Now this movie is fucking awesome! Its the tale of a clean cut preppy jock/medical student who becomes possessed by the demonic spirit of a dead gangster named J.D. Walker. Under J.D.'s spell our clean cut wimp becomes one bad-ass, straight razor wielding, girlfriend beating, priest bashing, rapist, psychopath.
J.D.'s Revenge differs from the average Blaxploitation flick in the sense that it starts off slow and has a bad ending but the rest of the movie is awesome. Usually these low budget black action films start off with a bang and then really slow down until the final.
Glynn Turman plays our possessed antihero and he does a great job with his personality changes between evil J.D. Walker and boring straight laced college kid. This thing was directed by Artur Marks, The same cat who did Bucktown and Monkey Hu$tle. The nature of this film places J.D.'s Revenge in the slim Horror/Blaxploitation genre along with films like Blacula and of course Abby which is a better known possession (Exorcist ripoff) Blaxploitation flick.
This one also offers up its fair share of nudity with typical strip club scenes and of course some sweet love making scenes. We also get a few rape scenes and the most memorable one shows a woman being tossed around the house and having her clothes ripped off by our scar-faced gangster. She is bruised up pretty good and it makes for a heart pounding scene. The violence seems to escalate as the film goes on. We get slaughter house footage, which seems to have been a fad in the 70's. Some throat slashing, shoot outs, a old lady is banged up in the back of a cab with some demonic taxi driving and we also get some nasty knife fights.
In one of my personal favorite scenes a criminal is comparing a priest to a pimp. The criminal claims that the lord is like a fix that the junkies on the street need and a preacher is nothing but a king-pimp and the whores name is Jesus. Unfortunately in the end the film seems to have some what of a demented religious message to it but all in all J.D.'s Revenge is a super-bad 70's flick with pimp-wear, jive talky-talk and the perfect amount of nudity and violence. Check it out cause "They were right. This nigga's crazy".
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Bad Girls In The Movies (1986)
Here's another 80's VHS promotional compilation, this time from Lightning Video. This one is a bunch of clips of bad girls and female delinquents from a bunch of different exploitation and B-Movies. We get clips from Girls For Rent (a.k.a. I Spit On Your Corpse) with Gerogina Spelvin. Lots of Ragina Carrol in Satan's Sadists and Angels Wild Women. We get some bare breasts from movies like Deadly Weapons and then we get segments from trailers, including Doris Wishman flicks (Who was a bad girl herself) like Bad Girls Go To Hell and The Amazing Transplant.
All this silliness is strung together with a really bad shot on video, movie within the movie about a bad girl who gets locked up and eventually she gets the electric chair.
Bad Girls In The Movies is only a hour long and it goes by pretty fast. Its not as good as Terror On Tape but its still a good time passer. The one thing that really surprised me is that there wasn't any scenes from Women In Prison Movies.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959)
"Tease"! You're not kidding the movie is a tease. I felt like somebody was poking me with a stick through the whole movie and that wasn't the kind of tease I was looking for.
This was Russ Meyer's first full length feature film and its pretty obvious. The whole thing comes off as one big annoyance right from the films opening. It was shot silently and then some narration and demented music was added in.
The 63 minute nudie cutie follows a pervert named Mr. Teas around as he goes about his daily business of looking down girls shirts, watching girls on the beach and spying on big breasted babes in sweaters make out with their boyfriends.
Mr. Teas goes in and out of day dreams where he pictures the woman around him naked. The film does have quite a bit of bare breasts and bottoms but the overall annoyance of the pace, music and narration just over laps any redeeming values that the film might have had.
I am perfectly aware that The Immoral Mr. Teas is an American film in 1959 that shows naked women and it didn't quite fit into the Nudist Camp film genre and that maybe it was an important film in exploitation cinema but this film had me praying for Doris Wishman's Nude On The Moon.
Russ Meyer would go on to do lots of great films, Mudhoney, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Motorpsycho etc. but The Immoral Mr. Teas is not one of them. There is a scene where a big boobed naked woman strums a guitar on the beach that will having you grinding your teeth and begging for a painless death.
This was Russ Meyer's first full length feature film and its pretty obvious. The whole thing comes off as one big annoyance right from the films opening. It was shot silently and then some narration and demented music was added in.
The 63 minute nudie cutie follows a pervert named Mr. Teas around as he goes about his daily business of looking down girls shirts, watching girls on the beach and spying on big breasted babes in sweaters make out with their boyfriends.
Mr. Teas goes in and out of day dreams where he pictures the woman around him naked. The film does have quite a bit of bare breasts and bottoms but the overall annoyance of the pace, music and narration just over laps any redeeming values that the film might have had.
I am perfectly aware that The Immoral Mr. Teas is an American film in 1959 that shows naked women and it didn't quite fit into the Nudist Camp film genre and that maybe it was an important film in exploitation cinema but this film had me praying for Doris Wishman's Nude On The Moon.
