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Vermin Boy
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« Reply #15 on: May 19, 2005, 03:10:41 PM »

LADY IN A CAGE - I was sure my friends and I were the only ones who had seen this until it came out on DVD a couple weeks ago. Olivia DeHavilland plays a crippled old woman who has an elevator installed in her home to get her to the top floor. When her suicidal, closeted-gay son leaves town, the elevator gets stuck between floors, and somehow her home gets invaded by a prostitute, a wino, and a trio of teenage proto-Droogs, including a very young James Caan, who proceed to torment each mother and DeHavilland. Totally bizarre, sadistic little movie, and Caan eventually dies the most incredible death of any movie villain I've ever seen. To quote my dad, who independently stumbled upon the movie a few months after my friends and I did: "Did you see what happened to his head?!"

COMPLEX WORLD - Neat little independent black comedy about a plot (several, actually) to blow up Providence rock club Lupo's. Features the greatest militia in movie history, Captain Lou Albano as a Civil War enthuiast Hell's Angel, and some great performances by Lupo's criminally obscure house band The Young Adults. Sadly, legal issues caused the movie to only play in Providence and Boston, and cut the video release off after just one printing. If you find it, definitely give it a spin.

MR. MIKE'S MONDO VIDEO - Rejected made-for-TV parody of Mondo Cane by Michael O'Donoghue, who was the head writer for National Lampoon and SNL back when both were funny. Odd mix of comedy sketches (think early SNL's darker bits-- most of which were O'Donoghue's work), bizarre experimental short films, monologues by O'Donoghue (usually holding a gun and surrounded by rabbits), and performances by cult legends like Klaus Nomi, Rootboy Slim, and Sid Vicious (whose rendition of "My Way" was cut from the video release when Paul Anka refused to grant the rights). Legend has it that, a few minutes into the slow-motion "Cat swimming lessons" montage, the president of NBC told his assistant, "This will air over my dead body."

Also, I've seen Neon Maniacs. Don't remember much of it, except that the monsters are ultimately killed by water (despite the fact that they live under the Golden Gate Bridge), and that it includes the most excruciating battle of the bands ever filmed.

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« Reply #16 on: May 20, 2005, 09:45:27 AM »

HARD ROCK ZOMBIES (USA 1984)

Directed by Krishna Shah (a Hare-Krishna-Monk!)

one of my all-time favourites. Sooo, sooo crappy and painfully bad...

The plot: Adolf Hitler and Eva Brown live on the countryside in the US. They´re cursed ghouls and live together with Nazi-Zombies and Nazi-Mummies!!! And they have grandchilds - two evil midgets.
A Rock Band comes to the village were Adolf and his bunch of freaks is hiding.
Some crap happens so that even more Zombies awake. At the end there is a great confrontation between:
villagers, hard rockers and some undead hard rockers on the one side and
Nazi-Zombies, undead villagers, midgets etc. on the other side

Oh, and i forgot: Zombies just want to f**k girls. An old villager says to one of the Hard Rockers that lost his girl: "The Zombies have kidnapped her! And now they gonna f**k her!"

- pure neckbracking nonsense! Very recommendable.
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« Reply #17 on: May 20, 2005, 10:03:53 AM »

More terrifyingly bad Aussie crap.....  "Houseboat Horror".
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« Reply #18 on: May 20, 2005, 04:12:55 PM »

No Blade of Grass (1970)
A sci-fi flick. A strange virus attacks wheat and rice and everything goes downhill from there. A family travels to a relatives country home and along the way they encounter hostiles. I remember my folks took me to see this and it was truly graphic..rape..violence etc. I really wish they had left me at the babysitters I was 9..not something for the kiddies.
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h.p. Love
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« Reply #19 on: May 20, 2005, 07:39:49 PM »

Ellie wrote:

> No Blade of Grass (1970)
> A sci-fi flick. A strange virus ...

That reminded me of a movie I've never heard mentioned much called Deadly Harvest (1977). It's about a food shortage and people on farms have to protect themselves. I like these types of movies, whether it's Night of the Living Dead or the Posiedon Adventure. Deadly Harvest is not sci-fi but a realistic portrayal of famine. I think it was due to climate change.

Deadly Harvest: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074380/
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Dr. Kobb
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« Reply #20 on: May 20, 2005, 08:56:42 PM »

I must own "Hard Rock Zombies" and "Mr. Mike's Mondo Video" now after those descriptions.  They WILL be mine...
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« Reply #21 on: May 20, 2005, 09:37:09 PM »

I like the sounds of those 70's 'nasty future' movies like No Blade of Grass and Deadly Harvest.  I've heard of NBoG before in a book about scifi movies.  Anyone know if they are available somewhere?

~Archivist~
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« Reply #22 on: May 20, 2005, 09:56:59 PM »

Just a couple I found in the closeout bins a few years ago.

