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This 1966 Florida movie by William Grefe and his companion piece Sting of Death about a killer jelly-fish man are perfect for midnight showings. Extra special credit is due to the two beautiful actresses in Tartu for working on location in the boiling hot, sun-blasted Everglades packed with alligators, snakes and mosquitoes. Running, screaming, falling down, hanging onto tree limbs, floating up to their chins in muck water and not a hair out of place with perfect makeup, they made this picture. In 1974, William Shatner went from heroic Captain Kirk to a screaming psychopathic lady killer under Grefe's directorship in Impulse.

This now 50 year old movie is an example of low budget, high weirdness New York City filmmaking that ended in the early 90s. Tony Azito is the propellant that fuels the various set pieces. Miami Vice fans may recognize Azito as the sinister but soft-spoken drug lord Manolo in a 1988 episode called Mirror Image (Season 4 episode 22). Azito didn't play the role as some raving, violent Mafia coke dealer. He was colder than cold and his spidery physical movements, like Dracula, added to the menace.

Azito was going to continue working in the show, presumably as Manolo, but fate intervened. He was hit by a cab and badly injured, then diagnosed with cancer and HIV. Which killed him.

Senta Berger should have been an official Bond Girl. The Bond team screwed up. One of Austria's greatest and prettiest actresses, Senta made lots of spy films including a Matt Helm film, West German krimis, war films and worked in many American TV shows such as It Takes A Thief and U. N. C. L. E. During the 60s. This glossy, gloomy film explores the longtime obsession some Italian filmmakers have for mature women having sex with teenage boys and nymphettes having sex. I guess Senta wanted a change of pace. Gorgeous Ornella Muti was perfectly cast as the nymph. Miss Muti was drawn to this kind of character and film, and also played the young lovers or sex objects of middle-aged men such as Ben Gazzara, Ugo Tognazzi and Vittorio Gassman in other Italian movies. She was well-cast as Ming's daughter in Flash Godon 1980. The shocking murder near the ending doesn't help this depressing, downbeat story.