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AND 44/100 PERCENT DEAD
In 1974, Frankenheimer’s [director:
Grand Prix, The Manchurian Candidate &
Seven Days in May] self aware pop art
gangster satire took audiences for a ride
they just were not able to process at the
time. This mind bending psychedelic neo-noir
simply did not fit into the high brow movie
houses where it played. A dystrophic world
of albino alligators; skillful chase scenes;
and Chuck Connors as a one-handed psycho
who can fit various deadly weapons on his
stumpy arm, was an idea that fell flat with
most moviegoers of the time, leaving them
confused and unsure of what, exactly, they
were watching. The core story is one many
gangster film fans have seen before: an
elderly mobster (Edmond O'Brien) hires a
hit man (Richard Harris) to eliminate his
rival; but, the brilliance of the film is
in the way this genre staple is taken and
applied to a world of nightmare reality,
a kind of dream state where anything and
everything can happen, with or without reason.
With this seemingly blasphemous take on
the crime film, the film expands the genre
to a kind of adolescent art film, a clear
and pure distillation of the possible mind
state of the murderer. This is adventurous
filmmaking at its finest!
Color/ 98 Min./ 1974
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APPOINTMENT
WITH DANGER
Made in 1951, this effective crime film
stars Alan Ladd in the last of his film
noir starring roles and directed by Lewis
Allen, who also directed Desert Fury,
So Evil My Love & Chicago Deadline
(which also starred Ladd). The story concerns
a special investigator for the U.S. post
office named Al Goddard (played by Ladd)
who is assigned to collar two criminals
who've murdered a postal detective. To begin
his investigation, Goddard must first locate
the only witness to the crime, a nun named
Sister Augustine (Phyllis Calvert). In an
effort to infiltrate the criminals operation,
Goddard poses as a crook and eventually
gains the confidence of the murderers' boss
Earl Boettiger (Paul Stewart), who has worked
out a scheme to defraud the post office
of one million dollars. Once they've realized
the truth, the crooks take Goddard and the
nun prisoner, leading to a fight to the
finish in a lonely industrial district.
The real highlight of this film is the fact
that both Jack Webb and Harry Morgan of
Dragnet fame play the bad guys.
Webb plays an extremely vicious killer who
murders a man onscreen with a pair of bronzed
baby shoes.
B&W/ 89 Min./ 1951
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BEEN
DOWN SO LONG IT LOOKS LIKE UP TO ME
Based on Richard Farina's counter-culture
novel of the same name, this film stars
Barry Primus as Gnossos Pappadopoulis, a
world-weary traveler who has been on a voyage
and seen many horrors and returned a changed
man. But instead of confronting those changes
and making the injustices of his world right
again, he is reluctant to talk about what
he has seen thanks to the uptight nature
of his home surroundings. Think The
Odyssey set at a conservative college
in 1958 America and you’ll be getting
close. While it doesn't quite capture the
true revolutionary spirit of Farina's book,
it remains another important volume in the
history of counter-culture film from the
late 60's/early 70's.
Color/ 90 Min./ 1971
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Big
Time
ULTRA RARE 1977 blaxploitation
obscurity produced by Motown Films with
an original soundtrack by Smokey Robinson!
Small-time con man Big Time Eddie hustles
his way to the big payoff, while trying
to stay one step ahead of insurance investigators,
the FBI and the Mob. Think “Uptown
Saturday Night” with a harder edge.
Starring blaxploitation regular Christopher
Joy and the notorious Jayne Kennedy, Big
Time is about as rare as lost Blaxploitation
films get.
Color/ 96 Min./
1977
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BJ
LANG PRESENTS
Mickey Rooney stars in this pantheon of
bizarro "lost films" as B.J. Lang,
an insane washed up stage actor who kidnaps
an innocent woman, ties her up in an old
abandoned theatre house and proceeds to
put on the most whacked out, LSD inspired
performance you will ever see. Watch a violent
rendition of “The Chattanooga Choo
Choo”; a twisted performance of Cyrano
De Bergerac; and random theatrical moments
where the cast members on his hallucinatory
stage are completely imagined. We highly
recommend this life changing shock fest!
Color/93 MIN/1969
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CAN
HIERONYMUS MERKIN EVER FORGET MERCY HUMPPE
AND FIND TRUE HAPPINESS?
Directed,
written, and starring (he even composed
the music), Anthony Newley, this film has
to be the ultimate example of cinematic
self-indulgence! The story concerns a sex
obsessed writer/director/singer/actor named
Hieronymus Merkin. He soon becomes a superstar
with the help of a mysterious manager. Soon
women are lining up at his doorstep to sleep
with him. Eventually he has a Lolita like
affair with a young girl name Mercy Humppe
and his world falls apart. The movie takes
place entirely on an island except for the
moments when we see Hieronymus screening
the film we are watching for a room full
of critics and producers. It's a great example
of the kind of non-narrative experiments
people were using after seeing one too many
Fellini movies in the late 60’s. Featuring
lots of lusty moments, strange music and
more bizarre narrative shifts than even
Godard could handle, CAN HIERONYMUS
MERKIN EVER FORGET MERCY HUMPPE AND FIND
TRUE HAPPINESS? is a must see for fans
of lost and forgotten 60's excess.
