Hi there and welcome to yet another edition of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Film trailers!
1) Damnation Alley (1977)
This movie was actually on the Fox Movie Channel last night. The trailer’s better.
2) The Tenement (1985)
As this trailer makes clear, this film is also known as Slaughter In The South Bronx.
3) Enter The Ninja (1981)
It’s Franco Nero!
4) Eat My Dust (1976)
It’s Ron Howard!
5) Beatrice Cenci (1969)
Before Lucio Fulci devoted himself to making zombie films, he made this one. It tells the true story of Beatrice Cenci, an Italian noblewoman who, in 1599, conspired to murder her abusive father. Fulci considered it to be his second best film. I’ve never seen it but I hope to do so someday soon.
6) The Slams (1973)
Finally, let’s conclude this edition with Jim Brown in … The Slams!
Through the Shattered Lens 
I love Damnation Alley. I mean the Landmaster is up there in terms of greatest fictional vehicles ever conceived. Plus, it has killer mutant cockroaches and giant murderous desert scorpions.
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That was my favorite part of the movie, just the way George Peppard delivers the line, “The whole town is full of KILLER COCKROACHES!”
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I found it quite funny that a porn mag leads to the destruction of their base. LOL
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I found myself wondering how that guy still had a fresh pack of cigarettes two years after the apocalypse.
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Cigarettes is something everyone in those 70’s and early 80’s apocalypse films stocked up on. I remember the dock scene in Dawn of the Dead how the cops trying to flee by boat were freaking out because they had no cigarettes and Flyboy and his group had them but said they had none when asked.
Like today, if the apocalypse suddenly occurred cigarettes would be replaced by wifi connection. People will kill to get decent wifi even though food, meds and water would be preferable. 😀
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“Beatrice Canci” being German-language makes it harder to get a feel for the quality of the film. (Those foreigners have a different word for everything. Why can’t people have the common courtesy to speak English?). But I am curious – that being Fulci’s second-favorite film, what was his number one?
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Unfortuantely — like much of Fulci’s earlier work — Beatrice Cenci never got a release outside of Europe. I don’t speak German myself but I knew enough about the actual historic event that I could kinda guess at what was happening in the trailer. As for Fulci’s film, it was a genuinely disturbing giallo that he made in 1973 that had the oddly prosiac title, Do Not Torture A Duckling. For what it’s worth, I partially agree with Fulci. I think of his giallo films, Do Not Torture A Duckling is probably his best. Certainly, it’s an example of a film where Fulci’s tendency towards excess complimented the story he was trying to tell. It’s a pretty disturbing film, though.
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I have come across that title occasionally on various horror film lists. I didn’t realize it was Fulci’s. It is pretty well-regarded, from what I have seen. Might be worth tracking down, at least to have a more expansive perspective on his work.
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Don’t Torture a Duckling was released on DVD by Anchor Bay but I’m not sure if the DVD is still in print. But yes, definitely track it down. It’s Fulci in one of his rare sociological moods. 🙂
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