DR. RUTHFILM COMMENT INTERVIEW: a can-do conversation with a subject where sex is the object Dr. Ruth interviewed Orlea ns and four days before a trip to el se. [ read the scene .. .. by Marcia Pally C hin a- a sc hedule that seeme d not \"[ loved the idea of be ing a rich to ruffle her in th e slightest. The The Molly Goldberg of sex C hina trip was arranged by Robin woman in Pari s, where [. was a the rapists has lande d her first Leac h for his Lifestyles of the Rich stude nt and very poor. [n fact , the film role in a mov ie whe re the and Famous TV program , but Dr. scene in the Sorbo nne was shot in fe m ale figure is shamelessly adored . Ruth was hoping to get material on one of the amphitheate rs [ took a [n D anie l Vigne's One Woman or sex and family life for he r own cable class in . [ think [ failed a test in th at Two , th e camera nuzzles up to every show, Good Sex! With Doctor Ruth , roo m. [ loved that [ wo uld meet the rounde d co ntour, gazing lo ngingly at and for he r new sy ndicated broad- great D epardie u, th at he wo uld talk thighs and buttoc ks. Julie n C hayssac cast that will begin ai ring next to me - about sex, of course. [ loved (Ge rard D epardie u) caresses cheeks J a nu a ry. the scene in the lobby of the and fo ndles bre asts, mumbling into Inte rcontine ntal H ote l because his be loved's ear. N o m atte r th at the \"No pas tries for me;' [ pleaded . there were a lot of Ame rica ns around object of C hayssac's pass io n is a clay \"No? Oh? They are de lic ious here . making more of a fu ss about me than model of a diminutive paleo lithic Ju st come loo k at the m . N o? [ te ll about him . And [ loved going to a hominid . If it was good e nough for yo u what;' she said , lea ning close, as discotheque th at had a neon sign Pygmalio n .. .and bes ides, though though about to propose that we buy outside : 'D anie l Vigne et l'actrice the knee (bo ne) is not C laire's, it's black lace panties, \"We'll split one:' Ruth Westhe imer so nt ici: Im agine: the o ne C hayssac found on his latest We ordered two. Whe n [ co uldn't 'l'actrice: dig and th e o ne he adores . H e names fini sh mine, she loo ked worrie d but his reco nstru cted ske leton Laura. said , \"No. I'm not a Jewish m othe r to \"I really want to do another film because it's such a pleasure not to Dr. Ruth plays Mme. Heffner, everybody:' Just to her own. Dr. talk about the same old sex stuff. [ director of an Ame rican foundation Ruth lives with her hu sband of 25 have a script by Eleo nore Be rgste in , co nside ring a grant to our pass io nate years and has two grown childre n. and if it gets picked up I'll do it:' paleo nto logist. S he misses her plane Te ntatively title d A Starry Night with to Pari s whe re she will evaluate The proposal for Dr. Ruth's first Sprinkles, it's Dr. Ruth's American C hayssac's research , and Julie n is foray into film (\"I love it; [ love it\") Graffiti - a long night whe n she's snatche d up by Jess ica , a yo ung came from the William M orris running a maratho n call-in radio wo man who is quite willing to le t him Age ncy (''They don't own me ; show. We follov\\' three or so calle rs believe she's H effn e r. (S he is played nobody owns me\"), and the idea of whose lives eventu ally intertwine: a by S igo urney Weaver, for those working with the director of The teenage girl who runs away for a whose libid os wo n't co nte nt with Return of Martin Guerre (\"[ loved it; sexual adventure, a couple about to Laura. ) The real Mm e . H effn er [ loved it\") thrille d her. get married , and a couple about to eve ntually shows up and so the farce have a baby. The productio n compa- frolics o n. \"[ got the script on a Friday and put nies conside ring the project will it away for the wee ke nd . Why not? dec ide on it this summer. [ me t Ruth Westhe ime r at an East The n at 9 a. m . o n Mo nday [ get a S ide cafe near he r office at fi ve o n a call from Vigne, who's in New York . \"I love the characte r Vigne gave Saturday afte rnoo n just as she fin- 'Whe re the he ll are yo u ?' [ ru sh down me, except [ was e mbarrassed th at ishe d a d ay of see ing pri vate to see him , but his prod ucer says the she was so eccentric. I'd never wear patie nts, two days before she was part is already take n. But I'm not that big necklace . And I didn't like leav ing for a co nfe re nce in New abo ut to miss a chance to meet the the scene where [ had to run towa rd man who made Martin Guerre. So I the elephant . I knew where I was go up and he wants me to read a go ing but [ was n't sure the elephant scene. 'Let's do it; he says. In my knew where he was go ing. F ifty profess io n th at means something \"I really want to do another film \"I wouldn 't like to look like Sigour- \"I don 't believe that men looking at ney ~aver. I 'd never want to be that women is why men look down on because it s such a pleasure not to women and use them as sex objects.\" tall. You can write that.\" talk about the same old sex stuff\"
people de pe nd o n me for the ir inco mes - the who le TV crew.\" Ab. lo nde wo man with a slight \"Women look furtively because they 're taught to. But if we'd teach acce nt approac hed our table. \"I think yo u're wo nderful ,\" women to look at men as sex objects we'd be a step ahead.\" she gushed at Dr. Ruth , w ho re plied , \"This wo man is a journ ali st , and orgas ms they see o n the soaps, they project that. I have to be careful he re she'll never kn ow how muc h I p aid do the m selves a disserv ice. But I because of cross-dress ing. Dress ing yo u to say th at.\" U ndaunted , th e do n't think people are that stupid. up is for yo u and yo ur partner. You wo m a n co ntinu e d , \" Am e ri ca n They know what's scree n and w hat's should do it if yo u both like it.\" wo me n need th e education yo u're reality. Whe n they read ab out the giving the m.\" As the wo m an ambled d ivorces and drug abu se , they unde r- But in film , men and women dress off, Dr. Ruth turne d to me and said , for an audience of strangers. \"I always hear th at from European stand that so meo ne beautiful and They're objects outside a caring wo me n, but let me tell yo u, they arousing isn't necessarily nir va na. re lati onship . have just as many hang-up s. You know, I had trouble touching Laura's But do n't think r wo uldn't have liked \"If a man watches a wo man breasts. Dr. Ruth ca n talk ab out sex onscreen and is aroused and goes out all day, but actu ally to uching breasts to look like those go rgeous mov ie and buys hi s girlfrie nd a similar is anothe r matte r. M aybe it wo uld've stars. I wo uld - though not like o utfit , that's great. A love scene or a been eas ie r had it been a real wo man Sigo urney Weaver. I'd never wa nt to sex scene ca n be the bas is for rath er than a statue - it wo uld've be th at tall. You can write th at.\" wo nde rful fantas ies in the be droom. seeme d like th e clinical se t-up .\" It's a proble m onl y w hen a perso n Is looking at women s bodies part uses the material unrealistically, like \" M ore than be ing a rich lady be ing disappo inte d th at he doe sn't in th e film, [ love th at of healthy eroticism or symptomatic loo k like Burt Rey no lds.\" Laura is sho rt and well- of sexism ? It s a p roblem if the director proporti oned. I love be ing abl e to 'Tm not a fe minist. I bel ieve in say, espec iall y to Ame rica ns, th at equ al pay for equal wor k, but I think creates something unrealistic? short wome n can be beautiful. I'm loo king at b odi es and ge tting \"No, o nl y if the viewer uses it go ing to have the best time in C hina, aro used is always go ing to be the re . I because everybody is go ing to be m y do n't be lieve that me n looking at unrea listica lly. We s houldn't imbue he ight. C hayssac is so take n with wo me n is why me n loo k down o n powe r to filmm ake rs . People know Jess ica th at he ignores H effn e r, and wo me n and use the m as sex objects . ve ry well whe re rea lity is and \" 'here she gets furi o us. He ignores so me- mov ies are. Except sick mind s, but one who may give him mo ney, and \"We have a b ad d ouble stand ard , eve n he re yo u ca n't say so meo ne he ignores he r as a wo man. And I but we have to go on and say: it's not does something sick because of a tru e th at wo me n are n't aroused by mov Ie . love that she gets angry at th at. r pictures or film s of me n or sexually explicit material. Wome n loo k fur- \"Any sexuall y explic it m ate rial that don't like to be ignore d .\" ti ve ly because they're taught to. But can arou se is perfec tl y okay. I te ll How does a woman who is 4' 7\" if we'd teac h wo me n to look at me n people to see sexually explic it m ov- as sex objects - th at it's just as okay ies , to re nt th e m. I draw the line o nl v get attention ? How does she feel for wo me n as for men - we'd be a at viole nce and mo les ting childre n . sexy? step ahead. I do n't think Bett y May be because I'm o lder I never got F rie dan and othe rs are ve ry happy caught up in fe mini st objectio ns to \"[ look at m y diaries from years ago with me.\" po rnography. and I see that I worried I was short and no man wo uld love me . But I've Is it appropriate f or couples to \"I'd rathe r see less s hooting in the bee n married three times - 25 years dress up f or each oth er; to intention- mass medi a. D o the people who are with Fred - so I do n't wo rry any- ally make themselves sex objects ? aga in st sexually explic it film s object m o re. \"Abso lute ly. If a wo man likes to to all th e viole nce in m ov ies and Tvt \"Older wo me n and s hort wo me n wea r a garte r bel t and blac k stock- have to culti va te the as pects of th e ir ings and eve n have that feeling of What about women who are con- lives th at make th e m fee l attracti ve . be ing a prostitute, a f emme fatale, fli cted about being looked at, who If they like the m se lves, so meo ne will it's great for he r. S he'll fee l attrac ti ve want attention but think much of it is find the m appea ling. If yo u're disap- and sexy. Dress ing up is not just for sexist ? pointed about not be ing yo ung or the man .\" beautiful or tall , it'll affec t yo ur whole \"Not me. I've always had a way of outloo k on life . Bes ides, sexual And men dressing up f or women ? getting atte ntio n, and it's not just the che mistry is n't a matte r of traditio nal \"If he likes it , he'll fee l sexy and subject matte r [ dea l with .\" ~ beauty. It's some thing, so mething yo u ca n't put yo ur fin ger on. \"If peo ple expec t rea l me n and wo me n to match the idea l bea ut y, or real sex to be like the fantas tic
by Jimmy McDonough SexPloitation is one of the most devices to sneak by: nudist camps shown forgotten genres in film history. in a documentary context emphasizing \"In this movie, you will see women who Mostly very low-budget affairs, and their \"healthy\" aspects; story films framed by day are the secretaries, school- sporting odd, suggestive titles like Infra- in \"case histories\" introduced by phony teachers, go-go dancers, store clerks and sexum, Daughters ofAnomaly, and Love shrinks, etc. nightclub performers... women from all Is a Four-Lener Word, over a thousand walks of life... whose inner turmoil and sexploitation movies were made in the The sex scenes were obviously staged, frustrations, their burning desires for love Sixties alone. Obsessed by obscenity making abstract any sort 0,£ passion . The are restrained almost to the breaking laws, these movies used aU manner of constant legal phobia about genitalia point.... But with the coming of nightfall, made showing it without showing it all restraint is set aside and these same somewhat problematic. This made for women, like savage animals, compete in some interesting positions , both in the the struggle to find and then hold the literal and dime-store sociological sense. loving attention of a man.. .any man... if Not to mention kink. Fetishistic innu- only for a few fleeting hours offorbidden endo loomed large on the sexploitation pleasure.... [They are] willing to degrade horizon, with big tits , garter belts, and themselves in any way, to engage in any or black leather taking on added signifi- all forms of orgiastic revelry in their cance. As any paying customer knows , search for satisfaction. the farther away you get from intimacy the more props you need. It is not a pretty story. But it is a true story. Most of the movies were made (with Based on actualfacts.\" the exception of one or two women and -trailer for Strange Rampage (1967). the odd husband-and-wife team) by men, from a male viewpoint, for an almost exclusively male audience. Which is why 53
it's no coincidence that next to all of these 'RUSS MEYER's IMMOR(T)AL altogether; never had the lowly sex film films concern themselves with women FILM CLASSIC! looked so good, smelled so real, and generally punished in one form or packed such a vicious punch. Loma's another, featuring lead roles centered Produced by p , A. DeCenzie iconography also had its impact: the around ineffectual, impotent, angst-rid- voluptuous, insatiable woman pitted den men. IRI-' :;' ! pi us against blockheaded men who can either do too little or too much. A few tired facts seem in order. do is the crux of the humor. Just who this Pornography dates from the beginning of joke was on is anyone's guess. Teas' The softcore movies that followed in the movie biz; sexploitation has its roots success not only cemented what had Loma's wake did not all display Meyer's in stag films, the more suggestive exploi- been a hit-and-miss business, it foretold overwhelming but (certainly by compari- tation movies of the Thirties and Forties, the strange and lonely dead end pornog- son) conventional talents. Largely shot in and \"birth-of-a-baby\" epics like Kroger raphy ultimately found. black and white with an outstanding lack Babb's Mom and Dad. With promo of production values that reveal their next devices ranging from separate shows for W ith Loma in 1964, Meyer again to no budgets, most sexploitation movies men and women and guest-lecturing broke the boundaries-not to can prove tedious to the uninitiated. Plots \"doctors\" selling how-to books in the mention the bank-of sexploita- are often stale men's magazine fodder aisles, Mom and Dad was designed to tion by marketing this lusty piece of slightly fleshed out. And the sex scenes cause a sensation. And before I Am backwoods angst as a violent action consist of disembodied shots detailing Curious (Yellow), Deep Throat, Last picture that also happened to have sex. flailing limbs, ecstatic facial reactions, Tango in Paris, and Blood Feast, et. aI., a While sex films with stories had been bared breasts. Actresses always end up on little shock went a long way. kicking around for several years, most display in panties while men struggle in were tired Mr. Teas rip-offs or 'tame boxer shorts. The Fifties saw the brief popularity of foreign imports. This was something else burlesque films, a static genre consisting The typical cliches of Hollywood fit of features made up of strung-together sexploitation like a rubber glove. New one-reelers showing a name star doing York sexploitation tended to be