Color/107 Min. /1969
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THE
CAPTURE OF BIGFOOT
Somehow Bigfoot has managed to elude capture
for nearly 25 years. Many small mountain
towns speak of the menace of Bigfoot, but
only one town has managed to make a cottage
industry out of Bigfoot sightings and ancillary
merchandising. Thanks to their commercialization
of the monster, all this may come to an
end very soon when a local fat-cat businessman
hopes to trap Bigfoot once and for all so
that he can get all the publicity gravy.
Of course capturing Bigfoot may not prove
to be the most intelligent idea. Made in
1979, this hilarious Bigfoot movie is filled
with amazing “man in suit” Bigfoot
battles as well as a touching Bigfoot family
reunion finale. Don’t let the Yeti
costume fool you, it IS Bigfoot!
Color / 92 Min./ 1979
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CHANGE
OF MIND
Blaxploitation
staple Raymond St. Jacques (Book of
Numbers, Cotton Comes to Harlem) stars
in this compelling and challenging mediation
on racism in the United States. Jacques
plays David Rowe, a white man whose brain
has been transplanted into a black mans
body. Rowe is a district attorney and he
soon begins to feel the sting of racism
everywhere he goes. Even his wife and friends
treat him differently. The local sheriff
(played by Leslie Nielsen) shows his racist
nature when he first encounters Rowe in
his new body, insulting him and treating
him with total disrespect. But when the
sheriff gets into legal trouble for murdering
his black mistress, it's Rowe who must defend
him. Change of Mind was a revolutionary
film for the time, a movie that took the
ugly reality of racism and showed the absolute
absurdity of it all. An added bonus is the
soundtrack by Duke Ellington.
Color/ 80 Min./1974
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CHESTY
ANDERSON U.S. NAVY
Ed
Forsyth, director of such Sexploitation
classics as The Ramrodder and Superchick,
made this mid 70's sleaze classic starring
Shari Eubank, the great Timothy Carey, Uschi
Digard, Scatman Crothers and Fred Willard.
Eubank is Chesty Anderson, a Navy officer
out for revenge when her sister is killed
in a garbage disposal unit. It turns out
the mob had her killed to cover up her knowledge
of the seamier side of a senate candidate's
sex life. Chesty enlists her hot female
Navy friends to help her discover the secret
behind her sister's disappearance. They
encounter Timothy Carey as a mobster hit
man whose boss runs the operation to get
the candidate into office. His boss also
has a man-eating plant which is used to
torture unloyal henchmen. Chesty Anderson
U.S. Navy is about as close to drive-in
movie perfection as you can get.
Color 89minutes/1976
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CONFESSIONS
OF AN OPIUM EATER
Starring
the great Vincent Price, this Albert Zugsmith
exploiter is very freely based upon the
book “Confessions of an Opium Eater”
by Thomas DeQuincey. Set in San Francisco
during the Tong Wars of the 1800s, women
are sold as slaves by an evil drug lord
named Ling Tang. Price plays the hero, DeQuincey,
who is asked to find a woman who has escaped
the slave trade and bring her back. He finds
her and attempts to escape with her, only
to be discovered and marked for death for
his treachery. In an effort to escape the
wrath of Ling Tang, DeQuincey hides out
in Chinatown and discovers the wonders of
the Opium trade and the drugs hallucinogenic
effects. Filled with absurd dialogue, Asian
stereotypes, and A-typical Zugsmith exploitation
touches, Confessions of an Opium Eater
is a classic of the early 60’s sleaze
genre.
B&W/ 85 min/ 1962
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CREEPING
TERROR/KILLER SHREWS
Here is a bona fide creature double feature
displaying two of the most badly put together
movie monsters of all time! Creeping
Terror: A giant space monster, who
looks more like a chewed up Chinese Dragon,
eats people who jump willing into its gapping
Muppet mouth. The best part is the amazing
sounds the monster makes while eating his
prey. The Killer Shrews: A group
of travelers are stranded on an island by
a vicious hurricane. The island has only
a few inhabitants, one of them being a doctor
who does experiments in shrinking and enlarging
humans and animals in an effort to curb
population. Great idea right? Not really,
it results in the accidental development
of a pack of killer shrews, who in reality
are dogs with weird carpet costumes. Truly
one of the all time great bad movies.
B&W/ 75 Min./69 Min./1964/1959
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CRUISIN'
HIGH
Originally titled Cat Murkil and the
Silks this 1976 street gang movie was
re-released in the 80’s under the
title Cruisin’ High. The
film is about the rise and fall of an all
white gang called The Silks. A member of
the gang named Cat Murkil, decides to kill
off anyone in the gang who can challenge
him for a power grab. Once in full control
of the gang, he leads them into a gang race
war with a neighboring Chicano counterpart.
What makes Cruisin’ High
worthwhile is the way it resurrects the
tone and feel of the 1950’s classic
Juvenile Delinquent genre while remaining
deeply rooted in its mid-70’s existence.
It’s almost like watching the cast
of Welcome Back Kotter perform
High School Caesar.
