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Beta PSYCHO FROM TEXAS 1975 No Cover PARAGON

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Availability: 72 in stock
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Release Year: 1975
  • Type: Movie
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Sub-Genre: Crime, murder, kidnap, worse!, cult, Gore, slasher, thriller
  • Genre: Horror
  • Format: Betamax
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Studio: Paragon Video Prod.
  • Condition: Very Good
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Custom Bundle: No
  • Movie/TV Title: Psycho From Texas

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    Beta PSYCHO FROM TEXAS 1975 No Cover PARAGON.
    The HTF Beta tape is in very nice shape but the cover is missing.
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    Psycho From Texas
    Directed by Jack Collins, Jim Feazell
    Written by Jim Feazell
    Produced by Jack Collins, Jim Feazell, Sherry Feazell
    Cinematography Paul Hipp
    Edited by Arjay
    Music by Jaime Mendoza-Nava
    Country United States
    Language English
    Psycho From Texas is a 1975 American low-budget horror film directed by Jack Collins and Jim Feazell. The plot concerns a hitman being hired to kill an oil baron, who escapes and runs for his life. The movie was filmed in El Dorado, Arkansas.[1]
    The original title was Wheeler when it first came out in 1975. It was then refilmed in 1978 featuring the Linnea Quigley sequence. This was one of Quigley's first film appearances.[2] Later, Quigley related unhappy memories of the shoot: "They made me take my clothes off and poured beer on me. It was stupid."[3]
    The film's 1976 promotional stunt in New York City attracted attention. In 1990, the New York Daily News said "This obscure slasher [film] is best remembered from its cowboy-style promo campaign, when a loudspeaker-equipped truck bearing an outsized Psycho from Texas banner struck terror into unwary Times Square pedestrians when the pic premiered here back in '76."[4]
    Top Cast
    Herschel Mays as William Phillips
    John King III as Wheeler
    Reed Johnson as Steve Foster
    Tommy Lamey as Slick
    Jack Collins as Sheriff Tom Peterson
    Joanne Bruno as Bertha
    Candy Dee as Connie Phillips
    Janel King as Ellen Peterson
    Roger Ellis as Banker
    Marland Proctor as Deputy Carl
    Linnea Quigley as Barmaid
    Donald Moran as Man in Bar
    Variety said, "After going through various title changes including Wheeler, The Mama's Boy and The Hurting, picture emerges as a modest example of regional filmmaking, with amateurish direction and playing suitable for undiscriminating viewers."
    The Creature Feature Movie Guide said, "[The movie] finally reached the screen with the impact of a redneck's double-barreled shotgun missing both firing pins... Watch this to ogle Leanna Quigley stripped naked by King III in the middle of an empty barroom and jiggle her breasts while he pours a pitcher of beer over her head. Watch for Jack Collins as the stereotyped sheriff, Joann Bruno as a screaming maid, and Tommy Lamey as a demented southerner named Slick who spends half the film chasing the overweight oilman through the swamp."
    Even the box art on the video release attracted criticism, with The Deep Red Horror Handbook saying, "Really atrocious box art may alert the consumer to a film with an undeniable retard charm. Positively the worst tape box graphic ever is the one devised for Psycho From Texas (1974). The eyes of Charles Manson are superimposed over an autistic child's cut-outs of a cowboy hat and firing gun done in garish Romper Room primary colors. It complements perfectly the film contained therein, probably assembled by Tobe Hooper-styled inbreds, about a chubby maniac terrorizing a hick town mayor."