From out of the shadows of our shared exploitive past comes 6 more of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Trailers.
1) Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974)
This is a fun trailer. It comes with its own theme song. There’s no type of love Dirty Mary won’t make.
2) The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave (1971)
This is one of those public domain films that seems to show up in every other Mill Creek Box Set. It’s a guilty pleasure of mine and the trailer is all tacky goodness. Plus, Erika Blanc’s in it. (And the title has allowed me to have a lot of fun at my friend Evelyn’s expense.)
3) Four of the Apocalypse (1975)
Before he was hired to direct Zombi 2, Lucio Fulci directed this spaghetti western. Not surprisingly, it’s one of the darkest, most cynical westerns ever made.
Nine years before Four of the Apocalypse, Fulci directed another western, this one with Franco Nero. Have I mentioned the things I would let Franco Nero do to me if I could get my hands on a time machine? Mmmmm….Franco Nero.
From director Jesus Franco comes “99 women … without men.”
6) Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Shieks (1976)
Don’t watch this trailer if you’re a toadsucker. Or easily offended.
Through the Shattered Lens 
Wow. This week’s batch is really good. So many interesting and entertaining things.
Roddy McDowell seems out of place in “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry”. But he was prolific (and, I think, very good), so one shouldn’t be surprised to find him in anything.
Upon first playing the “Four of the Apocalypse” trailer, I thought the narrator said, “Dummy Preston, professional card sharp. Phlegm, the drunk. Bunny, the cheap prostitute. And Butt, the crazy.” After playing it again, I realize that Dummy is actually Stubby, which is arguably better, and Phlegm is actually Clem, which is definitely better. But, or should I say, However, I am still pretty sure that the crazy really is called Butt. Of course, he’s crazy, so I guess he doesn’t care. Whatever the names, it’s one of the more amusing character intros I have seen. And I like the music in both of those Fulci trailers.
And that “Ilsa” – Exploitation on at least four levels, as evidenced in the trailer alone. I don’t know if the film is sophisticated enough to have any subtext with which it could exploit on any others, but that is quite a trailer.
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Regarding Four of the Apocalypse, without giving out any spoilers, I’ll just say that Bunny is the most tragic character in the film (and 4 of the Apocalypse is a dark, DARK film) but that doesn’t change the fact that Bunny is a funny name. I find it amusing that the trailer goes out of it’s way to let us know that she’s a “cheap” prostitute. I mean, if being a prostitute in a movie featuring Michael J. Pollard isn’t bad enough, she’s a cheap prostitute!
As for the “crazy” character, his name actually is Butt though he’s also referred to as Buck in the film as well. It’s actually an appropriate name as he spends a good deal of the film running around a cemetary naked.
It’s always odd to see Roddy McDowall in all these old school Drive-In and exploitaiton films of the 1970s. I recently saw a film called Laserblast and Roddy shows up in that one as well. And, of course, he was a crazed inner city biology teacher in the Class of 1984. It’s always odd because Roddy McDowall is such an iconic presence that, regardless of how good an actor he may have been, you’re always like “Hey, it’s Roddy McDowall!” regardless of whether he’s playing a small town doctor like in Laserblast or an up-and-coming Mafioso like he did in a few Blaxploitation films. But, he had such a likable presence that it’s always nice to see him regardless of whether his role makes any sense or not. (Because, I’ll be honest, I’ve lived in my share of small towns in the Southwest and never met anyone who sounded anything like Roddy McDowall.)
As for Ilsa — well, just the fact that the film’s title includes the term “Oil Shieks,” pretty much tells you all you need to know. 🙂
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