Color/ 102 Min./ 1976
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CULT
OF THE DAMNED aka ANGEL, ANGEL DOWN
Drugs, thugs, freaked-out starlets, ritual
murder and cannibalism, Cult of the
Damned aka Angel, Angel Down is dedicated
to the proposition that all men are created
evil. The world’s wealthiest couple:
Astrid, a former stag film star and Willy,
suppressing his bi-sexuality, hide all of
this in an effort to live the ideal life.
However, they have a daughter, Tara Nicole
who falls in with a drugged out hippie band/cult
that celebrate life by sky diving, doing
drugs, having sex and abusing any and all
authority they see. When Tara Nicole decides
to bring the band back to meet her parents,
the real fun begins; complete with a sky
diving death, brainwashing, murder and more!
Written and directed by Robert Thom, the
man who wrote the amazing counter-culture
film, Wild in the Streets!
Color/93 MIN/1969
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CURSE
OF THE ALPHA STONE
Abe Adams, a mad scientist/college professor
creates a magical powder from a philosophers
stone called "the Alpha Stone"
which carries the power of turning anyone
who comes into contact with it into a sex
crazed monster! Delving into sub Cronenberg
concepts such as zombie sex control and
mannequin molesting, Curse of the Alpha
Stone is a classic example of the horror/sex
genre so many exploitation filmmakers attempted
in the early 70’s. Filled with the
kind of magic you only find in the films
of Ed Wood or Andy Milligan, this monumental
example of otherworldly ineptness was made
in 1972 but remained unseen until 1985.
Color/80 MIN/1972
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DARKTOWN
STRUTTERS
One
of the most out of control films ever made
tells the story of an all female African
American motorcycle gang out to rescue one
of their member’s mother and catch
the people responsible for her kidnapping.
Little do they know the man responsible
for the abduction is a mock Colonel Sanders
who owns a chain of successful BBQ restaraunts
in the LA area. He’s developed a "Negro
Making Machine" so he can create a
larger customer base and has begun kidnapping
random black people to use as test subjects!
Think Laugh In by way of Dolemite,
filtered through the lens of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s
The Holy Mountain with a dash of
Max Fleischer cartoons and you’re
getting close to the insane nature of this
one of a kind genre defying classic.
Color/90 Min. /1975
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DEAD
RIGHT
James Lake (Raymond St. Jacques) is an escaped
black convict imprisoned for a murder he
didn’t commit. Leslie Whitlock (Kevin
McCarthy) offers James money to kill his
wife Ellen (Dana Wynter). He declines and
tries to look up his old flame Lily (Barbara
McNair) but discovers his own brother is
now married to the sultry nightclub singer.
James returns to Leslie, and the trio travel
towards a mountain retreat. James and Ellen
escape and try to find the murderer who
had framed James years before. He experiences
prejudice from police and civilian alike
before the trail leads to the dead girl’s
step-father. "Dead Right" was
originally titled "If He Hollers, Let
Him Go!", and is considered one of
the first films in the Blaxploitation genre.
Color/ 106 Min./1968
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DEADLY
PREY
In
the annals of bad film there are few that
truly deserve the moniker "The Worst
Movie Ever Made" like this one. Many
think Plan 9 from Outer Space,
some would say Ishtar, some might
even call Showgirls a front-runner.
But there is one movie that is so jaw dropping,
so inept, so bad, and just plain dumber
than anything you can think of and that
is this movie. Deadly Prey is a
weird hybrid rip-off of The Most Dangerous
Game & Rambo: First Blood.
A group of bloodthirsty mercenaries kidnap
people off the streets of LA and take them
to a secret location to hunt them down like
animals, all in the name of sport. Eventually,
these bad guys go too far when they kidnap
the most awesome, kick ass, bad to the bone,
mother f*cking Vietnam vet you ever saw!
He proceeds to shoot, stab, beat and maim
any bad dude that gets in his way. One guy
gets beaten to death with his own severed
arm and then gets scalped! There is no way
you will not love this enjoyably excruciating
experience.
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DEATH
DRUG
Death Drug is a film that does the impossible,
even the unthinkable; it rips off Rudy Ray
Moore’s PCP Blaxploitation film The
Avenging Disco Godfather and manages to
be so inept, badly made and unintentionally
hilarious that it makes Moore’s movie
seem brilliant in comparison. It’s
not every day a movie is made that makes
a Rudy Ray Moore film seem competent, let
alone well made. But Death Drug is that
one, Godsend of a film.
Take one part pre-Miami Vice Philip Michael
Thomas, two parts Ed Wood after a brain
aneurism, mix in some mid 70’s drug
paranoia and whalla, you get Death Drug,
the shockingly bad abortion of a movie about
a struggling singer who looses his chance
at success thanks to that damn devil drug
Angel Dust!
Watch for the hilarious scene when Thomas
thinks his hair brush is a baby alligator.
Brilliant stuff indeed!
