SALLY THE ZOMBIE CHEERLEADER'S SCHOOL OF HORROR: ABBY

For her faithful, fleshy, School of Horror students, Sally the Zombie Cheerleader (accompanied by the sensational SkeleKat) presents one of the grooviest, blaxploitation flicks to spring from the 1970s: the shocking, Exorcist derivative, Abby. 

This 1974 chiller (sometimes referenced as Nightmare) was directed by William (Grizzly/Day of the Animals/The Manitou) Girdler, written by G. Cornell (The Zebra Killer) Layne and stars William (Blacula/Twilight's Last Gleaming) Marshall, Austin (Battle for the Planet of the Apes/Horror High/3 From Hell) Stoker, Terry (Battlestar Galactica/McCloud) Carter, Juanita (The Mack/Tombstone and Bushrod) Moore and as the accursed Mrs. Abby Williams, the amazing Carol (The Big Bird Cage/Black Samson/Rampage!) Speed, with Bob (The Great Grape Ape Show) Holt supplying Abby's fierce, demonic voice. 

Though Abby's gimmick isn't original, it still delivers a steady, frightful stream, unraveling a hard-hitting allegory of good-vs-evil or more precisely, how evil can overcome any devout churchgoer if the atmospheric conditions are right, or make that, wrong. 

The sardonic Sally spins the behind-the-scenes details for the presentation, including the fact that Abby almost became a lost film. Indeed, one won't only be entertained by Abby, but one will learn much, thanks to Sally's superb, pedagogical skills. 

Check out Sally's School of Horror Presents Abby. You'll enjoy every possessed bump, jolt and regurgitated spurt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo9BZGdhKIE

R.I.P. AUSTIN STOKER...

For over five decades, you made the coolest movies all the cooler. 

Such examples include Horror High (aka Twisted Brain); Abby; Time Walker; The Colorado Cattle Caper; Uninvited '87; The Get-man; Machete Joe; Mach 2; Between the Lines; Do You Remember; Surge of Power; Give Till it Hurts; Shhhh; Airport 1975; Sheba, Baby; Rob Zombie's 3 From Hell; and John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13.

You were, above all, exceptional in Battle for the Planet of the Apes, achieving science-fiction-franchise history as the conscientious MacDonald. 

I always held you in high regard, Mr. Stoker, and always will, for you gave it your all with each and every performance, no matter how big or small: the consummate professional on all counts, through and through.