The way Contamination begins, you’d swear you were watching the beginning of Fulci’s Zombie. The same New York waterway… the same unresponsive boat. Both films even have the same hero: Ian McCulloch.
The same type of animation as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and those stop-motion holiday classics, but starring the likes of Dracula and the Wolf Man.
While chatting, Hess mentioned a film I’d never heard of called Hitch-hike. He said that it was another of his demented criminal roles that made him infamous.
This film was reportedly one of the only slasher films to be discussed at length on the Donahue Show. They showed the nail gun murder and the audience was appalled. What did they expect?
The Prowler is absolutely disgusting… I love it. Every death scene has been extended from what I remember, and blood explodes by the gallon. Nothing is implied, you see it all.
After escaping capture in Part II, Angela (played by Bruce Springsteen’s sister, Pamela) continues her role as Angela Baker, the transsexual psychopath.