Hopeless American expatriates inhabit a small Spanish village where residents are mysteriously dying after the arrival of a religious cult.Hopeless American expatriates inhabit a small Spanish village where residents are mysteriously dying after the arrival of a religious cult.Hopeless American expatriates inhabit a small Spanish village where residents are mysteriously dying after the arrival of a religious cult.
- Salt
- (as David Carpenter)
- Susannah
- (as Alibe)
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Treasure: I bet you thought my name was Treasure, huh? Treasure Evans. Just like the rest of the world thought. My fans; my public. Bet you thought that there were my parents, looking down at this cuddly little baby and saying "Ah, isn't she a treasure?" Why don't we call her that? No, that ain't the way it happened.
Treasure: [she continues] No, there I was on my lovely, little sixteen year old backside. Or was I on my belly? I really don't remember. Well, anyway, right side up or upside down, there I was, stretched out on the casting couch. Oh, yeah - they had casting couches.
Treasure: [she continues] And there was this fat, ugly, old producer. Well, he was important, I don't know, he was more than a producer, he was like a studio head. And he says to me: "Mary" - my real name, Mary - at any rate there he is looking down at me and drooling, and he says "Mary, you're a treasure".
Treasure: [she continues] Well, not long after that I became a star. Big house in Beverly Hills. I had a swimming pool; three pictures a year to do; jewellery; oh, good jewellery. And telephones - telephones everywhere. Ring-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling. "Hello, hello" - my telephone voice - "Hello, this is Treasure Evans".
- ConnectionsReferenced in Adjust Your Tracking (2013)
- SoundtracksNatural Me
by Georgann Rea and Marian Montgomery
In total contrast to this, a very non-twelfth century-looking woman appears, dressed in groovy threads. She enters a building where western music plays. Her name is Susanna (Alibe Parsons), and she's met by the heroin-filled, racial slur-spouting, Chicken (Dennis Hopper). They're part of a misfit group of expatriates, living together in this tiny, ultra-religious village in Spain, and they stick out like ballerinas in a bowling alley.
These two groups are set against each other, as scenes of a religious festival is intercut with the hedonistic frivolity of the foreigners. Does anyone see a catastrophic culture clash coming?
Enter the fun-loving ex-movie star, Treasure Evans (Caroll Baker). She's sort of a younger version of Nora Desmond, and another part of this oddball bunch of bananas, that includes an aging WWII General and a mega-flamboyant gay man. They're a family, clinging together in order to be themselves, in spite of their increasingly oppressive surroundings. We get the impression that none of them could survive alone.
When these exiles gather for a Good Friday celebration, their drunken revelry flies in the face of the solemn procession going on beside them. Things have been tense and creepy all along, and the atmosphere gets really thick from here on out!
Soon, the darkness, religious insanity, and death take over completely.
This is one of those wonderfully weird, disturbing films that could only have come out in the 1970's. Filled with bizarre situations and an overhanging sense of gathering, unstoppable doom, the horror bubbles up like a corpse in a bog!
Mr. Hopper is as good or better here than in many of his outings, playing it natural, and letting it fly! For those who've never seen him go absolutely berserk, well, he certainly does that here!
SOME NICE TOUCHES: Watch for the red telephone! And, what's up with the pregnant woman with the umbrella?...
- azathothpwiggins
- Jun 9, 2021
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