Russ Meyer would go on to do lots of great films, Mudhoney, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Motorpsycho etc. but The Immoral Mr. Teas is not one of them. There is a scene where a big boobed naked woman strums a guitar on the beach that will having you grinding your teeth and begging for a painless death.
Isle Of The Dead (1945)
You really have to be in the right mood for this one. Its a little on the boring side but the story is very good, with strong characters. Isle Of The Dead stars Boris Karloff as a British General who is trapped in a house on a small island in Greece. The plague has infected some of the people in the house and Karloff quarantines the perfect strangers. He threatens to kill anyone who tries to leave the house because he can not risk the plague spreading to any of his soldiers.
The thing that makes Isle Of The Dead so interesting and appealing to me is that every character has their own beliefs. Some believe in science while others believe in god and the super natural.
For me the real horror is showing the war between science and religion and the fact that an idea can spread as fast as the plague and do just as much damage.
Karloff's character is a man of logic and science and he is appaled at the fact that the people he is trapped with believe the plague to be the work of a evil spirit. An old woman in particular rants about how one of the girls in the house is a sort of demonic vampire. This infuriates Karloff and causes him to further alienate himself from the others. This is until Karloff's character becomes sick himself and the influence of the others finally corrupts his mind. This is when peoples lives are really at risk.
Isle Of The Dead is only worth watching for its subject matter. Its the perfect movie for anyone who looks at religion and finds it to be completely insane. Otherwise I'd just skip it.
The thing that makes Isle Of The Dead so interesting and appealing to me is that every character has their own beliefs. Some believe in science while others believe in god and the super natural.
For me the real horror is showing the war between science and religion and the fact that an idea can spread as fast as the plague and do just as much damage.
Karloff's character is a man of logic and science and he is appaled at the fact that the people he is trapped with believe the plague to be the work of a evil spirit. An old woman in particular rants about how one of the girls in the house is a sort of demonic vampire. This infuriates Karloff and causes him to further alienate himself from the others. This is until Karloff's character becomes sick himself and the influence of the others finally corrupts his mind. This is when peoples lives are really at risk.
Isle Of The Dead is only worth watching for its subject matter. Its the perfect movie for anyone who looks at religion and finds it to be completely insane. Otherwise I'd just skip it.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Blue Collar (1978)
Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Hardcore) writes and directs this racially charged tale of three union workers. Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphett Kotto (Truck Turner) are three working stiffs who just can't get by in the rat race. Their families rely on them for financial support and their union isn't making them rich. After a night of cocaine, alcohol and prostitutes the three men decide to perform a heist and steal the safe from their very own union office. The men find themselves in more trouble then the bargained for when they learn what is in the safe. The safe holds information of illegal happenings within the union.
Watching Pryor and Keitel together is amazing on its own. Throw Yaphett Kotto in there and there is no way the movie can go wrong. Pryor does his thing and fills the screen with energy and witty dialogue while Keitel plays the perfect role of a desperate working class man with not much to lose. Blue Collar deals in intense social messages ranging from race, class and of course position. These three working class friends are being held down by the corrupt politicians and rich union foremen. They feel their backs are against the wall and the only way to get ahead is to resort to crime but the big criminals are the men in the suits and ties who have a lot more power and are a lot more dangerous. " They pit the lifers against the new boy and the young against the old. The black against the white. Everything they do is to keep us in our place."
Watching Pryor and Keitel together is amazing on its own. Throw Yaphett Kotto in there and there is no way the movie can go wrong. Pryor does his thing and fills the screen with energy and witty dialogue while Keitel plays the perfect role of a desperate working class man with not much to lose. Blue Collar deals in intense social messages ranging from race, class and of course position. These three working class friends are being held down by the corrupt politicians and rich union foremen. They feel their backs are against the wall and the only way to get ahead is to resort to crime but the big criminals are the men in the suits and ties who have a lot more power and are a lot more dangerous. " They pit the lifers against the new boy and the young against the old. The black against the white. Everything they do is to keep us in our place."
I Spit On Your Grave (1959)
Not to be mistaken for the 1978 rape/revenge movie of the same title but this French exploitation flick is also the tale of revenge. This one has a pretty unique plot. It stars Christian Marquand from And God Created Woman, who plays Joe Grant. Joe is a light skinned black man and his brother is lynched by the racist towns-folk after being accused of raping a white woman, who was his soon to be bride. Joe leaves town and plots out a revenge in the name of his brother but instead finds himself in the same situation.
I Spit On Your Grave (1959) is a hard film to categorize because its almost like a early sexploition film in the fact that it is so sexually charged with lots of pretty women in teasing skimpy clothing. There is also a bit of nudity on display. Its also almost a early blaxploitation film due to the subject matter and racial tension within the film.
