Cult Movies, Exploitation

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Actors:Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, ...
Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy
by Paramount (DVD) (Release Date: 1999-06-22)

Actors:Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson, Louise Fletcher, Burl Ives, ...
Two Moon Junction
by Sony Pictures (DVD) (Release Date: 2000-04-18)

This camp spectacle stars Sherilyn Fenn (Boxing Helena) as an upper-crust Southern belle who abandons the posh life for sex on the road with a carny worker. Naturally, the older folk (Burl Ives, Louise Fletcher) take exception. Typically silly, soft-porn stuff from director Zalman King (Wild Orchid), this erotic joke of a movie is good for putting one's busy brain on hold for awhile. Colorful support from Kristy McNichol as a cowgirl, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and the late Hervé Villechaiz (Fantasy Island). --Tom Keogh

Actors:Martin Kemp, Rebecca Ferratti, Glori Gold, Seana Ryan, ...
Embrace of the Vampire
by New Line Home Video (DVD) (Release Date: 1999-11-02)

A sensuous but innocent college freshman is seduced by a most obsessive lover.

Actors:Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Glenn Plummer, ...
Showgirls
by MGM (Video & DVD) (DVD) (Release Date: 2000-04-25)

Actors:Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Margaret Whitton, David Margulies, ...
9 1/2 Weeks (Uncut, Uncensored Version)
by MGM (Warner) (DVD) (Release Date: 1998-07-01)

Frequently given short shrift as a blue movie (which it is) and as mindless (which it isn't), director Adrian Lyne's follow-up to Flashdance (insert own joke here) is a thoughtful, smutty film about a bad sexual relationship. It follows the two-month affair between Elizabeth, an art-gallery dealer, and John, a Wall Street exec. The relationship spirals downward into raunchier sex (filmed, by the way, quite nicely) but principally is about two adults doing adult things but not acting anything like real adults. Attempts at actual human connection, about the longing to be "good," are present here and make this an above-average erotic film. Rourke is just honing his scumbag, bad-boy persona; but it doesn't overwhelm. Lots and lots of Kim Basinger. --Keith Simanton

Actors:Sara Gilbert, Drew Barrymore, Tom Skerritt, Cheryl Ladd, ...
Poison Ivy
by New Line Home Video (DVD) (Release Date: 1999-11-02)

Actors:Buddy Pantsari, Elisabeth Monica, John Alderman, Christine Murray, ...
Trader Hornee
by Image Entertainment (DVD) (Release Date: 2000-04-04)

Move over, Sheena! Algona is here! Twenty one years after two zoologists disappeared in the jungle, detective Hamilton Hornee (Buddy Pantsari) leads an expedition into darkest Africa to search for their missing daughter, Algona, heiress to her father's fortune. Joining him are "Sultry" Sommers (Elizabeth Monica), lesbian journalist Tender Lee (Lisa Grant), two of Algona's greedy, S&M loving relatives (Christine Murray and John Alderman), and Stanley Livingston (Fletcher Davies), on the lookout for Nabucco, a legendary white gorilla. But Algona (Deek Sills) just happens to be the magnificent blonde she goddess worshiped by the Meshpokas, "the most feared humans in all Africa," while Nabucco turns out to be an escaped convict in an ape suit... "Trader Hornee," a hilarious sex comedy from producer David F. Friedman, is outrageous, over the top, and completely out of control!

Actors:Susan Stewart, Steve Vincent (II), M.K. Evans, Vic Lance, ...
Mantis in Lace
by Image Entertainment (DVD) (Release Date: 2001-02-20)

Look out, it's Lila! A sweet-faced topless go-go dancer, Lila loves mixing S-E-X with L-S-D. Trouble is, when she starts hallucinating, she sees flashing lights and swirling colors. The freaked-out Lila then grabs a handy meat cleaver and promptly hacks up her lovers in an acid-fueled frenzy. A mesmerizing mix of murder and madness from producer Harry Novak (Please Don't Eat My Mother), this edition of "Mantis in Lace" is the premiere of the rare, uncut version, digitally remastered from the original 35mm hallucinogenic negative. Outta sight, baby. PLUS: Over 100 minutes of never-before-seen outtakes, Trailer for this and other Something Weird titles, Alternate psychedelic murder sequence; Three archival short subjects: Sid Davis' classic classroom scare film "LSD: Trip or Trap," "Alice Goes to Acidland" and "Girl In a Cage;" Gallery of Harry Novak exploitation art; Harry Novak radio-spot rarities

Actors:Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Susan Sennett, ...
Big Bad Mama
by New Concorde (DVD) (Release Date: 1999-02-23)

Angie Dickinson stars as a bank-robbing matriarch in this 1974 Roger Corman production, often described as a knock-off of Bonnie and Clyde. (As if that makes any difference regarding the worth of the film--which is pretty good.) Set in Great Depression-era Texas, the story finds Dickinson's desirable and poor character driven to crime, along with her two daughters (Susan Sennett, Robbie Lee), all of whom use sex to distract or drive men into culpability. The film, directed by Steve Carver, is pure Corman formula: fast-moving, violent, gritty, adorned with nudity, and yet solidly true to its own sense of high drama and texture. Veteran Angie Dickinson brings solid acting chops (and a great bod on display) to the enterprise--and speaking of Enterprise, William Shatner is quite memorable (as is Tom Skerritt) as one of the gentlemen who fall under the antiheroine's sway. --Tom Keogh

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