The Wizard of Gore: A Classic Name for a Bad Film

Truly a horrible piece of cinematic film. The purpose of it is in the title. Splatter gore about the place as a cheap thrill. This was part of the cheap-o drive-in circuit, the old time equivalent of direct-to-video market. Make something cheap, toss it out, there’ll be some return on the investment. The plot is … More The Wizard of Gore: A Classic Name for a Bad Film

Heil Honey, I’m Home – A Sitcom About Adolph Hitler and His Jewish Neighbors

         How about sitting down one day and watching a sitcom about Adolf Hitler living in an apartment with Eva Braun who, while running Germany at the time, was having difficulty with his Jewish neighbors? Sound insane? Well in 1990 a pilot for this idea was shot in England and subsequently greenlit for an additional eight … More Heil Honey, I’m Home – A Sitcom About Adolph Hitler and His Jewish Neighbors

Common Law Wife: Exploitation on a Very Very Very Low Budget

A great deal of this film was in fact intended to be part of another feature titled Swamp Rose but the funding dried up. Not a man to let anything go to waste producer, Larry Buchanan, “King of the Drive-In Flicks”, stripped it of its luscious color and built a z-grade plot around it. This … More Common Law Wife: Exploitation on a Very Very Very Low Budget

Shanty Tramp: An Exploitation Film at its Purest

  This is your standard exploitation feature, filmed with zero budget and mainly with amateurs. Like all of its kind, the film proclaims to want to discuss some hard hitting question, in this case hypocrisy of power and interracial affairs, but its real purpose is to show some sleaze and violence, wrapped around a  paper-thin … More Shanty Tramp: An Exploitation Film at its Purest

Coonskin: The Only Animated Blaxpolitation Film

Written and directed infamous animator Ralph Bakshi. Just coming off the heels of his two masterpieces Fritz the Cat (The first X-Rated cartoon) and the superior Heavy Traffic (Which wasn’t X-rated, even though it had more sex and violence than the previous one), he continued to break animation molds by securing funding for the first, … More Coonskin: The Only Animated Blaxpolitation Film