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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Aug 20, 2019 22:35:43 GMT -5
Because while I love the FAN horror thread I watch way too many exploitation films that have little and sometimes nothing to do with horror. So instead of clogging up that thread with this kind of crap, here is a thread for this kind of crap.
Today I watched Dracula (The Dirty Old Man). It was originally created as a straight softcore/horror film from 1969. However, the producers realized how awful it was so they redubbed it to make it a softcore/horror/COMEDY film instead. The comedy rarely lands, but its better this way than if they just played it all straight.
In the movie Alucard (Dracula spelled backwards) is played by a guy in a cheap costume and the redubbed voice is a stereotypical old Jewish man. A reporter comes to investigate him, but Alucard turns him into a jackal-man (pretty much a werewolf) named Irving Jackalman.
Alucard has Jackalman abduct women for him and along the way there are lots of gratuitous shots of boobs, a fake bat that makes the Hammer films look like MCU, and enough full frontal female nudity for a clam bake.
This is on a double feature from Something Weird Video along with another movie called Guess What Happened to Count Dracula. I'd definitely recommend it if you're into this sort of thing. It would have been cool if they had the non redubbed version as an extra, but I'm pretty sure that was never released and the redubbing was done as the film was originally being edited.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Aug 21, 2019 3:22:05 GMT -5
Since they are getting released to Blu Ray by Mill Creek I have been rewatching the Andy Sidarius Secret Agent films.
First discovered them in 1990. When I caught Picasso Trigger late at night on Showtime.
Andy had a great formula. He would hire a few Playmates. Have them play undercover government spies. Then film them in Hawaii,Texas and parts of Louisana. Grab some random celeb like Erik Estrata,Pat Morita or Buff Bagwell. Cast them as the villian of the film.
Make sure every 5 minutes you get either some gun action,a explosion or some nudity.
Add in how the continuity is all over the place. You have for example Buff playing "Warrior" in one film as the lead villain. Then in the next film he is back and is stil Warrior but now is a good guy. ANd who can forget the infamous Pat Morita love scene???
If you are looking for some cheap turn your brain off action movies these are perfect for that.
And you can get 12 of them on dvd for cheap. Or get them on Blu ray for cheap...or watch them on apps like TubiTV for free.
Also saw one of my favorite films from The Asylum...Asian School Girls!!! 4 College women get kidnapped,drugged and assualted. This causes one of them to kill themself. SO the other three want to get some guns and get revenge. But they need money. And what better way to earn money than becoming strippers. I first saw this years ago when a buddy watched it as part of his a movie a day reviews. I forgot about it,mostly cause the movie is obscure and the DVD is oop and going for way too much money. Then was looking at the Asylum channel on PlutoTV and saw it was airing.
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Post by Joker on Aug 21, 2019 7:07:30 GMT -5
I do enjoy these kind of films but honestly don't where to start/look to get into them properly. I seem to stumble upon them (horror exploitation) more than anything else.
So by various exploitation genre what are some good starting points?
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Aug 21, 2019 7:30:34 GMT -5
I do enjoy these kind of films but honestly don't where to start/look to get into them properly. I seem to stumble upon them (horror exploitation) more than anything else. So by various exploitation genre what are some good starting points? You can’t go wrong with the work of David F. Friedman. A lot of his stuff dips into the horror genre, but he produced a lot of non-horror exploitation stuff too. There is a short about him called The Gentleman’s Smut Peddler to give you an idea of him.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Aug 21, 2019 7:35:47 GMT -5
One of my favourite exploitation curios is If Footmen Tire You What Will Horses Do? Anybody else seen this
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Aug 21, 2019 9:25:10 GMT -5
One of my favourite exploitation curios is If Footmen Tire You What Will Horses Do? Anybody else seen this I watched the cinema snob review of that movie, that's enough for me.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Aug 21, 2019 9:26:21 GMT -5
One of my favourite exploitation curios is If Footmen Tire You What Will Horses Do? Anybody else seen this I looked up the plot after you mentioned it and it sounds fantastic. Might have to track that down.
