Here’s the latest installment of my series on some of my favorite grindhouse and exploitation trailers.
1) Death Has Blue Eyes — This is actually a really, really bad Greek movie, a movie that is not only generally incoherent but deadly dull as well. Of course, some of my reaction has to do with the fact that I’ve only seen a scratchy, fuzzy version of it on an imported VHS tape. This film is also known as The Para-Psychics but I think Death Has Blue Eyes sounds so much better, don’t you?
2) Massacre Mafia Style — I haven’t seen this movie and, unlike Death Has Blue Eyes, coming across the trailer didn’t fill me with any real desire to track it down. I really don’t even care much for the trailer but I’m including it here because its just so over-the-top and violent. How many people get killed over the course of this trailer? I lost count.
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3) The Boogeyman (1980) — This is actually a pretty good and atmospheric little horror film. Not to be confused with the terrible Barry Watson movie that came out a couple of years ago.
4) The Pack — This trailer once again establishes that I am right to be scared of dogs. According to my paternal grandmother, Joe Don Baker is somehow related to me but I’ve never been sure how. I’ve always been more interested in just how exactly grandma became a Joe Don Baker fan.
5) Switchblade Sisters — One of the ultimate “girl gang” films and a perfect example of how a movie can both be grindhouse and feminist at the same time. I love this movie.
6) Strange Behavior — Finally, let’s wrap up this installment with the trailer for one of the greatest film’s ever made, 1981’s Strange Behavior (a.k.a. Dead Kids).
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There needs to be more flicks with kickass girls wearing eyepatches.
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I agree! And you know what — I used to wear an eyepatch! Of course, I was like five or something and it was because I had this lazy eye. Actually, both my eyes were lazy but they only fixed one of them but I guess the other one eventually got with the program or improved its attitude or something.
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Now, if you wear an eyepatch again it just means you’re trying to emulate Christina Lindberg. 🙂
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These were pretty much all wonderfully bad.
I must say, I quite enjoyed “Massacre Mafia Style”. I was actually “laughing out loud”.
First, it has that catchy theme song, with its drunken, out-of-sync barroom chorus sound. And let’s give it its props – how many films can boast both a urinal electrocution and a urinal drowning? (Well, technically, I guess it was a shooting/drowning.)
And man, you were right about the whacking. These guys are really good. I think, at one point, they took out 3 guys with 2 shots.
Turn the corner – BANG! Elevator doors open – BANG! “Knock knock.” “Who’s th…” BANG!
How hard…BANG! (Sorry)
Anyway – How hard could it have been to have written the screenplay for this one? –
Day 1: The two mafia goons get up, go out, and shoot everyone they meet.
Day 2: The two mafia goons get up, go out, and shoot everyone they meet.
Day 3: …
I really liked “Switchblade Sisters”, too. Sociopathological Spice Girls. (They just call her “Patch”. Except when they call her “The Smiling Cobra”, that is.)
Thank you for these. Just great.
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I know Lisa Marie couldn’t keep up with how many were killed in the trailer for “Massace Mafia Style” but it’s a good thing that I’m here to pay real close attention to the details of that trailer. 14 people were killed in the trailer and 15 if the kid who entered the elevator was killed off-screen. 🙂
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Damn. That may be some kind of movie promo record.
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