Ma Barker’s Killer Brood
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Oh, who cares how much of this is really true or not. Ma Barker's Killer Brood is how things should have been. And after seeing this wild, hilarious, and consistently over-the-top B-movie bio-pic, it's damn near impossible to think of Ma Barker any other way than as played by everyone's favorite scenery-chewing little old lady, LURENE TUTTLE: "Shoot him, Herman! Shoot him!"
The Sadist
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Three people on their way to a Dodger game pull over because of some car trouble and find themselves faced with a psychopath and his girlfriend.
Fun in Balloon Land
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If you're simply crazy about giant balloons, parades, floats, and marching bands, then Fun in Balloon Land is for you! Unintentionally campy, this amateur production will leave you shaking your head and asking yourself, Why, oh why?! Little Sonny falls asleep in mothers arms and dreams he's transported to a most mystical magical land Balloon Land! There he is greeted by gigantic helium-filled fairy tale characters and awkward kids who muddle through song and dance routines. After a rousing rendition of Ring Around The Rosy, Sonny comes out wearing a pair of gold lamé short-shorts (looking very much like a miniature go-go boy) and has an adventure at the bottom of the sea. The lad shakes hands with a giant octopus and meets some weirdees, including two mermaids, a fish who sounds like Paul Lynde, and a guy in a scary paper-maché lobster costume.
Love Me or Leave
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A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.
Incredible Petrified World
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Lovers of true grade-Z schlock either genuflect or run screaming at the mere mention of JERRY WARREN, the auteur of such cheapjack epics as Man Beast ('56), Terror of the Bloodhunters ('62), and The Wild Wild World of Batwoman ('66). (He also imported numerous Mexican films, recut them, added new scenes, and usually removed most of the dialogue so they wouldn't nee redubbing!) The Incredible Petrified World, Warren's second film, is a no-budget "Nightmare of Terror is the Center of the Earth!" - not!
Girl and the Geek AKA Passion in the Sun
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A stripper on a flight to Las Vegas has a stopover in a small Texas airport. She gets taken hostage by two Cuban gangsters on the run from the cops.
Satan in High Heels
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Shrewd, conniving goddess Stacey Kane (MEG MYLES) is a second-rate stripper in a third-rate carnival. Startled when she finds her junkie ex-husband lurking in her dressing room, Stacey promptly steals every cent he has and hops on a plane for New York. Great, gritty exploitation which packed a hell of a wallop in the more innocent days of 1962.
Maniac
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There’s no way around it. DWAIN ESPER’s Maniac can justifiably be called one of the greatest exploitation films ever made. Not content to crank out another sex hygiene or dope film, Esper and his wife, HILDAGARDE STADIE (who wrote the screenplay), concocted a uniquely delirious mix of horror film, discourse on mental illness, and whacked-out girly show. The plot – if you can call it that – pulls elements from Frankenstein, Mystery of the Wax Museum, and Poe’s “The Black Cat,” as well as the spicy spectacle of exploitation epics of the day.
Maidens of Fetish Street
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In a series of vignettes, a pathetic man is abused by a bitter prostitute, a sculptor and her model try to suppress their longings for each other, and a lonely middle-aged man is caught by his wife in bed with another woman.
The Fast and the Furious
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A man breaks out of jail, takes a woman hostage, and enters her car in a cross-border race, hoping to get to Mexico before the police catch him.
Snow Creature
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A botanist and reporter on an expedition in the Himalayas stumble across a Yeti, which they capture and bring back to LA, where the creature escapes.
Naked Venus
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A French nudist (Patricia Conelle) must fight for custody of her daughter after her husband (Don Roberts) caves in to his mother's demands and files for divorce.
Juke Joint
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Hitchhiking con men pose as Hollywood actors in order to help a young woman win a small town beauty contest.
Moon Over Harlem
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Memorable music, an interracial romance, political reformers, and neighborhood racketeers embellish a rich and vibrant tale of 1930s Harlem.
The Atomic Brain (aka Monstrosity)
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Yipes! A veritable banquet of "Bad Cinema," Monstrosity is so gloriously stupid as to be almost brilliant. Surprisingly, director JOSEPH V. MASCELLI, who also shot three Ray Dennis Steckler gems - Wild Guitar, The Incredibly Strange Creatures, and The Thrill Killers - is best known as the author of two excellent works, The American Cinematographer Manual and The Five C's of Cinematography: Motion Picture Filming Techniques, neither of which mentions Monstrosity. Released to television as The Atomic Brain and usually seen in grainy 16mm dupe prints, Something Weird's transfer has been digitally remastered from a crisp 35mm theatrical print - under its original Monstrosity moniker - and is incongruously beautiful.
It’s a Sick Sick Sick World
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A mondo type exploitation "documentary" about debauched practices of modern Man.
As Nature Intended
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Three girls on a tour of the English countryside meet up with two young women who introduce them to the joys of life in a nudist camp.
The Amazing Transplant
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In The Amazing Transplant, 42nd Street grindhouse audiences were treated to the first film about a penis transplant in this over-the-top roughie from cult cinema's Queen of Sexploitation, Doris Wishman. Arthur João Fernandes, Submission undergoes a penis transplant unknowing that his new appendage came from a serial rapist. Arthur soon goes berserk and he beings to rape any woman wearing gold earrings -the favorite target of the dead rapist. Truly one of the most Psychotronic films of all-time, this slice of 1970 sleaze would take a cue from The Beast of Five Fingers (adding a big dose of full-frontal in the process), but go on to inspire mainstream films like Body Parts and The Eye.
Colossus and the Amazon Queen
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Thanks to the schemes of his friend con-man Peirous (Rod Taylor), strongman Glaucous (Ed Fury) finds himself, along with a bunch of other schmoes, stranded, in the Queendom of the Amazons where gender roles are reversed. The men aren't exactly thrilled but the buddies catch the eyes of the two Amazon warriors in line for the throne. As Glaucous tries to escape with the lovely and level-headed Antiopie, blamed for the theft of the sacred girdle by her rival. Since the real thief is Peirous, there's more than enough confusion than on a "Three's Company" episode, but the sexes come to an arrangement in time to fight off a band of pirates after the Amazon gold.
The Spy Who Came
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Join THE CPY WHO CAME as vice cop Ham Harris (Warhol star Louis Waldon) falls into the clutches of an opium-addicted Arab and his "scientifically conditioned female love slaves! (Think The Curious Dr. Humpp meets Olga's House of Shame.) Controlled by drugs, bondage and an evil lesbian's brainwashing machine, the robot-like lovelies are all part of the Arab's bizarre blackmail scheme until horny Harry helps instigate an old-fashioned love-slave rebellion....
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