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!
Mondo-style exposé of occultism as practiced around the world. Pagan festivals, cosplay Wiccans, interviews with Stewart and Janet Farrar, clips of Anton LeVay and even even H R Geiger!
Debbie Reynolds decided to join the fitness revolution age 51 and she brought an all-star female cast of classic Hollywood with her: Shelley Winters, Teri Garr, Virginia Mayo and many more. In between flexes in her maroon spandex she throws out random questions to her class such as, “How many girls here slept with Howard Hughes?” Adorable!
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.
The final in the driver safety films produced by Highway Safety Films, Inc. Largely a retread of the 1971 version but with new footage, including motorcycle accidents. Gory and graphic, particularly the scenes filmed in New Orleans.
Radio and TV evangelist Bob Larson had it in for satanism, rock music and role playing games. In this interview he talks to Nikolas Schreck and his wife Zeena, daughter of Anton LaVey (founder of the Church of Satan). Bob Larson would later tour the country with teen girl exorcists and perform exorcisms via Skype for $295.
Drug and sex documentary examining the marijuana habits of young people in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Dope heads testifytestify to MJ's beneficial effects as an aphrodisiac (thus justifying the hardcore footage) and scenes of nude interactions, how-tos for making marijuana brownies, Vietnam soldiers smoking weed and more.
Throughout history, there has been an undeniable link between the mystical ideas of astrology and human sexuality. With each zodiac sign comes a distinct sexual personality. This is an exploration of the sensual, erotic, and humorous aspects of astrology and the zodiac.
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”.
The pioneering Swedish sex ed film that shocked the world, was shot in English back to back with the Swedish scenes, with all four educators speaking English, and the illustrating segments dubbed into English.
Notorious mondo movie which turned away from strange African tribes to the strange tribes of Sweden. The film purports to display typically Swedish issues like drugs, alcohol, suicides, biker gangs, lesbian clubs, women's lib and nude blondes in saunas, but it's all fake. The song Mah-na-Mah-na was composed for this movie!
A group of attractive women and some men arrive to a house party for some nude frolicking, rockabilly music and a psychedelic orgy in the dark. 28 minutes short film.
All good sex-ed films in the 1960s had sequels, so too this anti-porn and anti-gay propaganda by the Citizens for Decent Literature. Founder and producer Charles Keating was on Nixon's Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography in 1969 and convicted for wire fraud and racketeering in the late 1980s.
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.
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).
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.
Fuck and be free! Box office hit "The Language of Love" spawned an immediate sequel. Unsuspecting audiences were treated to further education in homosexuality, pornography, handicap sex, pregnancy sex, veneral diseases and drugs!
A propaganda classic about the Japanese full-scale invasion of China, featuring rare documentary footage. The film not only delivered the goods as an atrocity-laden roadshow rarity, but also helped to feed the audience’s hatred of a common enemy in the days when the United States still could have lost World War II.
Mondo movie. This exploitation classic purports to expose the secrets of the 1960s lesbian underworld.
