Trash Cinephile is an irreverent guide to 99 intriguing examples of exploitation cinema from a wide variety of sub-genres. These are films that are often branded as B-movies, Trash films, and also rather unfairly as 'bad movies'. Many are so bizarre that they defy any kind of generic definition; which is why you will find the films discussed within these pages gathered together in eight very loosely themed chapters.
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The murdering "performance artist" Sardu in the the film Bloodsucking Freaks said it all:"To display sadism and discipline alone would only lead to imprisonment. But . . . simply disguising it with a story, a minimal plot, and a score will result in me being hailed as a creative genius." What the character in that exploitation film from 1976 said applies to many of the directors, writers, producers, and actors in the trash cinema covered in this book. Trash Cinephile by Blake Ryan covers most of the categories of exploitation, such as: The early "roadshow" pictures of the 1930s, comprising the original über-exploitation film Reefer Madness, and the World War II hygiene (read VD) films like Ship of Shame. Films that some (okay, films that I) would call the Golden Age of Exploitation--from the 1950s and 60s--including Roger Corman's Bucket of Blood, Robert Clarke's The Hideous Sun Demon, and John Hall's "surf monster" movies. The meat movies from the 1960s and 70s we all know and love, for instance Herschell Gordon Lewis's Two Thousand Maniacs and Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes. The "rape-revenge" movies that gave some exploitation films the feminist touch that launched a thousand Ph.D. theses--Meir Zarchi's I Spit on Your Grave, Abel Ferrara's MS. 45. Actual "quality" movies by filmmakers who want to do more than just exploit, such as Larry Cohen's Q the Winged Serpent, John Carpenter's They Live, and Kathryn Bigelow's vampire film Near Dark--in my opinion the best film discussed in the book, and whose influence you can see in the new Danish vampire flick Let the Right One In. The Italian gore of Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust and Lucio Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters. Classics of Blaxploitation like Jack Hill's Foxy Brown. And last but not least, the Queen of Exploitation, who deserves her own category, Doris Wishman. Can anyone resist the film Deadly Weapons, starring Chesty Morgan, who smothers her victims to death with her large breasts. For me, though, Doris Wishman will be remembered not for a particular film she made, but for something she said. "ALL movies are exploitation movies." Trash Cinephile only has two problems: the proofreading could be better ("apostrophe s" is frequently used incorrectly as a plural ) and the book needs an index or table of contents that indicates which films are in which chapters. I've only mentioned a small percentage of the films Blake Ryan covers in Trash Cinephile. He puts the movies in context as to their genre (space invaders, women in prison, etc.) and their historical time. There's a lot of interesting information about a lot of very guilty pleasures.
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The titles says it all. While there is nothing wrong with this book per se, there's nothing much memorable about it either. Most of the movies here are decent picks, but if you are going to write about these movies, write about them! Give us your opinions and thoughts! Instead, most films here are just given the summaries with mostly mediocore written comments inserted here and there in the summaries. At the end of the summary, the author gives a thought or two, and it's on to the next description. Take out the summaries, and you have a 5 page book.Now, if you just want summaries to trash movies, get it. If you want thoughts, analysis, opinions, and subjectives views which make trash movies fun, don't.
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One mans trash is really another mans treasure,
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I bought this book a couple of weeks back after reading about it. Unlike a lot of horror and exploitation film guides around, this one has a sense of humour. The author looks at obscure horror, blaxploitation, kung fu, biker, sci-fi, revenge, and sexploitation movies. There's even a section on the Bruce Lee rip-offs that starred my favourite Lee-alike, Bruce Li. Another section looks at the Italian post-nukes of the eighties. If you're into offbeat cinema, I'd recommend this as a great guide...
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