One thing that I picked up on was a coincidence with the 1978 film. There is a line in this movie that strikes a big similarity with the tagline for Meir Zarchi's film. "There isn't a jury in America that will convict you". The brilliant exploitation tagline for the 78' film states "There isn't a Jury in America that will convict her for what she's done...". Can't help but wonder if this connection was done purposely.
I Spit On Your Grave (1959) is exploitive and yet has a sense of class to it, with nice cinematography and good acting. The girls are attractive and a bit of violence helps this one moving along. It also has an amazingly realistic scene where a black man is set on fire and the camera doesn't cut away. We see the body burn up, completely smothered in flames.
For some reason this one reminded me or Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor. Check it out for something a little different.
I Spit On Your Grave (1959) is a hard film to categorize because its almost like a early sexploition film in the fact that it is so sexually charged with lots of pretty women in teasing skimpy clothing. There is also a bit of nudity on display. Its also almost a early blaxploitation film due to the subject matter and racial tension within the film.
One thing that I picked up on was a coincidence with the 1978 film. There is a line in this movie that strikes a big similarity with the tagline for Meir Zarchi's film. "There isn't a jury in America that will convict you". The brilliant exploitation tagline for the 78' film states "There isn't a Jury in America that will convict her for what she's done...". Can't help but wonder if this connection was done purposely.
I Spit On Your Grave (1959) is exploitive and yet has a sense of class to it, with nice cinematography and good acting. The girls are attractive and a bit of violence helps this one moving along. It also has an amazingly realistic scene where a black man is set on fire and the camera doesn't cut away. We see the body burn up, completely smothered in flames.
For some reason this one reminded me or Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor. Check it out for something a little different.
I'll Kill You... I'll Bury You... I'll Spit On Your Grave Too! (1995)
It'a shot on video (S.O.V.) and it looks like it came out in the late 80's early 90's. Either way the movie pretty much sucks. Five of the ugliest people you could ever cast in a film take off to some shit-hole cabin in the middle of nowhere and they start getting killed off one by one by a slasher maniac in a army get-up that was ripped off from the far superior Slasher flick The Prowler.
With a title like I'll Kill You... I'll Bury You... I'll Spit On Your Grave Too!, it is obvious that they are trying to suggest this is some kind of a sequel to the amazing Meir Zarchi Rape/Revenge 1978 cult classic I Spit On Your Grave. Of course it is all just a marketing scheme and the two films have absolutely no relation. I picked this one up a long time ago in a boxset of mainly shot on video throw away movies. The boxset itself was marketed with I Spit On Your Grave in mind. The set was called I Dance On Your Grave and the best film in the whole crappy set is a movie called Killing Spree. I guess the DVD packaging worked because I was drawn to the title and cool cover art and that's why I was forced to sit through garbage video movies like this one.
I'll Spit On Your Grave Too has a pretty cool opening with a couple having sex in a camper until they are interrupted by a psycho with a chainsaw. There is a few other entertaining gore scenes. One involves a wood chipper and the blood and meat goes flying and splatters all over a pickup truck. Then we get a nice effect involving a pitchfork (again ripping off The Prowler). We also get a not so good looking nympho who can't keep her clothes on. There is also a lot of continuity in this one and the acting is horrendous. So unless you have some sort of sick fetish for really bad s.o.v. movies with awful acting, ugly people and a generic plot, I would stay far away from this one.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Deadgirl (2008)
This one hit close to home with the story of two teenage boys who break into a local abandoned mental institution and find a Deadgirl... Or is she? The reason this film appealed to me at first is because when I was a teenager my friends and I would break into our local abandoned psycho ward. We spent lots of time in that place the only difference is we never found a corpse and we most certainly never fucked it.
At first the girl appears to be dead, the two boys soon learn that the girl is living and breathing but instead of calling the police, the kids decide to keep it a secret. One decides to have a little fun with the girl and he gets his pervy little rocks off. During his sexcapades he snaps the girls neck and it doesn't affect her. Once the kids learn she is a zombie their troubles really begin. One of them wants to call the police but his horny friend wont allow it. The Deadgirl is raped repeatedly and its not long before the secret is spread to other equally sick and horny friends. The teenage boys sink deeper and deeper into depravity and eventually decide to kidnap other girls and bring them to their secret place where they can turn them into other Deadgirl sex slaves.
Deadgirl offers a bit of blood and guts but nothing to overly excessive. We get a exploding diarrhea scene with intestines splashing all over a toilet seat and bathroom stall floor, we get a zombie blowjob complete with castration, a hand is dismembered with a machete, bullet wounds with green gooey puss pouring out, a upper lip is bitten off, faces are beaten bloody and a dog is ripped apart.
Still Deadgirl only comes off disturbing with the corpse fucking scenes and the rest of the movie is unintentionally humorous. Not the worst movie ever made and its worth a watch at least once. There isn't much replay value to this one but most movies made these days aren't worth a watch at all. Its not Nekromantik but its better then any shitty Resident Evil movie.
