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!
Tabloid journalist Geraldo Rivera investigates claims of a widespread Satanic underground movement in the US. Digs up lots of gory murders, talks to investigators and self-identified Satanists who deny that Satanism is a dangerous religion.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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!
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An in-depth analysis of the "Video Nasty" scandal of the early 1980s in Britain.
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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.