grittier, her thing, or straight photographic more low-down-dirtier, if you will. records of entire burlesque billings: a California product was slicker, somewhat dancer, then a comic, another dancer, opulent in comparison, and a bit antisep- then another comic, ad infinitum. More tic at times. There were the pioneers who important (but equally dull) was Garden eclipsed the genre, such as Meyer and ofEden (1955), which after two years of Radley Metzger. There were the auteurs: court battles ushered in that there-with- A. C. Stephens, Chris Warfield, Ted the-grace-of-God genre, the nudist-camp Roter, Bob Cresse, Joseph Mawra, and film. That nudity itself was deemed not producer David Friedman,' to name but a obscene allowed producers to drag out few. There were the directors notorious Mom, Dad, Junior-hell, even for achievements in other areas of Grandpa-and have them play volleyball exploitation who started out making buck-naked while a narrator droned on some form of sexploitation movie- monotonously about the health benefits Herschell Gordon Lewis, Andy Milligan, of nudism. Needless to say, genitalia were John Hayes, Ted Mikels. And there were carefully covered by obscure camera the stars: Marsha Jordan, Rene Bond, angles or handy volleyballs, and touching Sharon Kelly; men like Forman Shane (!) was definitely against the rules. and John Alderman. And let's not forget However, in 1966 The Raw Ones the thousands of naked men and breathed life into the dying genre by women-the Hollywood hopefuls-who revealing previously unseen equipment. appeared once in this or that film only It grossed a fortune wherever it got a then to take the bus back home. chance to play. With the advent of the hardcore In 1959, Russ Meyer's The Immoral genre-with, say, Mona in 1970-the Mr. Teas nudged things a bit further. softcore bubble burst. The word went Sexploitation stopped being the visual out: anybody could make a dirty movie. equivalent of Sunbathing and Health and Fuck the artifice, just show the act. But entered the era of Playboy. Mr. Teas sexploitation never realized the influence survived legal hassles and won critical it had, for much of its iconography was acclaim (not to mention wildly lucrative popular success) by placing its nudity in a absorbed into the hardcore that softcore safe, comical, nonsexual context. One despised. The same goes for all that R- has to wonder about the \"ribald burlesque rated drive-in fare, all those teenpix to humor\" that made Mr. Teas so acceptable. follow. You can see the ghosts of that old Bespectacled, unattractive Bill Teas sexploitation in every one of them. delivers dentures and sees through only the clothes of women-who appear as The following are representative of the frightening apparitions. of untouchable genre. All are available on tape, along beauty. That Mr. Teas can look but not with a handful of other films, for those who want to take a deeper look into the keyhole: 54
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BIZARRE ITNHTEIMABECLIlEES~ Cut to a large, floppy doll in a chair in camera...A black woman in a bathing suit BEYOND Betty's bedroom: very garish and bright, smiles and shakes her thing...The fat expensive chintz. Betty talks to her doll. man chases Honey and pulls a knife on OF CtVILIZED MAN. \"It's all over, Orphan Annie, I'm free. her...A young man takes pictures.... That's what my lawyer tells me, free. To dlsilibuled b, do what? Trust another man? Tell me \"You've Never Seen a Motion Picture I ER PICTURES INC something, Orphan Annie-what did Like Honey.\" Jerky shots of groping men Hank see in those other girls.. .he was and women passing a bottle of booze The Divorcee (1969) balling? ..\"Why should he prefer them to around a pool, vague close-ups of hairy me?\" Betty tearfully curses Hank as she backs.. . \"What Was Honey Really Like?\" Clothing strewn about the floor. Gold undresses , then holds out her large Honey topless and lying prone, a shirtless high heels. A black bra on the bed. Booze breasts to the mirror for examination. man with greased-back hair lowers him- on the nightstand, a woman's hand \"Are theirs... bigger? .. Or.. .firmer?\" self onto her...A woman smokes a reaching for the glass, and an effete blond cigarette and tentatively touches Honey's man and a young woman with lots of eye \"Dammit, Betty! Whattya saving it for? naked back as she lays sleeping in a motel shadow nude in bed. Greenish-purple Another rabbit like Hank?!\" Betty's room ...Honey and two other women curtains hang in the background and a divorce lawyer wants in. She protests, but stand in their bathing suits and squint at cocktail piano tinkles on the track, after absorbing the alcohol from a few the camera...Close-up of Honey looking sweetened by the occasional flute or sax. drinks , relents, even enjoys it. And so it back at a smiling young man, a cheesy The woman pours the drink on the man's goes. harmonica solo oozing out of the chest, waking him. Then she takes a soundtrack.... The Honey trailer SWig. \"To Rick She Uizs Something Special.\" (1966) \"She turned me on the first time I saw her, \"One more drink and you won't care you know, like cool and calm on the who you make it with!\" \"Don't put me Cheap title card - HONEY- in big inside but with a fire going down below... down, Hank - I'm not your wife!\" Cut to white letters against a vaguely circus-like The first time we made love on the beach Hank's wife, Betty Brent, home from a background...A crude black-and-white hard day's work. Played by sexploitation shot of a scantily clad young woman it was like letting a tiger out of a cage...\" icon Marsha Jordan, Betty is an attrac- running through a carnival at night... Shots of Rick and Honey at the carnival tive, somewhat older, well-built blonde Some greasy jazz combo plays on the .. .lying on the beach kissing, a hand on a woman with a sort of clinical vivacious- soundtrack...Vague, quick shots of a fat breast, Honey licking his neck, biting his ness. Inside she finds liquor bottles, man kissing a woman's breast, another ear.... underwear, and her husband in bed with couple making out...Close-up of a another woman. Zoom in on her shocked woman with dishwater blonde hair and \"To Dora She Uizs Something That face. Cut to main titles over a still of heavy eye makeup slowly licking an ice Fanned the Flame of an Emotion That Marsha Jordan, naked and smiling. cream cone... \"lVu 've Never Met a Girl Had Lasted a Long Time Within Her.\" Like Honey.\" Blurry, hand-held shots of Dora leers at Honey as she walks away.. . A plush couch, some hanging plants. chunky torsos in bathing trunks, a man They wear fishnet leotards and pasties, Sitting on the couch in an open negligee, and woman fighting on the floor, the fat cheap mirrors framed by lightbulbs in the Betty pleads with Hank to reconsider man grimacing then running from the background...\"Her skin took on a golden their divorce plans. \"I'm a woman and I glow under the lamplight accent...the need you!\" \"A couple of drinks in you and hollows and curves of her body; says you need any man. I oughtta know, I was Dora. Zoom in on Honey undressing in your husband for two years!\" \"Then why the motel room light. \"I'd seen a lot of did you insist we booze it up before we girls with their clothes on and off before\" made love, even on our wedding night!\" (close-up of a woman's nail-polished hand Click! Hank hangs up and exits the stubbing out a butt in a full ashtray) \"but movie, though he will remain a constant here and now, the two of us alone, I began reference point. Oblivious, Betty con- to feel an awful ache inside me.\" Blurry tinues to beg Hank, telling him he's the naked shots, the fat man leering through only man she wants, and proceeds to rub parted curtains.... the phone all over her body. Although her breasts are constantly visible, most of the \"To Benny She Uizs an Object ofLust... specifics happen offscreen, and the act of Close-up of fat hands flipping the pages orgasm is mostly conveyed by Betty's of a girlie magazine, women in black bras, dramatic facial contortions. tight corsets, and high heels.. . \"She Became Part of His Dream World Until the Girls in His Private Collection All Began to Look Like Honey.\" The fat man drags Honey to a door, HIGH VOLTAGE- KEEP AWAY, close-ups of groping hands, the fat man leering, more hands on flesh, a shot of the dancers dressing, Honey's legs in motion, the skirt unfurling, a bare leg, a high heel, a shot of the fat man staring.... \"Photographed on Actual Locations, lVu'll Meet the Guys and Goons That 56
Make Up the World ofthe Carney. You'll \"Mondo Topless.\" \"I'd damn well want ya t know what ya Meet Brenda.\" Blurry hot of a sad long- were doin'!\" offers Bill. The talk turns to haired girl making out with a smiling turtleneck sweater and an antique gold Betty's ex-hubby, Hank. \"Hank's got a woman in sunglas es. \"A Two- Way Broad miniskirt. Bill snickers to Betty, \"Well new girl in Laguna.\" Who Took Her Love Either Way. She Was now that you've given Hank the 01' heave- One Girl Who Kept Gray, The Carnival ho, you must be starved for the sight of a \"Yeah - a real sexpot and constantly Barker. Well in Hand.\" A pan of a couple man!\" \"Just like an airline pilot - modest!\" plastered!\" entwined. \"You'll Meet Kitten!\" Black jokes Betty. woman, blonde hair, frugging on a Betty, Bill, and Sally eat, drink, and checkerboard floor, pull white glove off The room is populated by large laugh at bad jokes. Betty turns flirtatious with her mouth. \"A Girl Who Danced in pseudo-Impressionist paintings, ginger- and loud. Sally is concerned. \"What's Every Whistle-Stop from Tulsa to Toledo. jar lamps, a large fake marble cocktail come over you, Betty- you sure have With Her. Everything Goes. .. \" She shrugs table. Once again the gesture is toward duinged.\" off her top, twirls it in her hand , shaking expensive and modern, but the effect is her breasts at the camera\".... cheap motel room. Like most A. C. \"Same 01' Betty- I'm a divorcee ...a Stephens' sets, it's very neat, very now- free woman.\" \"When the Whistle BLows. Honey is and ready to collapse at any moment. One Motion Picture That Delivers... \" \"Leave her alone, Sally,\" barks Bill. Man and woman kiss , eyes closed. ': .. \"Bar's open ...What'll it be?\" hollers Bill. \"The girl's gotta live a little - gotta get a What It Promises.\" Close-up of the fat Betty tries to turn down the drink he is little!\" making. \"Well, the minute a man finds sguy, hands opening a switchblade. \"It out a girl's divorced he tries to get her Sally snaps at her drunken husband Loaded so she won't know what she's who is now making constant passes at All There and More!\" doin'!\" Betty. \"To you a topless dancer is J--enus de Hands on flesh , the fat guy again, Milo after you've had a few drinks!\" Noisy Honey running off into the night , Kitten stripping in highlighted darkness, a woman falling, a man in a straw hat bending down naked flesh, some go-go tassles, a hand grabbing at a pair of scissors.. .The camera pans down on a woman's bare legs , a dirty foot kicking off one high heel then the other. \"Honey Is Coming to This Theater Soon.\" A bright shot of Honey and Rick making out on a small beach towel , the surf approaches, \"Don't Miss Honey.\" A PEEII BENEATHh~ -' '1 .THE MARRIACE BED un.lo \"Y'MTHAATTRITMUORNNEYD IHNOTLOY _ ,md.t.i'imony.'':~ ~.<;~-t,- -~..~.:. ' ' .~ ~. ~1. ~.~~\" -. . '~\"~\".. . -J' -. -t\",,,,,t, ~ IIILUI The Divorcee, cont'd \"The Brick Dollhouse.\" \"Welcome Home, Little Betty Sun- shine!\" cackles a balding, moustached man with an outstretched hand. He is greasy and lumpy, the body encased in a brown polyester ensemble topped off with a striped ascot. \"Bill, it's so good to see you~ Betty sits on an ornate red couch wearing a snug dress that looks more like a multicolored turkish towel. Her hair is a combination of boy's-bowl- cut with an immense pile of ringlets on top. Next to her sits Bill's wife, Sally, toin and pinched-looking, with a modified blonde beehive, wearing a tight mock 57
kids draw Sally out of the living room. Bill itous peaks and poised on the tip of a man-with or without clothes . And I try springs into action. \"How 'bout a little.. . peninsula, San Francisco thrusts itself to be. This is my main purpose in life.\" \"I mood music?\" The lights dim , lush vibes into the bosom ofthe Pacific... \" want at least four or five more children.\" and sax ooze. Sally returns to find Bill and \"Even if it does excite them , this is good.\" Betty dancing close, Bill drunkenly A stream of oddly angled buildings, \"People who say 'Honey, that's all foam pawing Betty's ass . Sally angrily shows street signs, trolley cars, and sped-up, rubber; I say believe what you want. I Betty the door. \"Get out of here you cartoonish crowd shots (showing the only don't care.\" drunken tramp!\" men in the movie-John Q . Public passersby and one poor sap trying to push The montage moves on: fragments of Mondo Topless (1966) a cable car into action). Babette keeps female anatomy... bursts of close-ups driving. The images fly by at a jackham- detailing fishnet hose, diamond earrings, The insistent sound of a telegraph's dit- mer pace. The Voice of Meyer continues open red lips, black plastic belts. There dit-dit. Shots of a street sign labeled its antagonistic travelogue. are naked women playing spangled \"Twin Peaks,\" houses and appartment guitars, helping mules up hills, bouncing buildings jumbled row upon row on s\"Quaint Fisherman Wharf, the mass red balls on sticks, scuba diving in hillish terrain, crowded by masses of swimming pools, climbing electrical tow- telephone poles and wires . \"This Is San purveyor ofcracked Dungenese crab and ers and doing the split, frugging madly Francisco Calling!\" blares the hyped-up garish souvenirs fabricated in Japan and beside oncoming trains. Tape decks and voice of producer-director-cameraman- Yugoslavia , hawked by screaming min- radios are everywhere: on the beach, editor-narrator Russ Meyer. Guitars jan- sitting in trees , carried through the woods gle as title credits flash over quick sions.. .San Francisco arts colony is by topless women in blue hip-huggers. dissolves of the Golden Gate Bridge seen from different angles. Cut to a close-up of dominated by the arrogant and imposing How is this movie to be taken? An a car radio . A blonde woman-extremely Coit Tower, thrusting its bulk majestically intense magnification of a completely large, well-built, with a mannish face and to the sky, the Broadway Tunnel offering negative sexual mythology? Or only a huge red lips - wearing nothing but bikini a yawning orifice through which to enter frenetic drone, an unrelenting meditation briefs bops wildly at the wheel of a fast fabled North Beach...\" on nothingness best put into words by Pat car. Her name is Babette Bardot. The Barringer, the dancer on the electrical Voice of Meyer bellows above shrieking Babette keeps driving. \"San Fran- tower: \"All that you're doing is a dance- guitars. cisco! A spumoni-like hodge-podge of it has no meaning whatsoever...\" As the wild architecture, harboring wonderjui last shot goes by - an unbelievable com- \"San Francisco, the pearl of the old-world restaurants and emporiums of position of Donna X's rear end shaking Pacific, has long been recognized as an pleasure, exploding dusk to dawn with out of a tight red dress (with a cut-out impressive and significant contributor to the way-out craze of .. THE TOPLESS!\" bottom) next to a large, white reel-to-reel the American scene... situated on precip- A rapid-fire montage of garish neon signs tape deck - the Voice of Meyer says for strip joints, adult movies, drive-thru cryptically over the yakkety-sax: \"Mondo banks ... \"Mondo Topless captures the Topless measures up to more than a gang basic quintessence of the mov- ofgreat gals, it makes it MOVE.\" ement... with movement, way-out move- ment!\" The Divorcee, cont'd We see an explosion of women, Betty is drinking more and becoming topless, mostly naked, women with more lascivious. A barfly girlfriend intro- gargantuan assets, overpowering, surreal duces her to Art, the bartender, a women, constantly in motion - Sin sensitive type who paints Grecian ruins in Lenee, a frenetic blonde in black panties globby black strokes on shocking red and pink beads, dances wildly in a farmhouse window, a portable radio hangs by a nail outside...Pat Barringer, another blonde in a pink go-go outfit and long white gloves, shimmies in front of another radio in the middle of the desert .. .Darlene Gray, a skinny dishwater blonde in bangs and pigtails whose gigantic breasts make up 23 of her 112 pounds, rolls in a muddy pond, a small transistor perched nearby... \"FANTASTIC women, FANTASTIC sdances, featuring the world loviest buxotics... fuu've only DREAMED there were women like this until now, but they're REAL... UNBELIEVABLY REAL!!!\" The movie whips back and forth between dancers, the segments joined by whiplash pans and manic chord changes (BOING!) or a honk on the sax. Conversational bon-bons by the dancers rise and fall through the din: \"I can't find a bathing suit to fit me. You gotta have one custom-made.\" \"I find I am alluring to a 58
