Showing posts with label Desert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Desert. Show all posts

Monday, September 22, 2014

Scalps (1983)


































  Six archeology students are sent out on a research trip in the desert with the task of digging up an old Indian burial site and collecting any material they find. Despite, the warnings of their professor and an old Indian drunkard, they trespass the sacred place and wake up unwanted spirits...
  Fred Olen Ray is an ever-working protector of the cult and sleaze genre. This film is a fine specimen of his early, ultra low-budget and extra sleazy work. Even with a budget of 56,35$ (as I roughly estimated), Freddie manages to create a fantastic mood equal to the loneliness of the desert and as frightful as the windy desert nights. Special effects are not a big plus but you can't have it all either. For a slasher fan,this is a treat ; for any other other person it's total shit!
  Rumor has it, the budget was equally split between the cast in order to pay the fast-food delivery that was needed throughout the shoots. Setting apart all the jokes,though, acting is not that great but it certainly fits just right in the total combination. Jo-Ann Robinson is the one that stands out (both because of her character an her acting) because of that incomparable glare of total daze in her eyes. Like she was baked every day in the sets!
Must watch this : on a hot summer day right after you have prepared this day's lunch ; spaghetti with red wine-and-tomato sauce! After the film, chill with this fucker and dream of deserts filled with Indian spirits!
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086248/
Before the smartphone age
Take that mini shovel and dig a hole in your...
Still waiting for my Oscar

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Motor Psycho (1965)


































  Three motorcyclists get their groove on by raping women and causing chaos, under the leadership of an ex-Vietnam violent maniac. After they rape a quiet veterinarian's wife, he puts aside his personality and goes on to take his revenge with the help of a Cajun woman, whose husband was murdered by the gang. Who will kill who?
  There is not a single movie by Russ Meyer that I can characterize as not perfect! His movies have everything an open mind can seek in cinema ; thrills, dialogues, special characters, a normal story of violence in a picturesque place. Russ Meyer makes me want to live in his magic universe of seductive everyday women, dusty old places and muscle cars! Damn, I hate reality.
  Every actor in this film (and in any other Meyer film) is carefully chosen and it would take long to analyze each character's progress. Alex Rocco and Haji are the protagonist duo and the flame and passion of their lust for violent vengeance is all around the film. They even have an awkward fling thing going on! Must-watch if you respect yourself!
Must watch this : Russ Meyer is all about macho, sophisticated men and smart, curvacious women so watch this, overload your sexual identity and then start a long steamy conversation with solid statements leading up to sex! Must be an insufferably hot summer night, with a glass of Southern Comfort and the company of a classy, curvy lady (or your pick of a guy if you are a girl).
No trailer but it will do 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059474/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 
Sweet young thang

Tits or we kill your man

A dynamite in the hand (!) and a half-naked lady

 
 

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Them ! (1954)


































  State of New Mexico. The recent atomic bomb tests may seem innocent but leave a huge danger behind them  ; regular ants affected by radioactivity start to show a weird mutation which allows them to grow massively in size. Out for what they can get, they soon start to pose a threat to humans. Who's gonna stop them?
  Highly prolific director Gordon Douglas comes out with another classic 50's sci-fi craziness. It's all there. Giant ants claim their right in the desert while on a killing spree. Who does that anymore? Besides the entertainment, this kind of films also show the era's anxieties and worries about the environmental change and use of nuclear energy. And this movie tells it exactly! Don't fuck with nature or she will come down hard on you!
  Nothing too shockingly good in acting here (what did you expect from an American film? ) but a more stable quality in overall plot. From the worried scientist to the fearless men fighting the huge ants, everyone acts like they are supposed to. Doing their job in favor of the American dream. So politically correct! Americans,please don't get offended!
Must watch this : with a bottle of Coca Cola or Pepsi (you need to feel as American as you can), in your pajamas, on a cold Sunday afternoon.
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/
I can't see shit!

Imma go bazooka on their asses!

Expect me!


Thursday, October 3, 2013

Mondo Topless (1966)


































  Not so much of a story here! Actually there is no story here. Only interviews of strippers and go-go girls of the 60's era (mostly American), with teasing videos of them in desert scenes and some smooth swing jazz-psychedelic rock n' roll by The Alladins in the background.That's mondo for you!
  Introducing the genre of mondos (or mockumentaries) : documentary-like films but with the only difference that they deal with taboo subjects or subjects that do not usually make a documentary theme (who else has seen a documentary on strippers???). They most certain thing is that you can't take them seriously but in a more light-hearted way. Actually, I have come to find myself learning a lot from such films but maybe that's just me.
  Russ Meyer does not need an introduction, especially not from someone like me. It isn't his most remembered film either but it shows his intentions and what's to happen later on his career. He takes some strippers and go-go girls, asks their opinion on some "hot" topics, throws them in the desert, adds some smooth tasteful music (one of my most favorite soundtracks so far) and lets the voyeur inside us appear! A vast quantity (and quality) of buxoms appears in our screens from women who seem to be long gone in the decades and strips of celluloid! Don't treat this as porn or you will lose the meaning, unless you are 12!
Must watch this : definitely in the summer, most probably when the sun hits the highest spot with a cold beer in each hand!
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060712/
Beautiful combination

The ol' American dream

Cutiepie McStripper