Hi there, Happy Easter! Because it’s the holidays and I happen to love Easter (bunny rabbits! — yay!), I’m going to do a special double-sized edition of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Trailers.
Let’s start things off with a little old school grindhouse. I like this trailer because I used to be a teen-age gang deb.
In the 60s, there were gang debs and in the 70s, there were cheerleaders. And there were an awful lot of movies about cheerleaders that apparently were a lot more sordid than Bring It On.
3) The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974)
They’re not just cheerleaders — they’re swinging cheerleaders! Believe it or not, this was directed by the same Jack Hill who directed Switchblade Sisters and countless Pam Grier films.
Eventually, filmmakers ran out different adjectives to place before the word “Cheerleaders.” And that is how this movie ended up being called The Pom Pom Girls.
5) Cheerleaders Wild Weekend (1978)
When aren’t cheerleaders having a wild weekend?
Needless to say, this is the edited version of this particular’s film’s trailer. If I ever get a chance to watch Debbie Does Dallas, I’ll have to because I live in Dallas. And if Debbie thinks she’s going to do Dallas better than I do Dallas, she might want to jump off that dream train. Just saying…
(By the way, I know that there’s a small group of you out there who probably think I’m just using this post an excuse to kid my sister Erin about her high school cheerleading days. Perish the thought! In fact, to prove my good intentions, the next 6 trailers will be, in absolutely no way, related to cheerleading.)
I’m including this trailer specifically for one of our regular and loyal readers. He knows who he is and here’s hoping he’s having himself a good weekend.
8 ) The Naked Bunyip (1970)
I’ve never seen this film, I just came across it while I was specifically looking up trashy cheerleader-centric trailers on YouTube. It appears to be an Australian mondo film.
A part of me is really curious to see this film just to see if it’s actually based on the bible story.
10) The Thing With Two Heads (1972)
Film looks terrible but I love that tagline: “It seemed like a good idea at the time!” I have a feeling that’s what Ray Milland spent all of 1973 telling himself.
11) Capone (1975)
This was on the Fox Movie Channel earlier this week and I actually set the DVR for it. Ben Gazzara chews the scenery of Al Capone and then a really young Sylvester Stallone pops up as Frank Nitti. This is one of those 70s mafia films that tries to be The Godfather, just with less running time and a smaller budget. It’s kinda boring, to be honest.
And finally…
Happy Easter!
Through the Shattered Lens 
That Two Moon Junction trailer was high-class, late-late night USA Network sleaze and we’re all the better for it.
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“Who would have suspected that neither would care for the idea too much?” “Hey, man – don’t be smokin’ while I’m eatin’!” “Now you KNOW you’ve got to go.”
“The Thing With Two Heads” has some other gems of lines in addition to the tagline.
When I saw the title, I thought I had seen it. But I was pretty sure I remembered Bruce Dern being in it, and he didn’t show in this trailer.
As it turns out, believe it or not, another two-headed transplant movie with a (later to be, at least) well-known actor had already been made the previous year. It is (even more self-explanatorily) titled, “The Incredible Two-headed Transplant”.
Dern played the mad scientist who grafted the head of a psychopath onto the body of a big but gentle simple guy. I don’t remember a lot about it, but I’m pretty sure it was as good as it sounds. I think the psychopath guy was pretty entertaining.
Your offering looks like it may be even more fun, but I think I may track down both of these, having forgotten most of the one I saw, Fortunately, they are available as a combo DVD, for the millions of fans of the transplanted-head sub-genre (?).
Here’s the actual trailer for “The Incredible Two-headed Transplant” (this one is better quality than the ones I found on YouTube) –
I also stumbled upon this creative altered version, which would likely have been an even better movie –
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Sorry. The Amazon link to the original trailer doesn’t seem to provided a video load. Here is a YouTube version –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azLhzdM8Tac
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While we’re on the subject of two-headed films, let’s not forget Andy Milligan’s “The Man With Two Heads,” probably the weirdest one of the bunch. As for the (always awesome, and thanks as always, too!) trailer selection here, much as I love Jack Hill, “Cheerleaders’ Wild Weekend” or “The Pom Pom Girls” are probably the most enjoyable films of the bunch. “Black Samson” is pretty fun too, and for what it’s worth, it’s not too directly based (as in not at all) on the Biblical Samson story, although it’s been a loooooong time since I cracked a Bible open, so maybe my memory is just failing me.
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Thanks, Lisa Marie. That’s sweet that you’re not trying to give me a hard time.
It’s hard to judge just from the trailers but it looks like Cheerleaders Wild Weekend was the most accurate representation of my life as a cheerleader. I remember my weekends as a cheerleader were all about flashing farmers and flirting with bus drivers. It was Mardi Gras every Saturday and Sunday.
By the way, I do believe that was the dad from American Pie in the trailer for Cannibal Girls.
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I actually like The Cheerleaders (1973). Kind of a missing link for me between the the 60’s stuff and the Lemon Popsicle formula that led to Porky’s. The sequels aren’t good. It’s painful to see David Hasselhoff in the third one dancing. Yuck!
Did you ever get around to watching Debbie Does Dallas? I actually wrote about how that movie helped me figure out I was a lesbian earlier this year.
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