background . Art plie Betry with three Get The upers ar super-zombies (\"Try this on for size- fVid C talogs. you'll see all the colors!~ \"Well ... skoal!~ smile Betty); it wind up in a lurid amenage trois at Art' Venice pad. The one man Betty fell hard for, an in urance sale man from Chicago named Bruce, walk out on her. '\" hope you wake up to whal' happening to you, and when you do you're not in the gutter!\" are his parting word . Then it's out for drinks at a nightclub with Dr. Carleton, the chubby dentist who looks like a chinless bulldog with a moustache. \"A friend of mine is an osteopath,~ drawls Carleton. ~Gotta steam bath - fun 'n' games - it's a blast off! Doctor's orders!~ Betry lies nude on her stomach, Carleton parades his fat body in a towel. Candles burn, steam rises. The dentist pats Betry's fanny with a branch. \"Makes the blood flow; he leers, \"like the Finns do it!\" Carleton soon runs out of steam and winks to his equally fat osteopath pal to take over. Betty is too drunk to know the difference. Next in line is a door-to-door health food salesman, the somewhat ancient John Foster Gillis. Betry falls madly in love with him until she finds out he's married. She drinks and decides to take her revenge. Betry strips, and John Foster gets down to (what else) black socks and boxer shorts, revealing the waxen body of a 90-year-old. Betry makes him get down on his knees, bark like a dog, hop like a kangaroo, and lick her toes. Finally she hops him out the door. ~Get out of here, you filthy old man,\" she cries, collapsing into her house plants. Whit a hunk! Big . . . • •. Imart, tool No wonder the M Video Catalog aiwaYI plays the role in Iccess to grelt video entertllnment. Order todlY. And discover how exciting It II to live with lleglftdl a1.'s & 1a's of titles on YHS, Beta Laserdisc-Nobody hai Morel Tilt ClaSSici (Ind Not-So-Classlcl) • Incredible _lIIII!iiEIc... ... IddIllDnll $3.50 far . . Rirttill • Cu\"ent Relellel • Foreign Films • VIdeo CIIIIogI Flmlly Fare. How-To'l • Documentaries. We're The Movle.tle NOlta1g1c TV Shows • Concerti. etc. --------------------------o Enclnld II S5.95 Cllh, chICk or money enI. (S10. ottllde USA). Send me Ylllr MDVIES UNLIMITED ...... vldlO catalog, plul periodic updatel .. .. Ind 11II11IIml. 6736 Castor Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19149 . i ; G ; :-:b Iddlllonel (S9.45 total. USA). Pluselnclude your It CItIIIg. , am over 18 yalfs old. 2151722-8298 The Smut Peddler trailer (1965) Black-and-white, slow zoom in ..~.....r..:..;~,..........;.,.---------Stlte---_ _ ZJp--_ _ _ __ [&J ®1985 MovIes Unlimited Inc. through a keyhole, a deformed man,
dressed in black with a shabby hat, all tion-masterpiece of girls ...\" Shots of The Divorcee cont'd barely visible. He talks to the naked Barbie doll in his hand. \"Heh, Heh ... Well women riding in carriages, eating how do you like being a helpless victim in my castle? How do you like being a bananas, steering gondolas naked. \"Miss \"Hello, Four Square Liquor? This is prison pawn to your master?\" The man is fat, his face covered with scars and a Austria. Miss Vienna. Miss ... Solid Citi- Betty Brent. 1want you to send over three goatee. He fondles the doll, announces he's the Smut Peddler, then, as if zen.\" bottles of bourbon and make that two pleasantly interrupted, addresses the camera directly. Slowly we zoom in on the smut gin.\" Life has become a tableau of \"Everybody is crawling on hands and peddler's distorted face. \"... And the rest overturned bottles, half-filled glasses, knees to try and get one peek in my room ... it's the pleasure den of the absurd, it's a of you out there ... You want to know how dirty ashtrays. \"Don't look at me that way, pleasure palace of sizzling passions ... heh, heh, heh. C'mon in and watch a scummy people move around in the dark Orphan Annie,\" she says to her doll, dirty old man in action!\" He rubs his hands together. \"I have an open-keyhole nether-nether world of sin and corrup- impassively sitting in a wicker chair. policy!\" tion? eh?\" He points at us and grabs his Betty drags herself to an \"Eligible Man Muted strings on the soundtrack. Dark shots of a woman's hands undoing lapels. \"Then get your evil eye out of my Party.\" There are frugging women and another woman's black bra. \"Strange love desires that make a mockery out of keyhole ... one eye is for amateurs .... Texas oilmen with goatees. Joe Gannon, marriage!\" A vague shot of a woman, eyes closed and licking lips, the other woman's You're not an amateur ...\" We see his the suave, ascot-wearing host, says to hands skiIting her breasts. \"What kind of suburban sin has this housewife said '/ do' rotting teeth, the sores on his face. \"See Betty, \"A stewardess? 1should've guessed to?\" Title card, a cartoon of our friend The Smut Peddler, the body of a naked The Smut Peddler close-up and look like by the way you carry yourself.\" Moments woman composing the'S' in the title. a man ...\" Pounding his chest, he laughs, later he thrusts his fist to the crowd and A bald man furiously kisses a woman's legs and feet. She is scared, repulsed. \"A rips the Barbie doll's head off, and announces, \"Hey everybody... Psycho- man after my own heart - a gentleman with a taste for. .. the lowlife.\" A clothed crushes it with his fist. Rama!\" People clap and giggle as the man mounts a naked woman in a bowler lights go out and a single spotlight hat. \"Uncensored, without a kiss or a --~THEY GO DOWN TO illuminates the white brick wall. One comma missing.\" A smiling woman hops woman after another steps into the light into a chair and pulls up her shirt. The THE LOWEST DEPTHS and tells all. \"I adore sex .. .I could never bald man yells. Women strip. A smirking Of HUMAN DESIRES! man takes a mink off a naked woman. \"Do you like ... oysters? This girl gourmet be faithful to any man ... My·favorite food loves them. It gives him secret energy. Now that'sfoodfor thought...You'lI back- is shishkabob, and 1 love the Beatles.\" peddle to the lower depths of society when you see ... 'The Smut , The audience hoots and hollers. Peddler: \" Finally it is Betty's turn. She steps into A woman grabs another woman's face; she grimaces. Women fight, pose nude. the white light to tell her sad, drunken \"This movie is all body and soul report- ing.\" A topless woman with pigtails jumps story. \"My name is Betty Brent, and I'm a up and down for the camera, another topless woman poses, and two women in divorcee. I'm a free woman. 1 drink too garters and stockings wrestle. A red- faced man eats. A smiling woman with much ... because one drink. just turns me heavy makeup drinks. They roll on the on. 1 never slept with a man until 1 floor, fight. Cut back to the smut peddler holding married Hank. He wasn't any good in the his doll, wiggling his eyebrows. \"How do sack, but 1never knew the difference. He you get your... extra-curricular kicks, eh? / get them from ... girls [snort, snortl .. · always got me drunk first. Every man It's like the binding around the cheese- or should 1 say... cheesecake, eh?\" He thinks I'm sex-starved, just because I'm noisily licks his lips. \"You'll see the nudiest nudes ... You'll see an exploita- unattached. Men get what they want- they don't care about what / want! I wanna be a princess and have a prince on a white horse take me away from this lousy, perverted world! Life should be like a fairy tale ... kindness and laughter and sunshine ...\" Betty collapses in tears. The stunned crowd is silent. The game is over. Joe, the suave host, leads Betty away. \"C'mon! Let's have some fun now!\" whines a man with a goatee. Betty pleads with Joe to be nice, as they make out in his bedroom. Outside the party turns into an orgy. Women strip, men dance in boxer shorts. A sax wails as the camera zooms in and out. There are purple satin pillows and black-velvet matador-and-bull paintings. Women '1'\"Iro4A~I'\" dance on tables. Joe and Betty make it. Betty wakes up alone the morning W, lAl.';WilI SMA.ON MAn after. She drinks, finds a butt to smoke in the ashtray. Then she sees it. \"THANKS\" lUI ~....G...' written in big lipstick letters on the J. COLONNA mirror, eleven dollars on the bureau. She ...JANnn WASS ANI'\" Df IoIOUUN t.4ANY OF HOLLYWOOO'S ,,\",on GOIGEOUS Sl;.IUUS . crumples the money and stares at herself in the mirror. \"Whore! Whore!\" she ADULTS screams as she runs from the room, ONLY! bongos playing wildly in the background. 60
Holding her doll, Betry pa e in from of her folding oriental screen. ''I've got (0 get a hold of myself, Orphan Annie! I can't go on like thi ! Whore! Whore! Betry Brem, Slut! Betty Brem, Drunk. Divorcee, Lush! Ben Brem, Free Woman! I'm nO[ free! f'm not!\" She throws her doll down, goes to the bar, and pours a nice big drink. The ax tarts (0 wail. he picks up the phone. ~Hank. Hank! J gotta see ya! I gotta talk (0 ya! You don't know what you've done to me!\" There is a lick at the other end of the phone. She ees the doll on the floor. UHelp! Help! Please, omebody... Help Me!\" trings well up on the oundtrack. There i a wide hot of Betty, pleading for help, her doll on the floor, surrounded by leatherette chair, barcaloungers, and con ole stereos. She burie her face in her hand . \"THE E D\" flashes over a s[ill of Mar ha Jordan, naked, smiling. \"Original Screenplay by A. C. Stephens,\" i[ says . \"From hi novel, The Divorcee.\" I n New York City, an anciem porno theater on a run-down block shows three big hits for $2.99. Inside, the place i filthy, dark, and sweaty-the xerox of any urban porno-theater, although somewhat more threatening. There are men in leather, men wearing hospital bracelets, men in dresses. One leering old queen (Ouers against the balcony railing, limp pecker in hand, uncertain of just which secretion to deposit on the audience below. Up on the screen, a dispassionate man and woman mime fuckjng. Out-of-sync moans ricochet around the cavernous theater. The movie is a black-and-white sexploitationer from the mid-Sixties, a bland melodrama featuring very liule sex or nudity. Yet, the regulars at this theater don't holler or boo. They know what (0 expect. Subtract the cum shots from hardcore and this is what you're left with-an ugly soap opera with oversexed broads and impotem joes. Man on (Op, woman on bottom. So the audience sits quietly and stares, the bright images flickering on their blank faces; almost 20 years after this jive bullshit got chased offscreen by rivers of cum shots, and here they sit. Some .mffiliUmlthings JUSt don't wanna change.@ The Divorcee is available on ite-Flite video. ·Confessions of a Psycho Cat.\" Mondo Topless on R.M. Films; the Honey trailcr on 'Saturday igh[ Sleazics: vol. I, and The Smur Peddler trailer on\" Icumania; both through Rhino Video . 61
by Mike Wilkins the girls do on MTV, and become beautiful. In other words , is it a triumph of the swill or Plus, prisoners, being a dirty bunch, must an invis ible hand job? It is, of course, the Six women sit around a table. They take showers. latter. are, to a person, extremely beautiful. But they are not jealous of each other, The stewardess film must have a young ...'Au Pair Girls; 'Bang Bang as one might expect. No, they share a girl who has just joined the crew, and who Girls; 'The Beach Bunnies; community, a bond as members of the falls in with her mini-skirted co-workers as same group. They are planning something they fend off and fall for horny passengers, 'Bed Bunnies; 'Bedroom at this table. Something that might get pilots, and maniacs. Plus, since they have Stewardesses; 'The Big Bird them in trouble. They may even have to been on their feet aLI day working, Cage; 'The Big Bustout; 'The undress in order to succeed. But... right on stewardesses must take showers. ... they're going to do it. Are they going to Big Doll House; 'Blazing break out of prison? To wear the other guys The shower scene, in case you missed it, Stewardesses; 'The Bod out so their football team wins the big is a staple of all GIG mms, since it is a game? Seduce the handsome but too hygenically proper way to show nudity Squad'... proper new pilot? Lose their virginity in without portraying the heroine in a bad ways the human mind has not yet light. Even virgins who don't smoke or T here is a constant temptation on the conceived? Whatever it is, bet that these drink take showers. In fact, they probably part of viewers and reviewers to saucy sisters will succeed. take more . (Such showering is even envision that the main purpose of commoner in the sexploitation product the fllm industry is to produce an artistic or Welcome to the world of girls-in-gangs from Hong Kong, where demure females even just an entertaining end product. This films. It is populated by R-rated women: are treasured.) The shower is a vital outlook lends itself to critique and review, naughty and nubile stewardesses and ingredient in the rhythm of these fdms. the same kind of second-guessing and cheerleaders, wild and wicked prisoners Most not only have two or three shower argument over kir royales that baseball and biker ladies, caring and cute teachers scenes, but also have pre-shower scenes allows over beer. Because nobody is ever and nurses. The film title clearly delineates that supply tension. 