Chopper Chicks in Zombietown

How do Readers of the Rotten. Well, it's time once again for a fan request and yeah it's a Troma movie. I'm not pleased at that but I will let it go and not vent my spleen. Yeah we are back in B-movie territory so buckle up, brace yourself and make peace with your dear and fluffy lord. This is Chopper Chicks in Zombietown a.k.a. Chrome Hearts a.k.a. Zombie Town a.k.a. Cycle Sluts 

 

Looks like they just barely "Escape From the Bronx!"

 

 

 

 

 

Yup right off the bat, we got alternative titles with writer/director Dan Hoskins (Pretty Smart and Chopper Chicks in Zombietown) seemed to wanted some dark humor with his horror film and I believe he managed it.

Our opening title card begins with "Life's a bitch and then you die. Usually." Followed by a maniacal cackle, I think that sets a tone. Cut right to the girls on bikes zooming along. Hey! California is a helmet law state! Rule breakers!

A gang of biker chicks are out raising hell and giving it their all. They screw around in this remote California town Zariah, scaring the locals and creating all sorts of malarkey. Heavens!  They could ratchet it up to tomfoolery. These girls are far less intimidating than The Switchblade Sisters and I love the serious tone the film is trying to put out. 

 

Welcome to Thorton's Casting Couch.

 

 

 

 

 

These group of Jezebels are ran by Rox (Lyica Naff of St. Elsewhere, The Clan of the Cave Bear, Fame, Lethal Weapon, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Return to Green Acres, Total Recall and The Flash (1990 version), this brunette smoke show and IMDB is showing her as T.C. Sooooo somebody screwed up and I don't think it's the film.  Getting back to our opus of a film, the girls had an encounter in the last town and gave exposition about a member name of Candy, stating we don't need any more heat on us.  FYI, their gang is called The Sluts. Not exactly terrifying. Might I make a few suggestions that won't get you laughed at? The Vipers? The Ball Breakers? The Insanguinators? Hoes of Death? Just mull those over.

Feels like I just stepped into some 70s biker exploitation movie and got a little bit of zombie on my boot. Big surprise is the local yokels don't take kind them there biker trash. The local mortician just removed a body and replaced him with sand bags in the coffin. Foreshadow perhaps? Or maybe he's either a necromancer (mage with powers over the dead) or a necrophile (man or woman with obscene infatuations for the dead). Either way, I am sure it will progress the story.

Bob's gotta roscoe now, see? Meh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The local dwarf, Bob Littleton (Ed Gale of Howard the Duck, Phantasm II, Child's Play, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Dolly Dearest, Land of the Lost (1991-1992 version) and O Brother, Where Art Thou?) is in charge of population. That is he and his chalkboard establish the live ones accounted. Bob Littleton. They really just gave Bob the shaft there, didn't they? Guess Seymour Butts was too classy. FYI, Ed there is credited as Chucky's stunt double in Child's Play. Does that mean they tossed him into fireplace or the wall? One wonders.

The town Sheriff Not Wiggum (Lewis Arquette of The Real Ghostbusters, A Pup named Scooby Doo, Tango & Cash, Tales from the Crypt, Book of LoveYo Yogi, Hypernauts and Mojave Moon) and his mustache might not care for these chippies in his here jurisdiction. And yes he is father of Patricia, Rosanna, Alexis and David Arquette. Even stars in Scream 2 as Chief Hartley.

 

Ernie?!

 

 

 

 

 

Shockingly enough, our mortician is also a mad scientist name of Ralph Willum (Don Calfa of 1941, The Return of the Living Dead, Weekend at Bernie's, Bugsy, Doctor Dolittle, Downward Angel, Night Creep and Sharkskin) is responsible for all this mayhem to even happen. Shame on you, Ernie! Didn't you learn from The Return of the Living Dead?

Naturally the best way to not provoke the undead, the supernatural or demons is to STOP PESKY KIDS. You all know what I am talking about. They read from the book, they trash the cemetery, they take a crap in your refrigerator's crisper bin.  KEEP an eye on these little chaos factories.

As luck or plot point would have it, a bus full of blind orphans (many of which are smoking) has been stalled out not far from the abandoned zombie mine. Uh-oh Spagetti-Os! By the way, as a subplot, no I have no idea why the blind orphans are doing out in the heated two lane blacktop. Traveling to go see The American Gladiators? That may require sight. Um...off to hear New Kids on the Block? No wait, that would require wanting to listen.

