Hi! It’s time for another edition of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Exploitation and Grindhouse Trailers. Today’s theme — well, as explained at the end of this post, I nearly dedicated this post to my menses but then I changed my mind. There really isn’t a theme beyond the fact that these trailers entertained me and hopefully, they’ll entertain you as well. Well, that and the trailers are all about wild sex and wild nature.
I love this trailer! It’s for a film directed by Radley Metzger and personally, I think it’s wonderfully erotic in its old school, sordid way. The use of still frames gives it a real La Jetee feel.
2) Mountain of the Cannibal God (1978)
From director Serigo “Not Leone or Corbucci” Martino, this film features Stacy Keach, Ursula Andress, and perhaps the most oddly inappropriate orgy scene in the history of Italian cannibal films. If this film seems to be a lot like Cannibal Ferox, it’s because they both ended up using a lot of the same stock footage.
What are the Lepus you may ask? Well, in case you haven’t heard of this movie or come across it on late night television, I’ll tell you after the trailer.
The Lepus are giant killer bunny rabbits. They hop in slow motion and kill a lot of people. Seriously.
4) Frogs (1972)
At the same time the southwest was being ravaged by killer bunny rabbits, the real south was being attacked by killer frogs. Mother Earth was on angry bitch in the 70s and to her, I say, “You go, girl!”
5) Slugs (1986)
Mother Nature was still angry in the ’80s apparently. By this point, I think you start to say, “Someone needs to get off the drama train, girl.”
6) Confessions Of A Summer Camp Counselor (1978)
But why was Mother Nature so ticked off? I think the answer might be found in this trailer. Apparently, in the 70s, there was an actor named Robin Askwith who had the sex appeal of a groundhog. And he apparently starred in a series of British films that all had titles like Confessions of a Window Washer, Confessions of an Altar Boy, and, in the case of this trailer, Confessions of a Summer Camp Counselor. Apparently, Robin played a character named Timothy Lea and he spent these films getting laid. By all accounts, both they and Mr. Askwith were quite popular in Britain which just goes to prove, once again, that the Irish were right. Anyway, I assume that some film producer is currently in pre-production on Confessions of a Registered Sex Offender.
One final note:
Originally, I was going to gross out (and taunt) my male friends by calling this post 6 Trailers For A Bloody Period. And, I’ll warn you right now — I still like that title and if I can find 6 exploitation trailers that center around menstruation, I’m going to resurrect it sometime in the future.
‘Til Then…
Through the Shattered Lens 
I double dare you to use that title! Triple dog dare even!
I like how half the trailers are from the age of Jaws rips. 🙂
I actually thought the giant killer rabbits were cute. Though I’m sure you were hoping they were of the giant pirate guinea pig variety instead. I don’t think I could really watch the trailer for Slugs. It’s too much like another animal gone crazy exploitation horror that still creeps me out to no end: Squirm.
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lol — I nearly used the trailer for Squirm and, to be honest, I guess it would have been more appropriate to use Squirm since Squirm was from the 70s (like all the other trailers) whereas Slugs was made in ’86 but not really released until ’88. However, then I realized that by using an ’80s film, I could drag out my “get off the drama train, girl,” line which is something that I love saying though I’m a little less tolerant of having it said back to me. 🙂
I’ve actually included a clip from Lepus on this site before — my second post, as a matter of fact. It was my way of saying “Happy Easter.” 🙂 Giant Pirate Guinea Pigs would have been so cute. And you’re right — the killer rabbits are so adorable! 🙂
As for that title — well, even if I didn’t use it this time, there’s always next month. Bleh. 😦
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Hmmm, I think if you could you’d try and find 6 trailers that matched up well with 6 of your favorite South Park episodes. 😀
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Or maybe 6 South Park For A Bloody Period…lol. Actually, that would be too easy…
Still, 6 trailers to go with 6 South Park episodes — well, I could always do Humanoids from the Deep for Spooky Fish, Fight For Your Life for that one when Token invites Will Smith to come live in South Park, Children of the Corn for Ginger Kids, any number of girl gang films for The List, Thank God It’s Friday for You Got F’ed in the A, and Night of the Lepus (again) for Pendemic. 🙂
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Oh yes!!! It just doesn’t get better than Night of the Lepus. I can watch that any day of the week. 🙂 Fantastic finds, Lisa! Wow, my family actually sat down to watch Slugs. I remember that one, though Frogs I’d have to see if Netflix has.
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🙂 Frogs was also one of Andy Warhol’s favorite films. 🙂
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Another great batch.
When I glanced at the tiltes of this week’s offerings, I was going to say simply that I am proud to say that I have senn both “Night OF The Lepus” and “Frogs”, and that I wonder how they got respected actor Ray Milland to appear in the latter.
After watching all of these trailers, I found numerous surprises.
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Sorry – I hit “Enter” twice by accident.
Anyway, I was surprised that –
1. Ursula Andress exposed her breasts on film. (Thank you for that one.)
2. “Frogs” also had Sam Elliott. I didn’t remember that.
3. “Night Of The Lepus” had, well, all of those people – Janet Leigh, et al. I don’t remember much about this one, either, but I do know that it was no “Psycho”.
4. That “Slugs” was even made. How could I have missed that one?
Your trailers series has revealed that a surprising number of high-profile actors appeared in at least one exploitation film. With the films that I have seen, in many cases I was too young to have recognized or remembered them. Either way, surprising and interesting.
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Mountain of the Cannibal God surprised me with just how explicit of a film it turned out to be, though I think the majority of the really explicit stuff — a cannibal orgy that features, among other sights, a teenage cannibal boy having relations with a gigantic hog (yes, you read that right) — was actually filmed after Andress, Keach, et al. were already off the set. I don’t think any one of them is quick to list this film on their resume. 🙂
(I should also admit that Mountain of the Cannibal God was one of the first Italian non-zombie, Cannibal films that I ever saw. I doubt I would be as shocked if I saw it for the first time today.)
For some reason, in the early 70s, there were several movies made that featured a combination of rampaging animals and old school contract players from the studio system days. Most of these actors would show up on screen for a minute or so, say something colorful, and then get killed by a killer bunny or a killer dog or whatever. Of course, when the trailers came out, these actors would be portrayed as being the stars of the film. lol. In Night of the Lepus, of the various actors listed, I think Janet Leigh was the only one who had a really prominent role. (Been a while since I saw the film.)
Slugs — oh my God, Slugs. That movie is so bad but it’s actually given me nightmares. It was directed by the same guy who made a slasher film called Pieces and if you get the DVD of Slugs, you can listen to him talk about Slugs was actually a message movie. Slugs is remembered for one thing and one thing only — one of the victims — the guy with the bloody nose in the trailer — accidentally eats a slug-infested salad and ends up getting devoured from within. Seriously, it’s such a stupid movie but yet so effective in its way.
🙂
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