100 percent right or wrong, the debates can the chosen field of endeavor, and whether rage for an entire evening. \"Welles!\" they are women, girls, dolls, or angels. It is For example, a candystriper comes \"Renoir!\" \"Eisenstein!\" as little nuds of pate a world forever telling the same story to an home from work. She shuts her door. The fly from the mouth. But the flim industry in eager audience. camera inside her apartment backs up to this country wants to be just that - an reveal the open entrance to her bathroom. industry. This is neither good nor bad. As a fdm genre, the girls in gangs (or GIG) The audience tenses. We know that the Who cares if VWs were ugly-they sold. film has proven amazingly resilient. Nearly director is not going to show that candy- The bottom line is GIG-pix sell. as old as mm itself, GIG-pix have legs that striper urinating. She puts her purse down would make the late Claudia Jennings and on a table, and absently looks at a stack of Brie-eating ne'er-do-wells and feminist the great Rainbeaux Smith proud. This mail. Then... then she kicks away her shoes bullies may argue that GIG'S, especially year, Cannon released The Naked Cage, and heads for the bathroom (Yippee). She women in prison fdms, are nothing but a and New World, Reform School Girls. takes off her clothes and wham, there's that \"sub-genre dealing with sadism, maso- Columbia vies with Stewardess School. R-rated nudity we came to see. chism, deviant sexuality, male fantasy, and a Others on the docket include Slammer host of other pseudo-erotic material in ways Girls, Vendetta, Valet Girls, and Finishing Because she is showering as much for the that get past censors~' They argue that GIG'S School Girls. Cable TV shows four or five audience as for herself, a girl gang member notoriously portray women in a bad light, GIG'S a week. And they win the battle for will rarely wash her breasts to the point of and that the characters are but reflections video store shelf space. blocking them from the camera (or wash of our own sick inner selves, the prison or any other part which would mean blocking sorority becoming a veritable Anima Yet they are a breed largely unloved by the breasts). Similarly, a fdmmaker might House. But GIG'S do get past the censors. mainstream fdmgoers , feminists, and even push his R-rating if the hands are shown As dirty as they sound, they are only R- to some degree by the aficionados of \"bad\" scrubbing the crotch. Thus, the typical rated. And, like pro wrestling, few films. They remain in an odd limbo, much showering girl washes her ribs over and viewers believe the films portray reality. like pro wrestling did until Hulk Hogan over. Groups like cheerleaders and pris- Budgetary limitations lend a playfully finally made it past the retina into collective oners allow for the best shower scenes staged quality to the films. Many of the consciousness. Everyone knew wrestling because the showers here are communal, women-in-prison films have communal was a boring and repetitive exercise in and the whole gang can shower at once. entertainment - who actually liked that Plus, sometimes when cheerleaders 1.) From comments by Professor Henry Breitrose, stuff anyway? It is the same with GIG films. shower, the football team will sneak in and critiquing a paper I did for him entided 'The Woman Who doesn't know a little about them, but chase them around. Prison Film: History and Discussion.\" His comment who actually likes them? ends, \"'None of this seems adequately addressed in A viewer who arrives at a cheerleader or Each sub-genre has its own necessary prison movie after it has started·can always your paper. c. ' And while I have your attention down elements. In a woman-in-prison film , the tell the star of the picture from the heroine must be innocent and wrongfully communal shower scene. She's the one here, I want to go on record as saying that GIG films do imprisoned. There must be a bad influence who is shown only from odd angles so we not turn audiences into bands of raping thugs . It's not who leads the bad prisoners, a friendly lifer don't see as much of her as we do the rest of movies that make you into a deviant. In faCt, a lawyer I who shows the heroine the ropes, and a the girls. know, a vocal feminist, who even lived in an bun-haired warden full of tightly twisted androgynous theme house in college, was recently perversion but who could, if she wanted, Is this some sort of commentary on arrested and put on trial for rape and assault. A mutual take off her glasses, let down her hair like society or something? Or can there acquaintance penned the following limerick about him: possibly be a rational economic explanation for the GIG'S weed-like proliferation across There is a young lawyer who chooses the Chinese-gardened lawn of Hollywood. To itlStrnct the girls whom he abuses; while in the boudoir quotes Simone De Beauvoir. and raises both cOtlSciousness and bruises. 63
cells that look like summer camp. Slave Girls of the White Rhinoceros to pioneers like Meyer and David F. Starlets try to work on the rockpile (1967), and J6yage to the Planet of without breaking their nails. Prehistoric UVmen (1968). Friedman (See MIDSECTION, page 31), nudity could fmally be exhibited in the That's part of the fun. The starlets and The beach movie craze owed much of its Sixties in a non-art house theater. Porno models playing these roles look too ripe success to waves of wigglies playing was no longer the sole province of 8mm to be cheerleaders and porn-porn girls, volleyball on shore. When producers tried bachelor party films, and as it drew the and too green and pink to be hardened to move the rockin' show to the ski slopes, moral fire from those who would protect criminals. They don't speak or act like women in snow parkas and ski boots could everyone's children, GIG films were allowed teachers. About the only thing they do not play volleyball; dead end. The Sixties to get away with lots without risking legal look like are starlets. The ne'er-do-wells were a time when the auteurs of exploita- problems. are wrong. tion, H.G. Lewis, Roger Corman, and Finally the GIG ftlm sub-industry blos- .. .'Jessie's Girls; 'The Russ Meyer, men so revered now that rock somed, in and of its own right. The swingin' Jezebelles; 'Lonely Wives; bands are naming themselves after their early-Seventies, a small moment in time 'Love Camp #7; 'Love Camp ftlms (2000 Maniacs, Faster Pussycat, and after the sexual revolution and before #27; 'Lucifer's Women; 'The Plan 9-three in California alone), brought women's lib, spawned a new order of blue Manhandlers; 'Miss Leslie's their talents to the GIG phenomenon. nosery, the years of the Laugh-In style Dolls; 'The Models; 'The cocktail party (see also the party scenes in Among the Sixties innovations was the Beyond the Valley of the Dolls) and Muthers'... development of man-hating, evil women, fashionable psychedelic art and music, women that smooth talk could not soften. were the glory years of the GIG ftlm. While Female gangs, usually on motorcycles, the majors released about 750 ftlms during the Seventies, independent and major- The cinematic roots of the GIG ftlm are roamed the decade, looking for trouble. minors released about 475 R-rated sex- as long and multi-hued as those that From this period we get Lewis' She-Devils ploitation films. Fully 120 were GIG ftlms. grow from the scalps of their stars. on Wheels and Meyer's Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Corman's New World would The Motion Picture Association of America's classification system was Georges Melies A Trip to the Moon soon follow with dozens of the same, passed in 1968, showing breasts to a mainstream crowd under an R or X rating. featured a group of girl marines; Mack running from The Big Bird Cage to Night This meant that, unlike the early producers of nudie-cuties and other sexploitation, Sennett's bathing beauties often served as Call Nurses. Moreover, they proved that Seventies producers were much less likely to be jailed or run out of town. backgrounds. GIG'S were sometimes pres- GIG ftlms didn't need a flimsy excuse like a This also meant that a different audience ent in the silent stag ftlm, and in the early prison or a lost planet to be profitable. It was ready to be tapped: a suburban, younger, drive-in crowd. The classic blue pseudo-documentaries about the dangers was the ten girls, regardless of environ- collar, urban groups of girls - prisoners, of white slavery, drug addiction, and ment, that the audience was paying to see. \"Big Doll House.\" prostitution. The chorus lines of Busby Hammer Films even started having its Berkeley proved that even mainstream vampires wander into exclusive girls moviemakers knew early on that there was schools, just to see if it all translated to something to a whole lot of pretty girls on- modern horror ftlms. (It did.) screen at once. Women-in-prison ftlms The GIG film also owes a nod, both started showing up during World War II, stylistically and in a practical sense, to the and include Edgar G. Ulmer's Girls in pornographic product of that time. Thanks Chains (1943), George N. Archainbaud's Girls of the Big House (1945), and John Cromwell's classic Caged (1950), starring Agnes Moorehead, Eleanor Parker, and Hope Emerson (the latter two were even nominated for Oscars). The women-in-prison film chugged along during the Fifties, and was joined in the GIG realm by sci-fiesque movies about mythical maruess societies somewhere deep in the jungle, outer space, or in the past, all populated by tribes of beautiful, scantily clad, but ultimately naive, women. Like the women-in-prison ftlm, this man- less world genre has proven to be another evergreen. In Son of Golden Turkey Awarru, Harry and Michael Medved report that over 200 such films have been made. Their nominees for the \"Most Primitive Male Chauvinist Fantasy in Movie History\" are Prehistoric Women (1950), Untamed • Women (1952), Mesa of Lost UVmen (1953), Cat Women of the Moon (1953), Fire Maidens from Outer Space (1956), Queen of Outer Space (1958, starring Zsa Zsa Gabor), Wild UVmen ofWongo (1958), \"The Wild Women of Wongo.\" 64
prostitutes, and biker women - could now and real estate brokers across the country. and Police Academy, which mix naughti- be joined by the sex symbols of the white collar middle class: stewardesses, cheer- Ten girls running around topless has always ness with comedy (and use younger heroes leaders, college coeds, and student teach- ers. These new groups added to the been an easy concept to sell to investors not and heroines to imply more innocence than naughtiness quotient of the fIlm, since these were women who theoretically didn't saavy to story nuance. DeSimone says, \"It a stewardess ever could), are the producers' just casually whip out their boobs without heavy duty reasons, like promises of never fails. Investors always show up to solution to cracking the cineplex scene with marriage forever. Prostitutes and prisoners, well, that's what you expect from them. But watch fuming on the day the topless scenes sexploitative product. In fact , witness the to get a peek at a student French teacher's, ooh, la, la! are fIlmed~ current or upcoming releases of Stewardess Secondly, pornography enjoyed a period Producers know that a fum is marketed School (a Police Academy style romp from of chic during the early Seventies. As Tom DeSimone, director of The Concrete to two groups, the potential audience and Columbia), Finishing School Girls, and Jungle (1982), Prison Girls (1972, in 3-~), and the current Reform School Girls says, the potential backers. And, if you can hook Slammer Girls. Like Reform School Girls, \"For the fIrst time Johnny Carson was joking about. ..[Deep Throat and The Devil the backers, you don't have to worry about all are intentionally played for laughs. in Miss Jones]. ..and Rex Reed and Truman Capote were reviewing them. Indepen- the audience. Titillation sells. The decline in production of GIG fIlms dents wanted to cash in on this but were afraid of making explicit porn. Prison Girls The flood of naughty girl group fums (the years 1977 through 1979 averaged was made like that~ Indeed, during trus happening time no less a weathervane of reached its high-water mark in 1975-76. little more than 30 sexploiters per annum) social change than Sammy Davis, Jr. began a liaison with then porno queen Linda While the rest of the country was groggily continued through the decade. The occa- Lovelace~ groping in the dark of an artistic and cultural sional gem featuring Playboy Playmates Even network TV tried to cash in. It narcolepsy,l girl group and other R-rated continued to show up, however. H. 0. T.S., broadcast its fIrst made-for-TV women's prison fIlm, Women in Chains, starring Ida sexploitation flourished; 76 R-rated sex- released in 1979, had all the elements of a Lupino, in 1972 and the made-for-TV ploiters were released in 1975, and 60 in great girl gang fIlm, with added attempts at sSatan Schoolfor Girls in 1973. 1976. Of these, 42 were GIG pictures. humor to help its marketability. Our Finally, it became easy to fInd money to make these fIlms. Film tax shelters were In 1976, the ERISA tax reform act was sorority house, including one Playmate and rife and legal and were attractive to oil men, orthodontists, pharmacists, accountants, passed, which severely curtailed the use of another civilian with bre~sts as big as \"Satan's Cheerleaders.\" non-recourse debt for movie tax shelters, Birmingham, do battle with the evil, but and the whole hog show just went on a diet equally beautiful rival sorority house. After of beets. Further, this legislation required listening to the music of wizened Danny that investment advisors behave like \"pru- Bonaduce (once of The Partridge Family), dent men\" when investing their client's they settle things, mano a mano, with a money. Perhaps some of these men felt game of strip touch football. investment in the next Game Show Models H. 0. T. S. is still seen on pay cable today, to be a violation of the spirit of the new law. playing the Showtime/HBo/Cinemaxl In addition, drive-in theaters, the panty Movie Channel circuit like Don Rickles pits of America, were in the depths of a plays Vegas. The growth of cable is one of decline begun in the early Sixties. And the the big factors in recent reviving of the rise of suburban crackerbox theaters in the mid-Seventies didn't help: Meadowlark 2.) Davis reveals in his autobiographical HoLLywood in Mall wasn't going to play Seven into Snowy a Suitcase, \"When they started making explicit sex or Naughty Dallas,· no how, no way. It films , I became an immediate and avid collector... .1 gave the premiere of Deep Throat in several countries. scould be argued that the success of Porky ...1 met Linda in ~iami with her first husband [Chuck], and she has remained a good pal ever since~ Lovelace mentions this palship in her autobiography, Ordeal: \"The three of us - Chuck, Sammy, and myself - were in the screening room watching a porno film , or rather the (\\'0'0 men were watching the movie. I was on my knees in front of Sammy while he watched the movie. 'I really dig that; Sammy was whispering, Td like to know how you do it. When are you going to teach me? When are you going to show me how you do that?' ....On this particular night, Sammy suddenly looked over at Chuck sitting a few SeatS away. 'You think Chuck would mind?' I was the one who unzipped his trousers, but I wasn't the one who knelt in front of him. Each time Sammy showed signs of slowing down , I kept him going with instructional encouragement. 'No, no , Sammy: I said. 'Push down a little more, hell like thaC 3.) If you want more proof of 1976's listlessness than Carter vs. -Ford, consider the year's Top \\0 songs: 'Tonight's the Night; -Silly Love Songs; \"Don't Go Breakin' My Heart; 'SO Ways to Leave Your Lover,\" \"Love Hangover; \"I Write the Songs; 'You Don't Have to Be a Star ([0 Be in My Show); 'Afternoon Delight; 'Disco Duck; and \"Convoy~ Even the decade's greatest rock band, Led Zeppelin, released its bargain bin Presence. 4.) The words \"naughty\" and 'swingin\" capture the feel of the films of the Seventies. To illustrate, no less than eight movies were released as The Naughty X, where X = Cheerleaders, Nymphs, Roommates, Schoolgirls, Stewardesses, Teammates, and Wives. Nine films are similarly The Swingin •{or Swinging] X 65