Color/ 73 Min./ 1978
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DIXIE
DYNAMITE
Directed by exploitation great Lee Frost
most famous for helming such trash classics
as Love Camp 7, The Thing With 2 Head,
and The Black Gestap. This down
home Southern exploiter is about two sisters
from Georgia seeking revenge after their
farmhouse was taken away from them and a
gun slinging, rotten, no good sheriff gunned
down their moon shining father. As far as
revenge films go, this one has to be the
most light hearted of them all. Warren Oates
delivers the goods as Mack, the guy who
teaches the girls to ride motorcycles and
goes along on their journey of revenge,
seemingly, just so he can drink himself
to near death while riding a motorcycle.
Color/ 88 Min. /1976
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DON'T
BE AFRAID OF THE DARK
Ranking
with Dan Curtis’ Trilogy of Terror
as one of the spookiest made-for-TV horror
films of the 1970’s, this atmospheric
monster chiller stars Kim Darby and Jim
Hutton as a comfortable, reasonably happy
young couple who inherit the archetypal
“Old Dark House” from the wife
Sally’s deceased aunt. While renovating
the creepy mansion, they enter a previously-sealed
room, which features a securely bricked-up
fireplace. Despite the insistence of a local
contractor (My Three Sons’ William
Demarest) that they leave the room undisturbed,
Sally’s husband manages to open the
flue, releasing a horde of shriveled mini-monsters
imprisoned there for decades. The little
demons immediately fixate their evil attention
on Sally in an effort to claim her soul,
a mission which can only be averted by the
love of her husband -- which, in light of
his self-centered careerism, means poor
Sally’s pretty much on her own.
Color/74 Min./1973
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DOOR
TO DOOR MANIAC A.K.A. FIVE MINUTES TO LIVE
Johnny Cash stars in this pseudo noir/beatnik/country/exploitation
hybrid as a contract killer hired by a hood
named Fred Dorella (played by Vic Tayback
aka Mel from TV’s Alice) to kidnap
a bank vice president’s wife in order
to hold her for ransom. Cash takes the woman
hostage and forces her to endure creepy
redneck serenades and his undeniable beatnik/hick
coolness. Filled with great Cash one liners,
a solid B movie cast that includes many
of vintage TV’s staple stars (including
a young Ron Howard), good music, and an
accurate visual rendering of many of the
1940’s late noir films, Door to Door
Maniac is a well made exploitation film
that should be seen again.
1961/B&W/80 min
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FRIENDS
OF EDDIE COYLE
Directed by Peter Yates, best known for
directing the Steve McQueen classic Bullitt,
this 1973 neo noir film was based on the
best-selling novel by George V. Higgins.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle chronicles the
last days of a weary Boston-based weapons
dealer. Eddie Coyle (Robert Mitchum) doesn't
want to serve a life sentence in prison,
so he becomes an informant for both the
police and the treasury department. Coyle
is likewise unwilling to give up his lifestyle,
thus he continues his illegal gun-running
operation for the underworld. The mob becomes
aware that Eddie is squealing to the cops,
so they send his best friend Dillon (Peter
Boyle) to rub him out. Dillon compassionately
takes Eddie out on the town, treating him
to dinner and a hockey game...then drives
to a deserted field to carry out his orders.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle finds Mitchum
playing the role with a jaded cynicism that
gives the film a real boost of power and
effectiveness. Peter Yates low-key direction
gives the movie a realistic quality that
makes the down and out nature of events
seem all the more lingering after the credits
roll.
Color/102 Min. /1973
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GUESS
WHAT WE LEARNED IN SCHOOL TODAY?
John G. Avildsen,
known for directing Rocky and The Karate
Kid began his filmmaking career with the
counter-culture films Joe and Turn on to
Love. This 1971 time capsule plays like
a Jean Luc Godard attempt at Porkey’s.
In guess What We Learned In School Today,
suburban parent's rejection of the idea
of sex education taught in their local school
acts as a catalyst, highlighting the hypocrisy
of middle class America in the late 60’s/early
70’s. Filled with running jokes (a
too-vigilant vice cop; a suburban mom who
talks in TV commercial jargon; a sheltered
teen attracted to his babysitter) this film
is a bizarre mix of message and parody that
truly could only have been made in the early
1970's.
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GUYANA
"Names have been
changed to protect the innocent" in
this infamous fictionalization of the tragic
mass suicide of 914 follower's of Jim Jones
's "People's Temple" in Guyana
in the fall of 1978. Rev. James Johnson
(Stuart Whitman) is a charismatic but deeply
paranoid man of the cloth who moves his
flock from Northern California to a settlement
in Guyana, where he intends to create an
interracial socialist utopia. Addicted to
prescription drugs and convinced he is surrounded
by enemies, Johnson rules his colony, "Johnsontown,"
with an iron fist, torturing anyone who
violates his rule, seducing both women and
men from his congregation, confiscating
money and property from his followers, and
forcing them to work long hours in the fields
for meager rations. A California congressman
who represents the district Johnson and
his followers once called home, has received
complaints from relatives of the settlers.
O'Brien and a team of reporters fly to Guyana
to find out the truth about what is happening.
Eventually After a failed attempt to arrange
exile in the Soviet Union, Johnson convinced
his followers to perform a "final revolutionary
act" before authorities arrive. This
oddball blend of fact and fiction also features
Joseph Cotton and John Ireland as Johnson's
lawyers, Yvonne DeCarlo as Johnsontown's
Press Officer, and Bradford Dillman as the
doctor who mixes the punch for Johnson's
final gathering.
