South of Hell Mountain

1971 "Their greed exploded point blank… shattering their lust into murder."
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Released: 01 January 1971 Released
Producted By: Cannon Group
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After planning to only rob a gold mine, an outlaw and his two sons end up killing all of the miners. While fleeing to Canada, they stop at a small cabin in the woods where they find a woman and her stepdaughter living together. What happens afterward is told through the memories of the step-daughter, now a patient locked away in a mental hospital.

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BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
udar55 This promised horror on the box but this Cannon release is more of a backwoods action-drama. Bible spouting Pa and his two sons kill a bunch of people at a mine and steal the gold. On the run, they come across young Sally who is living with her mean step-mom Helen. Sally is smitten with one of the young boys while Helen sees gold in them thar hills. All of this is told via flashback as Sally is visited by a psychiatrist in a dingy insane asylum. This is a really odd movie. It is almost like they finished the main film, found out they didn't have enough footage for a full length movie and added the asylum bits. This is all but confirmed with an opening credit that says, "Asylum scenes written and directed by William Sachs" (of THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN infamy). The main body of the film is credited to one Louis Leahman and it is his only credit. On the downside, this film features more Jew's Harp (twang, twang, twang!) than one should ever hear in a lifetime. I'd actually like to know more about this movie as it has some interesting parts and well done, downbeat ending.
John Seal An absolutely baffling western featuring flash-forward sequences set in an insane asylum, South of Hell Mountain was one of the first films produced by the schlockmeisters at Cannon Film. Co-directed by William Sachs, who would later deliver such fan favourites as The Incredible Melting Man and Galaxina, the film tells the very dull tale of a trio of gold robbers who stumble upon a cabin occupied by two women who are hiding some secrets that aren't worth discovering. The cast (most of whom never made another film) try gamely, but are hamstrung by the screenplay, which generally makes no sense. The asylum scenes are edited in to little effect and are punctuated by ridiculous sound effects and tape loops. Ultimately, it's a lot of talk and little else.
EyeAskance A man and his two sons rob a gold mine, killing several people in the process. High-tailing it to the Canadian border, they happen upon the off-road home of a young lady and her sleazy sexpot step-mother. The young girl falls in love with one of the robbers, and various situational weirdness ensues. The vague, under-developed story is expounded during flashbacks the girl has from a squalid sanitarium. These highly malapropos scenes are uproariously over-the-top, and look like some filthy nightmare from the Inquisition. A head-spinning, ultra-trashy obscurity which seems to want to be set in the old west, though it's impossible to ascertain exactly what the time period actually is, SOUTH OF HELL MOUNTAIN is essentially a misfit dissenter from the ambit of western/melodrama films, but the demented, extrinsic asylum sequences border characteristically on grindhouse horror. Too well-groomed to categorize as "awful", its wandering inconsistencies and stylistically vacillating chaos lead me to believe that there were too many chefs involved in preparing this particular dish.Uncurbed fans of cultish films should really give this one a bit more attention, mostly for its schismatic peculiarity...it's such an odd-one-out that it becomes strangely appealing as a defenseless bad-movie curio.4.5/10
von-13 Well.....horror this ain't, but.......!!!??? A terrible low low budget backwood-flic of the worst kind, sort of AND...therefore quite charming and funny to watch...at least on my tv set!!! A cross between Pete Walker, Herschell Gordon Lewis and...say....damn, I give up...just can't come up with any "prettier" resemblances for this trashy movie. Everything is soooo wrong that I just have to enlist it in my film collection alongside with....Death In Venice.....Nekromantik.....Blue Velvet and The Good,Bad,Ugly... right !!?? People with some small talent for adding gory inserts or sexy happenings to film they buy offa other people, should pick this film up immediately....sure is a fat lil' ol' goldmine waiting here, oh maaaannnn!!!!!

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