#TrashploitationTuesday WILD GUITAR (1962)
Ray Dennis Steckler's dir. debut is wild, raucous and rebellious as Arch Hall Sr and Arch Hall Jr are brought together in this rock n roll takedown of the crooked managers who exploit their artists.
#TrashploitationTuesday Madame Wang's (1981)
Paul Morrissey's near lost punk classic is a fish out of water story that deals with moral decay, social ennui, yet has a genuine affection for its plethora of oddball characters that exist on the margins of society.
#TrashploitationTuesday Laure(1976)
W/ Linda Lovelace dropping out the lead, French beauty Annie Belle steps in. This Emmaneulle-adjacent film is shot beautifully.
W/ paired back sleaze & a focus on the intersection between eroticism & mysticism, Laure, is spiritual softcore
#TrashploitationTuesday She-devils On Wheels(1968)
Herschell Gordon Lewis brings in real female bikers to rev motors and swing fists, as The Man-eaters keep the rotating pick of male groupies satisfied, while their enemies r left bleeding and decapitated.
#TrashploitationTuesday Satan's Slave
Underrated scream queen Candance Glendenning stars in trash auteur Norman J. Warren's black magic horror of country mansions, haunted woods and sketchy elites.
Incest, blood and twisted morals abound - tho there is some dust with old age.
#TrashploitationTuesday Don't Answer The Phone (1980)
Peepshows, porno theaters and pimps feature in this ultra-sleazoid LA slasher from Crown International Pictures, starring the perennially cast bad guy Nicholas Worth as a Vietnam Vet turned major creepo.
#TrashploitationTuesday The Sadist (1963)
Vilmos Zsigmond's first time as DP on a feature is a true marvel. The first film based on the crimes of Charles Starkweather (Badlands), is a hot, tense chamber piece, that uses the isolation of the Cali desert w/ perfect form.
Oppressive and dangerous.
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Would it surprise you to learn that writer/director Sebastian Stein conceived this film while drunk off his ass? Filmed entirely in Africa and imitating a number of Enter The Dragon sequences, this looks destined to become a bad movie essential.
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One of only 2 directorial credits for Gregory Vernon Jeffery, the other being Mad Girls Bad Girls, Death Riders features former Leatherface R.A. Mihailoff and Flash Gordon himself, Jason Williams, in a classic B-movie leather-clad 90s tale of revenge.
#bikers #revenge
#TrashploitationTuesday Sweet Sugar (1972)
Phyllis Davis unleashes her bust in the South American heat as she's sentenced to a chain-gang working the plantation.
Cue action, fistfights, NFL player Timothy Brown who brings some voodoo and a weird scene with sedated...cats
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Filmed in 1984, we didn't get to see this one until 2021, thanks to a restore and re-edit by Vinegar Syndrome. There were rumours that an early script contained a character called 'Detective Dolemite'. Oh, what could have been.
#newyorkninja #dolemite
#TrashploitationTuesday Man from the Deep River(1972)
Lenzi's influential cannibal movie starring Rassimov and Me Me Lai would lay the foundations for more extreme films later in the decade but would no less find itself on the video nasty list, mostly due to animal killings.
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A spoof of Women In Prison films, The Big Bird Cage helped bring future Blaxploitation Queen Pam Grier to prominence, at a time where African American women struggled to find roles that weren't, according to Grier, 'invisible or stereotypical.'
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Based on the Viz comic strip of the same name, acclaimed TV director Ed Bye (Red Dwarf, Absolutely Fabulous, The Vicar Of Dibley) helms a film so loathed that Graham Drury, the cartoonist who created the 'slags', never worked on the strip again.
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The first in a series of 'Mega Shark Vs Increasingly Outlandish Creatures' series, released during a resurgence of 'creature in the water' films, and it may just get a mention on this week's episode.
#shark #theasylum
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Our friends Nick Millard & Priscilla Alden from Crazy Fat Ethel reunited in the late 80s for Death Nurse & Death Nurse 2. Despite not sharing the continuity of CFL, it uses some of the same locations, actors and even stock footage from it.
#TrashploitationTuesday Don Juan, Or If Don Juan Were A Woman (1973)
Starring Jane Birkin and Brigitte Bardot(in her 2nd to last role). Bardot once again teams up with Roger Vadim who was interested in looking at the sexual liberation of the era thru the gaze of a woman.
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If 'fatsploitation' was a subgenre, Criminally Insane, a.k.a. Crazy Fat Ethel, would be it's poster child. Priscilla Alden reprised her title role in the 1987 sequel, which uses roughly 50% of the original's footage as flashback material.
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With a visual quality that's been colloquially referred to as 'Shot On Shiteo', Black River Monster sees its lead Craig Martin pulling triple duty as hero Leroy, his cantankerous mother, and the eponymous creature.
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Though it wasn’t banned in it’s home country until the sequel came along a few years later, Nekromantik’s transgressive nature attracted both praise and scorn. John Waters calls it ‘the first ever erotic film for necrophiliacs’
#TrashploitationTuesday Deadbeat at Dawn (1988)
3 n a half yrs in the making & funded by Van Bebber's student loan, Deadbeat at Dawn is fun, inspired & idiosyncratic. W/ director/lead a trained martial artist, & influenced by Evil Dead, we get a propulsive kineticism throughout
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Made with the sole intention of generating a quick buck, Thriller - ACP remains one of the most controversial films in Swedish history, with actual corpses on set, hardcore pornography spliced into rape scenes and live ammunition used in the action sequences.
#TrashploitationTuesday Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
David Wain & Showalter's WHAS may now be a cult favourite, but it tanked at the BO and was critically mauled. But this absurdist gag-a-thon, filled with stars in the making, would launch a franchise.
Who's laughing now?
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Controversy generates attention and attention generates sales. The filmmakers marketed it as if it were actual snuff film, and it went on to outgross One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest in New York for three consecutive weeks as a result.
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California Axe Massacre, a.k.a. Axe, a.k.a. Lisa, Lisa, was born from writer/director Frederick Friedel's desire to make a film by age 25, just like Orson Welles. The budget was so tight that most crewmembers worked for no more than $10 a day.
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The 3rd Sleepaway Camp was shot back to back with the second, and initially received an X rating for ‘gore and violence’, leading director Michael Simpson to dub the MPAA “Moral Police American Asswipes”
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#TrashploitationTuesday Dirty Work (1998)
Bob Saget's dir. debut was trashed upon its release, w/ MGM enacting a harsh cut on the film, bringing it down to a PG. But Norm and Artie shine as a comedic double-act in this episodic gag-fest that never dims w/ many hilarious cameos
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One of the countless Jurassic Park ‘homages’, Blood Monkey contains bad CGI, wooden dialogue, nonsensical story beats and, most bizarrely, a passionate performance from Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, who loved being able to do his own stunts.
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The only directing credit for Robert S. Fiveson, and made for only $350k, Parts: The Clonus Horror came to prominence when it was featured on MST3K, and it's similarities to Michael Bay's The Island resulted in a lawsuit in 2005.
#horror #theisland
#TrashploitationTuesday Night Of The Creeps.
Dir. Dekker, a self-professed sci-fi and horror nerd, built NofC around Tom Atkin's line in this film 'Thrill Me', writing the script in just 1 week, and adding many homages to the golden age of b-movies in this loveletter to movies
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