Well, the cat or in this case, the scourge of zombies? Maybe a plethora of zombies? A mass of zombies? Well however you want to quantify it, the ghouls are loose and looking for flesh.

 

Sheriff Not Wiggums asks for the Sluts' help in saving those blind orphans and defending the town. The proper answer is NOPE. ALL THE NOPES! Alas the Sluts may have hearts of gold and join in the fray. With the populous be zombie food? Couldn't they call in the National Guard or Raccoon City's S.T.A.R.S.?

We have a quote from the Austin Chronicles via its VHS box cover claiming, "Shades of Night of the Living Dead and a bit of The Seven Samurai, Chopper Chicks in Zombietown is a very smart and very funny movie." Hmm, late 80s...beating the deadlines. AHA! Cocaine was the deciding factor!  It all makes sense now.

What did I take away from this picture? Well the humor was dark to the level of Night of the Creeps, some decent tongue-in-cheek gags and the zombie FX was fair for this low budget job. Gorgeous girls beating the crap out of zombies. Sorry fellas there is absolutely no titty in our flick today WHATSOEVER.   I too, was stunned at this.   Guess they were going more for female empowerment rather than give off a jiggle fest.  Now use those McDonald's napkins and dry your tears, boys.  At the end it was gory and goofy. Felt like I took my brain offline and just had a few laughs.

 

She really likes that jukebox.

 

Savage Titles: Savage Sisters

Howdy all and welcome to Day 1 of Savage Titles. As I previously mentioned, the word savage does seem to crop up in quite a few exploitation movies and one of the titles is just that and not just any exploitation film but a women in prison film. Oh yes you know the week is off to a good start when you have Sid Haig making an appearance. So imagine a general being more of a war lord scheming to handle ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!.. out of his region and put in an off-shore bank account I imagine. Well not if Gloria Hendry has anything to say about it. This is Savage Sisters.

My man Rob Zombie can hook you up with a role!

Oh we are in safe hands with director Eddie Romero (The Ravagers, The Passionate Strangers, Brides of Blood, Black Mama White Mama, Beyond Atlantis and Teach Me to Love) as he tells us the slightly risque, possibly tawdry tale of women in prison, revolutionaries and General Balthazar (Leopoldo Salcedo of One More Chance, Bandolera, Vivian Volta, Happy Days Are Here Again, Burlesk Queen and Blood Run) needs to move on an armed caravan full of money and forms a very uneasy alliance with less than trustworthy Malavasi (Sid Haig of The Big Bird Cage, Black Mama White Mama, Coffy, Foxy Brown, Jackie Brown, House of 1000 Corpses, House of the Dead 2, The Devil's Rejects and Halloween) and his one-eyed willie er..um...I mean sidekick One Eye (Vic Diaz of Revenge of the Street Warrior, Crackdown, Strike Commando 2, Blackbelt II, Bloodfist, Fortunes of War and Caged Heat II: Stripped of Freedom) plan to execute the idea of the snatch and grab only to double cross the revolutionaries and keep that cool million for themselves. Meanwhile revolutionaries Jo Turner (Cheri Caffaro of Ginger, The Abductors, Girls Are for Loving, Too Hot to Handle and Extreme Ghostbusters) and Mai Ling (Rosanna Ortiz of Roulette, Bank Robbers, The Young Idols, Panic!, Savage!, El negro and Ransom) committed to the cause get captured before they can hook up with their comrades and are hoisted off to the prison.

Ernesto, I feel a round of exposition coming up.

Refusing to give up their male counterparts, the ladies have been given to Lynn (Gloria Hendry of Hell Up in Harlem, Live and Let Die,Black Caesar, Black Belt Jones, Seeds of Tragedy, Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings and Lookin' Italian) Sgt. Jackson if you're nasty, to get the info out of them. Captain Morales (Eddie Garcia of Dirty Games, Free to Love, Kamlon, Get My Son Dead or Live, Malisya and Life Begins at 40) knows Jackson will get the girls to talk and he is well on the way to his promotion...little sidenote, his female colonel got a little BDSM on him, lashed him and treated like her sex puppet. Really wasn't expecting that.

Ms. Jackson, we need you to go undercover as a college girl nympho.

Jackson tells the girls to co-operate or they get rough. Like the power drill dildo... Yes I didn't make that up. We saw electrodes, clamps and no safety word in sight. Baltazar arrives at the prison with the remains of the revolutionaries and the banditos they worked with are still at large with the million. With the men dead on the ground, the girls' hearts sink but remain adamant. Jackson almost admires the girls' convictions but she has a job to do.

