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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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BERKELEY
SQUARE
Made in 1933, this Frank Lloyd directed film tells
the story of a young American man who is transported
back in time to London during the American Revolution,
where he meets many of his ancestors. Starring
Leslie Howard & Heather Angel, the film was
based on a stage play and spawned a remake called
“I’ll Never Forget You” starring
Tyrone Power & Ann Blyth.
Known for inspiring the H.P. Lovecraft story “The
Shadow out of Time”, this nearly lost classic
film blends romance, the supernatural and historical
drama with a subtle elegance.
B&W/ 84 Min./ 1933
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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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BLACK
CAT
This
weirdo Edgar Allen Poe adaptation, filmed in Dallas
Texas, complete with a campy, mid-60’s rock-a-go-go
feel and a surprising level of gore for the time
period is about as much fun as a b-horror movie
can get!
Lou and Diana are recently married when Diana
buys a black house cat. Lou becomes bizarrely
obsessed with the cat and beings heavily drinking,
living in fear that the cat is actually trying
to kill him. Eventually he tortures and kills
the cat only to find that it has come back from
the dead to extract its vengeance.
Watch for the great rock and roll, go-go dancer
scenes, complete with a pirate, eye patched rock
band performing in a local Dallas, Texas bar.
B&W/76 Min. /1966
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BLACK
JESUS
This Italian
production, starring the brilliant and iconic
Woody Strode, had the makings of a ticking political
time bomb.
Strode plays a Congo rebel leader named Maurice
Lalubi, a character meant to represent African
leader Patrice Lumumba. Lalubi is determined to
save his people by passive resistance, from the
dictatorial regime brought on by the European
colonialists. He is thrown in prison, along with
a white solder and Italian thief. The three endure
horrific torture, but Lalubi’s will cannot
be broken.
Think of this as a black version of Passion of
the Christ with a more political and timely point.
A great political film that has been lost in the
shuffle for decades.
Color/91 Min. /1968
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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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CAPTAIN
CELLULOID VS. THE FILM PIRATES
Fans of classic Republic serials & no-budget
independent film making have come to the right
place with “Captain Celluloid vs. the Film
Pirates”!
Its both hilarious and lots of fun for classic
cinema buffs, and manages to be completely charming
during its running length of an hour. The film
tells a story about how Captain Celluloid of the
Film Institute has to track down the nefarious
Master Duper, whose been bootlegging negatives
of classic films such as "The Big Parade"
and "Greed" and selling them to film
societies and private collectors. The fact that
the film was made on absolutely zero budget by
earnest and enthusiastic film fans makes it all
the more impressive. They were obviously making
this for the entertainment of themselves and friends,
and that’s what makes it a rather unique
viewing.
A true, true rarity in the world of film collecting,
and yes, we recognize the irony here.
Color / 50 Min./ 1966
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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.
Color/88 minutes/1988
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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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FACE
IN THE MIRROR
Made
by the same company that brought you the fabulous
“Rock It’s Your Decision”, “Face
in the Mirror” is another primo example
of Christian youth propaganda gone wild!
Danny is a boy who confused by the world, and
doesn’t understand the mysterious ways in
which his God operates, so he decides to bring
a gun to his youth group meeting and kick some
ass and take some names!
Filled with ultra-clean cut Christian youths and
hilariously overdone performances, “Face
in the Mirror” keeps the high quality you’d
expect from the Christian exploitation genre!
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THE
GLASS CAGE
Directed by Antonio Santean, who
wrote “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry”, this
strange, dark and creepy film finds the director
hard at work, employing many experimental techniques
to tell this murder mystery.
Filled with off-kilter angles, Freudian dream
and point-of-view sequences, jump cut editing,
existential dialog and bizarre settings, the movie
takes the sub genre of thrillers & melodramas
of the late 50’s/early 60’s and drags
them into the experimental age.
Starring Elisha Cook Jr. as an extra creepy evangelist
father and King Moody, who played Ronald McDonald
in the 70’s & 80’s, as a voyeuristic
conceptual artist.
B&W/84 minutes/ 1964
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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.
Color/96 minutes/ 1971
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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.
Color/90 minutes/ 1980
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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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HANDS
OF STEEL
From director Sergio Martino,
the man behind such Italian exploitation classics
as “Mountain of the Cannibal God”,
“Island of the Fishmen” & “2019:
After the Fall of New York”, comes the amazing
piece of cinematic swill “Hands of Steel”.
