I’m familiar with the obvious MST3k’d exploitation flicks (“I Accuse My Parents” and that sort) and I’ve seen “Reefer Madness”, but having rented a nifty documentary last night: Sex and Buttered Popcorn (very good, despite the dumb title) there’s apprently a LOT more exploitation flicks than I was aware of! Well, knowing this, I’ve gotta get some of them. But which ones? There’re hundreds:
“Child Bride”? (Hillbillies marrying 12 year olds is BAD!)
“Weird World of LSD”?(LSD is BAD)
“Trapped by the Mormons”? (Mormorns are white slavers???!)
“Road to Ruin”? (Sex ‘n’ Drugs are bad?)
“Mom and Dad”? (The ultimate ‘don’t become a BAD girl’ film?)
or any others?
I’m looking for recommendations.
Also, in the documentary, there was a brief clip of a silent era western that was anti-pot. Anyone have any idea what the title was? It looked hilarious.
I dunno, but can I come over and watch them with you? I’ll even bring popcorn?!!?!
(I’ll have to check the title, but there was one about the bad Ruskies having their spies go to “American school” to learn to be just like us, so they could infiltrate :eek: almost seems like Jack Webb narated…)
I know that one…it’s supposed to be a classic and kind of creepy in it’s own way. Anyone remember the title?
Another one…it was turned into an MST3K, featured (get this) a pair of evil parents who say to their (18? 17? year old daughter) “Honey, I know it’s your birthday, but we can’t be with you tonight…we’ll have a party for you this weekend, but in the meantime, we’re giving you a new car and we love and trust you enough that we’re giving you a blank check so you can take some of your girlfriends out tonight and have a great time with them.”
Well, after this kind of treatment, what can the girl do except with a girl-gang who wear tight sweaters (Yowza!), molest innocent gas-station attendants (I was never so lucky) and join the COMMIES (who pay them to trash a schoolroom, since schoolrooms are the foundations for DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM! I mean, if my parents gave me a blank check and a new car for my birthday, I’d do exactly the same thing (except the gas-station attendant bit) wouldn’t you?
I remember this movie. And boy, were those sweaters tight! (It’s just too bad that this wasn’t on premium cable and filmed 30 years later, where we could have sence the gas station attendant scene unedited.
Nope, apparently two different movies. “Go Ask Alice” is a weepy serious drama!, “Alice in AcidLand” is an attempt to scare kids into not doing acid and is a low budget exploitiation flick (which I’ve never seen, but I’ve heard good things about)
Circa 1972-1973, there was a whole short-lived genre that appeared when producers suddenly realized they could make profits with entire feature films starring Black actors on Black themes. A great many were quickly and cheaply produced, and this has gone down in film history as (what else?) Blaxploitation.
Who now remembers: Shaft
Shaft’s Big Score
Shaft in Africa
Super Fly
Hit Man
Get Christy Love
Coffy
Foxy Brown
Uptown Saturday Night (with Bill Cosby) Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song
Do It Again
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
The one enduring legacy of Blaxpoitation was the truly talented actress Pam Grier (Foxy Brown), who is today still as active and as beautiful as ever. Go Pam!
A few years ago, the Cleveland Cinématheque at Case Western Reserve University held a retrospective Blaxploitation festival.
Wasn’t that Jail Bait by the ever-exuberant Ed Wood? I have a copy. Great flick. It’s also the movie where Al Jourgensen got the main samples for “Just One Fix.”
Jomo, I forbid you from henceforth bringing up Blaxploitation films without mentioning Dolemite and the other Rudy Ray Moore films, including The Human Tornado, Avenging Disco Godfather, and of course Petey Wheatstraw, The Devil’s Son-In-Law. In addition, you should mention Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold. (incidentally, Cleopatra Jones was parodied twice that I can think of: once in The Kentucky Fried Movie by the trailer for “Cleopatra Schwartz” and once on Mystery Science Theater 3000 when Crow wrote a movie script titled, “Chocolate Jones and the Temple of Funk”.)
I did a Danny Thomas spit-take when I saw a comic saying how much he loved blaxploitation films like “Blackenstein” and “Blacula,” but his favorite was “The Blummy.”
As far as getting the films, get a copy of Classic Images (www.classicimages.com), it has ads for under-the-radar video distributors that carry the stuff you don’t find at Blockbuster.
It’s worth a try if you can find a copy. Rhino is where I got mine. Even if it’s not the same one (and I strongly suspect it is), it’s a great flick. Absolutely hysterical.
As I recall, Ed didn’t have full “artistic control” (if you can call it that).
My all time favorite has to be Maniac from 1934, by Dwain Esper. This movie is totally delilrious, and has to be the oddest thing I have seen. This movie has everything, a mad scientist, a madder assistant, rare 1930’s nudity, and a cats eyeball gets eaten. They do not make them like this anymore. Esper is also resopnsible for Marijuana: Weed with Roots in Hell, which I have not seen yet.
I have several movies such as Child Bride, Racket Girls (MST3k and the un-MST version) and a few others. I usually do not watch mainstream Hollywood movies more than once or twice, however these I can watch a million times. And I am always looking for new ones to add to my collection.
There is also an excellent history of exploitation films called “Bold, Daring, Shocking, True” An excellent and entertaining read.
My all time favorite has to be Maniac from 1934, by Dwain Esper. This movie is totally delilrious, and has to be the oddest thing I have seen. This movie has everything, a mad scientist, a madder assistant, rare 1930’s nudity, and a cats eyeball gets eaten. They do not make them like this anymore. Esper is also resopnsible for Marijuana: Weed with Roots in Hell, which I have not seen yet.
I have several movies such as Child Bride, Racket Girls (MST3k and the un-MST version) and a few others. I usually do not watch mainstream Hollywood movies more than once or twice, however these I can watch a million times. And I am always looking for new ones to add to my collection.
There is also an excellent history of exploitation films called “Bold, Daring, Shocking, True” An excellent and entertaining read.
http://www.sinistercinema.com has an excellent collection of exploitation films, including the ones I mentioned above.
