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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Feb 17, 2020 23:48:38 GMT -5
Recently got Hercules Against the Moon Men which is quite a present to get from your girlfriend for Valentine’s Day.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Feb 22, 2020 8:57:41 GMT -5
I did a hippie double feature last night. It also led to me finding this pretty groovy list of hippie films: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_related_to_the_hippie_subcultureThe ones I watched were Alice in Acidland (1969) and Smoke and Flesh (1968). Both are pretty much generic hippie party films for about 90 percent of the movie. Alice in Acidland despite the title is pretty boring. It’s about a girl who starts smoking marijuana and before you know it her life is out of control. Yet, it’s mostly just shots of people doing drugs and boring sex scenes that don’t show much. The only cool parts is when she drops acid and the movie finally switches to color (with about 10 minutes left) and the ending. I won’t spoil it but the ending comes out of nowhere and is actually pretty creepy. Smoke and Flesh has even less of a plot as it’s just a hippie house party. The only really clear and/or interesting plot is when some bikers show up to crash the party. One of the bikers had picked up a hippie chick who was at the party but she ran out on him. So he tries to rape her and the gang generally try to mess with the hippies. The plan fails when one hippie gives the head biker some wine spiked with acid. The biker freaks out and thing go back to being groovy. I actually like the short subject documentary that came as a bonus feature better than either film. It’s called Aphrodisiac! The Sexual Power of Marijuana. In it they do a bunch of on the street interviews about pot, some needless sex scenes, and other assorted stock footage and pot stories. During one interview with a little person another guy walks by him and casually pinches the little man’s face with no one acknowledging it. It’s like they were high when they made this...
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Apr 12, 2020 15:51:07 GMT -5
Finally watched The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield today. It was wild stuff indeed! I knew the name Jayne Mansfield but never checked out too many of her movies. She was kind of like the Meghan Fox or whoever is similar now of her day. She had a career, but a big part of her persona was all the gossip and scandal that surrounded her.
This movie is truly wild stuff. It features Jayne going to all these sex clubs and other similar scenarios around Rome, Paris, NYC, and LA. She actually had her fatal car crash while the film was still being made. The filmmakers handled it as tastefully as you’d expect exploitation movie producers to handle it. By that I mean they hired a sound alike to mimic her voice for the movie’s narration then inserted gratuitously gory shots of the car accident that resulted In Mansfield’s death.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Dec 14, 2021 8:28:30 GMT -5
I’m not sure if anyone else ordered from Severin recently but since I got a bunch of stuff that’s exploitation rather than horror I figured I’d revive this thread.
Along that line one DVD I just got that I’m looking forward to is Kung Fu Trailers of Fury. Severin has a a few of these DVD sets just full of trailers and I got most of them. I know at least for that one it also includes a commentary track which is what has me excited because I might be able to learn a little about these crazy obscure films.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Nov 2, 2023 19:41:30 GMT -5
Figured some of you might appreciate this. From the Something Weird Facebook group regarding the movie I don’t think the mods would want me posting the proper title to. But those who know, know.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 3, 2023 21:07:28 GMT -5
OMG
I remember when that movie got rediscovered at DVDmaniacs. They started the Offical BP fanclub.
For a bit on their online store Walmart sold the BP Blu ray.
Got in a exploitation blu ray in today.
Return to Savage Beach,got Julie Strain and is the last of the Bullets Babes and Bombs series. I think this one also has Buff Bagwell in it. I seem to recall he did two of these,Day of the Warrior and another.
Does Jackie Brown count? Found the Blu/Dvd/Digital copy code version today for a good price.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Nov 3, 2023 21:22:38 GMT -5
OMG I remember when that movie got rediscovered at DVDmaniacs. They started the Offical BP fanclub. For a bit on their online store Walmart sold the BP Blu ray. Got in a exploitation blu ray in today. Return to Savage Beach,got Julie Strain and is the last of the Bullets Babes and Bombs series. I think this one also has Buff Bagwell in it. I seem to recall he did two of these,Day of the Warrior and another. Does Jackie Brown count? Found the Blu/Dvd/Digital copy code version today for a good price. Some of those remastered Andy Sidaris films must be a blast to watch on Blu-ray. I have one of the cheapo Mills Creek DVD sets. It has all 12 films and like I said, it was dirt cheap, but a drawback is all the movies are in full screen. I know at least some must have been shot in widescreen which would make all those explosions and other assorted nonsense so much more fun.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Dreams SUCK!Nightmares live FOREVER!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 3, 2023 21:52:46 GMT -5
OMG I remember when that movie got rediscovered at DVDmaniacs. They started the Offical BP fanclub. For a bit on their online store Walmart sold the BP Blu ray. Got in a exploitation blu ray in today. Return to Savage Beach,got Julie Strain and is the last of the Bullets Babes and Bombs series. I think this one also has Buff Bagwell in it. I seem to recall he did two of these,Day of the Warrior and another. Does Jackie Brown count? Found the Blu/Dvd/Digital copy code version today for a good price. Some of those remastered Andy Sidaris films must be a blast to watch on Blu-ray. I have one of the cheapo Mills Creek DVD sets. It has all 12 films and like I said, it was dirt cheap, but a drawback is all the movies are in full screen. I know at least some must have been shot in widescreen which would make all those explosions and other assorted nonsense so much more fun. I got that Mill Creek set. Then a few of the previous DVD releases. And now two of them on Blu ray. Yea the image upgrade makes the explosions and the remote control vehicles look nice. Odd I saw a handful of these on Showtime back in the 90s. Then rent 2 more. Wasn't until the DVD days I had any clue how many there was.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jan 14, 2024 20:14:48 GMT -5
Up next…
Did folks know there’s a Showgirls 2? It was made in 2011. It features none of the principal actors of the original. It has a 1.8 rating on IMDB. It is 145 minutes long.
I might not survive this one.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jan 19, 2024 23:08:16 GMT -5
I survived Showgirls 2, but man was it painful. The actress who played Penny in the original was behind it as both it’s director and star. It recycles some of the original plot, but then also throws in random goofball shit about occultism and burlesque.
It really earned the 1.8 rating. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was one of the hotter sellers ever from Wild Eye Releasing based solely on the Showgirl branding, but man someone really, really should’ve reeled Penny in.
It copies some scenes from the original and makes some surprising, fairly deep cut references (like Jimmy from the original having his own t-shirt company). If these were strung together with a few scenes to make a coherent plot and kept as short as possible, the best case scenario would be this could be embraced by Showgirl’s diehard fans. Maybe even a deal could’ve been worked out to include it as an extra on future Showgirl’s physical media releases.
As it is this is 145 minutes of torture that only the most masochist of moviegoers would subject themselves to.
But knowing I survived this, only one film lies on the horizon that makes me squirm thinking about. Reading, Pennsylvania (2006), a reportedly 250+ minute documentary Ray Dennis Steckler made about his hometown.
I have immediate access to that documentary through Severin’s Ray Dennis Steckler box set. But I’m going to take a long while before I tackle that one.
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