Also known as “Return of the Terminator”
& “Atomic Cyborg”, the story concerns
a cyborg that is programmed to kill a scientist
who holds the fate of mankind in his hands. It
turns out the cyborg has human emotions and he
decides to let the scientist live. This change
in plans angers the man who set up the assassination
(played by John Saxon) who sends his vicious goons
after the robot humanitarian. Naturally violence,
gore and nudity ensue.
One of the best bad movies you will find! A high
recommendation!
Color/94 minutes/1986
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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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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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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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KARATE
RAIDER
From the director
of “Karate Commando Jungle Wolf 3”
Ronald L. Marchini comes 1995’s “Karate
Raider” starring such action luminaries
as Burt Ward & Joe Estevez! In other words,
be ready to be amazed!
Ronald is karate action hero Jake Turner, who
must face death in the jungles and streets of
Colombia. Assigned the mission to rescue and bring
back the daughter of his old first sergeant and
friend, Jake must battle the evil Pike and his
army of mercenaries.
Obviously, this lost classic is on par with “Deadly
Prey”, “Born to Kill” &
“Ninja Death Squad”!
Color /93 MIN./1995
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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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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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THE
MAN WHO RECLAIMED HIS HEAD
Produced in 1934 and starring Claude Rains fresh
off of his portrayal of The Invisible Man, The
Man Who Reclaimed His Head is the story of a brilliant
writer & dedicated pacifist, named Paul Verin
who can’t find work and is living in an
impoverished state. He eventually finds work for
a local publisher and begins writing anti-war
editorials. All appears to be going in the right
direction for Verin until he discovers that his
publisher has betrayed him and used his writing
to help promote the cause of WWI and make money
off of the war through a munitions manufacturer
the publisher has partnered with. Eventually Verin
goes insane due to the betrayal and things go
downhill from there.
The film is a fascinating look at the anti war
stance of the early 30’s, yet the truly
special part of the movie is the way it prevents
an air of peachiness from setting in. Verin is
the only voice of pacifism the film shows, and
in the end he turns into the very thing he fights
so hard against. A fascinating study on human
nature and betrayal that is certainly a lost classic!
B&W/ 82 minutes/ 1934
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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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THE
NICKEL RIDE
The story concerns a gangster who helps the mob
find warehouses for their “goods”.
He manages the properties after he acquires them,
which makes him a fairly important underling in
the L.A. crime world. He is asked to find more
space and ends up taking too long to deliver,
an act that leads his bosses to grow suspicious
of him and ultimately to try and kill him.
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NIGHT
OF THE STRANGLER
This early 70’s Southern race issue drama/hippie
exploitation murder mystery is most notable for
it’s star, Monkees’ drummer Micky
Dolenz!
The story revolves around an interracial couple’s
murder and the two brothers who blame each other
for the crime. As the film progresses, more deaths
happen around the brothers as they continue to
accuse one another. Dolenz plays the seemingly
good brother amongst a cast of New Orleans’s
locals, one of whom, Harold Sylvester, went on
to work on the TV show Married With Children.
Filmed in 70’s subtly psychedelic colors,
the films tries to tackle social issues of the
day but ends up delivering a standard exploitation
film with a novelty star.
Strangely, the film features many, many murders,
but none of them by strangulation!
Color/88 minutes/1972
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OTHELLO:
THE BLACK COMMANDO
Written
and directed by its star, Max H. Boulois, who
also helmed the Blaxploitation films “Black
Jack” & “Big Game” (both
released in 1980), “Othello: Black Commando”
brings to the viewer an oddly serious and gritty
tone despite the presence of Tony Curtis as the
villain, Colonel Mago.
The film involves a stranded Red Cross group on
its way to Tubesti, Africa, a remote region where
war and a viral epidemic have broken out. Dr.
Ferguson (Joanna Pettet), the daughter of an influential
U.S. Senator, tries to pull strings in Washington
to obtain help and protection for her stranded
group. In this hellhole of death and destruction,
she runs head on into General Othello, a hired
war machine who commands the undying devotion
of a loyal group of guerrilla fighters. The mercenary
and the doctor fight against each other, but out
of the turmoil of tragedy and suffering, the constant
danger and the endless killing, a passion arises
between them that is eventually challenged by
the evil Tony Curtis, who wants Othello’s
power the love of the Doctor.
Color/90 min/ 1982
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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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RAIDERS
OF ATLANTIS
Directed
by legendary exploitation filmmaker Ruggero Deodato,
the man responsible for such gems as “Jungle
Holocaust”, “Cut and Run” and
“Cannibal Holocaust”, comes “Raiders
of Atlantis”, which you might call his attempt
at cashing in on the early 80’s Indiana
Jones craze. Keep in mind we said you MIGHT call
it that.
