“They drummed you right out of Hollywood, so you come crawlin’ back to Broadway. Well, Broadway doesn’t go for booze and dope.” – Susan Hayward as Broadway gorgon Helen Lawson in the camp classic Valley of the Dolls (1967).
Virgins From Hell is the tale of two sisters who vow to avenge the deaths of their parents at the hands of a sleazy crime lord. The aforementioned crime lord uses the family estate as his base of operations where he creates a formula that will corner the worldwide aphrodisiac market. The sisters and their all-girl biker gang are then captured, tortured and held in the underground dungeon. That is the story in a nutshell. Though, this being an Indonesian exploitation flick, there are several weird plot tangents before the film comes to an explosive and bloody finale. Virgins is a colorfully tacky and one of a kind entry in the Women in Prison genre. The two disc special edition DVD from Mondo Macabro features the film on disc one, along with the trailer and a text essay exploring the history of WIP films. The second disc includes a featurette detailing the golden age of Indonesian exploitation cinema as well as 70 minutes worth of wonderfully weird Indonesian film trailers.
Virgins From Hell is the tale of two sisters who vow to avenge the deaths of their parents at the hands of a sleazy crime lord. The aforementioned crime lord uses the family estate as his base of operations where he creates a formula that will corner the worldwide aphrodisiac market. The sisters and their all-girl biker gang are then captured, tortured and held in the underground dungeon. That is the story in a nutshell. Though, this being an Indonesian exploitation flick, there are several weird plot tangents before the film comes to an explosive and bloody finale. Virgins is a colorfully tacky and one of a kind entry in the Women in Prison genre. The two disc special edition DVD from Mondo Macabro features the film on disc one, along with the trailer and a text essay exploring the history of WIP films. The second disc includes a featurette detailing the golden age of Indonesian exploitation cinema as well as 70 minutes worth of wonderfully weird Indonesian film trailers.
Though he’s spent most of his career working primarily in television, director Charles Jarrott was behind the camera on two of CCT’s all-time favorite bad movie classics. The first was The Other Side of Midnight, a three hour sudser based on the Sidney Sheldon novel about two women, Susan Sarandon and Marie-France Pisier, and their fight over dud John Beck. In the summer of 1977, Fox spent a small fortune promoting Other Side of Midnight as their big prestige summer release, all but ignoring a little sci-fi picture called Star Wars. We all know who won that box-office battle. There’s also Jarrott’s and producer Ross Hunter’s unforgettable musical remake of Lost Horizon from 1973. Filled with actors who can’t sing or dance, Lost Horizon is big-budget Hollywood lunacy at it’s very best. Below is a clip that cuts the film’s two and a half hour running time down to a more manageable ten minutes.
I don’t know about you, but my DVR is already set for late night Friday 6/6 at 2AM when TCM Underground will be airing the ultra-rare Wicked, Wicked (1973) a half-baked horror/thriller filmed in the wonder of “Duo-Vision”. The theme song alone makes this one a must see!
Quite possibly the most politically incorrect and sleazy Hollywood movie ever made, Mandingo (1975) comes to DVD June 3rd. You haven’t lived until you’ve seen Susan George as Blanche, the Southern Belle who’s anything but prim and proper. This crazed epic also stars Perry King, James Mason and Ken Norton as the strapping slave that no man or woman can resist.
TCM Underground takes a good long toke this Friday nite (5/9) when they run the anti-drug exploitation classics, Reefer Madness (1936) Marihuana (1936) and Cocaine Fiends (1937). The fun begins at 2AM est so bake some brownies (make sure there’s enough for everyone!) and prepare yourself for some of the wildest propaganda ever committed to celluloid!
TCM Underground takes a good long toke this Friday nite (5/9) when they run the anti-drug exploitation classics, Reefer Madness (1936) Marihuana (1936) and Cocaine Fiends (1937). The fun begins at 2AM est so bake some brownies (make sure there’s enough for everyone!) and prepare yourself for some of the wildest propaganda ever committed to celluloid!
We’re trying something new here at Cool Cinema Trash. Staring tomorrow, and continuing throughout the week, we’ll be posting clips from a single film. Everyday a new clip will be posted so that by the end of the week the entire movie will be available to watch here on the blog. What film will have the dubious honor of christening CCT Theatre? It’s Superargo and the Faceless Giants (1968) a weird Italian action/fantasy featuring the masked hero Superargo. Check back tomorrow for part one!
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