Varla, Rosie and Billie are nightclub dancers with attitude. They go out to the desert looking for trouble. They meet Tommy who wants to drive the salt flats and his innocent girlfriend Linda. Varla kills Tommy and they kidnap Linda. They drive onto the property of an old cripple and his muscle-bound slow-minded son, the Vegetable. They supposedly is hiding a money stash. The old man is interested in Linda who manages to escape. She's picked up by Kirk but he turns out to be the old man's son. He brings her back despite her loud objections.This is super camp. There is real bad acting. The line delivery by the girls is horrendous. Russ Meyer picked them mostly for their giant double assets. The fake laugh is laughable. Sue Bernard never stops screaming. Paul Trinka is forced to be dumber than the Vegetable and he's horrible at it. The writing is a mix bag. At times, it's painfully bad. At other times, it is pure cheese heaven. Overall, it is surprisingly watchable and awkwardly hilarious.
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Grindhouse can be a bit of a nebulous category, as films that fall under that umbrella also tend to overlap with other genres such as horror, action, martial arts, science fiction, and many others. A good rule of thumb when identifying a grindhouse flick is to ask yourself these questions: Would this film be screened at midnight in a grungy, downmarket theater? Also, would this movie be unbearably awkward to watch with my parents in the room? Finally, does this movie feature one (or a combination) of the three G's: gore, grime, and genitalia? If you answered yes to all, then it's probably a grindhouse film. If you've never watched one of these movies and you're looking for a place to start, then look no further. Here are 20 of the best grindhouse movies ranked in all their full-frontal, visceral, blood-spattered glory.
It's a simple story on the surface: A group of sorority sisters receives a series of increasingly bizarre and threatening phone calls from an anonymous man, who begins picking them off one by one. The film offers some classic kills, including one very notable use of a ceramic unicorn. With a mix of inventive filmmaking (first-person POV shots from the killer's perspective) and some surprisingly progressive gender politics, the film is now considered one of the best horror movies of all time. "Black Christmas" is a gleefully grim reminder to always trace prank calls because you never know where they might be coming from.
It's a tale as old as time: An innocent married couple with only the purest of intentions is drawn into a spiderweb of sex, violence, and seductive (but deadly) Satanic rituals. You might be thinking, "well if you've seen one tale of a married couple seduced by the wicked minions of the Prince of Darkness you've seen them all," but you would be wrong! Carlos Puerto's piece of late '70s Spanish exploitation sleaze is skillfully shot, fiendishly fun, and has been referred to by some critics as an "Iberian 'Rosemary's Baby'."
As the viewer sits down to take in the story of unsuspecting young people stumbling into the realm of Leatherface (his mask of human skin, his eponymous weapon of choice, and his twisted cannibalistic family), there are moments where one might feel they're watching something they shouldn't. There is no Hollywood gloss here, no sense of distance from the nastiness onscreen. The horror oozes out to touch you, its hands dry and cracked, congealed blood under its fingernails. The unpleasantness of the film is not an accident of unskilled craft, it's the result of careful filmmaking coupled with a willingness to let the movie be ugly when the time is right, and to sometimes just let it all hang out. When I think of grindhouse cinema, it's always "Texas Chain Saw" that I think of first.
When a major Hollywood studio released Five Fingers of Death to thrill-seeking Times Square moviegoers on March 21, 1973, only a handful of Black and Asian American audience members knew the difference between an Iron Fist and an Eagle's Claw. That changed overnight as kung fu movies kicked off a craze that would earn millions at the box office, send TV ratings soaring, sell hundreds of thousands of video tapes, influence the birth of hip hop, reshape the style of action we see in movies today, and introduce America to some of the biggest non-white stars to ever hit motion picture screens. This lavishly illustrated book tells the bone-blasting, spine-shattering story of how these films of fury -- spawned in anti-colonial protests on the streets of Hong Kong -- came to America and raised hell for 15 years before greed, infomercials, and racist fearmongering shut them down. You'll meet Japanese judo coaches battling American wrestlers in backwoods MMA bouts at county fairs, black teenagers with razor sharp kung fu skills heading to Hong Kong to star in movies shot super fast so they can make it back to the States in time to start 10th grade, and Puerto Rican karate coaches making their way in this world with nothing but their own two fists. It's about an 11-year-old boy who not only created the first fan edit but somehow turned it into a worldwide moneymaker, CIA agents secretly funding a karate movie, the New York Times fabricating a fear campaign about black "karate gangs" out to kill white people, the history of black martial arts in America ("Why does judo or karate suddenly get so ominous because black men study it?," wondered Malcolm X), the death of Bruce Lee and the onslaught of imitators that followed, and how a fight that started in Japanese internment camps during World War II ended in a ninja movie some 40 years later. (Mondo)
Exploding off the page with over 1,000 of the best examples of exploitation, grindhouse, and pulp film poster design comes The Art of the B Movie Poster, a collection of incredible posters from low-budget films from the 1940s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. Once relegated to the underground and midnight movie circuit, these films and their bombastic advertisements are experiencing a surge of mainstream popularity driven by fans appreciative of the artistic skill, distinctive aesthetic, and unabashed sensationalism they relied on to make a profit, with the quality of the poster often far surpassing that of the film itself. The book celebrates this tradition with sections divided into 'moral panic' films, action, horror, sci-fi, and of course, sex, each introduced with short essays by genre experts such as Kim Newman, Eric Schaefer, Simon Sheridan, Vern, and author Stephen Jones, winner of the Horror Writer's Association 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Non-Fiction. Edited by Adam Newell and featuring an introduction by author and filmmaker Pete Tombs, The Art of the B Movie Poster is a loving tribute to the artwork and artists that brought biker gangs, jungle girls, James Bond rip-offs and reefer heads to life for audiences around the world. (Amazon) 2ff7e9595c
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