At first the girl appears to be dead, the two boys soon learn that the girl is living and breathing but instead of calling the police, the kids decide to keep it a secret. One decides to have a little fun with the girl and he gets his pervy little rocks off. During his sexcapades he snaps the girls neck and it doesn't affect her. Once the kids learn she is a zombie their troubles really begin. One of them wants to call the police but his horny friend wont allow it. The Deadgirl is raped repeatedly and its not long before the secret is spread to other equally sick and horny friends. The teenage boys sink deeper and deeper into depravity and eventually decide to kidnap other girls and bring them to their secret place where they can turn them into other Deadgirl sex slaves.
Deadgirl offers a bit of blood and guts but nothing to overly excessive. We get a exploding diarrhea scene with intestines splashing all over a toilet seat and bathroom stall floor, we get a zombie blowjob complete with castration, a hand is dismembered with a machete, bullet wounds with green gooey puss pouring out, a upper lip is bitten off, faces are beaten bloody and a dog is ripped apart.
Still Deadgirl only comes off disturbing with the corpse fucking scenes and the rest of the movie is unintentionally humorous. Not the worst movie ever made and its worth a watch at least once. There isn't much replay value to this one but most movies made these days aren't worth a watch at all. Its not Nekromantik but its better then any shitty Resident Evil movie.
Hell Penitentiary (1984)
This one is easily confused by another film of the same title. It came out the same year from the same director and has some of the same cast members. The other film however is better known as Hell Behind Bars. This Italian slice of Eurotrash is a women in prison (W.I.P.) movie with lots of sex.
In fact there is so much graphic sex in it with close-ups on genitals and nipple sucking that the print I picked up is labeled "softcore erotica". I however didn't find it to be to far from what I am used to seeing in a W.I.P. flick except that the sex scenes go on slightly to long with some really awful soap opera esque music playing behind it. We get plenty of shower scenes, lesbian sex, straight sex, rape & then just nudity for nudity sake. We even get a few swinging dicks for good measures. Aside from the explicit Euro-sex-beavers, we get some torture and murder as well. After all is it really a Women In Prison movie without some whippings and torture scenes? I suppose its not a necessity but it sure makes the viewing a lot more pleasurable.
This one is about a girl who scams the prison system in order to get behind bars and find out what happened to her sister. She eventually learns that her sister was mixed up with some rough characters and was killed by a jealous lover. Now the Innocent girl needs to escape and reveal the sleazy truth to proper authorities to what is really going on. She is subjected to sexual deviance, torture with hot pokers and various beatings. Ajita Willson (Contraband, Sadomania) plays a gang leader who plots out a rebellion escape. As usual its impossible to tell Ajita was born a man and she shows plenty of flesh in this one. Hell Penitentiary also offers up some gun violence, stabbings and some really bad dialogue.
I'm not sure if there is a nicer print available on video but the dvd that I picked up has very soft/faded colors. Other then a few film burps it looks and sounds okay. I found the film in general to be pretty standard, generic stuff other then a really cool scene involving a bulldozer and a crushed couple in a car. Still these W.I.P. films always tend to entertain me.
In fact there is so much graphic sex in it with close-ups on genitals and nipple sucking that the print I picked up is labeled "softcore erotica". I however didn't find it to be to far from what I am used to seeing in a W.I.P. flick except that the sex scenes go on slightly to long with some really awful soap opera esque music playing behind it. We get plenty of shower scenes, lesbian sex, straight sex, rape & then just nudity for nudity sake. We even get a few swinging dicks for good measures. Aside from the explicit Euro-sex-beavers, we get some torture and murder as well. After all is it really a Women In Prison movie without some whippings and torture scenes? I suppose its not a necessity but it sure makes the viewing a lot more pleasurable.
This one is about a girl who scams the prison system in order to get behind bars and find out what happened to her sister. She eventually learns that her sister was mixed up with some rough characters and was killed by a jealous lover. Now the Innocent girl needs to escape and reveal the sleazy truth to proper authorities to what is really going on. She is subjected to sexual deviance, torture with hot pokers and various beatings. Ajita Willson (Contraband, Sadomania) plays a gang leader who plots out a rebellion escape. As usual its impossible to tell Ajita was born a man and she shows plenty of flesh in this one. Hell Penitentiary also offers up some gun violence, stabbings and some really bad dialogue.
I'm not sure if there is a nicer print available on video but the dvd that I picked up has very soft/faded colors. Other then a few film burps it looks and sounds okay. I found the film in general to be pretty standard, generic stuff other then a really cool scene involving a bulldozer and a crushed couple in a car. Still these W.I.P. films always tend to entertain me.
Mesa Of Lost Women (1953)
Doctor Aranya which is Spanish for Dr. Spider, is a mad scientist with a mad mole on his face. In fact at times it is almost disturbing to look at. Well anyway Dr. Aranya has a new serum derived from spider venom which allowed him to create a new race of women. Women who will live for hundreds of years and have super-long black nails. These women can rejuvenate limbs just as certain insects do and they are very deadly. Dr. Spider is also creating giant Tarantula's for some reason or other and he also has a army of dwarfs.