Paragraph 218 - Wir haben abgetrieben, Herr Staatsanwalt (1971) (aka In Trouble)
The box cover boasted a young Sybil Danning as the star, though she actually just has a couple of cameos at the beginning and the end of the movie. Still, it's interesting to see how young she looks in this movie. In Trouble is a downright weird little West German docudrama that uses Pro-Choice propaganda as an excuse to show softcore porn. It tells the stories several desperate women seeking illegal abortions, and then through flashbacks, shows a series of short erotic dramas to tell the story of how each of these women wound up getting pregnant.

The Return of Captain Invincible (1983)
A rather unenthusiastic looking musical/comedy from Down Under, full of lousy jokes built around four letter words and poorly timed, uninspired musical numbers. Alan Arkin stars in the title role as a washed-up former superhero turned homeless alchoholic who's forced to come out of retirement when the president asks him to make good on a promise he made thirty years earlier. Christopher Lee, as always, really shines out as the evil Mr. Midnight, but ultimately, both his and Arkin's talents seem wasted on this movie. Towards the end, however, you get to hear Christopher Lee sing, and he's actually pretty good. Though the song he's singing is pretty silly, Lee makes it sound good, hitting at least one very impressive low note during the number.

For $2.00 each, plus one free, these two Made for a pair interesting curiosities, but I otherwise wouldn't recomend them.

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« Reply #23 on: May 21, 2005, 01:15:00 AM »

What a wonderful post!
Re.  ROBOMESS:  A friend found for me on E-Bay the other day a copy of ROBO-C.H.I.C. on Hemdale, after they'd bought out the picture and retitled it CYBER-C.H.I.C. to avoid the whole Orion/copyright infringement thing.
There on the back of the box was/is a publicity still of myself that I'd never seen before, and completely different from the Robo-packaging.
Completeists take note!
I work in a bank.  The other day in drive-through, we played the Cyberchic tape on a security monitor behind us, while people drove through the window lane.  You just had to hope that the gratuitous nudity wasn't happening when certain people drove up!  Some people saw it and really dug it & other people stared right through it -- it was amazing to watch people either pretending this thing wasn't playing in a bank or really laughing hard.  No middle ground at all!
The bank I work at is in Boulder, Colorado.  This is all the explanation some of you will need.  Boulder is sort of a little Amsterdam/Berkeley/Katmandu in the Rockies.  
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Dr. Kobb
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« Reply #24 on: May 21, 2005, 01:02:50 PM »

Archivist: I've been looking through the VideoScreams catalog over the last coupla days, trying to decide on what to get for a big order, and I'm pretty sure they had "No Blade of Grass" listed.

Also, if you dig the post-apocalyptic fare, VideoScreams has it in spades.  Further, the cult movie zine, CINEMA SEWER has a terrific issue out with a long article on such movies.

I hope this post doesn't qualify as spam or anything.  I'm in no way connected with either of the above referenced outlets except as a consumer.---Kobb
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« Reply #25 on: May 21, 2005, 01:15:35 PM »

Say, while I'm thinking about it:
Dunno if this is the proper thread for it, but if anybody can help me track down a print of Browning's original "West of Zanzibar", I'd sure appreciate it!
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Dr. Kobb
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« Reply #26 on: May 21, 2005, 04:52:17 PM »

Also after the Phillipino flick, "Moro Witch Doctor".
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Alan Smithee
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« Reply #27 on: May 23, 2005, 04:20:47 PM »

Aljandro Jodrowsky movies:

Santa Sangre http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098253/
Holy Mountain http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071615/
El Topo http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067866/
Fando Y Lis http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061643/

Cult favorites. You'll never see anything weirder than these movies.
They're hard to find, since the only versions available are bootlegs, with perhaps the exception of Santa Sangre, which is out of print. Jodrowsky couldn't get the rights to release the latter 3 movies. Of these 4, my favorite is probably Holy Mountain. But the others are great too. David Lynch is tame compared to Jodrowsky. Interestingly, Jodrowsky was originally suppose to make Dune back in the 70's, with H.R. Giger designing the stuff.
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« Reply #28 on: May 23, 2005, 05:27:11 PM »

Scalps  - Almost no budget slasher about an undead indian (well annoying teenager posessed by an undead indian anyway) vs. a bunch of annoying early 80's archeology students who dont do much besides drink beer and make out. The acting, editing, dialog, camerawork, etc is all really bad but you can tell love went into the prostetics and gore fx. I also thought the electronic soundtrack was excellent however I suspect it was tacked on much later for the DVD release. I thought it was a fun way to kill 90 minutes.
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h.p. Love
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« Reply #29 on: May 24, 2005, 10:09:53 AM »

I'm pretty sure Deadly Harvest is out of print. I can't remember where I got it,  but I'm sure it was in a discard bin or on the web.

I also like stranded and starving people movies, like Alive, etc. One of my favorites is:

A Savage Hunger (1984) AKA The Oasis: Great story about a plane crash-landing in the desert and the way the survivors spiral downward as they fight to stay alive. This movie deals with topics that most in this genre don't address. It's not a silly movie. It's smart and entertaining. You'll never travel on a plane the same way again.

It is also out of print but worth looking out for.
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