The plot concerns everything from a sunken Russian
nuclear submarine, the accidental raising of Atlantis,
the destruction of numerous Caribbean islands,
and a group of evil decedents of the original
Atlantians lead by a sinister figure aptly named
Crystal Skull.
Needless to say, this is an amazing exercise in
80’s excess and over the top movie magic
made on a shoestring budget!
Color/ 98Min./ 1983
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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 to haunt him in the end. Mixing
heavy Orson Welles overtones with bizarre, almost
experimental moments, this film stands as one
of the great unknown movies written, directed,
produced, and starring Aram Katcher (the poor
man's Peter Lorre) who also did the makeup in
this low budget film noir.
B&W/75 MIN/1963
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SARAH
T. PORTRAIT OF A TEENAGE ALCOHOLIC
Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon, The Omen, Superman
and
The Goonies) directs this classic piece of 70's
TV cinema starring a post-Exorcist Linda Blair,
a pre-Dallas Larry Hagman, a pre-Star Wars Mark
Hamill and about 35 familiar character actors.
15-year-old Sarah (Linda Blair) has a hidden problem
with alcoholism. Her father is a failed artist
who carries beer around in his messenger bag and
her mother is a scotch swilling socialite too
busy with her new husband to notice the downward
spiral poor Sarah is slipping into.
Color/120 Min./1975
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THE
SAVAGE IS LOOOSE
George C. Scott directed and stars in this bizarre
Oedipal tale of a mother, father and son who are
stranded on a deserted island together for years.
The films begins with the family already ship
wrecked on the island when the son is just a small
boy and the couple are trying to establish some
kind of life for themselves until they are rescued.
Rescue never comes and the son eventually turns
into a teenager with growing sexual and emotional
needs. These desires put a complex and painful
strain on his relationship with his mother and
father and drive a wedge between his parents as
a couple as well.
Color/114 minutes/1974
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SHACK
OUT ON 101
It is all but impossible to dislike this ultra-cheap
"Cold War paranoia" melodrama. The entire
picture takes place on a single set representing
a rundown roadside diner. Lee Marvin plays the
aptly named Slob, a lecherous short-order cook
(and commie agent) who lusts after shapely waitress
Kotty. Also interested in Kotty is a scientist
known only as The Professor, who spends the better
part of his free time at the diner's counter exchanging
top-secret information with Slob. Shack Out
on 101 is a rare entry in the sub film noir
genre, representing a nearly tongue in cheek attack
of traditional noir elements. A must see film
that truly challenges its genre trappings.
Color/80 minutes/1955
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SHANTY
TRAMP
One of the all time classic exploitation films
made in 1966 by unknown filmmaker Joseph G. Prieto.
The promiscuous daughter of a share cropper in
the deep south tries to seduce a gang of bikers.
Lucky for her, a young black man saves her from
approaching danger. He takes her home, only to
have her racist, molesting father accuse him of
rape! And from there, things just get worse. You’ll
find just about every staple of the sweat soaked
southern exploitation genre in this one. Racism;
bumbling white cops; a generic aunt Jemima black
mammy; a drunk and abusive father who molests
his daughter; a money hungry redneck preacher;
a good hearted black man who loves the sinful
and sultry white woman; lots of folks wiping their
brows with handkerchiefs and licking their lips.
A true must have for all sleaze hounds!!
B&W/ 72 Min./ 1967
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SKIDOO
Incredible counter culture classic! Directed by
legendary director Otto Preminger! See an incarcerated
Jackie Gleason take LSD and FREAK OUT! See Groucho
Marx play a rich drug dealer named God who smokes
joints instead of cigars! Watch such stars as
Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, Mickey Rooney,
Frank Gorshin, Frankie Avalon, Carol Channing
and John Phillip Law drive their careers even
farther into the ground!! This film has it all:
singing and dancing trash cans, drugs, psychedelic
insanity. What more do you need?
Color/ 97 Min. /1968
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SOLE
SURVIVOR
CBS’ first made-for-TV movie, Sole Survivor
is a fantasy yarn founded on fact. In 1960, the
ruins of an American bomber were found in the
Libyan desert...but the remains of the crew were
never located. In Guerdon Trueblood’s teleplay,
the ghosts of a bomber crew hang around their
derelict plane, awaiting the day that their bones
will be recovered and given a decent burial. The
sole survivor, navigator Russell Hamner (Richard
Basehart), has in the intervening 25 years become
a general. He joins an investigation team that
has come across the wreckage, while the ghosts,
headed by Major Devlin (Vince Edwards), plot to
expose Hamner as a coward who deserted his post
and left his crew mates to die.
