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This Friday promises to be seedy

November 25th 2008 23:20
Friday night is when the freaks come out of the woodwork, like twisted homunculi with enormous hands and phalli wobbling as they stagger down the street, moaning.

This Friday, however, you can join the denizens of the night with two terrifically seedy film events in Sydney.

Mexican Grindhouse Sci Fi Sydney


First is Mexican Grindhouse, part of the Hola Mexico Film Festival, a double feature of "Attack of the Women Invaders" and "Ship of Monsters", two outrageous Mexican exploitation flicks with little or no redeeming value.

If you like exploitation, though, it's not to be missed - if nothing else, for the sight of female aliens abducting people and flying away in a UFO - in Spanish.

It's at 8:30 on Friday night, at Newtown Dendy Cinema.

Young People F***ing Canadian Film Festival
Next is the screening of "Young People F***ing", part of Possible Worlds: the Canadian Film Festival, shown at Bobby's Pole Dancing Studio.

Yes, it's a movie about people having sexual intercourse. And they're young, apparently. It's an adult comedy, with no explicit scenes, but delivering big belly laughs at the sexual problems of other people.

If there's one thing that we can all enjoy, it's other people messing up sex. Ho ho!

After the film, music, drinks, and some naughty videos, I believe, along with pole dancers. Shee, why couldn't this be happening now?



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Death Race 2000

November 13th 2008 22:31
Mary Woronov Death Race 2000

A line of cars, engines revving at the start line, preparing for the greatest race that America has ever seen, a delirious tribute to big engine sports. Fans in the audience cheer for one of the racers, and a bitter rival pulls out a machine gun and fires into the crowd.

What?

This is "Death Race 2000", one of the most dearly loved Roger Corman-produced B-movies to come out of the 70s, a dizzying combination of car racing, ultra-violence and exploitation, all hammed together.

"Death Race 2000" is part of Umbrella Entertainment's 2-disc collection, paired with "Death Sport", and is released at a portentous time, as the financial crisis looms larger, and we've just come off the back of a particularly fervent US election.



But this is Filthy Friday, and we delight in the excesses of cinema sin... "Death Race 2000" imagines a future where some major global upheaval has left the US in a sorry, dismal shape, with the new President mollifying the population with Rome-style arena theatrics. The big race is from East to West coast, and the racers get a variety of points for killing pedestrians along the way.

Their cars are decked with blades and knives, and the accompanying deaths are cheered by fans and elaborated by the commentators. This is bloodthirsty sport, taken to its natural conclusion, where only the loss of human life can excite the crowd.

Director Paul Bartel was obvious struck by how mercenary and violent sport was becoming in America, paired with big commercial sponsors and the crowds howling for more.

Death Race 2000 Mary Woronov


The average viewer will look distastefully at the low production values of the film, as well as the poor acting (including Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine), and dismiss the film entirely. To me, though, this is glorious filmmaking, taking a low budget in exchange for freedom to be as ludicrous and unconventional as possible. Roger Ebert gave the film zero-stars, imagining a world where children would grow up thinking that "Death Race 2000" was a great movie - well, I'm that child, grown up, responsible, cheering on the racers, howling at the action, leering at the fine array of naked female racers.

I would argue that the film is enjoyable as B-movie trash and, furthermore, delightfully relevant in a world where the invasion of Iraq seems justified, as well as the detention of prisoners of war in an offshore facility. Is it so different? Are we distracted from the gross injustices of government, just because the Superbowl is on? Because the Olympics just passed?

"Death Race 2000" is a movie for exploitation-lovers, a seedy, ridiculous imagining of a world that has raced to its own demise and then predictably offers hope. Is there a Frankenstein in our reality? Probably not - so we'll have to hope that the general consensus never allows the grotesque barbarism of "Death Race 2000" never has a chance to leave the realm of laughable fantasy.


I say: B-movie lovers will find this to be unequalled in trashy cinema, with the low budget being wonderfully used for car racing footage and delightful set pieces. I loved it...

See it for: Exploitation movies from the 70s always thrill me with the display of women with wonderfully natural bodies, a far step away from the homogeneity of women in modern cinema.

*the second image is from Cinema Strikes Back!


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Last American Virgin

October 30th 2008 21:13
Last American Virgin making out on the couch

The teen sex comedy genre reached epic heights in the 80s, when a flurry of releases made being a teenager seem wild again; the genre always seemed to pit boys against girls, in the quest to see who could have risky, unprotected sex.

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Emanuelle Around the World

October 16th 2008 21:48
Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals

Filthy Fridays presents: "Emanuelle Around the World", a DVD release of the series' most notorious edition, featuring salacious group sex, humiliation and the suggestion of forced intercourse with a dog.

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Babs in Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama

With a title like "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama", there's little doubt about the quality of the movie. This is a terribly filmed, poorly acted hack that masquerades as a horror film and aspires to be trash.

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Deep Throat

September 4th 2008 20:58
Deep Throat Linda Lovelace
Today, on Filthy Friday, a review of the infamous pornographic movie, "Deep Throat", which would both bring explicit sex into the mainstream, and cast heavy, shameful scorn on to porno industry.

It's a film that was, notoriously, made at gunpoint, with star Linda Lovelace forced to perform sexual acts on film by the Columbo crime family and her husband, Chuck Traynor. The movie was banned in the US and several other countries, but would still go on to make an estimated $100 million


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Hamburger... The Motion Picture

August 28th 2008 22:56
Dick Butkus Hamburger the Motion Picture

For today's Friday Filth, we have the raunchy 80s comedy, "Hamburger... The Motion Picture", a title that was chosen because, apparently, just "Hamburger" would confuse moviegoers into ordering burgers at the cinema.

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Ichi the Killer

June 29th 2008 23:44
Ichi the Killer grim gangster face
In 1931, Fritz Lang's "M" told the story of a mentally disturbed killer, a murderer of children. The movie was so powerful and evocative that, according to Wikipedia, Peter Lorre, who plays the murderer, was typecast for years. Even today, the film feels fresh and relevant, full of ideas that have not been eroded by time.

At its heart, "M" is terrifying, not because of the raw occurrence of murder, but because the villain is unable to stop or control himself. Unpredictability, it would seem, is the most terrifying monster


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The Big Doll House

August 30th 2007 23:04
Big Doll House DVD cover
Producer/Director Roger Corman was known as the 'King of the B-movie', as he was known for making movies very quickly, on low-budgets - and they weren't always good.

He is also well-known for breaking in several Oscar-winning directors, including Coppola and Scorcese, as well as notable actors


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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

February 7th 2007 04:52
The Carrie Nations playing at Z-Man's party in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is Russ Meyer's notorious 1970 film that parodies campy Hollywood movies; at the time, it was rated X for sexual content, but it's hardly worth raising an unshaven eyebrow over.

The script was co-written by Roger Ebert, who many people consider 'the fat guy from the movie show with the skinny guy', but I'm a respectful fan of Ebert, whose reviews are generally well-written and insightful. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (BVD) fairs well from Ebert's strength at writing, and seems like a train derailing into a twisted nightmare world of parties and 60s psychedelica


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