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GUYANA
TRAGEDY: THE STORY OF JIM JONES
In this made for TV movie, Powers Booth
plays the infamous leader of the "People’s
Temple Cult," Jim Jones. 1,000 followers
give away their life savings to live with
the cult in Guyana. When the illegal activities
of Jones and his higher ups becomes known
and investigators began searching the property,
Jones decides to take himself and his followers
on the fast track to heaven by staging the
largest mass suicide in history. This film
depicts Jones' maniacal worldview and tragic
end in graphic fashion. Booth’s performance
as Jones has long been revered as his absolute
best and the supporting cast, made up of
such veterans as Ned Beatty, Randy Quaid
and James Earl Jones, is equally good.
Color/190 minutes/ 1980
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HAIL
MAFIA
In this crime drama, an American fugitive
(Eddie Constantine) in France is pursued
by two thugs for two different reasons.
One of the pursuers (Henry Silva) has been
engaged by a large, corrupt construction
company that wants the fugitive killed to
prevent him from giving damaging testimony.
The other stalker (Jack Klugman) has more
personal reasons for killing him.
As the killers close in on their target,
they find out that the construction company
is acquitted, and the assassin is told to
protect the fugitive from the other man,
who still has his reasons for pulling off
the hit.
B&W/90 minutes/1965
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HOLLYWOOD
HORROR HOUSE
Faded
Hollywood star Katharine Packard (Miriam
Hopkins) lives a secluded life in a sprawling
mansion, battling the bottle and struggling
to hold on to her eroding sanity. After
a drunken fall leads to a broken leg, her
doctor advertises for a live-in nurse. An
intense, sarcastic young man named Vic (John
Garfield, Jr.) arrives to claim the assignment,
and is hired despite the concerns of Ms.
Packard's secretary (Gale Sondergaard).
She's right to suspect the worst, for not
only is Vic lying about his medical credentials,
he’is also a psychopathic killer who
preys exclusively on older women. He charms
his way into Katharine's good graces, and
eventually she thinks she’is falling
in love. Soon Vic is in full control of
the household, charging expensive outfits
for himself and bringing drug dealers and
freaks back for midnight parties. When the
elderly screen legend realizes that her
young gigolo is dangerous, she mysteriously
disappears. As the domestic help start to
get wise, they are picked off one by one
by this remorseless predator.
Color/90 minutes/1968
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HOMER
Homer is the story of a young man living
in the late 1960’s, trying to live
his life the way he wants to. The film takes
place in a small conservative Wisconsin
town where Homer lives with his family.
He has a rock band and dreams of leaving
his mid western roots and spreading his
wings socially and consciously. With the
dark specter of the Vietnam war looming
in the background, Homer is a subtle film
about the struggle to remain an individual
in the face of family and social expectations.
Offering an impressive soundtrack for a
low-budget film, “Homer” is
especially notable for being the first film
to feature a song by Led Zeppelin. Portions
of the song “How Many More Times,”
which was released on the album “Led
Zeppelin I” in January 1969, are played
three times during the course of the film.
Color/ 91minutes/ 1970
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I
LIKE TO HURT PEOPLE
I Like to Hurt People follows the
notorious “heel” The Sheik as
he tears through the independent wrestling
ranks using foreign objects and illegal
wrestling holds to do what he does best,
hurt people! The filmmaker and many of the
wrestlers wonder if the Sheik should be
banned from wrestling due to his vicious
and over the top tactics in the ring. With
Andre the Giant, Abdullah the Butcher, Ox
Baker, Bobo Brazil, Dick the Bruiser, Terry
Funk, and Dusty Rhodes, this documentary
is filled with real match footage and great
interview segments!
Also included: the amazingly goofy Grunt!
The Wrestling Movie starring more wrestling
greats such as The Exotic Adrian Street,
Miss Linda, Dick Murdoch and Pistol Pez
Whatley.
Special Bonus: Lords of the Ring: Superstars
and Superbouts featuring a terrific
look at the good ol’ days of early
80’s NWA wrestling featuring Ric Flair,
Kerry Von Eric & Roddy Piper!
Color/ 83 minutes/ 1985
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ICE
A pioneering work that blurred the boundaries
between fictional and documentary styles,
Ice was hailed by filmmaker and Village
Voice critic Jonas Mekas as “the most
original and most significant American narrative
film” of the late sixties. An underground
revolutionary group struggles against internal
strife which threatens its security and
stages urban guerrilla attacks against a
fictionalized fascist regime in the United
States. Interspersed throughout the narrative
are rhetorical sequences that explain the
philosophy of radical action and serve to
restrain the melodrama inherent in the “thriller”
genre. Shot in the gray landscape of New
York City in a gritty cinema-verité
style, the film has been compared to Jean-Luc
Godard’s Alphaville.
1970/B&W/130 min
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IF
FOOTMEN TIRE YOU, WHAT WILL HORSES DO?
Made by exploitation extraordinaire, turned
born again Christian, Ron Ormond. If
Footmen... depicts, in docudrama fashion,
the possible consequences we, as a nation,
may face if we don’t give our hearts
and minds back to Jesus Christ, for it is
the Lord who will protect us from the coming
of communism!