------------------------1· ~ Three Who Know Pick Claudia Jennings, the foxiest gang leader of'em from jail and encounter racial tension, hippie all, loads up a shotgun, ties up her halter, and bikers, the law, and a lovable old hillbilly Their Five Favorite says, \"Let's boogie: named \"Pops' (played by Wood himself in a rare cameo appearance). The script offers Girl Gang Films Honorable mention: Ten Violent Ubmen such powerful insights as \"Once white trash, (1981), mentioned only because it includes always white trash;\" \"Emergencies are always The anti-pointy-headed vein of fUm criti- the greatest female-gang onscreen death in being shouted at by everybody these days;\" cism is in full flower. August journals now history: a spiked high heel plunged through and \"There's only two things that are regularly run pieces about such things as girls the chest. worthwhile for a girl, and that's men and in gangs films. Books like Michael Weldon's money. Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film and the JIM MOR1DN Medved Brothers' Golden Turkey Awarlil', and The Mini-Skin Mob (1968) - Advertised numerous fanzines have been embraced by a Jim Morton edited the influential \"schlock with the tag-line, \"They're Hog Straddling new generation of film buffs, who love being and sleaze\" newsletter Trashokl from 1981 to Female Animals on the Prowl!\" this charming able to be passionate about fUms without 1984. Recently he completed work as guest cheapie is AlP'S answer to She Devils on sounding like cross dressers. Herewith three of editor for the book RelSearch #10: Incredibly Wheels. A rodeo star shows bad judgment in the leaders of this movement pick five favorite Strange Films. Mr. Morton presently edits Pop rejecting the leader of a motorcycle gang girls in gangs films. lVid magazine, dedicated to the quirkier (Diane McBain) and eloping with a whining aspects of modern culture. His top five: white Anglo-Saxon princess (Sherry Jackson, JOE BOB BRIGGS the daughter on the old Danny Thomas Show). The Vwlent ~ars (1956)-A female gang In revenge, the members of the girl gang Joe Bob Briggs' career as a drive-in movie terrorizes a town, holding up gas stations, (known as \"The Mini-Skirts\") harass the critic began in 1982 with the Dallas Times vandalizing schools, and even raping one newlyweds on their honeymoon in Arizona. Herald. Though he was f!fed for his parody unlucky(?) fellow caught smooching with his Features Harry Dean Stanton in a memorable \"We Are the Weird; a pan of the telecast, his girl. Directed by Franz Eichorn with a script by supporting role as a redneck terrorist named column continues to be syndicated in 50 Ed Wood, Jr., the man who gave us Pkln Nine newspapers. Briggs will portray a victim in the from Outer Space. The ultimate juvenile \"Spook~ upcoming Texas Chainsaw Massacre II, delinquent film. Don't miss it! directed by Tobe Hooper. His top five: Sakm ~ Cheerleaders (1977) - Directed by She-Devils on Wheels (1968) - Directed Greydon Clark, who co-starred in the biker The Hot Box (1972)-About a bunch of by Herschell Gordon Lewis. She-Devils is the classic Satan's Sadists (1969). The plot here American nurses who get kidnapped by some story of \"The Man-Eaters; a gang of tough, concerns four high school cheerleaders, and revolutionaries and carried off into the Philip- female motorcyclists. When a gang of male their faculty advisor, whose bus breaks down pine jungles and forced to give \"medical hot-rodders tries to encroach on their territory, on the way to The Big Game. They are assistance\" to the wounded rebels. All the the women beat the bejesus out of them. Less kidnapped by a small-town sheriff Oohn nurses happen to have bikinis in their medical grisly than most H .G. Lewis films, but not Ireland) and his wife (Yvonne de Carlo), who bags, which come in handy when they bust without its moments of graphic violence, happen to be the High Priest and Priestess of a out. Co-written by Jonathan Demme, who including a nice decapitation scene. backwoods Satanic cult that worships a later went on to indoor bullstuff like Melvin gigantic eyeball. Ireland feels a profound and Howard and Swing Shift, and produced by Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! (1965) - A trio religious obligation to rape a virgin, but after drive-in king Roger Corman. of bored go-go dancers hit the highways on investigating the pom-pom girls, he ,sees that their days off, driving sports cars, fighting, and none of them is properly qualified, and so he She-Devils on Wheels (1968) - \"Riding playing chicken. The women, led by the settles for their high school teacher. their men as viciously as they ride their diabolically seductive Tura Satana, plot to steal motorcycles.\" \"Guts as hard as the steel of their a lecherous old man's hidden fortune and Slave Girls ofthe White Rhinoceros (1967) Hogs: About a gang called the Man-eaters that tragedy ensues. Directed by Russ Meyer at his - Martine Beswick, former plaything of 007 in go around slicing up innocent people, forcing very best, this film moves like a full-throttle two James Bond movies, scars as the evil males to submit to The Stud Line (to partake, Porsche at a drag race. queen of the Kulnaka, a tribe of vicious you have to be wearing only bra, panties, brunettes in fur bikinis, who enslave all chocolate syrup, and axle grease), and singing So Young, So Bad (1950)- The story of blondes and then feed them as sacrifices to the the following song: four imprisoned teenage girls and what led Great Rhinoceros God. This British produc- them to their lives of crime. \"They Hate You!\" tion, also known as Prehistoric Ubmen, is all J#' don 't owe nobody nothin ' the ads screamed. The f!fst of the female the more enjoyable for its heavy-handed And we don \" make no deals delinquent films. attempts to send a serious message about the J#\"re swinging chicks on motors futility of racism. J#\"re Man-eaters on wheels. The Naked Cage (1986)-Proof positive Made by the gore master himself, Herschell that women are as tough as ever. This recent The Wild llbmen of llbngo (1958) - The Gordon Lewis. movie ranks with the best of the women-in- beautiful maidens of a mythical land named Sister Streetfighter (1978) - Mainly picked prison films . The story of a disgustingly sweet Wongo (actually Miami Beach) despair 'cause of Sue Shiomi, the best-looking of all \"good\" girl who is wrongly imprisoned by the because their men are hopeless nerds. the bimbo gang fighters , who gets a little testimony of a devilishly evil \"bad\" girl. A lot of p . o~ ed and breaks up the heroin traffic of the laughs directed by Chained Heat director, Paul But deliverance is on the way when they entire Asian continent with her knowledge Nicholas. Christina Whittaker is outstanding meet the crown prince of Goona, a land where of Kyokushinkai karate. in her role as the heavy, plays it like a female the men are strapping hunks and the ladies Deep Throst (1971)-The queen of kung Jack Palance. look like veteran potato pickers from a fu, Angela Mao, is forced to make mincement Ukrainian collective farm. The Wild Women of the guy who got her sister pregnant and then HARRY MEDVED of Wongo, after offering sacrifice to their skipped town, causin' the little girl to kill Dragon God in a memorably choreographed herself. First film where Angela really shows Harry Medved is co-author, with his brother scene, take matters into their own hands and off her hap-ki-do foot crushes while she's Michael, of four books on film history. His kidnap the men of Goona. totally destroying the Hong Kong heroin and most recent work, published in April 1986, is gambling syndicates. Son ofGolden Turkey Awards. This paean to creative eugenics was written Moonshine County Express (1978)- by Cedric Rutherford, the speechwriter to Fugitive Girls (1973)-A softcore shocker former Kansas governor Alf Landon. and it is directed by Stephen C. Apostolof (Orgy ofthe the only film directed by James Wolcott, a Dead) and written by legendary transvestite Certified Public Accountant. filmmaker Edward D. Wood, Jr. (Pkln Nine from Outer Space). Five \"pretty broads\" escape 66
-t- genre, but cable is faced with a peculiar censor-shy than network and more readily like torture chambers). Jungle, made for quandary. Its biggest competitive advan- buys juicy product. It accounts for an ever- $900K and returning $11 million , is a tage over broadcast TV is its female breasts, increasing percentage of a softcore movie's prime example of how to make a girl gang especially nipples. But let somebody final take. film for the Eighties. smooch one and the phone lines break down because thousands of children have Aesthetically, the feel of a ftlm made with First, hire an actress with some name been ruined. The limits of cable still remain this market in mind is easily noticeable. In a value for cameo roles; Jill St. John, at the naughty. Thus, cable needs GIG-pix. typical girl gang film, nudity is spread Angel Tompkins, Sybil Danning, throughout the film, a quick burst at the and everyone's favorite, Linda Blair, make One recent week of cable featured Beach outset, then every six or seven minutes, their house payments this way. The woman Girls (1982), Catherine and Co. (1973), with some surprise flashes to keep the should be famous but also tarnished GimmeAn F(1984, about pom-pom girls), audience interested. A fum made for the enough so that the sucker can preserve his Heavenly Bodies (1985), as well as the syndicated market keeps the breasts in wish - Hey! I hope they'll show some wonderful war horse, Mesa ofLost Women discrete packets of fum quanta and doesn't celebrity tit.b Arrange your nudity in (1953). Only the \"gang of horny young use these scenes to advance plot. That way, pockets which can be cut. Finally, don't guys· films, like Losin' It (1982), Model they can be quickly and pairtlessly excised. waste too much money on promoting a Behavior (1985), and Private Resort It also makes it easier to reshoot the theatrical release. Send it out, hope it (1985), currently compete effectively for questionable scenes, a time-honored prac- makes some noise, then sell the cable, this segment of the cable market.5 tice for those seeking TV money. syndicated TV, and video rights. Use that money to make another one. (Concrete's Also important to the resurgence of GIG'S For example, take The Concrete Jungle, follow-up, Chained Heat, was made the are syndicated TV sales. By 1982, according jill St. John's 1982 comeback picture, next year by the same folks. There are no to a brochure for E.F. Hutton's Silver which did much to reafflIm American shared characters, so it is not really a Screen Partners (which caused yet another women's place in prison. (For some years sequel.) generation to suffer unneeded braces on before Concrete, the only new women-in- their teeth), U.S. theatrical release ac- prison films you could find were from Italy, The aforementioned video rights for a counted for less than half a film's total Spain, or France, and they were full of GIG film are a key element in its total boxoffice gross. Syndicated TV is less either Frog-commie politicizing or Franco- revenue outlook, and the videocassette boom has added considerable financial lustre to the genre. If sex sells, titillation rents, and girl gangs are easy to advertise in the small amount of space available on a video box. To get the message across, all you have to do is print \"The Soapy Schoolgirls\" on the box, and have some art student draw you up six busty beauties wearing towels in a tiled room. Sleazy surnames like Blair have obvious value here as well.\" \"The Violent Years.\" 5.) The with-it bachelors of the early Seventies-the \"Women of the Prehistoric Pianee medallion-wearing owners of brandy warmers and smoking jackets, the pipe-smoking, ascot-wearing authorities on the supernatural, those men pomayed in Love, American Style with copper cookware hanging above thelf butcher blocks, the suave airline pilots, college professors, and arms merchants - gave up the sexploitation. male lead mantle to the younger mUSICianS, hItchhikers, and surfmg instructors of the late Seventies, who themselves have passed the torch to the Eighties' naive high school and college boys currently in the horny guy films . 6.) Celebrity tit has a Strange fascination and value whose discussion is sadly beyond the ken of this article. Suffice it to say that Hustler and Playboy run a celebrity breast of the month in each issue, High Society has built an empire by running the boobs of Angie Dickenson, Farah Fawcett, Susanne Dey, and Barbara Hershey. Were it not for their celebrity status, the million dollar nudes of Vanessa Williams and Madonna would be advertised as back of the porno-mag $3 photo sets, along with 'Teens in the Tub~ and \"I Have a Huge Ctit~ 7.) Such films also need much less theatrical advertising than conventional features, and the savings here can be substantial. All one has to say is Truck Stop UiJmen , and an audience knows exactly what to.expect from the ftlm. Who needs a publicist? One says Kiss of the Spiderwoman , and dollars to doughnuts, the flfst thing that comes to mind is not two mo's in jail. 67
