#Lee Frost

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Mondo Bizarro (1966)

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Witchcraft '70 (Angeli bianchi… angeli neri, 1969)

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The Defilers (Lee Frost & David F. Friedman, 1965).

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currently watching Chrome and Hot Leather, a 1971 biker movie starring William Smith and Marvin Gaye, from the director of The Thing with Two Heads, Lee Frost

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Dixie Dynamite at 8:20pm Eastern Time

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Movie Review | House on Bare Mountain (Frost & Bishop, 1962)

This review contains mild spoilers.

The opening credits announce that this stars "Lovable Bob Cresse as Granny Good", and having watched the whole movie, I think that adjective is a tad generous. Bob Cresse is the exploitation pioneer, who along with director Lee Frost, made the early Naziploitation flick Love Camp 7, in which he also stars as a Nazi prison camp commander with the presence similar to Dom DeLuise. Now, that movie and his performance in it are both very bad, and you could say the same thing about this one. Here he stars in drag as the den mother of a bunch of lovely ladies. Cresse's screentime in this movie is akin to a comedy snuff film, in that you're watching laughter die onscreen in real time. The shtick he does is so aggressively, brutally unfunny that maybe you start thinking that the whole concept of humour was a mistake and that we might never laugh again. But not turning off the movie. That never crosses your mind. Cresse appears in the bookends of the movie behind bars, and one would think that he's been thrown in jail for his many, many crimes against comedy.

The movie does however make a good case for the concept of nudie cuties in that the scenes of ladies prancing around in the nude are substantially more appealing than any of the scenes where Cresse is anywhere near the camera. Listen, we are all amigos here and I did not find the ladies unpleasant to look at, no matter that their hairdos would be dated even the year this movie came out. The movie is certainly shameless in delivering the goods, like in the scene where the girls are doing their exercises outdoors and take their tops off immediately after complaining about the heat. But it also displays a sense of humour, like when the topless girls sketch Cresse's (thankfully) fully clothed character (one of them depicts him in particularly spherical terms), or the sound effect that accompanies one particularly well endowed character. The movie has a bright, sunny pastel look that makes it nice enough to look at, especially when boobs and butts appear onscreen with some regularity.

Now let's just say that maybe some complications arise as the movie progresses. Let's just say that maybe there are monsters in this movie. Let's just say that maybe some monsters are more authentically monstrous than others. Let's just say that maybe there's a costume party where the fake monster or monsters get mixed up with the fake monster or monsters. Let's just say that maybe none of this bears any impact on what happens after whatsover. Let's all just say these things, and when somebody complains that we've maybe spoiled the movie, we can hide behind the concept of plausible deniability. A lot of people were saying things, who's to say what anybody said? But this movie does serve as an interesting thought experiment, helping us ponder how bad a movie we might sit through just for the sight of some monsters and mammaries.

This was recommended to me by a longtime internet friend, and I don't know whether I should be moved or offended by how well he has me pegged. After all, I sat all the way through this.

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Twin Peaks "Beyond Life and Death"

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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me - 1992 - Dir. David Lynch

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an angel from twin peaks: fire walk with me (1992)

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Jack Nitzsche - Surf Finger

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Angeli bianchi… angeli neri (1969)

AKA Witchcraft '70; The Satanists; The Occult Experience; Witchcraft; White Angel… Black Angel

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THE THING WITH TWO HEADS (1972) Reviews of trash classic

THE THING WITH TWO HEADS (1972) Reviews of trash classic

‘They transplanted a white bigot’s head onto a soul brother’s body! The Thing with Two Heads is a 1972 science fiction comedy horror film directed by Lee Frost from a screenplay written by Wes Bishop (both of whom have acting roles). The Saber Productions movie stars Rosey Grier, Ray Milland, Don Marshall, Roger Perry, Chelsea Brown, Kathrine Baumann, John Dullaghan, John Bliss, Bruce Kimball,…

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Chrome and Hot Leather (1971)

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Hellfire Gala Designs

since we no longer get the galas here’s my attempt at designing some outfits for it

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Put On Your Raincoats | Sweet Captive (Frost, 1979)

I decided to give this a look after finding Lee Frost's A Climax of Blue Power to be a stylish and potent bit of genre grime and hoped for more of the same. Alas, the genre angle here is a lot more relaxed, the sleaze a lot less forceful. Sure, there probably is something conceptually troubling about a woman being held captive and being degraded by her boyfriend's debtors. But it's harder to be troubled when they're hanging out at a nice big house with a pool. And it's even harder to be troubled when the woman voluntarily drives to the house in a sportscar while a jaunty theme song plays. (You can always rely on vintage porn for great soundtracks, and this one has a steady hum of synth funk to score the proceedings.)

Not that I'm complaining exactly. The villains, as played by Paul Thomas, John Holmes and Denise O'Brian (who doesn't have too many credits, it seems, but is enjoyable here), come off less like sexual sadists than bullies at a pool party. There is some nice antagonistic chemistry between them, and some imaginative dialogue as they think of the worst things to do to her. (Their ideas involve camels, alligators and the sewer.) The potential meanness is offset by the off the wall turns of phrase. At one point, Holmes refers to one of the woman's orifices as her "Bank of America." The potential meanness is also offset by the fact that the victim is into it, and in fact left her boyfriend and only showed up "for the thrill", which exasperates her captors. "What gets to you, man?" (There's one pretty funny scene where Thomas is shouting at the top of his lungs while Holmes is hung over.) But the proceedings resolve once the villains take a "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em attitude", and after Holmes and O'Brian leave to go see a western, Thomas invites some other friends over for an orgy.

So not the sturdiest genre exercise, although I did enjoy it, because on top of the chemistry between the cast, this is, pornographically speaking, pretty spicy. Rhonda Jo Petty, who plays the protagonist, may not be a great actress but has feathered hair like Farrah Fawcett and a nice body, so I enjoyed her presence for prurient reasons. And I think the sex scenes are good at giving all the participants something interesting to do, like Petty trying to keep her balance with a lit candle in her privates while her captors have a threesome, or Thomas playing O'Brian's ass like bongos during a foursome. Even the orgy scene, something I normally find boring and unfocused in execution in most vintage pornos, has a nice level of interaction from the different participants, features some impressive sexual acrobatics from Jesse Adams and Brooke West, and finds a nice, dynamic flow as it transitions from one set of positions to another. And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the bondage scene, which is probably the highlight of the thing. So this gets a recommendation of the boingoingoing, honk honk, judge not that ye not be judged variety.