The most unforgettable religious scare
film ever conceived,! This film depicts
children having their eardrums punctured
with bamboo sticks by godless communists
so they can’t hear the words of the
Lord; large groups of southern brethren
gunned down like cattle because they refuse
to denounce their lord and savior; a small
boy decapitated because he refuses to step
on a picture of good ol’ J.C.!Highly
Recommended!
This disc also contains the Ormond religious
short “The Grim Reaper”
Color/ 75 Min. /1971
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IMPULSE
William
Shatner stars in this hilarious, post Star
Trek, psychological thriller about a playboy
who has one big problem, he can't help killing
all the women he falls in love with. You
see, when he was a little boy he caught
his mommy having sex with a crazed Vietnam
vet. This bothered little Shatner, causing
him to stab the bad man to death with a
sword but now little Shatner is all grown
up complete with Dolomite wardrobe and smooth
moves and he is ready to take out his psychological
trauma on every skirt he sees. Directed
by Floridian exploitation great William
Grefe, this amazing decent into career suicide
is a must see for fans of William Shatner.
Co-starring Harold Sakata, better known
as Odd Job from the James Bond film Goldfinger.
Color/82 Min. /1974
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I
WILL, I WILL... FOR NOW
Norman Panama directed and wrote (along
with Albert E. Lewin) this 70’s sex
comedy starring Elliot Gould as Les Bingham
and Diane Keaton as Katie. An unhappily
married couple's sex life is in shambles.
“You make love as if you were catching
a Fifth Avenue bus,” she says. “You
make love as if you were playing chess,”
he says. They divorce each other. They are
unhappy and reunite under a new, hip, liberal
marriage contract, underhandedly drafted
by Katie's new lover, a lawyer name Sorvino.
The comedy ensues as they try marriage again
under this modern marriage contract.
Color/107
Min. /1976
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J.C.
Here it is! The Jesus biker movie! That's
right, Jesus is reincarnated as a biker
and this time his crown of thorns is a crown
of beer tabs! You see, J.C. has a religious
nut for a father so to rebel against his
dad's Christian ways he becomes a biker
and leads an acid fueled fight against the
"establishment". He preaches sermons
to his biker brethren and even leads them
on a pilgrimage out west only to find authority
trying to bring him down! Directed by William
F. McGah, one of the most overlooked sleaz-o
filmmakers around.
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THE
JESUS TRIP
In
an effort to capitalize on the art/biker
concept started by Easy Rider, director
Russ Mayberry fills his film with numerous
picturesque sequences of desert motorcycle
riding, strong amounts of religious symbolism
and silent contemplation. But the end result
is far more muddled and misguided
than anything cocaine fueled Dennis Hopper
could ever come up with.
A motorcycle gang, smuggling heroin in their
bikes, are pursued by police and rival gangs.
Taking refuge in a convent located in a
remote region of the Arizona desert, they
capture a policeman who was following them,
taunt him and let him go. This treatment
inspires a brutal relentlessness on the
cop’s part. When the bikers are forced
to leave the convent, they take a novice
nun hostage. By the end of the film, she
has fallen in love with Waco, the gang's
leader.
Color/84 MIN/1971
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KILLDOZER
This made for TV classic has been missing
in action for almost 30 years! Made in 1974
as an ABC suspense movie of the
week, the story concerns a group of construction
workers building an airstrip on a South
Pacific island during World War
II. They disrupt an ancient native temple
and uncover a strange meteorite sealed within
its walls. When they attempt
to move the massive rock using one of their
bulldozers, an unknown entity containted
within uses his/her malevolent mind
to take over the bulldozer. The alien controlled
bulldozer now wants to kill them all for
trying to bulldoze it's home, the earth.
Based on the comic book "Marvel Worlds
Unknown" #6 and adapted for the screen
by acclaimed science fiction writer
Theodore Sturgeon.
Color/74 Min./1974
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THE
KILLER IS LOOSE
In
this Budd Boetticher directed mid period
film noir, “Foggy” (Wendell
Corey) is a bank teller who got his nickname
in the Army for the thick spectacles he
wears. Foggy is also an inside man for a
gang of thieves planning to rob his bank.
Unfortunately, their plan goes awry and
he is arrested. During the ensuing scuffle,
his wife is accidentally killed and the
crook blames the arresting officer (Joseph
Cotten). While he stands trial, Foggy lets
on that he plans on getting revenge
by killing the officer’s wife. Later
he is transferred to a prison farm. The
fearsome former clerk busts out of prison
and kills a few people on his way to the
policeman’s home. The panicked policeman
attempts to secure protection for his wife,
but the cops decide to use the woman as
a decoy to draw the criminal to them.