Video companies have a whole series of World decided to make Reform School in an oversized tub on three separate GIG-pix, like Vestron's Cheerleaders' Wild Girls , with Wendy O. Williams and Sybil occasions) because it can pre-sell video Weekend (I985, starring X-rated Alice in Danning as names, in large part because of rights to MGMlUA Video. Cannon's current Wonderland co-stars Kristen DeBell and New World Video's need for sexploitation entry, The Naked Cage, is created by Jason Williams, he also of Flesh Gordon. product. Chained Heats Paul Nichols and promises Kristen is the \"name\" who, in reality, does to do well in the video market. not bare her breasts.) Sweet Sugar (I972, Cannon Films can profitably make a in a Filipino prison setting) on Continental feature like Hell Squad (I985, \"Remember, Such is the public appetite for vixens on Video is double-billed on the same cassette we're not just Las Vegas showgirls, we're video that Rhino Video has a big seller with trained commandos!\" says the squad's Johnny Legend's \"Sleazemania\" series, swith Escape from Women Prison. New leader; they also take bubble baths together which are little more than collections of trailers and advertisements for old GIG titles. Bits of old naughties (or naughty trailers for harder films) like The Take Down Girls (about wrestling), Mr. Maris Girls, and The Beach Bunnies are part of the package, and the trailer for Five Loose »Omen (about prisoners on the run) promises that \"They fmd new thrills in a hippie camp; among other exploits.a Finally, American GIG films sell because of the money to be had from the sale of foreign rights. Face it, no women are better looking than Hollywood starlets, and audiences the world over know it. In fact, they know it better than we do. The export of these films to countries where the women grow mustaches, sport big humps on their backs, and have to cover their toothless heads with black towels not only helps the producers of the films stay solvent, but it means that these movies remain, along with the sale of military secrets, the United States' two best weapons for fighting the trade deficit. \"Prehistoric Women.\" ...'Nurses for Sale; 'Office Girls; 'Overnight Models; 'Part Zsa Zsa Gabor in \"Queen of Outer Space.\" 68 Time Virgins; 'Penthouse Playmates; 'Pin Up Playmates; 'The Playmates in Deep Vision 3-D; The Porn Porn Girls; 'Private Duty Nurses; 'The Real Gone Girls'... Granted, GIG fUms make fmancial sense. But what accounts for their popularity, both with audience, producer, and backers? Surely films that concentrate on a single busty woman, like llsa, She Wolf of the SS (1976), Chesty Anderson, US. Navy (1976), or any of the \"Ginger\" fIlms, make money. You may even get lucky like the producers of Billie 10 and the Outlaw did when the topless starlet rolling around in mock ecstasy turned out to become Wonder Woman and Maybelline mouthpiece Lynda Carter. Remember, the goal in GIG is not to make some pointy-headed statement about prison conditions or hospital safety. One makes these usually for the pure lure of
- monetary gain. (Exceptions include Bob Martin Scorsese to Jack Nicholson, Francis Entertainment Tonight and National Cresse, who made Love Camp #7 so he Coppola, and Ron Howard? Enquirer photos must have nameless could dress up like a Nazi commandant and beauties lounging in the background. This terrorize his nubile prisoners.) One thing To search the GIG credits for happy is part of the lure of Hollywood. Talented you need to minimize in any for-profit confirmation of this idea is largely futile. would-be writers and directors and pro- venture is risk. The majors can gamble on a Some future stars can be seen in these ducers see these pictures, and decide to go blockbuster (like Billie 10 and the Outlaw pictures. Tom Selleck played in Terminal to Hollywood, rather than into genetic or The Color Purple). An independent is Islarul, and Nicholas Meyer directed research or open a snorkel store. Would very likely to have a huge percentage of its Invasion of the Bee Girls. Jonathan they still come if the parties at Hefs capital tied up in each production and Demme wrote and directed Caged Heat. mansion were attended only by Bill Cosby simply cannot afford to come a cropper. And it was a pure Seventies thrill to watch and Shel Silverstein? Anitra Ford, clothed, modeling prizes on It is far less risky to have ten starlets bare The Price Is Right during the day, and then In the old studio system days, many their breasts for two minutes each than to to watch her, nude, in either Invasion ofthe starlets were put on payroll for precisely hope that an audience can stand one pair of Bee Girls or Caged Heat at the drive-in at that purpose. Furniture. With the system's starlet breasts for 20 minutes. Also, a single night. But for the most part, the names on collapse, arriving young lovelies needed to wooden performance (not uncommon in the credits ring no bells. The same factors find work or face moving away. Waitressing such productions) can devastate a unifocal which make a cheerleader or stewardess and other menial jobs sufficed for a time, film, while in GIG ftlms three or four film so popular with producers makes them but more and more in Southern California actresses can be terrible. For many of these equally hard for a person to shine through. these jobs go to illegal aliens. pictures, professional nude models, not actresses at aU, are called in to do showers, The vast majority run together in both What's a sexy actress or spokesmodel, catfights, and orgies. This means that one title and substance. Does anyone care dreaming of being discovered by a producer can show beautiful bodies without having to about character shading in The Cheerlead- in America's glamour capital, of becoming worry if the heads attached to them are ers, The Pom Pom Girls, The Naughty the next Koo Stark, to do? Were it not for empty. And if your lead has an unsightly Cheerleaders, The Swingin' Cheerleaders, GIG-pix, they would be forced to degrade mole or caesarean cut line, you're sunk if Revenge of the Cheerleaders, Cheerlead- themselves by dancing at places like The you've bet the ranch on her. But if there are ers' Beach Party, or Cheerleaders' Wild Jet Scrip, (on the way out to LAX. The girls nine others to pack around her in the tub, Weekend? Bunches of rich-women-getting- are great but the place doesn't serve liquor). you're still swimming. kidnapped films were big after Patty GIG films ftll the needs of both the film Hearst's abduction, and likewise murder- community and these needy women. The same logic applies to backers. If a ous hippie love cults were \"in\" when Charles backer doesn't like the one lead for a single Manson was news. As long as sexy girls are employed (10 girl film, you don't get funded. But if any and 12 per film), they can remain in one of your bevy catches his eye, you're In Instead of the great man theory of film- Hollywood, and can be used to spice up Like Flynt. Girls in gangs are a product of making, we have here a great events theory, parties, openings, and boat dances. The free enterprise, pure and simple. where the same final product churns forth girls, at the same time, can mingle at these year after year, regardless of who calls the events with rich men, men who own chains ...'Varsity Squad Women; shots behind the camera or who lakes a of trailer parks, who may then be per- 'Voluptuous Vixens; 'White shower in front. It is, as the French suaded to back the young lady's career, Pia cineastes say, \"la theorie dansant dans les Zadora-style, or who will perhaps take Trash Women; 'Wildcat impressions noirs des chausseurs d'Arthur them away from the sins of Hollywood to Women; 'Women in Cages; raise Arabian horses in the Valley. Rich men 'The Working Girls; 'The Murray~ like this, too, and come to the parties eager to fund the next cheerleader epic. Is it any Young Cycle Girls; 'The One's initial critical reaction might be to wonder that Cannon and New World, long Young Divorcees; 'The Young poo-poo anything that stifles creativity so time leaders in GIG production, are both compellingly. Yet critics who have seen quite healthy in a financial sense? Nurses; 'The Yum Yum dozens of GIG films sometimes forget that Girls'... each new entry plays to a very different Finally, a nifty raison d 'etre for GIG films. Man, without them, where would swingin' I s there anything nice to be said about audience. The high school seniors who Hollywood ber ~ GIG films that makes for a classic film went to the drive-in to see The Student thesis, something to argue about? Well, Nurses in 1970 were long gone by the time 8.) William Ellis, a swingin' bachelor novelist, makes it has been postulated that, since there is no a new batch rented a VHS of lVung Cycle his own Sleazemania-scyle videos by simply recording state-run FAMU in American cinema to Girls in 1980. Remember trees falling in the nude scenes of cable sexploitation and stringin' guarantee the young filmmaker a place in the forest? Well, an old joke's not old if you them together. Two hours of watching only the good the industry, perhaps girl gang films serve haven't heard it yet. Only the critics see all parts of Bolero; The Seduction; 2W: A Sex Odyssey; as valuable minor league experience. In of them, so the story can be the same. And Dixie Dynamite; The Devils; The Birch; Confessions of these films, we give talented young besides, who cares if the critics stay away? A Window J-Ibsher, of course H. 0. T S; and several actresses, writers, and directors a chance to They don't pay for their seats anyway. unnamed Playboy Channel offerings, take one on a shine, where otherwise they would live out fantaStic whirlwind tour through time and place, with their lives as Avon ladies. Didn't Robert But GIG films, the genre hardest for an nude female breasts as the viewer's only constant Altman direct The Delinquents (1957), and actress, director, or writer to put a creative companions. Plus, says Ellis, \"it is much easier than haven't Roger Corman's New World and stamp upon (and perhaps to mess up in the fast-forwarding my VCR until I see a f1eshtone blur: Sam Arkoffs AlP launched everyone in process), do serve an important function in Hollywood from Robert DeNiro and Hollywood beyond that of keeping inde- 9.) Thanks and a tip 0' the hat to The Psychotronic pendents in pin money. The whole Handbook of Film, Son of Golden Turkey, Incredibly Tinseltown image relies heavily on flocks of Strange Films , and the marvelous \"An Annotated beautiful women to make it work. In addition to famous stars in the foreground, Filmography of R-Rated Sexploitation Films Released during the 1970's' by Gregory WaUer in the Summer 1981 Journal ofPopular Film and Television. 69
Joe Bob Briggs' uiltyPleasures The 10 Top Drive-in Movies by Joe Bob Briggs to Get Nookie By There's basically three ways to get CJ nookie at a drive-in, and two of em are legal: Numero Uno: Auto-erotic suggestion. One way you can do this is to dress up your auto like an Angora goat in Danskin leotards. Another way you can do it is to sit inside your car (we're gettin kinky here now), turn to your Date Specimen, and say, \"Hey honey! Over here! Yeah, you! Get a load of this!\" If you try this, be careful not to specify what \"this\" is. Otherwise you run the risk of a Class A misdemeanor, \"Solicitation of a Public Sex Act No Woman in Her Right Mind Would Consent To.\" If you get a lady D.A. on that baby, we're talkin 30 days in the Lew Sterrett Justice Center. No, the best way to execute the art of auto-erotic suggestion is to pay good money for a flick that is proven to be so irresistible to women that sometimes just the title alone can cause em to forget the fact that you're a pervert and probably diseased and dangerous. These titles are marked below with the international symbol \"Baa.\" Note that none of them are X-rated. Anybody that would let you take em to an X-rated drive- in is what we call in the business a \"pre- sold commodity.\" This means they have fungus growing on at least three different parts of their body. If you're not a pervert, go on to... Numero Two-o: Auto-psychotic sug- gestion. What this means is, you take her to see somethin so disgusting that she has no choice except to scream like a greased javelina hog or else demand to know \"what kind of person would make a movie like that-I mean, what's the point?\" If she screams like a greased javelina hog, I think we all know what to do. However, if she actually wants to talk about the movie, you have already reached a point of absolute control of the situation. All you have to do now is say the following 70
- sentence and mean it: \"They say the attempt! Assassination attempt!\" Dennis here? The computer now has a personal director killed himself as soon as he then does a ten-minute, raspy-voiced stake in the sexual happiness of the finished making this~ You see what nostalgic monologue on what it was like inventor. Unfortunately, all of the six or happens here? Up to this point she's been to spend a night with Keith Richard's eight androids, including one that 1swear thinking, \"I don't know about this groupies. She will never again think you is a male actor, look like their silicone chips were intended for a Mexican movie-it's almost like somebody unbal- are twisted. transistor-radio factory. Don't tell her this, though. And be sure to stay until the anced made it.\" Now she knows she's in How to Make a Doll (l968)-Of all end, when the computer starts violating their punch cards and generates a gang the hands of a genuine maniac. the flicks by the goremaster, Herschell rape of the professor. These titles are marked below with the Gordon Lewis, this sex farce is the most The Hills Have Eyes (1977)-Of all the possible cannibal dead-tourist clas- international symbol \"Brf.\" And finally we valuable nookie-expediter for one reason. sics, like The Grim Reaper and Saw, I think this Wes Craven stranded-Winne- have ... It gives you the chance to say, \"You know bago saga is the most terrifying to a female companion-because it's the clos- Numero Three-o: Auto-narcotic sug- what? 1 think you're much more beautiful est the movies have ever come to wasting a baby onscreen. It's one thing to see gestion. Tell her you read FILM COM- than any of the nekkid girls on the MENT and afterwards you want to talk screen,\" and really mean it. Because it's about the \"Grand Guignol humor\" of The true. It's the story of a math professor Texas Chain Saw Massacre. This never who invents a computer that can synthet- works. ically produce android nymphomaniacs in bikinis-and then gives the computer a Okay, here goes. The Ten Best human voyeur's brain. You see the beauty Flicks to Get Nookie By are: Hundra (1983)-The first real feminist exploitation movie starring Laurene Landon in the title role as the last survivor of an Amazon tribe, deter- mined to journey to the Land of the Bull to preserve her race. Laurene mounts a steed, grabs a broadsword, and pillages her way through half of macho Spain accompanied by nothing but her two enormous talents and a cowardly dog named Beast. Symbolism includes seven or eight lances dramatically broken in half by Hundra, who is finally shackled, tossed into the bull pit, given to a horde of mangy, raving, flesh-eating extras from Barcelona, and saved just in time to offer up her virginity to the nearest available Madrid B-movie matinee idol. Directed by Matt Cimber, the genius ex-husband of Jayne Mansfield who thinks no action stunt is any good unless someone is at least partially paralyzed, this one should be avoided by anyone with an aversion to bullwhips. White Star (1985)- You might not realize it, but a lot of women have fantasies about Dennis Hopper. They figure, \"I can straighten him out, nobody's that scrambled, I know what he needs; and so they love it when Dennis stares into the camera and starts wildly flippin words out of the commercial blender formerly known as his brain. This flick, made in Berlin for about 25 bucks, is the best non-stop Dennis Hopper gonzo flip- out monologue ever made. Dennis plays a rock promoter who used to be the Rolling Stones tour manager, but now he's bottomed out and all he has to manage is this dimwit, blond-headed keyboardist, and he starts out to make him famous by staging a riot in a punk club, then hiring somebody to shoot at him while Dennis stands around and shouts, \"Assassination \"The Hills Have Eyes.\" 71
