Double Feature
The Hot Box
Award-winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs) produces and co-writes The Hot Box, an action-thriller straight from the grimiest corner of the grindhouse. Four nurses working in the tropical Republic of San Rosario enter a hellish nightmare when they are kidnapped and delivered to a rebel army fighting a guerilla war against oppressive government forces. Tormented by every man that crosses their path, the four women must band together in the dense jungle in pursuit of a solitary goal: survival. (Shout! Factory)
- Director
- Joe Viola
- Writer
- Joe Viola and Jonathan Demme
- Starring
- Andrea Cagan, Margaret Markov, Rickey Richardson, Laurie Rose, Carmen Argenziano, Charles Dierkop
- Year
- 1972
- Country
- Philippines/USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 89 minutes
Terminal Island
A cult movie slayer from acclaimed filmmaker Stephanie Rothman (The Velvet Vampire), Terminal Island blends violent action with commentary on the American justice system. Carmen Simms has just been sentenced to life imprisonment on Terminal Island – an island created to house vicious criminals in the wake of prison overcrowding. With no guards, no cells, and no laws, Terminal Island has morphed into a defacto society with the tyrannical Bobby ruling over all. As tension and violence mount, Carmen finds her place as the unlikely leader of the island’s underground resistance, which is planning to overthrow Bobby’s reign of terror. Starring Phyllis Davis (Sweet Sugar) and Emmy winner Tom Selleck (Magnum P.I.) in one of his earliest roles. (American Genre Film Archive)
- Director
- Stephanie Rothman
- Writer
- Written by Jim Barnett and Charles S. Swartz & Stephanie Rothman
- Starring
- Phyllis Davis, Don Marshall, Ena Hartman, Marta Kristen, Barbara Leigh, Tom Selleck, Roger E. Mosley
- Year
- 1973
- Rated
- R
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 88 minutes