Also starring 5 Minutes to Live favorite William
Shatner!
Color/ 100 Min./ 1970
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SOMETIMES
AUNT MARTHA DOES DREADFUL THINGS
Fleeing a murder charge in Baltimore, a homosexual
jewel thief name Paul and his teenage lover take
it on the lam to Miami. Paul disguises himself
as elderly “Aunt Martha” and rents
a house in the suburbs to live in with his “nephew,
Stanley. Unfortunately, Stanley is a restless
youth who won't stop partying and smoking pot.
Stanley's wild friends are driving the possessive,
controlling Paul to desperation, resulting in
a string of murders that could blow his cover.
Color/ 95 Min./1971
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SPACE
CHASE
This
little known “Star Wars” knock off
has been called the result of a sixth grade class
deciding to make a sci-fi film with a budget of
maybe $1000.
The story concerns a space bounty hunter named
Ryan Chase and his alien partner who are hired
to rescue a scientist and his daughter, who are
being held captive by the evil Dr. Chrome. Dr.
Chrome is forcing the scientist to supply his
robots with a limitless supply of energy so he
can take over the universe.
Fans of astoundingly bad cinema may have a new
holy grail with this one!
Color/90 Min./1990
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STEAMBATH
In this 1973
TV adaptation of Bruce Jay Friedman's off- Broadway
play, a group of individuals wake up in a steambath
with no exit. They eventually discover they are
dead, existing in a kind of afterlife where they
talk idly to God who happens to be
the Puerto Rican attendant picking up the dirty
towls. Starring Bill Bixby, best known for his
role as David Banner on
TVs the Incredible Hulk, this existential PBS
film is an amazing look at the essence of life
and of ritual.
Color/90 Min./1973
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SOUL
HUSTLER aka THE DAY THE LORD GOT BUSTED
This Burt Topper directed exploiter stars pop
star Fabian as a guy named Matthew, a washed up
junkie musician who is transformed into a religious
crusading folk singer by a slimy evangelist/promoter
named Reverend Calder. Matthew rises to international
fame, turning millions of young kids onto his
message and making Calder millions of dollars
in the process. But Mathew’s own personal
demons begin to eat away at his fabricated crusader
shell, eventually resulting in a tragic fall from
grace. Playing out like a religious A Face
in the Crowd, Soul Hustler is a
solid film featuring a good performance by Fabian
in the lead. A rare character study on the art
of manipulation.
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SUPERVAN
From the director of Disco Fever, Lamar Card,
comes another movie made to capitalize off of
a marginal craze of the drug hazed 1970’s,
Supervan. Imagine an entire movie centered on
custom van culture with a drunken Charles Bukowski
cameo thrown in for good measure and you’re
getting a good idea of the look and feel of Supervan.
The story is about a guy named Clint who enters
his custom van, Vandora, into a van contest known
only as “Freakout”. Eventually Clint
has to outrun some goofy country cops and use
his van to battle a group of bad guy bikers, good
thing he installed those solar powered laser beams
in his van!
color/91 MIN./1977
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SYNANON
The difficulties faced by drug addicts attempting
to kick their habits provide the basis of this
gritty, realistic drama filmed at a real rehab
house in Santa Monica, California. The story
centers on Zankie (Alex Cord), an ex-con who
has trouble following the strict rules of the
house. Soon he finds himself involved in an
affair with another inmate, an ex-hooker (Stella
Stevens). She's supposed to monitor and assist
with his recovery, not get emotionally involved.
When Zankie gets into a fight with another patient
(Chuck Connors) both he and the girl leave the
center. Soon after leaving, he begins looking
for more drugs and dies of an overdose in a
cheap hotel. The ex-hooker then returns to the
rehab house to resume her own treatment. Synanon,
the model for the rehab-house of this 1965 feature,
was a large ex-addict-run enterprise which expanded
its operations steadily over the next decade.
It was famous for its harsh “tough-love”
policies and its high success rate.
BW/107 minutes/1965
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THE
TENTH LEVEL
Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research,
this made for TV movie chronicles a psychology
professor’s study to determine why people,
such as the Nazi’s, were willing to “just
follow orders” and do horrible things to
others. Professor Stephen Turner leads students
to believe that they are applying increasingly
painful electric shocks to other subjects when
they fail to perform a task correctly, and is
alarmed to see how much pain the students can
be convinced to inflict “in the name of
science.” William Shatner stars along with
Ossie Davis and Stephen Macht.