easygoing Papa Carter get crucified on a starts fighting over the dinner portions on or stewardess or bimbos-in-cages flicks is burning cactus, but when the nuclear- she's gonna think you just wanna see a mutant desert family steals that baby and their C.B. radios, girls have been known bunch of jigglin duffel-bags being abused and degraded by jerks like yourself. to vaporize and just leave a little slick spot Caged Heat is different. First, the title disguises the fact that this is a great on the upholstery. Tell her you want to bimbos-in-cages classic. Second, all the girls triumph over their abusers and bust see this one because you \"admire the out of jail, which makes it all right. And third, it's full of jigglinfeminist duffel-bags career of Dee Wallace\" (the mother), but being abused and degraded by jerks like yourself. Jonathan Demme is the magi- do not let her leave once it starts. cian who made this one, featuring the ripaway bra queen of the Seventies, Billy Jack (1971)- Women love it, Barbara Steele. men despise it. Tom Laughlin out on The Wild Angels (1966)-The movie that proves that, just cause you Geek Patrol, defendin wimp Indians and wanna ride around on your Hog, refuse to get a job, drink three crates of beer a day, ugly women in Meskin dresses by kicking bust up churches, and treat your Old Lady like a piece of dirty laundry, doesn't the New Mexico white trash into mean you're not a sensitive kind of guy. Why? Peter Fonda as the leader of the Arizona. The only reason it works is that Hell's Angels, in the Roger Corman classic. Women love this guy. He can get Delores Taylor, Laughlin's co-star and away with anything, cause he looks sooooooooo sweet. Make her think she's wife, and the reason he has to go up the Nancy Sinatra, but lose the vinyl boots, okay? I'm not completely crazy. mountains and get eaten up by rattle- The Trip (1967)-Best of the LSD snakes and come back down and kickbox ~~.,,~.,,~.-l~I · crayon-on-the-lens flicks, his way through six or seven bowling teams, is no threat. If Billy Jack will kick ass for that little whiny sniveling sprout- eating communist, there's hope for every- body. Kick in a few BMW fenders during the movie, just to let her know where you stand politically. Caged Heat (1974)-One of the problems with takin her to see Private Nurses or Fly Me or an'- y of the nurse _ ... Clockwise from top: \"Billy Jack,\" \"Funny Girl,· \"Caged Heat,· \"The Trip.· 72
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Tromatized by Bill Landis Troma did location work and Kaufman pseudonym \"Louis Su.\" Billed as the first had a walk-on as a drunk. Posters for X-rated musical, the film displays early- Rocky decorate Troma's offices, hanging Seventies New York porn regulars Harry Sex. Death. Blood. Money. The four next to their own cheesecake-like cam- Reems, Georgina Spelvin, and Marc canons of Lloyd Kaufman and paigns for Bloodsucking Freaks, etc. (10 I/Z \") Stevens. Playboy deemed it the Michael Herz, the founders of first musical in which the production The Battle of Love:S- Return was Troma, the film company that wants to be Kaufman's first feature, which he co- numbers end in ejaculation. New World or American International produced, wrote, directed, and starred Louis Su made the Melody releases Pictures during their zeniths. Only a in. The G-rated comedy, released in My Sex-Rated Wife and The Divine couple of vowels away from trauma, and 1971, also starred exploitation veteran Obsession . Good reviews in Screw and a too close to ignore the difference that two Lynn Lowry. But there hasn't been a G in strong ad campaign helped Obsession- letters make. Kaufman's life since; Troma has been no about the sexcapades of a young innocent The company has released 50 features stranger to hardcore porn. who comes to New York hoping for a over its bumpy decade-plus history, and Kaufman formed Melody Pictures to showbiz career and lands in a whipped Kaufman and Herz drool over the high distribute porn, and its first release was cream orgy - obtain a marathon six- jinks of Sam Arkoff or Roger Corman, The Newcomers, which he co-produced, month run at the 59th St. Twin (now, the the pharaohs of the cheapo-budget, photographed, and directed under the Manhattan). slave-labor, colors-that-glare production values of films for the softcore sex and horror markets. There's always a Troma pic bouncing from one side of 42nd Street-The Deuce-to the other. Their better known titles include Squeeze Play, The First Tum-On, Splat- ter U, and Bloodsucking Freaks. Troma's recent release, The Toxic Avenger, has received the best critical notices of any of their features, and favorable press in Barron:S- and the New York Times has helped Troma attract capital. Crain:S- New York Business recently stated that an investor in a Troma film stood a good chance of doubling his money within four ,\\~ years . Could be because Kaufman and Herz claim an average budget of $800,000 per feature, and that, per Kaufman, they \"eliminated a lot of the downside risk\" by selling to cable, television syndicates, videocassette com- panies, and foreign markets. These things everybody says - but in Cannes, Kaufman conducted aerobics classes on the beach as a publicity stunt. In protege fashion, Kaufman cut his teeth working on John Avildsen's two most successful low-budget pictures, as a production assistant on Joe, the 1970 hard-hat revenge movie with Peter Boyle, and as production manager on Cry Uncle, an X-rated comedy about the sexual misadventures of a fat detective. The last Kaufman-Avildsen collaboration was the 1976 Oscar winner, Rocky. \"The Toxic Avenge(.' 77
Troma entered distribution in 1974. the running gag. The Toxic Avenger is a wine, and men do 'men's' jobs - carrying, Screen World lists Troma's first releases one-joke movie, but it offers a coherent lifting, painting. They ordered us down to as Les Nymphoteens , another Louis Su narrative and sense of pace absent from the parties over the intercom (which I'm item; Delora; and The Secret Dreams of previous Troma productions . The nor- convinced they listen in on phone Mona Q, directed by Kaufman's brother mally conservative New York Daily News conversations with). Charles , who later lensed the horror film found it \"hilariously tasteless,\" and the Mother's Day. All were XXX fare. Village JiJice felt it respected its intended \"Lloyd and Michael pride themselves audience - primarily 14- to 22-year-olds. on being Yale grads. They met in New Sugar Cookies, co-authored by Kauf- Haven. They love each other. They play man and director Theodore Gurshuny, Many Troma employees are recent good cop/bad cop with the employees all was Troma's initial stab at the R-rated film school grads hungry for the time, and the roles always change. market. Originally it had a brief, un- valuable work experience, Lloyd can be a very engaging personality. successful run on the sexploitation circuit .though the company has the reputation He can be incredibly charming and in 1973, but Troma re-edited it from X to of a bucket shop operation. Two former funny, but there's another side to him that R for re-release. Similar to Radley production people at Troma agreed to can be really devious and cunning. And Metzger's softcore movies, Sugar Cook- describe the working conditions pro- he can be incredibly cheap. Once he ies involves a kinky triangle between a vided they be pseudonymous. battled me about cab fare - they always porno director, his star, and her lesbian get in fights with employees about lover. Its high point is a sex scene intercut Bob S. answered an ad in the Village money. The bill was $14.50. Lloyd gave with an autopsy. The presence of Andy JiJice. \"They said I could work 14 hours a me $15 . He asked me for the change. I Warhol superstars Ondine and Mary day, seven days a week for $175. There gave him the 50¢ . He kept it. Woronov, along with Lynn Lowry, helped was a guy there when I started who was Sugar Cookies be visible, and the Village making $175 a week after two years. He \"When buyers from foreign markets Voice , Soho News, and Interview started at zero, went up to $50 a week, come to the office from France, Canada, reviewed it favorably. But Sugar Cookies' and worked his way up in small incre- Japan - the days when Michael and chief virtue - that it cannot be genre ments.\" Lloyd both wear suits - they bring them pigeonholed - also helped bury it. through the entire: building (which is \"You know how some people stab you amazing in itself) and say, 'We have the Kaufman and Herz subsequently made in the back?\" asked Gwen W. \"Well, they finest editing equipment in New York: a series of highly profitable T&A pics for stab you in the front . They let you know and then show them the Steenpecks, the drive-in/grindhouse circuit. The first what the situation is. They pull no which are on their last legs. Anyone in the of these, Squeeze Play, was a baseball punches and are remarkably out front film business cannot believe it.\" comedy which mixed nudity with non- about who they are. I worked at a tenth of stop bathroom humor. The poster fea- what I now make.\" It's not surprising that, according to tured women ready to play ball wearing Bob, Troma is \"a revolving door. Some bathing suits. (Kaufman claimed to Gwen found the Troma offices in a people start in the office at reception; Crains N. Y. Business that since the film's Hell's Kitchen tenement \"the filthiest that job has seen a million people. If you initial release in 1979, it has earned $10 place I've ever worked in. The cutting make it past the first two weeks, you'll million at the boxoffice - and cost only room, the physical space, the toilets. The work your way into acquisitions or $300,000 to make.) Waitress! made assistants must sweep down the stairs ancillary sales . It's all young people laughingstocks of struggling actresses in and clean aH the bathrooms. The paint is working there - 25 or younger. You'll get New York; Stuck On You ridiculed a peeling off the waH , and to hide it they put a beat on how to do your job without divorce; and The First Turn-On guffawed up their gory posters, or ones of naked Michael yelling at you all the time; But it's about virginity. The overriding motifs are women in Squeeze Play. about that time that all the yelling gets to barrages of fart jokes, panty ra·ids, you. Michael presents a very humorless belches, unknowns in pants-down situa- \"Being a woman working for Troma was and mean exterior. He yells a lot. And if tions, and cameos by non-celebrities like great,\" said Gwen, then laughed. \"Women you've been there for six months and Professor Irwin Corey. Scenes are flung do the 'women's' jobs, like serving the you're competent, you'll get yelled at the together so haphazardly that the admit- most. They'll hurl all the responsibility at tedly trivial storylines become indeci- you . The employees get paid so little pherable, and worse, the complete there is no monetary incentive to put up absence of production values renders the with the abuse. By the time you can be of films' small budgets even lower. some value to the company, you leave. Incompetence runs rampant there.\" The boxoffice success of the horror film acquisitions Bloodsucking Freaks, \"When I worked at Troma I screamed Zombie Island Massacre, and Splatter more than I ever screamed. But as I look University (better known as Splatter U) back,\" Gwen recalls, \"it was a lot of opened up another profitable area for laughs, even though it was horrendous. In Troma. The recent in-house production, some ways it made me stretch.\" The Toxic Avenger, puts the sadistic and T&A pratfalls of prior features into a gore One director becoming a key figure movie context: after being dunked in in Troma's organization is Richard radioactive waste during a cruel prank, Haines, who is also employed by Melvin, a nerd, turns into a monster that them as post-production exec. An NYU kills criminals. A blind girl unwittingly film school grad, Haines began his career becomes Melvin's girlfriend - and that is working on Kaufman's porno films . He functioned as sound editor on Madman 78
and Mother's Day. Haines produced, wanted the monster's tail to wrap around giant testicle emerges from a green latex wrote, edited, and directed Splatter U, a hand, as the soundtrack recites Haines' 16mm slasher movie which Troma this actress and have the tail go up her previous credits. picked up. Since then, his stamp has back so it looked like it was going up her appeared on much of Troma's product: he asshole.\" \"Haines is a film freak into Techni- edited Stuck On You, The First Tum-On, color; recalls Bob S. \"He talks about it and The Toxic Avenger, for which he shot \"I don't think splatter movies hate constantly. He enjoys watching Techni- the ending; he sanitized porn pictures for women,\" Haines says. \"Men get muti- color prints of stuff like Around the World the R-rated market; cut the trailers; and lated, too. They're just generally misan- in 80 Days.\" Haines, in fact, can describe designed ad campaigns. thropic.\"The poster for Splatter U, which in detail the color quality of numerous he designed, looms over the editing films from Blood Feast to The Godfather. A short, slightly rotund man with a room. It shows a terrified cheerleader He was enthused about Alien Terrorists, mustache in his late twenties, Haines with her legs spread and about to be having fade proof prints made in China. suggested this piece be about him. He is murdered. Haines then ran a tape of his \"AlP prints,\" Haines chides, \"they're all proud of his Troma films, and wants to third film, Alien Terrorists, which is still pink now~ \"do Hollywood movies and make a lot of in production: a growth resembling a money.\" Haines co-directed The Class of Nuke 'Em High with Kaufman, the new At last... Troma horror film. A companion piece to The Toxic Avenger, Nuke 'Em High's A COMPREHENSIVE BOOK story has high school students turning OF MOTION PICTURE into nuclear mutations. Like Toxic, it was shot - naturally - in New Jersey. PRODUCTION CREDITS. James Nugent Vernon, one of the leads BY FILM TITlE BY PRODUCTION BY INDIVIDUAL in Nuke 'Em High, liked the script. \"Since CATEGORY ' Troma is a distributor, I know the film is going to be seen, and it could lead to WHO IS USING CREDITS? bigger and better things for me.\" ABC MOTION PICTURES ~ AMBLIN ENTERTAINMENT ~ Jack D., a supporting actor in Nuke AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE ~ CANNON FILMS ~ 'Em High who asked that his real name COLUMBIA PICTURES ~ DISNEY PICTURES ~ HOME not be used, described the atmosphere BOX OFFICE ~ LORIMAR ~ MGM ~ NEW WORLD on the set. \"When you got there, Lloyd PICTURES ~ ORION PICTURES ~ PARAMOUNT and his co-director would be talking. PICTURES ~ RASTAR ~ TRI-STAR PICTURES ~ They hadn't prepared any of the scenes UNIVERSAL PICTURES ~ WARNER BROTHERS beforehand. Part of the problem is that they don't pay crew members, just the OVER 900 ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILMS RElEASED FROM 1979 TO 1985. higher technical people. Assistants, OVER 10.000 NAMES EXTENSIVELY CROSS REFERENCED. wardrobe-they don't get a dime. Ward- robe would show up with the wrong ORDER YOUR 3 VOLUME SET TODAY! clothes all the time. NAME _____________________________________ \"The food was always terrible, on tile level of Chef Boyardee canned spaghetti. COMPANY _________________________________ Once there were a couple of pecan pies ADDRESS _________________________________ on the set. I noticed as I was finishing my slice that it was kind of green and hairy. CITY _______________ STATE _ _ _ _ _ ZiP _ _ _ __ Mold. Michael tried to push it off as pistachio. I heard later that they scraped PLEASE SEND ME _ SETS OF CREDITS @ 575 PER SET (PLUS 53.50 the mold off the pies. SHIPPING. 55.00 FOREIGN PER SET). \"If they just went that extra half a foot- I HAVE ENCLOSED A CHECK PAYABLE TO MAGPIE PRESS IN THE AMOUNT OF _ _. giving people deferred payments instead of no money, or even better food, taking MAGPIE PRESS that extra two minutes to get a shot right 16 MAIN AVENUE - they would have people making an WALLINGTON, NJ 07057 effort working for them. Instead, they have an army of people who hate their (201) n8-2503 guts. NJ RES IDE NTS ADD 6', SALES TAX \"As far as creativity goes, Lloyd was good to work with. When you came up with an idea, he'd think it over, go with it. Richard is very ungiving toward actors. If you have an idea or make a suggestion, he's quick to shut you up. He thinks actors can withstand any pain. 'The ends justify the means' is his favorite quote. While we were shooting the film, he 79
