Evils of the Night (1985)

Here's a trailer which, from the very first moment, leaves you in no doubt as to the film's focus and intended audience: jiggling bums and boobs for the adolescent male.  Evils of the Night is one of those horror films from the eighties whose main selling point - beyond all the female flesh on display - was the array of past-their-best stars of yesteryear that they featured in their casts.  This one includes the ubiquitous John Carradine (who would gleefully appear in any old tat for money), Julie Newmar, Neville Brand and Aldo Ray.  Plot-wise, it is something of a throwback to fifties mad scientist movies - but with the twist that this time they are alien mad scientists from outer space - with added eighties gore, sex and a disturbing emphasis upon the brutalisation of young women.  Young people are being abducted from a camp ground by a pair of degenerate sadist-rapist mechanics (Brand and Ray), who variously feel up and molest the women, before passing then onto the local hospital.  Here, they are the subject of experiments by John Carradine and his associates, who are decrepit aliens aiming to drain them of their youthful energies in order to revitalise themselves.

Around the same time that producer/director Mardi Rustam was making Evils of the Night, he was also cobbling together another film, Evil Town, from footage shot in the seventies for an uncompleted and unreleased horror film with a similar plot.  The main difference between the two being that the main mad scientist in Evil Town isn't an alien, just a very human mad man experimenting on passing young people in order to rejuvenate the elderly residents of the titular town.  Evil Town had a complex production history, with some of the existing footage having been part of a previous attempt to complete the original film.  Rustam shot further new footage to be edited into the existing film in order to bring it up to feature length and add some sex and nudity.  This footage was remarkably similar to some of Evils of the Night, forming a sub plot in which a pair of degenerate sadist-rapist mechanics kidnap camping young people and, after brutalising the women, hand them over to the local hospital.  This time around, the mechanics are played by Greg Finlay and Keith Hefner (Hugh's brother).  Evil Town was eventually released in 1987, a couple of years after Evils of the Night.  The fact that the original Evil Town footage and plot pre-dated Evils of the Night by several years suggests that the latter film was inspired by the earlier film, with the latter, in turn, providing Rustam with the inspiration of how to complete the earlier film by, in essence, lifting one of its sub-plots, just as he had lifted Evil Town's main plot for Evils of the Night.  Regardless of the chronology, the end result was the release of two utter clunkers for the price of one.