amulet. His patience exhausted, he smashes his fist into some bottles and a few drops of blood fall onto the scarab. His laboratory is rocked by an explosion, the god Khepera appears and Manz is transformed into a demi-god magician. Thirty years later, Manz has assumed the name Khepera and lives in mysterious castle. Using his magical powers, he is killing heads of government and causing the collapse of major financial institutions. Jack Murphy, an American correspondent, witnesses the pandemonium following the suicide of the Spanish prime minister and notices an attractive nurse, Elena, take a small scarab which has fallen from the prime minister's lapel. Later, he visits an occult shop where the scarab is identified as being associated with the Egyptian god, Khepera. Murphy is captured and Elena — who was tricked into sacrificing her brother when they were children — once more takes up the sacrificial dagger...

2. 2

   Official Exterminator: Kill for Love

   1987 · 1h 30m

   A Chinese couple move in together, but the boy secretly wants the daughter of a top business magnate, and when he tries to kill his current partner to get what he wants, she isn't happy.. in a co-joined storyline, a young tousled hair cop has his buddy cruelly shot down and swears revenge, but is forced to quit the police when his corrupt superior takes him 'off the case'. From then on we get random scenes of bad guys being sent to kill our renegade as he defeats them repeatedly. Neither storyline has anything to do with the other, and were obviously combined for reasons of padding "Cut-and-paste" transformation of Taiwanese movie "Kill for Love" (1982; directed by Richard Chen Yao-Chi) with new Hong Kong footage.

3. 3

   Blood Brothers

   1989 · 50m

   In 1986 as a teen, Mike Diana bought a video camera and using his younger brother and sister as actors made a gore film inspired by the horror videos he was a fan of...

4. 4

   Dark Night of the Soul

   1998 · 53m

   A skeleton-faced death cultist recruits new members into his bizarre drug cult by indoctrinating them into his wild occult beliefs.