Billingsly (John Ashley of Hud, Beast of the Yellow Night, Apocalypse Now and The A-Team) a hustler for hire and fixer nearly is shot by Malavasi after showing off his stolen million and he also happens to be an on again and off again lover of Jackson's who tells her the girls might know how to get to Haig and the money. Billingsly sporting his Ron Jeremy mustache and groovin' pimp clothes leads the prison break, scoops up the girls and hightails it out of there not before they smoked close to 20 men. Will they get the money? Will Malavasi will get his just desserts?

Clearly not one for the kids, one of the first films having three female protagonists that can actually kick ass, take names and use men like Kleenex. I was expecting hosing down, torture and the like but we are actually spared all that and have a decent story, mild nudity and some screwy gunfights.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THAT MAN??!!!

Savage Titles

Welcome back everyone that is still reading this blog. I compliment you on your unique tastes. I was on IMDB recently. Internet Movie Database for those that do not inhabit as often as I. I noticed the repetition of many things. For horror sequels, The Final Chapter is very common and never truly seems to end the franchise in question. The word fine is popular for most romantic comedies and the word savage seems to bounce back and forth for many a genre.

Exploitation pays the bills, baby.

After giving do this oddity, I proceeded to research a myriad of titles ranging from exploitation such as Women in Prison films, Horror and even some Sci-fi. What is the appeal of the word "savage"? Not sure but I am bound and determined to find out and that brings us to the topic of the week. Selecting different titles and having no knowledge of each film so they could be gems or absolute turds. So business as usual.

I invite you to read of my viewing pleasure and/or suffering and maybe, just maybe, we will find some entertainment ahead. At the very least we may have films in need of riffing, which also fun.

Welcome to Savage Titles!!! 

Sci-fi get silly? Preposterous!

Podcast #6 : B-Movie Madness

Hey gang!  I know, I know.  How dare I not have a blog up on Philip Marlowe.   Well I was busy recording a new podcast with my co-host Shawn.

The B in this movie is for Blade.  Gonna cut chu!!!

 I did my level best to clean up the sound but clearly we need to get him a mic stand because his "Snowball" mic (Insert Clerks jokes here) is not cutting the mustard or he needs it to be right up in his face for possible a stand for what would hold sheet music.   So it does sound a trifle rough on his part but all in all I think it came out well.

It is still a work in progress on our mic issues plus we are looking at some opening music as well as a host site so I don't have to keep deleting the previous podcasts and they will all be available.  Might have to do some Indiegogo pledge begging if you want to hear more Rotten Ramblin' On.

https://soundcloud.com/jake-peck-2/rotten-ramblin-on-6-b-movie-madness

So feel free to enjoy and again NSWF and there is Adult Language

Bruno Mattei Week

Welcome back readers! Yes I am back, energized and ready to be the sophisticated writer bringing you the majestic side of cinema, describing in detail the fundamentals of each shot, location and what the director and actors were inspired to achieve after enjoying the riveting final draft of the script.

Yeah that's gonna happen. Have you read some of the stink bombs I have reviewed??!! With that in mind we will go into the realm of the obscure and overlooked exploitation director of horror, science fiction, action and exploitation with Italian director Bruno Mattei.

Right now he is envisioning his version of Avatar.

Making his mark in the industry with editing more than 100 flicks between that latter 60s to early 1970s he had his first directorial in 1974's hardcore footage of Jesus Franco's 99 Women, in which he supplied 20 additional minutes of pure adulterated smut. Yup classy beginnings aside he directed two Caligula inspired but blatant rip-offs called Caligula and Messalina and Nero and Poppea: An Orgy of Power. Can you guess there just might be gobs of nudity??? If the answer is yes, well no f**king kidding!

Having breasticles flashed at the camera isn't all he mastered as he has moved into the expanse of horror sub-genres such as: Zombies, Creature Features, Cannibals and Women in Prison films. Of the 54 films directed, 29 of them he wrote as he has trolled the states to find the next new rip-off to create. You see kids, with his extremely low budget for cinema, most of his films have horrific dubbing, oddly translated dialogue and enough gore and nudity to stave off the average horn doggy. Dubbed the Italian Ed Wood may have stuck in his craw a bit but he persevered having a substantial cult following from the VHS, Gen X to the Millennials enjoying his awesomely bad films. From that we can take in these are movies folks are at home giving it the MST3K smack down with vim and vigor. The most predominate sub-genre Mattei was found working in was the Naziploitation flicks that usually revolved around death camps, experiments or stockades and the like. With the clique that it is de Fuhrer's up most important gig that has to be taken seriously. Did I mention gobs of nudity because these were considered erotica as well.

