Exciting amateur and professional wrestling gals! Wild, uninhibited cat fighting! Brawny beauties battle it out!
White-coater offshoot, examining what happened when Denmark abolished censorship in the late 1960s. Social commentary travelogue of filth including porno shops, art and porn, perversions, dirty magazine photo shoots, and man-on-the-street interviews. Directed by Oscar winner Gabriel Axel!
Behind the scenes documentary from the shoot of the film Kyrkoherden in 1970, at Forsmark's castle.
6.1
In 1989, I met Anton LaVey for the first time. At this time in his life, LaVey was seeing only a select few people. For this film, I've met and interviewed some of them, to try and create a composite image of what he was really like, and what he meant to these people. It's a memory lane trip, filled with personal stories, dark humor, great music and never before seen material with the Black Pope himself.
Christian documentary about the evils of rock music and its relation to sex, violence, suicide, drug use, rebellion, the occult and other things part of the Satanist moral panic in the US in the 1980s. Features The Beatles, The Doors, Led Zeppelin and Madonna, as well as introducing thousands of viewers to lesser-known artists such as Venom, Mercyful Fate, and Diamanda Galas that they might not otherwise have come across.
Kit Colfach directed the notorious warning film Susanne (Don't drink, don't drive, don't have sex). Here's a short film about children's safety.
If any non-Fonda workout VHS was to have been put in an 1980s time capsule it ought to be this. Cheap synths? Check. Valley Girl drawl motivational speak? Check? Headbands, leg warmers, garish colour spandex and American tan hosiery? Check, check, check, check!
Erotic photographer Ron Harris' four minute fitness video of his girlfriend Jami Allen led to a Showtime show that became the highest grossing exercise video series of the early 80s. Ron later created the :20 Minute Workout. Trippy visuals, camera spins and skimpy Day-Glo outfits (by American Apparel) made this an instant cult classic.
Yes, Ingmar Bergman sold out to capitalism! He made nine charming commercials for the soap brand Bris, “that kills bacteriae”. In 1951, the Swedish film industry was boycotting a new “entertainment tax” by not making movies, so Ingmar had to find a way of financially supporting his three families.
Unreal mondo-style movie, self-described as a “Documentary of Love”, where exploitation master Harry Kerwin takes the temperature on the late Sixties unrest, with real footage of bikers, peace protestors and a rock festival audience, with a hilarious anti-establishment voice-over. The Aliens were a biker gang, who let Kerwin film them on the highway, inside their squalid headquarters and at a beach party. Memorable line: "I’d say Jesus died so we could ride”.
Mondo movie Italian style, with added New York scenes! Queers! Drag queens! Spanking! Hookers! Strippers! Addicts! Strange habits! “It’s a sick, sick, sick world!” the narrator keeps repeating. With Sammy Petrillo from Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla and The Brain That Wouldn’t Die!
Hilariously bogus “documentary on the film capital of the world” inspired by the Italian mondo movie genre. A look at adult book stores, grindhouses, strip joints, “Figure Model Photography Studios” and midnight pool parties. This is more cynical sexploitation from director Lee Frost and producer Bob Cresse, the loveable hucksters who gave the world Mondo Freudo and Mondo Bizarro.
Sequel to the ground-breaking Mondo Cane. Beautifully shot but equally disturbing crackpot travelogue of global gross-outs and international insanity: human pincushions parade, tortillas with live insects, strippers wrapped in toilet paper, possessed women, a mid-East slave auction and more…
Four fearless Italians cross South America in a Jeep in 1952 to bring back their version of the "Green Hell." Snake fights, piranha attacks, and the death of their pet monkey are just some of the challenges faced by these intrepid explorers. All filmed in color.
7.1
Take an outrageous ride through this wild world of exploitation films with this thoroughly entertaining documentary, HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS – THE GODFATHER OF GORE! Featuring cult director John Waters, Drive-In Movie Critic Joe Bob Briggs, Herschell Gordon Lewis himself and a “cast of thousands,” you’ll witness the innocent bare-naked era of Nudie-Cuties before Lewis schocked the world with “Blood Feast,” the first ever gore film!
7
An in-depth analysis of the "Video Nasty" scandal of the early 1980s in Britain.
6.5
A retrospective of Dracula's appearances in film. It includes trailers and scenes from many Dracula-related films. There is an emphasis on films which feature the actors Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee, as they portrayed the most popular versions of Dracula. Also covered are films depicting sons and daughters of Dracula, and Dracula-like vampires. Many of the trailers focus on the beauty of Dracula's victims, or the beauty of female vampires.
Something Weird Video compilation, on the theme “Going out on a date tonight? Before you do, learn all about your indoor plumbing, and discover how easily it can go wacky on you.” Films included: VD, Sex Hygiene (1941), Hygiene for Men: Personal Health, The Miracle of Life, It's Wonderful Being a Girl!, The Miracle of Birth.
Something Weird Video compilation, on the theme “Think your private parts are a passport to pleasure? Wrong! Your genitals are, in fact, the gateway to Hell!” Films included: VD: Name Your Contacts (1968), Sex in Today’s World (1960’s), Pick-Up (1944), Boy to Man, Girl to Woman.
Something Weird Video compilation, on the theme “a few moments of dirty pleasure equal a lifetime of misery!” Films included: Prologue to Forbidden Desire (1944), Know for Sure (1944), Human Reproduction (1957), Sex Hygiene (1942), A Quarter Million Teenagers (1960’s), Damaged Goods (1961).
5.6
An Italian documentary that gives an inside look at the making of Ruggero Deodato's controversial horror film "Cannibal Holocaust".
7
A documentary primarily focusing on the filming and release of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