When a group of people on a plane are held hostage by a lunatic with a gun the plane takes a ridiculous crash landing in the desert of Mesa Mexico. The people have to fight for their lives against the mad scientist and his army of giant spiders, super-women and dwarf's.
Mesa Of Lost Women starts of with a bang. We get very strange opening scene with a woman kissing a man to death all while very unique Spanish guitars and pianos clash in the background. Then the 70 minute movie slows down for a long stint with much to much talky chit chat and not enough action. Eventually the movie picks up again in the last 15 min. or so.
Mesa Of Lost Women offers a strange but very repetitive musical score that at times adds a sense of surreal atmosphere but at others can become pretty annoying. We also get some pretty women and a sort of daring dance number from a sexy spider woman named Tarantella. Tarantella doesn't get naked but does show a lot of leg and even caresses her breasts. We also get giant spiders who leave gaping bite wounds in victims necks. However as I mentioned before, in my opinion the scariest aspect of the film is the giant protruding mole that is growing off of Dr. Spiders face.
Mesa Of Lost Women is in the public domain and the DVD probably only costs about fifty cents. Worth owning for anybody who is into weird Movies From Mars with midgets and monsters.
When a group of people on a plane are held hostage by a lunatic with a gun the plane takes a ridiculous crash landing in the desert of Mesa Mexico. The people have to fight for their lives against the mad scientist and his army of giant spiders, super-women and dwarf's.
Mesa Of Lost Women starts of with a bang. We get very strange opening scene with a woman kissing a man to death all while very unique Spanish guitars and pianos clash in the background. Then the 70 minute movie slows down for a long stint with much to much talky chit chat and not enough action. Eventually the movie picks up again in the last 15 min. or so.
Mesa Of Lost Women offers a strange but very repetitive musical score that at times adds a sense of surreal atmosphere but at others can become pretty annoying. We also get some pretty women and a sort of daring dance number from a sexy spider woman named Tarantella. Tarantella doesn't get naked but does show a lot of leg and even caresses her breasts. We also get giant spiders who leave gaping bite wounds in victims necks. However as I mentioned before, in my opinion the scariest aspect of the film is the giant protruding mole that is growing off of Dr. Spiders face.
Mesa Of Lost Women is in the public domain and the DVD probably only costs about fifty cents. Worth owning for anybody who is into weird Movies From Mars with midgets and monsters.
Monday, January 31, 2011
I Eat Your Skin (1964)
Del Tenney was very busy in 1964. He directed three movies that year. The Horror Of Party Beach, Curse Of The Living Corpse and Zombies. Zombies sat on a shelf, unseen by the world for about six years until the great I Drink Your Blood was released and needed another movie to play as a creature double feature. Zombies name was changed to I Eat Your Skin and a cult film was born.
I Eat Your Skin is cheap, cheesy and no frills but it worked perfect as a second film on a double bill. The Zombies in this one are not the George A. Romero flesh eating Zombies. They are the old school voodoo Zombies but in this one they carry around machete's. One zombie even caries around a giant box of explosives and there is no question to whether or not the box contains explosives because in big bold print, the box says "EXPLOSIVES".
I Eat Your Skin offers up a decapitation by machete (A bit surprising for 1964), a flare gun wound to a stomach, a knife in the back, a decapitated chicken and some pretty girls. We also get some decent special F/X for a low budget flick. Zombie transformations are done Lon Chaney Jr., The Wolf Man style and the Zombies do look pretty cool with decaying flesh and big melted buggely eyes. We also get to see the bullet holes appear in the Zombies chests when they are shot.
I Eat Your Skin isn't the greatest movie ever made but its an entertaining watch. I Drink Your Blood blows it out of the water but the films of Del Tenney have a place in this world and it just so happens that this one belongs right after the end credits of I Drink Your Blood.
I Eat Your Skin is cheap, cheesy and no frills but it worked perfect as a second film on a double bill. The Zombies in this one are not the George A. Romero flesh eating Zombies. They are the old school voodoo Zombies but in this one they carry around machete's. One zombie even caries around a giant box of explosives and there is no question to whether or not the box contains explosives because in big bold print, the box says "EXPLOSIVES".
I Eat Your Skin offers up a decapitation by machete (A bit surprising for 1964), a flare gun wound to a stomach, a knife in the back, a decapitated chicken and some pretty girls. We also get some decent special F/X for a low budget flick. Zombie transformations are done Lon Chaney Jr., The Wolf Man style and the Zombies do look pretty cool with decaying flesh and big melted buggely eyes. We also get to see the bullet holes appear in the Zombies chests when they are shot.
