Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Superfly (1972)





"Superfly" Priest is one of New York Cities new coke dealers and his in it for the large haul. Classic blaxploitation and very famous for its GREAT soundtrack by Curtis Mayfield.

Must see.



Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1974)





Mute after being molested as a child, Frigga (Lindberg) eventually leaves home and is picked up by a strange man. A man who gives her heavy doses of heroin and uses her as a prostitute.

In her very, very little spare time, she slowly gains the knowledge she needs for her proper revenge...

AKA- "They Call Her One Eye".. But if you are going to buy the DVD, get the totally uncut, redboxed "A Cruel Picture" version.

One of the greatest exploitation films of all time



Thursday, September 9, 2010

Cannibal Holocaust (1979)






The greatest cannibal film of all time. The most disturbing, shocking, yet thought provoking film ever made. This one has to be seen to be believed... THIS is the one that goes ALL THE WAY.

Giving birth to the faux-documentary (Blair With Project, etc) Ruggero Deodato made "Cannibal Holocaust" to not only shock, but to educate his audience.

This film follows the NYU anthropologist as he tries to find a group of students who went to the amazon to document cannibal tribes. All he finds is their unprocessed film reels, and the rest of the shocking footage is to follow.

Deodato was arrested for 10 days after the release of this film, as he had paid off the actors to leave the country to give the impression this film was a true snuff film.





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Supervixens (1975)





Supervixens, Russ Meyers greatest film... well maybe tied with BENEATH THE VALLEY OF ULTRA-VIXENS, but either way this is a prime flick.

Dynamite, psycho cops, and well-endowed women... this must be seen to be believed, a world in and of its own!




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Coffy (1973)





Dolemite might be the godfather of blax cinema, but as the one sheet above states... Coffy is the "GODMOTHER of them all."

Dolemite and Coffy would be tied on my list of favorite blaxploitation, different in some aspects but the similar in many.

Pam Grier plays "Coffy" a nurse whose younger sister gets involved in the world of drugs and whose life is put to stake when she receives some contaminated heroin. Coffy, with vengeance on her mind, sets out on a full on vigilante mission to kill all the pushers, pimps, and low lives she comes across.



Sunday, September 5, 2010

Last House on The Left (1972)






This is the 1972 classic exploitation film by the great, Wes Craven... NOT some piece of shit remake that wanted to cash in on the well known title and then change major events that happened in the original.

Two teenagers are headed to a concert and looking for some weed, when they get caught up with Krug (David Hess) and his fellow prison escapees. Krug & Co (actually one of the original titles the movie was going to have) take the girls and are going to cross over into Canada with them; however, their car experiences some trouble and breaks down right around where one of the girls, Mari, lives. It is here, deep in the woods, where Krug and his buddies psychologically, physically, and sexually torture Mari and her friend, Phyllis. Rape and humiliation, that eventually leads to the death of the two girls.

The criminals make their way back up to the road and find shelter at Maris families house (at first not knowing it was hers). Mari's parents have not heard from her since she left for the concert and are very concerned. They are also unaware this group of thugs are the ones that brutally tortured, raped, and then killed their daughter and her friend.

Upon finding out, later in the film, the parents begin to loose their mind and go through a whole array of ways of killing Krug and his sadistic friends.

This is an amazing film and had such a huge impact on low budget cinema and drive-in flicks of the 1970's.

The remake is a piece of shit. As stated prior, major events were changed. The violence is over the top and there is not the psychological humiliation, that Mari and Phyllis have to go through in the original, that seems almost just as depraved as the physical violence.




Bonnie's Kids (1973)






This is a decent 70's grinder, not a favorite by any means, but has all the ingredients to make a pretty good exploitation film: sex, nudity, violence, and sleeeeaze!

A pretty complicated plot for an exploitation film. The basic plot involves two girls, tired of being sexually and physically abused by their stepfather, so they take care of him quick and proper like.... a shotgun to the chest. Then they run off to find their uncle to have a place to live, grow up, and get the most out of life. It is then that all sorts of subplots emerge and start to revolve around what seems at first glance to be a simplistic grinder with a simplistic plot.

Not that this is a challenging movie to follow, or has some existential and/or metaphysical type subject matter that leaves the viewer inspired and amazed, but it possess more of a plot than most exploitation films.





Bonnie's kids - Arthur Marks
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