Where is that Goblin music coming from dammit??!!

From ripping off James Cameron and Sly Stallone, International law on plagiarism is a long and pain staking task to prove what was lifted from music, dialogue, characters and even film story ideas so better to just shake your head and rise above it. The man when through a lot of pseudonyms to avoid most of these law suits so good luck on that. Vincent Dawn being the most likely and a nod to George Romero's Dawn of the Dead. So worry not my readers, I have a plethora of crap ahead of me and I will go kicking, screaming, gouging and ball kicking all the way into the madness that is Bruno Mattei Week.

Sid Haig Week: The Big Doll House

Well hello there folks and welcome to Sid Haig Week and what say we start this off right and classy??   So of course as we should kick this week off with a women in prison flick of course.  Yes the delights of a tropical locale of unknown origin, lesbian forceful guards, corrupt warlord and the horrors of addiction and political affiliation.   This is The Big Doll House.

Girl, you know I'm foxy.

Grear: You son of a spoiler! This is for Bodine,  You're rotten, Harry.  You know why?  'Cos you're a man.  All men are filthy.




This film is typical one of the cliche filmed in the Phillippines and yet held in some republic in South America.  Collier (Judith Brown of Threesome, Women in Cages, Slaughter's Big Rip-Off, Willie Dynamite, A Woman for All Men, International Assassin and House Calls) arrives to the prison with four other women as she is in for killing for her husband.  With the different personalities, cultures, and races there are constant fights during dinner which constantly tortured or disciplined lead guard Lucian (Kathyrn Loder of A Cry of Angels, The Big Doll House, Night of the Witches, Foxy Brown and Far Out Space Nuts) and Miss Dietrich (Christiane Schmidtmer of Stop Train 349, Ship of Fools, Boeing, Boeing, Scream, Pretty Peggy, Airport 1975, The Specialist, Half a House and The Giant Spider Invasion) the head warden couldn't be bothered to care one iota.

Damn girl, why ya gots to be cruel?

They have had enough of the abuse.  Her cellmates Alcott (Roberta Collins of Women in Cages, Sweet Kill, The Unholy Rollers, The Roommates, Wonder Women, Caged Heat, Three the Hard Way and Alias Big Cherry) and Bodine (Pat Woodell of 77 Sunset Strip, Petticoat Junction, Bunny and Claude: We Rob Carrot Patches, Class of '74, The Roommates and The Woman Hunt) agreed to help break out.  They need the aid of Grear (Pam Grier of Women in Cages, Cool Breeze, The Twillight People, Hit Man, Black Mama White Mama, Coffy, The Arena, Foxy Brown, Bucktown, Miami Vice and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey) to coerce the other guards and use these two men who brought market produce and Fred (Jerry Franks of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and The Big Doll House)  and Harry (Our boy Sid Haig of Forty Days of Musa Dagh, The Fall Guy, Misfits of Science, Commando Squad and Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II) end up reluctantly helping them escape with arms.

A few comments to make at this time.

Jack Hill brings $125,000 as a budget and managed to gross over ten million dollars and amusingly 3 million in VHS rentals.  This was Pam Grier's first big acting role.   Because Brooke Mills (Harrad of The Big Doll House) was a trained ballet dancer. Hill added a dance sequence just to capture her on film.

 The infamous line "Get it up or I'll cut it off" line was improvised by Jack Hill and Robert Collins making this psychotic glance in her eye wielding a knife and nailed it. The line that is.

Hey, I am talking to you!

Exploitation Week: Black Samurai 200th Blog!!!!

Welcome back babies to the end of Exploitation Week and my 200^th Blog!!!   Now being a fan of some of the more interesting exploitation I see the name Jim Kelly pop up now and again.  Who you ask?   Well this fella starred in a film called Enter the Dragon alongside Bruce Lee and John Saxon.  So I thought I would view his take of a James Bond agent of D.R.A.G.O.N.  So get those skinnies on, prep some R & B and get your groove on.  This is Black Samurai.

 

Gotcha now John Saxon!

Robert Sand: Surprise spoilers!