I Eat Your Skin isn't the greatest movie ever made but its an entertaining watch. I Drink Your Blood blows it out of the water but the films of Del Tenney have a place in this world and it just so happens that this one belongs right after the end credits of I Drink Your Blood.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Three The Hard Way (1974)
Its kind of hard to believe they could mess this one up. Instead of one we get three of the genre icons. Jim (Slaughter) Brown's girlfriend is kidnapped by a white fascist group whom plots a genocide against the black man. Jim Brown teams up with Jim Kelly (Black Belt Jones) and Fred Williamson from movies like Black Caesar, Legend Of Niger Charlie and Hell Up In Harlem. The three blaxploitation super stars go to war with the white fascists and get Jim Brown's woman back.
The plot is ridiculous and the action scenes are all pretty lame. The movie doesn't even get slightly entertaining until Jim The Dragon Kelly shows up and kicks a bunch of cops ass in a pretty amazing kung fu scene. Kelly blurts out his usual weird keeyah's and refuses to use a gun. Williamson and Brown's characters are both pretty lame and the shoot-em-up scenes get boring and repetitive pretty fast. Three The Hard Way was directed by the same cat who did Super Fly but really lacks in every department. Skip this one and take home Five The Hard Way also know as Sidehackers staring the great Ross Hagen.
The plot is ridiculous and the action scenes are all pretty lame. The movie doesn't even get slightly entertaining until Jim The Dragon Kelly shows up and kicks a bunch of cops ass in a pretty amazing kung fu scene. Kelly blurts out his usual weird keeyah's and refuses to use a gun. Williamson and Brown's characters are both pretty lame and the shoot-em-up scenes get boring and repetitive pretty fast. Three The Hard Way was directed by the same cat who did Super Fly but really lacks in every department. Skip this one and take home Five The Hard Way also know as Sidehackers staring the great Ross Hagen.
Gummo (1997)
Written and directed by 21 year old Harmony Korine (Kids). Gummo is the dark tale of a town that was hit by a tornado, leaving the people financially and mentally damaged. Gummo mainly focus's on the youth and the film depicts directionless kids, lacking in moral and social education.
Most are shocked by the weird, offensive and sometimes disturbing imagery. Depending on your perspective Gummo is a work of beauty or a vile piece of trash. Which ever your opinion be, the shocking images stick with you well after the movie has finished. We see transvestites, plenty of retarded folk, a gay black midget, plenty of white trash, drunken rednecks, violence towards animals, self mutilation, foul moth young children, a chain-smoking kid in pink rabbit ears, retarded prostitutes, glue huffing, eyebrow shaving, etc, etc. This is all strung together with nihilistic monologue from different characters.
Personally I am a big fan of this movie and like it much better then Kids (Which I also like very much). Still I can understand why others might not be interested in this sort of thing. Gummo is filthy in a way that could only be understood after viewing. Its almost as if a awful stink comes off of the screen with the dirty imagery of poverty. The bathtub scene should sum it all up for you.
Most are shocked by the weird, offensive and sometimes disturbing imagery. Depending on your perspective Gummo is a work of beauty or a vile piece of trash. Which ever your opinion be, the shocking images stick with you well after the movie has finished. We see transvestites, plenty of retarded folk, a gay black midget, plenty of white trash, drunken rednecks, violence towards animals, self mutilation, foul moth young children, a chain-smoking kid in pink rabbit ears, retarded prostitutes, glue huffing, eyebrow shaving, etc, etc. This is all strung together with nihilistic monologue from different characters.
Personally I am a big fan of this movie and like it much better then Kids (Which I also like very much). Still I can understand why others might not be interested in this sort of thing. Gummo is filthy in a way that could only be understood after viewing. Its almost as if a awful stink comes off of the screen with the dirty imagery of poverty. The bathtub scene should sum it all up for you.
Black Samson (1974)
Black Samson is kinds like the black version of big Bufford Pusser from the Walking Tall movies. This one came out one year after Walking Tall but it seems as if it was cashing in on the success and bringing it to the Blaxploitation genre. Big Buford doesn't have a giant Lion for a pet but Buford and Samson have a lot in comun. For one, they both carry a big stick and use it as a weapon of choice. They also do their best to keep their streets clean. Their personal politics may be different but the consequences are the same. The mob comes down hard on righteous Samson in order to gain teritory. The only problem is that Black Samson is a sort of messiah on his streets. The people follow him and he does his part to keep drugs and prostitution away from his "brotha's & sista's".
Marlbro Man, William Smith (Run Angel Run) is known for being a bad-ass and he is the perfect woman beating bad guy in this movie. In one of the most memorable scenes William Smith throws his girlfriend out of a moving car because he suspects she had sex with a black man.
Blaxploitation veteran Carol Speed, who most would remember best from Abby and The Mack plays Samsons girlfriend in this one and her acting is unique as usual. She gets her breasts slashed up by William Smith's goons and Black Samson learns how loyal his black brothers and sisters are when they join him in his war against the white gangsters.
