Taste for Trash

[muskrat]

Baked potato flicks; so bad they're good, depending on the mood. I'll go first, of course.

DARKTOWN STRUTTERS, dir. by William Witney (if it matters?), 1978.

Shameless piece of blaxploitation featuring three hot mamas on sweet custom tri-cycle motorbikes--color coordinated to match their dynamite outfits--who, with the help of a local all male gang, deal justice on a racist Colonel Sanders-type chicken baron who keeps a dungeon beneath his plantation house. During one sequence, within the villain's subterranean cell block, our heroines come across the soul group The Dramatics--signaling a break in the action while everyone dances to the Dramatic's live performance of What You See Is What You Get. Then they just, like, leave them there, rotting in the chicken baron's dungeon.

Swear I ain't making this up.

 

[muskrat]

C'mon, nobody has one? NOBODY? Here's another:

ZARDOZ, dir. by John Boorman, 1974

I dug the hell out of Excalibur, but I dunno what Boorman was smokin back in seventy-four. You got this giant stone head flying through space and time, dispensing guns to wild packs of bandits (from the future), one of which is Sean Connery, dressed--swear to God here--just like Vampirella, who meets up with a cult of 'future' hippies who all live in a barn and show trippy dirty films or something, can't really remember. It held my interest, at THAT particular point in time, for reasons best left unknown.

 

[CriticAndProud]

Gamera vs Guiron. No clue what they were smoking when they filmed that one.

 

[KingAHolic]

No specific movie, but, when we were younger, my brother and I would sit up late at night on the weekends and watch B-rated horror movies (like they were comedies) .... great memories! I'll have to ask him to see if he remembers the titles of any of them. I vaguely remember one with clowns and set in an amusement park.....

 

[muskrat]

See? There you go.

HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL, dir. Jack Arnold, 1958

Like wow, dad, this hep cat named Baker has just rolled into school, bad mouthin the teacher, the principal, and the local weed dealers--one of which, a young (but not so young to still be in school) John Drew Barrymore, spouts a beatnik riff about Columbus that's THE MOST! See, this Baker (a lean, pre-West Side Story Russ Tamblyn), has a jones to take over everything; the gang, the girls, the school--and it looks like he's gonna. He stay's with his 'aunt', a smokin, torpedo-sweatered Mamie Van Doren, who can't seem to keep her hands off her delinquent nephew--as creepy as that may sound. Beat chicks in leotards quote half-baked poetry at the local malt shop--owned by 'crazy Mr. A' (Jackie Coogan--you know, Uncle Fester?), who not only deals sticks of tea to school kids, but moves some serious 'H' as well. Everything goes kinda south at the end, though--an obvious twist that explains Baker's hoodlum behaivor (but still leaves hazy the whole 'Aunt' sub-plot). Oh cats, this one has, like, everything. Even performances by 'The Killer' himself, Jerry Lee Lewis.

A pretty decent flick, actually--just out-dated and silly. Very entertaining.

 

[CriticAndProud]

I vaguely remember one with clowns and set in an amusement park.....

Killer Klowns from Outer Space ?

 

[CriticAndProud]

Attack of The The Eye Creatures (yep, the title screen puts two "the"s in there).

I haven't seen it for ages, but I remember it being really bad.

 

[CriticAndProud]

Coffy (1973)

Pam Grier is such a badass. This one is actually a good movie. Not sure I can say the same about "Blacula"...

 

[muskrat]

Pam Grier will freakin cut yer azz, turkey. So many greats. I dig THE ARENA--it's Ben-Hur with boobies.

 

[muskrat]

Elvis night:

WILD IN THE COUNTRY, dir by Phillip Dunne, 1961

Most of the King's flicks run a similar formula--a cool occupation (race car driver, crop duster, girlie photog), a little girl trouble, a few songs--cut and print. W in the C tries a fresh approach. This time E is, of all things, a troubled young writer. Yeah. But he's just a poor country boy first and foremost--family has a bad rap, buncha drunkards like to suck a jug down to the riverbed. Flick opens with E fighting his brother--too death. Rather than send E upstate, the locals decide to turn him over to the English Teacher, who realizes the King's potential. Forbiddon romance ensues, of course--hell, ol Pelvis is all over the place with the chicks--the teacher, a 'nice' girl, and then a the 'bad' girl (freakin dynamite Tuesday Weld), his boss's daughter and *gasp* an unwed mother! Things get rough when the locals catch wind of Elvis and the teach shackin-up together at an upstate motor lodge--oh, the scandal--and E get's another 'murder' rap.

You can tell the flick tries to take itself seriously (E only sings two songs, and these along to radio music during driving scenes, not big honkin production numbers), kinda goin for a James Dean/East of Eden trip...but c'mon, this is still an ELVIS flick, so don't expect much. I like it, but I like some stupid stuff.

 

[fljoe0]

Barbarella (1968) Jane Fonda

Spoiler

 

[fljoe0]

Coffy (1973)

Pam Grier is such a badass. This one is actually a good movie. Not sure I can say the same about "Blacula"...

Watch "Foxy Brown", you'll like it

 

[mjs9153]

Ha muskie,you reminded me of another Blaxploitation film,i was just a little kid when I saw it first,so was still scared of vampires..until I got acquainted with sk,and that blew everything else out of the water..

 

[Dana Jean]

Any John Waters movie.

 

[muskrat]

Barbarella (1968)

Jane's best flick. Ain't that Boris Vallejo art on the poster?

 

[Neesy]

A movie with the Bee Gees (along with a lot of other well known musicians) called Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

It got one star and although I really enjoy Beatles music, I can see why it got bad reviews.

I had to record it, though, as it makes me feel better when I feel down just to hear the songs. I couldn't care less about the acting or the plot.

So I guess that makes it a therapy movie - cheaper than antidepressant pills and no side effects

 

[muskrat]

A movie with the Bee Gees (along with a lot of other well known musicians) called Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

It got one star and although I really enjoy Beatles music, I can see why it got bad reviews.

I had to record it, though, as it makes me feel better when I feel down just to hear the songs. I couldn't care less about the acting or the plot.

So I guess that makes it a therapy movie - cheaper than antidepressant pills and no side effects

Don't feel bad. I did the freakin ABBA Movie coupla weeks ago--The ABBA Movie, fa gods sake. But then, I've had a crush on Agnetha since I was three years old.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Night Of The Comet

A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls to fight the evil types who survive.

(How can you go wrong with a plot like that? )

 

[fljoe0]

Jane's best flick. Ain't that Boris Vallejo art on the poster?

Yes it is - great poster

 

[Neesy]

Don't feel bad. I did the freakin ABBA Movie coupla weeks ago--The ABBA Movie, fa gods sake. But then, I've had a crush on Agnetha since I was three years old.

It's the blonde hair I guess!

Wow - that's one big lollipop!