Robert Sand (Jim Kelly of Enter the Dragon, Black Belt Jones, Three the Hard Way, Take a Hard Ride and The Tattoo Connection) is a special agent of D.R.A.G.O.N. (Defense Reserve Agency Guardian Of Nations) on his month long vacation enjoying a little tennis with a honey when whitey appears with a case!  Say it ain’t so!   His commanding officers Whitey and Oppression inform Sands that he must save a Chinese girl named Toki (Essie Lin Chia of the Dragon Creek, Return of the One-Armed Swordsman, The Singing Thief and Love Without End) who is the top Eastern Ambassador’s daughter as well as Sand’s girlfriend.  

Big Jim is happy to see you too...

The scalawag responsible is named Janicot (Bill Roy of Black Samurai and Nurse Sherri) a student of the dark arts and occult who is known by his mass growing cult as the Warlock.  Why anyone would want to be referred by a Julian Sands movie is beyond me.   The cult specializes in kidnappings, sex trade and human sacrifices as well as dope peddling.   Oh and do expect many a racist comment to be had.   Apparently if you are in a devil worshiping cult you are also a racist.  Who knew?   Janicot’s high priestess Synne (Marilyn Joi of The Kentucky Fried Movie, Nurse Sherri and Satan’s Princess) while very eye catching just delivered her lines with less enthusiasm than a hostage.  Nuance and subtly just was not the order of the day.

Hmm, Charlie's Angels or Andy Warhol? You decide.

I have a few notions on the film at this time if you don’t mind.  Shot in 35 mm Spherical but again recorded in Mono.  C’mon babies put that audio in 4 Track Stereo at least.  The track is mostly redubbed due to their previous boom mic handling was crap they had everyone come in to the same recording booth and then they dialed down the ambient sound.

 I had to hear a midget sound like Edward G Robinson sporting a 20 gauge sawed off shotgun.   Of course the midget gunsel got blown away and I was screaming hate crime.  More midgets were used in martial arts flogging.   Our Bond car was a ’71 Stingray with a retractable shotgun aimed low for tires and I guess the redneck gunsels were carrying nitroglycerin and moonshine in the car because it went up like a bonfire.

Size 12 snap kick fo you, sucka!

Sorry if this sound like I am on a rant but I had to see “Sands” on a less realistic jetpack that Connery’s in Thunderball.  Yes, I heard the helicopter flying in our jet pack plus saw the crane towing it. The dark arts set up looked like a combination of Haitian beliefs, interpretive dance and leftover Hammer sets for their black mass.  Yeah folks you can avoid this one.

Exploitation Week: The Mighty Peking Man

Hey all and welcome back to Day 3 of Exploitation Week.  Eww did I step in something?  Oh sorry that smell is coming from the craze that was the 1976 King Kong.  Now don’t get your feathers ruffled, I am referring to the 1977 rip off that was a Japanese film that was shot in Hong Kong.  So prep your toy tanks and get those model airplanes in the air.   This is The Mighty Peking Man.

He did the monster mash!!!

The Spoiler obeys the girl’s every command!

In the deepest of the Himalayan mountains on the side of India, it is said there lurks a fierce ape like creature that stands over 100 feet.   Hmm that sounds kinda familiar…anyways this expedition to capture said creature is under way but we need an experienced hunter.  Enter Johnny (Danny Lee of Code of Honour, City on Fire and The Killer) an adventurous soul that is crawling inside a whiskey barrel because his girl was getting it on with another man.  Johnny warns his creditors the dangers of the jungle and has to get tough on them in order to survive the awesome ferocity of India. 

Swell cave you have here...roomy even.

He encounters Samantha (Evelyne Kraft of The French Sex Murders, The Bod Squad, Lady Dracula, The Fifth Commandment and Assassination Attempt) a shapely blond  barely covered in animal skins that has been marooned on this land as a child who has taken to behaving like Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.  She communicates with the animals including the massive ape known as Utam.  He is her protector and friend.  Guess she could not invoke the power of 20 some odd Japanese school children to summon Gamera. Samantha is bitten by a poisonous snake and her leopard mauls the snake while Johnny must take her supple thigh and suck the poison from it.    After such an event the two fall madly in love.   As that is often the case.

Phew, I should have skipped those baked beans.

Johnny and his partners convince Samantha to bring Utam to Hong Kong so he may be seen and they nixed mentioning they can rack in a lot of bread.    Johnny reconciles with his ex girlfriend and Samantha feels betrayed.   She runs maybe all of three blocks when some plaid polyester clad rapist attacks her; only to be squashed like an over ripe grape by Utam.   Utam is now enraged and proceeds to stomp up and down Hong Kong and create mass destruction.   Several helicopters, tanks and military personnel are at the ready.