Black Samson starts off a bit slow but really picks up as the movie runs. We get a coke-head who does a over the top Richard Pryor empression. Lots of fist fights. Disturbing girlfirend beating. Topless dancers, a huge fucking Lion and an amazing climax involving a race war in the streets. Black Samson turns out to be a pretty fun under-rated Blaxploitation flick with some original happenings. Its availible on a four movie set including three Jim Kelly movies. Well worth the five bucks.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Hot Potato (1976)
Pretty lame Jim Kelly Kung Fu comedy about four martial artists who band together and kick ass in search of a kidnapped woman. Don't waste your time trying to follow a plot on this one because it is paper thin. Also don't expect this thing to be a Blaxploitation flick because it really isn't at all. In fact there isn't really any exploitation value to this one. Its generally a pretty annoying flick with hokey music playing over Kung Fu scenes. Its filled with bad sound effects and I'm not talking about Jim the dragon Kelly's Keeyah.
Kelly Fans will get their share of ridiculous Kelly-Fu complete with silly faces, crazy leg movements and absurd noises but for me the only value this movie had was a character named Rhino played by George Memmoli from Mean Streets. He doesn't call anyone a Mook in this one but he does run around topless, do some pretty embarrassing dances, get it on with the ladies, has a food eating competition, dishes out some ass whoopins and has one of the silliest looking outfits in any Kung Fu movie. He looks like a cross between a cowboy and a leprechaun. He wears a sort of Pancho with green shorts and different colored striped socks.
Then we get some leotard wearing bad guys who jump from the trees and smash up picnics. A guy is eaten by a tigers but unfortunately the violence is off screen. We don't get any nudity and there is no blood.
You wouldn't be missing much by skipping this one. Its a bad Kung Fu flick and its not a good Jim Kelly flick. Only worth a watch for anyone who feels the need to see George (The Mook) Memmoli in yet another fight scene.
Gorgasm (1990)
Bottom of the barrel shot on video piece of garbage from Hugh Gallagher who would go onto do Gore Whore (Which I have not seen yet) and produce Jess Franco's Tender Flesh which is a totally sleazy version of The Most Deadly Game, complete with golden showers and close-ups on vagina's.
Well anyway, Gorgasm is Gallagher's first feature and its a pretty rough sit through. The plot is cool but the lack of budget and professionalism really put a hurtin on this one.
Gorgasm is about a desk cop who does a bit of detective work on his own and finds out that latest brash of murders are connected. The murders are being committed by an anonymous woman who runs an article in a smut zine for sexual deviates. She goes by the name of Gorgasm and she offers what she calls "The ultimate climax". The ultimate climax of course being death which she will act out the way her victim chooses. All she asks for in return is all of the money that particular person had in life, after all they wont need it anymore.
Gorgasm has its ups and downs but unfortunately the downs outweigh the ups in this one. Some of the highlights are a sleazy clerk behind the counter of a sleazy adult store who charges 50 cents for you to even enter his store. Then we have a paper editor who surrounds himself with smut. He has filthy posters all over his walls and his mouth is more filthy. Then we get some bare breasts, some transsexual penis on display, a kid wearing a Ted Bundy shirt is decapitated, we get some cool stock footage from a S&M stag film and a cool hand dismemberment scene. The quote of the movie "This place is sleazy. You're nothing but a bunch of perverts".
Then we have the downs. First off its shot on video. The acting is as bad as it can get. Aside from Gorgasm the female cast is pretty damn ugly. One woman looks like she is having a stroke as she butchers her lines. Her mouth and teeth are deformed and if Hugh Gallagher was using family members in this movie its was just cruel of him to force the world to look at this woman. Then we have a saggy titted blond in a black leather outfit and she either has some pretty nasty razor burn going on or a mean case of the herpes. Either way it isn't exactly pleasant to watch her roll around with a weed-whacker, wielding psycho slut. Then we have some shitty subplot with a dummy hanging in a garage (Don't even ask). We are forced to listen to awful 80's hair metal and the main character is smoking cigarettes constantly but as a smoker its annoying to watch this oh so obvious non smoker twirl his cigs around as if it was necessary to the plot. There is moments when the guy holds a cigarette with two hands (it really is horrible). The same guy spins his gun around his finger as if he is the Lone Ranger or something.
Save yourself some time and money, skip Gorgasm and check out George C. Scott's Hardcore. Its a much better film and I feel that is the route Gorgasm was trying to go.
Well anyway, Gorgasm is Gallagher's first feature and its a pretty rough sit through. The plot is cool but the lack of budget and professionalism really put a hurtin on this one.
Gorgasm is about a desk cop who does a bit of detective work on his own and finds out that latest brash of murders are connected. The murders are being committed by an anonymous woman who runs an article in a smut zine for sexual deviates. She goes by the name of Gorgasm and she offers what she calls "The ultimate climax". The ultimate climax of course being death which she will act out the way her victim chooses. All she asks for in return is all of the money that particular person had in life, after all they wont need it anymore.