B&W/73 MIN./1956
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LEADBELLY
The film Leadbelly begins in July 1933 at
the Louisiana State Penitentiary. John Lomax
and his son are traveling around the south
for the Library of Congress collecting unwritten
ballads and folk songs using new recording
technology. They come to the prison to record
the legendary Leadbelly. From this starting
point, the story of Huddie (Lead Belly)
Ledbetter is told in a series of flashbacks
that take us from his time in Texas playing
guitar at parties and for friends to traveling
around the South with Blind Lemon Jefferson
playing any shows they could get. While
not entirely factual, the film captures
the sun-baked landscapes of Texas and Louisiana
perfectly and displays a time long gone
with a vibrant sense of detail. Robert E
Mosley, best known as TC from Magnum P.I.
plays Leadbelly with a brilliant honesty
and heart. Leadbelly is a truly memorable
film that strays far away from any Blaxploitation
clichés of the day.
Color/126 minutes/1976
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LINEUP,
THE
Based on the TV series of the same name,
The Lineup is a typical bold and
brutal effort from director Don Siegel.
Eli Wallach plays Dancer, the evil head
of a San Francisco drug ring. Dancer’s
strategy is to plant small amounts of heroin
on unwary tourists vacationing in Mexico
so that the dope traffic can pass by the
border guards undetected. By the seventh
reel, the scheme begins to unravel, resulting
in a thrill-packed car chase through the
hills of Frisco, with Dancer holding a child
hostage as leverage against the cops. Robert
Keith offers a unique characterization as
a wheelchair-bound criminal, while Warner
Anderson, a carryover from the Lineup TV
series, represents Law and Order. This is
one of the truly great lost sleaze noir
films from the
peak period.
B&W/86 MIN/1958
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LITTLE
CIGARS
The
“little cigars” are five midget
criminals masterminded by Slick (Billy
Curtis). They team up with full-sized
Cleo (Angel Tompkins), a gangster’s
girlfriend who’s on the lam from
her homicidal “protector.”
Tompkins and the five little people form
a traveling carnival as a front for their
crooked activities which include robbing
banks and casinos. Two of the midgets
kill off the mobsters who’ve been
sent to rub out Cleo; in gratitude, she
begins an affair with Slick. At first
planning to desert the other midgets and
abscond with their hard-earned stealings,
Cleo and Slick have a change of heart,
return the money to their chums, and ride
off together for a most unusual romantic
rendezvous.
Color/ 92 Min. / 1973
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MAGNETIC
MONSTER/METEOR MONSTER
An amazing 1950's Sci-Fi double feature!
The first film, Magnetic Monster
is a truly novel science fiction film
in terms of its cerebral plot and low-key,
quietly intense execution. As much a mystery
film as a sci-fi-thriller, it pushed a
lot of suspense buttons for viewers in
1953. An agent for the Office of Scientific
Investigation is on a mission to stop
a potential world destroying, man made
element called serranium. The second film,
Meteor Monster tells the tale
of a teenage boy turned hulking monster
by a mysterious meteor.
B&W/ 76 Min. & 73 Min. / 1953
& 1957
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MANIAC
a.k.a. RANSOM
Oliver Reed stars in this ridiculous revenge
thriller about a Native American who holds
an entire desert town in the grip of fear
by hiding in the mountains and randomly
shooting innocent people. He demands money
in order to stop the killing but instead
gets a drunk and angry Oliver Reed, hell
bent on blowing this redskin sky high! Also
starring such top notch 1970’s lushes
as Stuart Whitman & John Ireland.
Color/ 90 Min./1977
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MANSON
MASSACRE
A sought after sleaze classic for many years,
this diamond in the rough has never been
released to video anywhere in the world.
For years it was thought to have gone the
way of the doe doe bird until the amazing
rare print of the film was found in Germany.
Sadly, the print is in German, and it has
NO subtitles. But trust us, it's pretty
easy to follow, and there is just something
about hearing the pseudo-Charley Manson
spewing his rhetoric in the true language
of love that just makes your heart melt.
Rumored to have been made with the help
of peripheral Manson family members, the
director went by the fictional name of Kentucky
Jones out of fear for his life. His real
name is to this day still unknown! Filled
with graphic depictions of the real Manson
murders and enough over the top trash to
quench the thirst of the most jaded exploitation
fan, The Manson Massacre is a must
have grind house classic that has finally
been rediscovered!
Color/ 65 Min./ 1972
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THE
MEATEATER
A husband and wife team from the suburbs
move to the big city and purchase a run-down
movie theater with high hopes of rejuvenating
it as a family-run business. Unfortunately,
unseen trouble is afoot, as the theater
is home to a "Phantom of the Opera"
like madman murderer with an obsession for
1930's movie siren Jean Harlow. Not surprisingly,
bodies begin piling up the minute the theater
reopens and the new owner’s daughter
finds herself in peril due to her uncanny
resemblance to Harlow! The film was marketed
as a late 70’s slasher/gore film ala
Friday the 13th or Halloween but in reality,
it has little gore and finds most of its
appeal coming from the shockingly hilarious
script which puts the film in the ever popular
“so bad it’s good” category.”
Be sure not to miss the police detective
who likes to bring his bag of beef jerky
with him to murder scene investigations!
Color/ 85Min./ 1979
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MR.