tion work in the Far East and a nude shootout sequence. The movie is full of homosexual innuendoes atypical for its genre; particularly the scenes of men in harem pants and tiny pink vests. Sweet Savior was already on its second and currently used title, The Love Thrill Murders, before Troma picked it up. Made in 1971 by Bob Roberts of Patty notoriety, it is the ultimate in the celebrity ripoff genre. Troy Donahue stars as Moon, a Charles Manson figure in a Tate murders storyline that ends with Donahue giving the finger to the Ameri- can flag. This low-budget production, managed by Kaufman, is a mind-blowing mixture of bizarre softcore sex, bloody deaths, and dime store rendering of a real life tragedy. The Love Thrill Murders stands out as Troma's best release to date. Troma's strategy involves producing on its exhibiting a version close to the X- Do not fear, Troma is here to stay two to three films a year and rated one but billing it as R. The storyline and even has a burgeoning 1986-7 picking up around six. These is set in an S&M theater in New York release schedule. Upcoming acquisitions live up to expectations about where nude women are mutilated and acquisitions include: exploitation films being extreme and killed. One woman has a hole drilled offbeat. Three have recently resurfaced through her shaved head. Blood is then • Combat Shock. A Vietnam veteran on The Deuce (\"I once went there to sucked out through a straw to the returns home to unemployment and check the crowd at Splatter U,\" says accompaniment of rinky-dink music. A heroin addiction. In a climactic blood- Haines. \"You can get killed\") as second favorable review in the Soho News when it bath, he kills the drug dealers, his family, and third features. was re-released helped the film get a and himself. \"Explicit ugliness and revolt- midnight engagement at the 8th St. ing realism is the order of the day,\" says Two were written and directed by Joel Playhouse, but it was booted out after Variety. Melvin Reed: Bloodsucking Freaks had a Women Against Pornography picketed brief initial run in 1976 under the title the theater. • Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid. Three Jewish The Incredible Torture Show. Troma brothers obsessed with farting and male picked it up in 1980. The film was cut G.l. Executioner was filmed by Reed in bonding. and the rating was lowered to an R from 1971 but was thinly released under its • Monster in the Closet. A spoof of an X, though the movie's graphics stayed sprevious titles, Wit End and Dragon Fifties horror movies with the biggest array of stars a Troma release has to offer: pretty much the same, then surrendered Lady. A James Bondish action-adven- John Carradine, Stella Stevens, Howard altogether when the MPAA called Troma ture, it plotlessly meanders around loca- Duff, and Henry Gibson. Variety found it \"pleasant, occasionally funny.\" • And don't · forget Girls' School Screamers, Screampiay, and Nightmare Weekend. As all their largely self-generated hype attests, Troma obeys the cardinal rules of exploitation: ham-fisted advertising in Variety; campaigns for movies not yet completed; foreign and cassette rights sales of movies before they have played theaters; and slight aspirations to respect- ability. Instead of following in the foot- steps of Roger Corman, Troma could instead become the K-Mart version of Cannon Pictures. Any exploitation fan knows that the shameless chase after the funky dollar is part of the genre's charm. In truest exploitation fashion, Troma's loud cam- paigns cater to people's basest desires, but the movies never make good on the lurid promises. They don't deliver. They aren't funny or shocking. They just bait and switch. The Deuce is too good for Troma. 80
Schlock d 'Oeuvres by Richard Gehr they want. But by delivering the goods, The Hays Code eroded as the nation's they run the risk of offending the sexual attitudes changed in the wake of Incredibly Strange Films. Edited by V. Vale delicate sensibilities of certain parties. World War II. Burlesque films paved the and Andrea Juno. RE/SEARCH: 224 pp. way for nudist-camp films in the Fifties, $12.99 paper. T he first squeal of impending film followed by a generation of \"nudie-cutie\" censorship was heard in 1894, films, the. first of which was Russ Meyer's First, simply savor the film titles as when a stripper named Fatima 1959 classic, The Immoral Mr. Teas. In they trip lightly off the tongue: She danced for nickelodeon audiences. Her 1963, David F. Friedman (who claimed was a Hippy Vampire, Twitch ofthe performance so offended upright citizens that Mr. Teas \"was nothing more than a Death Nerve , Spider Baby, The Sinister that white bars of paint were added, Urge, Hippie Hollywood: The Acid which undoubtedly made the attraction scheap American version of Mr. Hulot Blasting Freaks, Concentration Camp that much more alluring. Censorship for Girls, Wanda the Wicked Warden, boards had arrived by 1908, and the Hays Holiday\") and Herschell Gordon Lewis Blonde on a Bum Trip, The Undertaker Commission, in the Thirties, ensured irrevocably altered cinema for all time and His Pals, Bad Girls Go to Hell, A that a healthy film underground would with Blood Feast, the first \"intensive gore Night to Dismember; Wild Hippie Orgy, develop. Thus the \"roadshow-phenome- film.\" Crummy yet yummy, sex and gore and the unforgettable Incredibly Strange non, a carny kind of film distribution do comprise the fundament of this here Creatures Who Stopped Living and whereby producer-director-distributor real world, n 'est-ce pas?, and the combi- Became Mixed-Up Zombies. hyphenates (to put a high gloss on what nation of the two engendered a cinema of they were) would travel from town to \"pure enjoyment and delight; one that Alone they can evoke pure celluloid town, offering separate sex screenings of evades good taste (thus avoiding cultural pleasure. Cinema's cellar contains thou- such fake documentaries as The Naked policing) and that can conveniently be sands of such films, deemed unaccepta- ble for the middle-class palate, which sTruth (sex education), Tomorrow Chil- produced on a small scale (thus facilitat- now fester in the collective subconscious ing personal vision). of a generation of termite-art detectors dren (a pro-sterilization film), Bowanga! and lowlife scum. One man's guilty Bowanga! (\"native\" women au naturel), Not to mention a sordid steamtable of pleasures are another's vital sprocket- and the self-explanatory Love Life of a funky subgenres: biker films, juvenile need. As Edward D. Wood,Jr. reminds us Gorilla. delinquent films, beach party films, LSD in his incredibly strange Mesa of Lost films, women in prison films, and mondo Women: \"Let a man or woman venture from the well-beaten path of civilization, let him cross the threshold of the limited intellect, and he encounters amazing and wondrous things: the unknown and terrible. If he escapes with his life, he will usually find he left his reason behind him~ Yeah, Ed, make me psychotronic. Ed Wood, Jr. constitutes his own genre in Incredibly Strange Films, a succulent compendium of interviews, essays, lists, stills, and posters compiled by ReiSearch editors V. Vale and Andrea Juno, and guest editor Jim Morton ($12.99 paper, from Re/Search Media and Publishing of San Francisco). Wood lurks in underlit shadows as the spiritual godfather to a group of filmmakers defined by two characteristics: a grade-B (to -Z) crafts- manship dictated by economic necessity; and an \"exploitational\" choice of subject matter - sex, gore, and their various permutations. In other words, cheap movies for cheap audiences. The schlock- ola filmmakers are different in one very significant way: they give the people what
people who are no longer in the culture what the picture was about. Ten years later they've changed into different peo- ple; they see the picture on cable and say, 'Hey, this is very good! Why didn't we like this when we saw it?'\" \"Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers.\" extensive and anecdotal interviews that Cohen has put his finger on the comprise the bulk of this wordy-and-wise technological felicity that has films all found their moments in the pop- sleaze fest. Like their films , the men and injected new life into these tired culture matrix, responding to the women who created them are hilarious, oeuvres. Cable and videocassettes are unspoken needs of mass culture. Work- both intentionally and otherwise. Ray \"great equalizers\" that change movies into ing at the rate of 30 set-ups per day, Dennis Steckler (Th.e Incredibly Strange the. equivalent of paperback novels, directors cranked out endless variations Creatures Who Stopped Living and opening a relatively large new market for on such \"film gris\" themes as All the Became Mixed- Up Zombies, Rat Pfink these films (the editors provide a useful Fallen Angels , The Wild Angels, Angels and Boo Boo) recounts tales of life in the list of mail-order sources for same). from Hell, Joy Ride, Teenage Doll, and low-budget trenches, including meeting Jail Bait. When Hawaii became the 50th an indulgent Harpo Marx (on whose You can detect overtones of pleasure in state, a nation's thoughts turned toward Palm Springs property Steckler and the conversations of these canny old hedonism, and beach .blankets, bongos, director Arch Hall were covertly filming hacks; they've picked up on the renewed and former Mousketeers signaled a new the great Eegah!) as well as nearly interest in their world. Only the reclusive breed of brave new teenagers. decapitating Alfred Hitchcock while and skeptical Doris Wishman, the working as a grip on Alfred Hitchcock woman responsible for actress Chesty By 1967, however, bikini-clad blondes Presents. Ted V. Mikels (The Astra (73\") Morgan's tour de force performance wiggling on the sand just weren't enough Zombies , The Corpse Grinders, Blood in - you figure it out - Deadly J#apons, for audiences that persisted in demand- Orgy of the She Devils) describes his simply can't comprehend why anyone ing more, more, always more, from a polygamous life in Sparr Castle outside would give a hoot about her work. On the hard-working entertainment industry. Hollywood with his seven Castle Girl other hand, these auteurs are universally Filmmakers responded speedily, how- apprentices . Friedman recalls the legend- rankled by one industry problem that ever, with synesthetic indulgence and ary Kroger Babb, the heavy-drinking comes up time and again: grak-ridden heady \"garage surrealism,\" inviting view- \"combination flim-flam man , P. T. studio and union systems that line ers to \"Taste a moment of madness .. .lis- Barnum, and W. C. Fields\" responsible executive pockets at the expense of ten to the sound of purple\" in such classic for what is perhaps the most evocative efficient and economical creativity. \"trip\" films as Psycho-Out, The J#ird World ofLSD, Blue Sunshine, and Roger sfilm title ever: Dr. Chasm Chasm of The ReiSearch team (which has, Corman's own acid-inspired vision , The incidentally, also produced extremely Trip. Strangely enough, Morton points Spasms. useful volumes onj. G. Ballard, industrial out that while most subgenres .of exploi- Larry Cohen, in addition to providing culture, and William S. Burroughs) pokes tation film seem linked to a certain period even deeper into the corners of the of history, women in prison films are practical advice regarding shooting low- celluloid gestalt. For the first time forever, attesting to perennial male inter- budget films on the streets of Manhattan anywhere, I suspect, the aesthetic plea- est in lesbian sadism . (take advantage of parades, policemen, sures of educational and \"industrial jeop- and steeplejacks), waxes philosophical ardy\" films are discussed. The former \"Most people are, making pretentious on the place of movies in culture: \"The subgenre is divided into instructional garbage. I make funny garbage; sums up world changes but movies stay the same; producer David Friedman (Thar She it's just there. It's made in one culture and sfilms (Dating Do and Don'ts) and \"fear\" Blows; Trader Hornee; A Smell ofHoney, emerges ten years later in another, and A..:swallow of Brine!; see MIDSECTION, sometimes it's understood better by films (Insects as Carriers of Disease), page 31) in one of the several fairly whose concerns for hygiene and indus- trial safety inevitably deteriorate into sheer entertainment. Incredibly Strange Films is admittedly not comprehensive, but what film guide is? (Michael Weldon, whose research assistance is gratefully acknowledged by the editors, is following up his indispen- sable Psychotronic Encyclopedia ofFilm [1983] with an even more extensive filmography; something that should really be worth looking forward to.) And so, as mainstream cinema-Hell, main- stream culture in general-turns increas- ingly bland, predictable, and demograph- ically calculating, let us heed the words of Hunter S. Thompson: \"When the going gets weird , the weird turn pro.\" The weird pros heard from in this fascinating book certainly did . ~ 82
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