Gorgasm has its ups and downs but unfortunately the downs outweigh the ups in this one. Some of the highlights are a sleazy clerk behind the counter of a sleazy adult store who charges 50 cents for you to even enter his store. Then we have a paper editor who surrounds himself with smut. He has filthy posters all over his walls and his mouth is more filthy. Then we get some bare breasts, some transsexual penis on display, a kid wearing a Ted Bundy shirt is decapitated, we get some cool stock footage from a S&M stag film and a cool hand dismemberment scene. The quote of the movie "This place is sleazy. You're nothing but a bunch of perverts".
Then we have the downs. First off its shot on video. The acting is as bad as it can get. Aside from Gorgasm the female cast is pretty damn ugly. One woman looks like she is having a stroke as she butchers her lines. Her mouth and teeth are deformed and if Hugh Gallagher was using family members in this movie its was just cruel of him to force the world to look at this woman. Then we have a saggy titted blond in a black leather outfit and she either has some pretty nasty razor burn going on or a mean case of the herpes. Either way it isn't exactly pleasant to watch her roll around with a weed-whacker, wielding psycho slut. Then we have some shitty subplot with a dummy hanging in a garage (Don't even ask). We are forced to listen to awful 80's hair metal and the main character is smoking cigarettes constantly but as a smoker its annoying to watch this oh so obvious non smoker twirl his cigs around as if it was necessary to the plot. There is moments when the guy holds a cigarette with two hands (it really is horrible). The same guy spins his gun around his finger as if he is the Lone Ranger or something.
Save yourself some time and money, skip Gorgasm and check out George C. Scott's Hardcore. Its a much better film and I feel that is the route Gorgasm was trying to go.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Curse Of The Living Corpse (1964)
How many times are they going to make this movie. This is one of the most recycled plots in film history. It has been used countless times in forgettable movies. Its the old tale of a wealthy relative who has passed on and leaves the fortune and castle/mansion to family members providing they stay in the old castle foe X amount of time and follow the wishes on the will.
This time the castle and wealth is being left in the will of a crazy old man whom is presumed dead. In the will the old man demands that his children stay in the castle and follow certain orders.
If they fail to meet the demands they will be killed in a way that each individual fears the most. One is afraid of fire. Another afraid of drowning and the crazy old mans fear was being buried alive. Well sure enough the deceased coffin turns out to be empty and the family members start dying. Is the old man back from the grave or was he buried alive? You will have to see for yourself. I suppose out of all the movies that used this tired old plot, this is one of the best.
Still that isn't saying much but at least this one has a bit of gore.
It was directed by Del Tenney who is most remembered for The Horror Of Party Beach which would play on a double bill with The Curse Of The Living Corpse. I'm sure 99% if not all of the late night movie goers who went to see this creature double feature found the beach party monster flick to be the more entertaining of the two. Still The Curse Of The Living Corpse is not a bad movie it just is a bad choice for a double bill. The Horror Of Party Beach was a total fast paced camp flick where this one moves rather slow with an occasional bit of nastiness. Some of the highlights consist of a death by quicksand, we have lots of cane beatings, a man is dragged by a horse and has his face ripped up, a woman is drowned but the real money shot is a decapitated head served on a platter for breakfast. This thing was rightfully placed on a double feature dvd with the far Superior Horror Of Part Beach. The dvd is worth owning, there for Curse Of The Living Corpse is worth a watch. The dvd has beautiful cleaned up prints of both movies and neither one ever looked so good.
This time the castle and wealth is being left in the will of a crazy old man whom is presumed dead. In the will the old man demands that his children stay in the castle and follow certain orders.
If they fail to meet the demands they will be killed in a way that each individual fears the most. One is afraid of fire. Another afraid of drowning and the crazy old mans fear was being buried alive. Well sure enough the deceased coffin turns out to be empty and the family members start dying. Is the old man back from the grave or was he buried alive? You will have to see for yourself. I suppose out of all the movies that used this tired old plot, this is one of the best.
Still that isn't saying much but at least this one has a bit of gore.
It was directed by Del Tenney who is most remembered for The Horror Of Party Beach which would play on a double bill with The Curse Of The Living Corpse. I'm sure 99% if not all of the late night movie goers who went to see this creature double feature found the beach party monster flick to be the more entertaining of the two. Still The Curse Of The Living Corpse is not a bad movie it just is a bad choice for a double bill. The Horror Of Party Beach was a total fast paced camp flick where this one moves rather slow with an occasional bit of nastiness. Some of the highlights consist of a death by quicksand, we have lots of cane beatings, a man is dragged by a horse and has his face ripped up, a woman is drowned but the real money shot is a decapitated head served on a platter for breakfast. This thing was rightfully placed on a double feature dvd with the far Superior Horror Of Part Beach. The dvd is worth owning, there for Curse Of The Living Corpse is worth a watch. The dvd has beautiful cleaned up prints of both movies and neither one ever looked so good.
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