NO LEGS
Ricou Browning, the Olympic swimmer best
known as the man inside the suit of The
Creature from the Black Lagoon, directed
this amazing bit of weirdness that could
only have been a product of the cinematically
insane 1970s. Richard Jaeckel stars as a
Florida policeman tracking a gang of heroin
dealers led by evil fat cat D'Angelo (Lloyd
Bochner), who naturally has his hooks into
everything, including the corrupt police
captain (John Agar). There are drag queens,
barroom brawls, shootouts, and the usual
mayhem, but what makes this film particularly
noteworthy is its central hit man, Lou.
He has no legs and travels in a motorized
wheelchair decked out with Chinese throwing
stars and 2 double-barreled shotguns. Lou
is also strong enough that when he isn't
blasting people with his killer wheelchair
he can swing around on his arms and use
his legless torso to bludgeon people into
submission. Rance Howard plays Lou's trusty
sidekick, and the film co-stars an African-American
dwarf, accomplished stunt woman Courtney
Brown (who gets in a fairly flamboyant cat
fight), and Flipper's Luke Halpin!
Color/ 90 Min./ 1981
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MY
PLEASURE IS MY BUSINESS
Starring Xaviera Hollander, My Pleasure
is My Business is an over the top farcical
romp about a sophisticated woman of the
world, forced to relocate to an imaginary
banana republic where the intention is to
put her on trial for a sensational public
immorality charge that will draw media attention
away from some of the excesses perpetrated
by the government. Hollander, who was famous
at the time for writing the book The Happy
Hooker and for being the most famous call
girl/madam in the world, strangely starred
in this one film only. Her performance is
pitch perfect for the over the top humor
and she exudes a real comfort in front of
the camera that leaves you wondering why
she vanished from the film industry.
Color/94 min/ 1975
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NATURAL
ENEMIES
From Jeff Kanew, the director of Revenge
of the Nerds, comes this painful, bleak
and blunt masterpiece that has been completely
forgotten about over time and certainly
deserves to be seen again. Hal Holbrook
plays Paul Steward, a successful publisher
of a scientific journal who is married with
three children. The character is introduced
to the audience as he begins what will become
a tragic day, murder and suicide. Feelings
of estrangement from his kids, loathing
for his wife, and detachment from his job
lead him down a path of destruction, self
hate, and dementia.
Color/100 min/ 1979
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POOR
PRETTY EDDIE/HEARTBREAK MOTEL
This amazing little southern fried gem is
one of the classic exploitation films of
the 1970’s! The story is about a black
female singer whose car breaks down in the
middle of a small southern town. There she
meets a pseudo Elvis impersonator who rapes
her and holds her hostage, all while the
towns folk don’t seem to notice or
care. Mixing amazing racial stereotypes
that would never make it in a movie these
days and offensive behavior from all ends
of the spectrum, this movie takes an all
out misanthropic view of the world it depicts,
making it a true exploitation film that
makes you want to take a long shower after
viewing. Plus, it has a cast to just die
for! Shelly Winters, Slim Pickens, Ted Cassidy,
Dub Taylor and Leslie Uggams! Also included
on this disc is the alternate version of
the film Heartbreak Motel, complete
with an alternate ending and a creepy love
scene between Eddie and Shelly Winters!
Color/92 min & 91 min/ 1975
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PRELUDE
TO HAPPINESS
This amazing mid 70's, sleaze, soap opera,
exploitation classic has been lost for over
30 years! Sue Imes loses her left leg in
a car accident. When her fiancé learns
of this, he leaves her. Heartbroken in the
hospital, she meets Dr. Steve Hartman, a
dashing young doctor who offers her a job
as a nurse, saves her from a group of thugs,
and finds her an apartment. Steve eventually
tells her that he loves her but she rejects
him due to the pain of her last failed love
and the fact that Steven already has a fiancé.
Will they fall in love and live happily
ever after, or will they experience a strange
twist of fate? What makes this movie such
an oddity is how seriously it is played.
Hopping around on one leg in her bikini
or strapping on her prosthetic leg in nothing
but her underwear, the film never lets up
with it's Douglas Sirk like approach. In
other words, even in the midst of absolute
absurdity, this film never stops being an
overblown melodrama.
Color/ 80 Min./1974
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RECKLESS
MOMENT
A blend of melodrama and film noir, The
Reckless Moment stars Joan Bennett
as Lucia Harper, a suburban housewife whose
husband is away on business. Her daughter,
Bea, an aspiring artist, has fallen for
Ted Darby, a shady older man from Los Angeles
who claims to be an ex-art dealer. One night,
after a secret rendezvous in the Harpers’
boathouse that turns into an argument, Bea
accidentally kills Darby. When Lucia discovers
his body in the morning, she panics and
dumps it in the lagoon instead of contacting
the police who would surely charge her daughter
with murder. Her problems only increase
when a suave Irish gangster named Donnelly,
played by James Mason, shows up with a package
of love letters from Bea to Darby with blackmail
on his mind. With her husband out of town,
Lucia has no choice but to give in to his
demands.
B&W/ 82 MIn./ 1949
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RIGHT
HAND OF THE DEVIL
Gangster Pepe Lusara sets up a big heist
at the Hollywood Sports Arena only to double
cross his cohorts after the job is done.
And the key to his success, a lonely female
arena cashier who helps him and becomes
the only witness to the crime, comes back
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