Terrible Delights #166: Rituals

This week's pick to end season 7 is the Shaw Brothers' spooky 1980 film Hex. A sickly wife with a case of serious lungs and her new impromptu maid kill the wife's abusive husband with spooky results, murder, naked dancing, and more!

This week's pick is the 1974 possession film Abby. An evil Nigerian spirit is accidentally released and possesses nice, churchgoing Abby, who begins wreak havoc by causing heart attacks and abusing her husband's testicles. An exorcist style battle of good versus evil ensues!

This week's pick is the 1983 snake-based horror film Spasms. A rich man captures a giant snake from hell that he has developed a telekinetic bond with in the hopes of understanding why. The snake escapes and goes on a murderous spree with venom that causes body parts to inflate, which the man has visions of. Featuring a sweaty, twitching Oliver Reed and a very dull Peter Fonda.

This week's pick is the 1978 British supernatural slasher Terror. The last descendants of a witch hunting family and their close acquaintances, mostly, begin to die under mysterious circumstances! Could it be the ghost of a witch from a film within this film that has fillings???

This week's pic is the 1975 action crime film Mitchell. Slob cop Mitchell break the rules, drinks cans of Schlitz on his fold out sofa bed, and sucks on a classy prostitute's feet all while trying to bust a heroin shipment and prove a crooked union lawyer killed a burglar in cold blood.

This week's pick is the 1985 exploitation urban thriller film Tenement. A gang seeks revenge on residents of a South Bronx slum after one of them gets the police to come and arrest the troublemakers. Gritty violence then occurs in abundance.

This week's pick is the 1974 fantasy/mime/horror film Shanks. William Castle's last film tells the story of a deaf and mute puppeteer that uses a recently deceased inventor's new device to animate dead bodies for uses like one-on-one birthday parties and battling biker gangs.

This week's pick is the 1977 when-animals-attack film Dogs. A small college town in California is suddenly overrun by domestic dogs that begin to attack their owners and all the residents. It's up to a couple of professors to try to save everyone.

This week's pick is the 1973 action/adventure film Savage! A mercenary becomes the leader of a rebel army with the help of an acrobat and a knife thrower. T.D. Hall of Famer Vic Diaz dies during sex!

This week's pick is the 1977 Canadian horror/thriller film Rituals. Five doctor colleagues (four in matching yellow bucket hats) are dropped deep into the Canadian wilderness for their annual bonding trip. An unseen evil hunts them as they struggle to survive and escape.