And now I have just a few comments about our picturesque delight.   Panavision 35 mm is the culprit to capture this film in question but for some reason they recorded it in Mono.  The better portion of the “Special Effects” are done by Teruyoshi Nakano (King Kong vs Godzilla, Mothra vs Godzilla, Lake of Dracula and Evil of Dracula) for our various men beating the crap out of each other in rubber suits this Orangutan King looks like a Halloween store bought costume that the mask keeps shifting between shots.

Utam's first and last day as car valet.

To be fair they used similar animatronics techniques that were used in The Planet of the Apes films but the costumer did not arrange the fur in a realistic pattern so it looks bald in spots.  The forced perspective and scale models could be better but all in all are not that bad.  It cannot be taken seriously but it has been good for a laugh so if your heart is one for cheese ball monster films of this magnitude, then have at it.

Exploitation Week: Switchblade Sisters

What’s happening?  We start Day 1 of Exploitation Week with a man that knows how to bring that very concept to the screen B-Movie style.  I speak of director/writer Jack Hill (Blood Bath, House of Evil, Fear Chamber The Big Doll House, The Big Bird Cage, Coffy, Foxy Brown and Sorceress) a man with his ear to what the people want.  Is that necessarily a good thing or is it appeasing the lowest common denominator?  Grab your denim jackets, a pair of high heel stiletto boots and pack a blade too.   This is Switchblade Sisters.

Playing hard to get ladies??

Muff: You know, sooner or later every woman’s bound to find out- the only thing a spoiler’s got below his belt is clay feet.

Maggie (Joanne Nail of The Gumball Rally, The Streets of San Francisco, The Visitor, Full Moon High, Midnight Lace and The Choice) is a kid with a bit of an attitude that catches some flack from Dominic (Asher Brauner of Judgment at Nuremberg, The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver, Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy, The Boss’ Son and Making Love), leader of the Silver Daggers and alongside these pigs are the Dagger Debs is one of the most ruthless, vicious gang of teenage girls this side of Detroit.  Due to doing in a repo man with a series of slashing all gang members including Maggie all get dropped into Juvenile detention.  Maggie meets with the warden who happens to be a large and evil lesbian that threatens her very life.  Maggie fights back and the Debs take her in as one of their own.

Such vile girls. Now they are slashing corned beef!

Lace (Robbie Lee of Big Bad Mama, Linda Lovelace for President, My Therapist, The Get Along Gang and It’s Your Birthday Party with Rainbow Brite and Friends) leader of the Debs takes a liking to Maggie and asks her to run a few letters to her boyfriend Dominic.  Being the gentle and timid soul that he is, he follows her home and violates her.  He’s a keeper, ladies.

Patch (Monica Gayle of The Harem Bunch, School of Love, The Stewardesses, Psychodrama, Dr. Dildo’s Secret and Taking It Out in Trade), second-in-command of the Dagger Debs feels Lace and Maggie’s friendship is too close and is most vexed by such.  A rival gang led by the notorious Crabs (Chase Newhart of Maggie’s Stiletto Sisters) moves in on the territory and gang desecrates a member of the Debs.  Can the Debs and the Daggers settle their differences and ready to rumble with Crabs’ gang?  Guess they are called the Snappers.

Roller Rink of Doom!!!

This film was captured 35mm Spherical and of course recorded in Mono.  In the re-release of the film in 1994 director Jack Hill stated he interviewed several gang girls trying to get realism attached to it but he could not conceive of young girls running around in hot pants terrorizing the neighborhood as a venue that would be taken seriously.  So he thought it best to make it more like a madcap fantasy…that has women in prison themes, battle of the sexes and generally unpleasantness that this writer refuses to go into graphic detail. 

Director Quentin Tarantino went on to say this was one of his favorite movies.  Yeah just keep wondering why you get looked at funny my friend.

Exploitation Week

Hello there yet again readers and it is time for a request of the week and I have put this off for bit given its name.  Exploitation.  Now to be clear we are not referring to the means of extortion or shady deal but rather the cashing in on a popular theme which is more commonly associated with B-Movies.  From anything to an all African American cast with some racy themes to the down and out biker anti-heroes, this particular concept has been promoted from action, horror, drama, science fiction and even some westerns.

Some are loosely referred as Cult Classics but frequently the term exploitation has themes of nudity, violence and racial derogatory content.   As I myself have viewed several of these films I can honestly say there is entertainment to be found in this sect of film as well as abysmal failures.   So let's explore this phenomenon together, shall we?

Speaking of exploitation...woo hoo.