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Aug 21, 2019 9:28:42 GMT -5
With the upcoming Netflix movie starring Eddie Murphy, hopefully Rudy Ray Moore will get his proper due as one of most entertaining film makers of the "Blacksploitation" genre
Dolomite is his most well known character/movie, but "Petey Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son in Law" is my favorite thing he made
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Aug 21, 2019 9:33:45 GMT -5
With the upcoming Netflix movie starring Eddie Murphy, hopefully Rudy Ray Moore will get his proper due as one of most entertaining film makers of the "Blacksploitation" genre Dolomite is his most well known character/movie, but "Petey Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son in Law" is my favorite thing he made I was hoping someone would mention Blacksploitation and in particular Rudy Ray Moore as that is one guy I haven’t seen nearly enough of. My favorite part of The Best of Sex and Violence is the Blacksploitation section. Seeing John Carradine intro and outro trailers for Rudy Ray Moore movies sure is something.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Aug 21, 2019 9:55:06 GMT -5
One of my favourite exploitation curios is If Footmen Tire You What Will Horses Do? Anybody else seen this I watched the cinema snob review of that movie, that's enough for me. Didnt know he had reviewed it until today, somehow passed me by
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Aug 21, 2019 13:03:56 GMT -5
With the upcoming Netflix movie starring Eddie Murphy, hopefully Rudy Ray Moore will get his proper due as one of most entertaining film makers of the "Blacksploitation" genre Dolomite is his most well known character/movie, but "Petey Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son in Law" is my favorite thing he made Petey Wheatstraw is a great film. Another fun and easy to find exploitation film is Van Nuys BLVD. It is Crown International's ripoff of American Graffitti. But instead of being set in the fifties this is set in the late 70s. Bobby has a job he hates a lady he is tired of and a van. So after seeing a news report on cruise night on Van Nuys BLVD he loads up his van and heads to Van Nuys. Over the course of 3 or 4 days he meets a bootleg Ralph Mouth,two former Playmates and Chooch. Rhino Home Video,BCI and Mill Creek have released this film on DVD many many times. Plus it is easy to find on Youtube. I second the Dave Friedman love. Before the Gore films Friedman and HG Lewis were kings of the Nudie Cutie.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Aug 22, 2019 18:56:04 GMT -5
I just watched the short Sex and the Single Vampire on the same DVD release I mentioned in the OP. I forgot that I read it starred John Holmes until I saw the credits. I’m not sure if you could qualify it as exploitation or just out and out smut. I’m not even sure if there is a line to be drawn. Anyway, Holmes certainly doesn’t go whole hog in this one.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Sept 6, 2019 21:21:05 GMT -5
Watched Cop Killers today starring Flesh Gordon himself, Jason Williams!
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Sept 6, 2019 21:42:32 GMT -5
Hobo With A Shotgun is an incredible distillation of the genre.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Sept 6, 2019 21:45:08 GMT -5
Rambo 2008 is the most violent film I’ve ever seen by an enormous margin, and while it’s ostensibly got a social conscience as far as accurately depicting what’s happening in Burma, I think it’s pretty clear what is really being sold here. With that said, it’s absolutely amazing.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 6, 2019 22:47:31 GMT -5
Caught the last half of Women's Camp 119 last night. Seems one of the many Roku free horror/grindhouse channels ripped the video asia dvd,menu and all.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Sept 6, 2019 22:59:15 GMT -5
Huge fan. My favorite era (it's a long one, admittedly) is the "drive-in era" from about '57 through '80 or so. I gravitate toward pretty much all genres of atypical film and my film collection probably has at least a little of most every subgenre.
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Post by chazraps on Sept 6, 2019 23:02:08 GMT -5
I do enjoy these kind of films but honestly don't where to start/look to get into them properly. I seem to stumble upon them (horror exploitation) more than anything else. So by various exploitation genre what are some good starting points? I'd suggest picking up one of the cheap DVDs that's just a collection of trailers of the different exploitation genres, see what strikes your fancy and go from there. You might be into sexploitation, blaxploitation, teensploitation, grindhouse, Drive-In, nudie-cutie, euro-horror, women-in-prison, mondo, camp, cult, etc. There's a lot of very different ground and eras. This sampler offers the widest ranging bang for your buck: www.ebay.com/itm/Something-Weird-Video-Extra-Weird-Sampler-DVD-2002-90-Movie-Trailers/333311444466?epid=3427621&hash=item4d9ae905f2:m:mA7i3Dpwwak6Hkx__OLXzRA
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 7, 2019 21:34:05 GMT -5
I do enjoy these kind of films but honestly don't where to start/look to get into them properly. I seem to stumble upon them (horror exploitation) more than anything else. So by various exploitation genre what are some good starting points? I'd suggest picking up one of the cheap DVDs that's just a collection of trailers of the different exploitation genres, see what strikes your fancy and go from there. You might be into sexploitation, blaxploitation, teensploitation, grindhouse, Drive-In, nudie-cutie, euro-horror, women-in-prison, mondo, camp, cult, etc. There's a lot of very different ground and eras. This sampler offers the widest ranging bang for your buck: www.ebay.com/itm/Something-Weird-Video-Extra-Weird-Sampler-DVD-2002-90-Movie-Trailers/333311444466?epid=3427621&hash=item4d9ae905f2:m:mA7i3Dpwwak6Hkx__OLXzRAThat is a great collection,also there is piles of blogs and websites full of reviews of exploitation film reviews. Lots of these films are up on youtube. So that is a way to sample some of them for free.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Sept 11, 2019 14:23:37 GMT -5
Watched The Defilers/Scum of the Earth Drive-In Double Feature. The folks at Something Weird really love Lawrence J. Aberwood. Of all the films they've had the rights to, his character from Scum of the Earth is the single most vocal one from their classic opener.
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