Drugs. Gangs. Girls in trouble.
You know what I’m talking about, don’t you? Those incredibly cheesy films that warned of the dangers of being rebellious in any way.
I love these things.
I just bought a book called “Bold! Daring! Shocking! True! A History of Exploitation Flims, 1919-1959.” I can’t wait to sit down with this one.
If you watch them, tell me which ones are your favorites, besides Reefer Madness. That’s everyone’s favorite.
Mine is The Violent Years, an Ed Wood classic about a girl gang. It is available for rent, by the way. I got it at Hollywood Video.
Changing my sig, because Wally said to, and I really like Wally, and I’ll do anything he says, anytime he says to.
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! a great Russ Myers film. If that doesn’t scare you off from hanging out with big-chested women, I don’t know what will.
Of course there’s the classic Reefer Madness. Hilarious!
I have a tape of an MST3K movie called “Girlstown”. It’s pretty funny.
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“All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.”
Reefer Madness isn’t as good as Assassin of Youth. Girls Town is also good, more so in the MST version of course, but not quite as good as High School Hell Cats.
Remember, I’m pulling for you; we’re all in this together.
—Red Green
Cristi,
While I share your enthusiasm for The Violent Years as an example of Ed Wood, Jr.'s filmmaking, considered strictly as an example of exploitation, I think you have to give the nod to The Sinister Urge, which Wood wrote but did not direct. The subject matter alone (pornography, as opposed to girl gangs in The Violent Years) makes it more exploitative.
Heck, that’s redundant.
I love ALL Russ Myers films. Howcum they’re so damned expensive on video? Eighty, ninety bucks! I’d have the whole set if they were priced reasonably.
Maybe I’ll spring for just THE IMMORAL MR. TEAS…
Uke