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Messiah of Evil (1973)

Holly waits for the Blood Moon to bring the return of the "Dark Stranger" from the ocean's depths with Messiah of Evil (1973), in which a woman goes searching for her missing artist father in a seemingly abandoned seaside town where residents await the fulfilment of a centuries old curse. Listen as we revisit the first film from the Howard the Duck-Indiana Jones writing team of Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, get chased by crowds of cat-screeching undead ghouls, bleed from our eyes, and camp with the Donner Party on this week's exciting episode!

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