Color/102 Min/1972
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TOP
OF THE HEAP
Taking the familiar Blaxploitation plot line of
“me vs. the Man” and mixing it with
a kind of Walter Mitty meets Fellini structure
is certainly something you don’t see every
day, but writer/director/star Christopher St.
John has created just that in his genre challenging
film “Top of the Heap”. St. John plays
a Washington DC cop who is not well loved by his
peers in the police force or the people in his
neighborhood. He deals with his personal culture
clash by obsessing about an apparent upcoming
promotion in the force. When the promotion goes
to an under qualified white man, he goes off the
deep end and enters a violent fantasy world filled
with hallucinatory images of black panthers, jungle
natives smashing watermelons, and a literal trip
to the moon! A highly underrated genre classic.
Color/ 83 Min. /1972
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THE
TURNING POINT
Edmond O’Brien stars as an idealistic state’s
attorney assigned to crack down on a crime syndicate.
This proves more dangerous than first suspected
since the syndicate has a number of city officials
in its pocket, including the father of one of
the investigating committee’s chairpersons.
William Holden is the crusading newspaperman who
attempts to help O’Brien, but even his efforts
are compromised by deeply entrenched political
corruption. The climax is staged at a crowded
boxing arena, where Holden is struck down by an
assassin’s bullet intended for O’Brien.
Inspired by the real-life Senate investigations
of 1951, The Turning Point is a classic
film noir directed with style by William Dieterle.
B&W/ 85 Min./1952
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VALLEY
OF MYSTERY
Starring
Peter Graves, Julie Adams, Leonard Nimoy &
Richard Egan, this made for TV movie concerns
an airliner that crashes in a mysterious South
American jungle. Among the survivors is a convicted
killer and the lawman entrusted to transport him
to prison.
Originally this film was an unsold TV pilot but
NBC executives liked the movie enough to add forty
minutes to the original running time, turning
into a feature film.
One has to wonder if this obscure, well-made TV
movie planted the initial seeds for what would
become “Lost”.
Also known as “The Disappearance of Flight
603" & "Stranded"
Color/ 94Min./ 1967
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WHEN YOU
COMIN' BACK RED RYDER?
Made in 1979, this film stars former child evangelist
Marjoe Gortner as a drug dealer whose car breaks
down in a small Texas town. Once in the town,
Marjoe wreaks havoc on the lives of everyone he
encounters. Eventually, he ends up at a roadside
diner where he terrorizes the patrons at gunpoint
and holds them hostage. Filled with tension, hostility
and an all around misanthropic view of the world,
Red Ryder is the last of the Vietnam
era's mean movies; in the same vein as Rolling
Thunder, Straw Dogs and A Clockwork
Orange.
This film is in English with Spanish subtitles
Color/ 113 Min./ 1979
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WRATH OF THE GODS
In
this early feature, a father (played by Sessue
Hayakawa) and daughter (Tsuru Aoki) live under
a Buddhist curse that prevents the daughter from
being married, lest the Japanese island they inhabit
be destroyed by the wrath of the gods. Then, comes
along a shipwrecked American Christian (played
by Frank Borzage, before directing such classics
as ‘7th Heaven’ (1927) and ‘A
Farewell to Arms’ (1932)), who converts
the Japanese family to his religion and plans
to marry the daughter. Clearly, ‘The Wrath
of the Gods’ is rather bigoted in its promotion
of Christianity as a peaceful and loving religion
and its portrayal of Buddhism as vengeful and
violent. Really, the filmmakers display no insight
or full understanding of either belief. Beyond
this questionable text, the film is well made
for its time and has an exciting climax, with
scenes of an angry mob and the wrath of the gods
displayed in a volcano eruption. There’s
some quick editing during the climax, in addition
to the special effects to achieve the volcanic
eruption, which includes lots of smoke and fire,
falling debris and the use of a (obvious) miniature
volcano.
Color/ 56 Min./ 1914
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YETI:
GIANT OF THE 20th CENTURY
Made as a desperate attempt to cash in on the
Dino De Laurentiis 1976 remake of King Kong
(which in itself was a desperate attempt
at a cash in), this absurd Italian film replaces
Kong with a giant Yeti played by a guy in a furry
suit with dark circles under his eyes. The Yeti
is found frozen and brought back to Toronto via
a helicopter. From there, he escapes, falls in
love with a teenage girl, befriends a dog and
a deaf mute, and wreaks havoc all over the city.
He even kills a guy by breaking his neck in between
his giant Yeti toes! And in the end, well, why
ruin that for you…. A must see for any Yeti
aficionado worth his or her salt!
Color/ 105 min/ 1977
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