Hump Day Posters: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

A butcher's work is never done.

Terror at the Red Wolf Inn (1972)

Director: Bud Townsend

Writer: Allen Actor

Starring: Linda Gillen, John Neilson, Arthur Space, Mary Jackson, Janet Wood, Margaret Avery,

"SHARK! SHARK! SHARRRK! SHARRRRK! SHARRRRRK! SHARRRK! SHARRRRK! I think I love you."

Beatlemania 

Once again I delve into the decade they call the 70's for another nights viewing of the groovy and the strange...

Party like it's 1999

In her Beatles poster decorated dorm room, cute as a button Regina (Gillen) opens a sweepstakes invitation. It's an invitation to a free vacation. Happily she calls the number and make arrangements to go. When she arrives at Red Wolf Inn, a beach side resort. It's run by Evelyn and her husband Henry. Also staying there is Baby John, the old couple's strange grandson and Pamela and Edwina, two other guests. Evelyn likes to cook and hubby Henry loves plants. Baby John just likes to act like a man-boy. There's big feast to celebrate Pamela's leaving the next day. The next day she's gone without saying a word to the other two girls. Then the same happens with Edwina. Soon Regina is getting suspicious of her hosts and their mysterious freezer. And Baby John is making puppy dog eyes at Regina and professing his love for her after bashing a shark to death. But Evelyn and Henry have other plans for her.

Two heads. No duffel bag. 

Soft focus dinner

Though there's somewhat of a languid pace to the proceedings, the strangeness of the whole thing was enough to keep me interested. You'll know the secret of the inn long before poor Regina, but it's not really an issue. I dug the menu style credits, though the final shot was a bit too much with the goofiness. Regina is such a likable protagonist that I was actually rooting for her throughout. Not as gritty looking as many it's 70's exploitation brethren it still delivers enough thrills and weirdness to be worth a viewing for those interested in 70's low budget horror. Dinner is served.

Thursday Top Ten: My Top Ten favorite Grindhouse trailers

All of these movies are simply awesome and these trailers do what any trailer should. They have you salivating like mad to see the film. Shocking and totally unsafe for anyone! You've been warned. Enjoy!

Keep repeating it's only a trailer...
Keep repeating it's only a trailer...
Keep repeating it's only a trailer...

10-The Streetfighter (1974)



9-Nightmare City (1980)



8-Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976)



7-Switchblade Sisters (1975)



6-Dr. Butcher MD (1981)



5-The Violent Professionals (1973)



4-I Spit On Your Grave (1980)



3-The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)



2-The Last House On The Left (1972)



1-They Call Her One Eye (1974)

Movies I love: Cannibal ferox (1981)

Cannibal Ferox (1981)

Rudy: There's something I can't figure out...
Gloria Davis: What's that?
Rudy: I don't know.

Not as harrowing as Cannibal Holocaust. If it wasn't for the animal killings this would be the perfect grindhouse experience for me. The animal cruelty is unnecessary and takes me out of the film. But there's a lot here to love. The soundtrack is great. Plus the movie has some very cheesy dubbing. There's lines you'll be quoting for days. Most of which a delivered by two of the most ridiculous mobsters ever to grace a movie screen.  Then there's some ridiculous, over the top gore effects. You'll either be laugh and them or puking after seeing some of them. Definitely a grindhouse classic.

Movies I love:I Spit On Your Grave aka Day of the Woman (1978)

"That's so sweet it's painful."

Sleazy exploitation film or art film? Maybe both. The first time I saw it on VHS, at bad moviethon with some friends I really hated it. Thought it was horrid crap. Not even it's so bad it's funny crap, just terrible. Then years later with the joy of DVD I got into all sorts of crap long out of reach on VHS. I saw it sitting there on a self. Was draw to it, had to have it. Was it my insatiable need to see and own all sorts of crazy grindhouse crap? Maybe the Joe Bob Briggs commentary? Regardless I picked it up and plunked down the cash for it. Much to the chagrin of Dan who was there that night we watched it on VHS. I think he may have said "Why the hell are you buying that?" I think I could only say "Because..." Really not much of an answer. Still can't say why I wanted it for sure. But after watching not only the movie again for the first time since that night. But also the wonderful commentary by Joe Bob and the poetic commentary by the director Meir Zarchi, I had a new found respect for the film.

Definitely not a feel good movie and not one you pop in when you have friends over. Cerninaly a film people either love or hate. Strangely, or maybe not so much if you think about it I've talked to more then one woman who likes this film quite a bit. Perhaps it's that squirm inducing vengeance Jennifer (Camille Keaton) gets on her attackers. These guys are vile scumbags who in one of filmdom's most brutal sequences rape and beat her for a good twenty minutes of the film's run time. When Jennifer dishes out her revenge she turns her attackers into helpless cowering victims. It's also one of the most satisfying payoffs in a revenge film. In the end the film leaves it up to the viewer to decide if Jennifer was justified in her vengeance or if she's completely lost it.

Meir Zarchi made the movie after he, his daughter and a friend happened across a naked and bloodied young woman in New York city. The woman had been raped and when they took her to the police, the officer they talked to was less the sympathetic. His goal was to make the viewer feel how horrid,dirty and degrading rape is. That's this film's true power and what I feel makes it worthwhile.

Hump day Posters:Bad Girls

Hump day Posters:Crown International Pictures