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  • Quentin Masters – The Stud (1978)

    1971-1980CampDramaQuentin MastersUnited Kingdom

    Quote:
    Sometimes, when life is getting too much for you with lots of stupid dramas, there’s only one thing that will really cheer you up. And that’s a really classic trashy movie. If said movie happens to star Joan Collins, even better. The Stud is a movie tailor-made for these situations.

    Oliver Tobias is the stud of the title, Tony Blake. He was a waiter, a poor working-class kid with big ambitions, a pretty face and a hot body. He attracted the attention of the fabulously wealthy Fontaine Khaled (Joan Collins), or rather his hot body attracted her attention. So she set him up as manager of a night-club, although his main duties are to satisfy her sexual appetites. He’s constantly on call in case she has a sexual emergency that requires immediate servicing. And this happens to Fontaine quite frequently.Read More »

  • Abel Ferry – Putain, la Vieille Faut Pas l’Enerver! (2001)

    2001-2010Abel FerryCampFranceShort Film

    quick plot from gabbyheinze.com:
    a dwarf & an “older woman” have just robbed a bank (it was a blood bath) and now they are hiding at the sordid Mucus Hotel.
    as a tradition, the older woman always likes to have sex after robbing a bank…but the dwarf is not too hot about it…Read More »

  • Cheryl Dunye – The Owls (2010)

    2001-2010CampCheryl DunyeDramaQueer Cinema(s)USA

    Enjoyably strange, The Owls is an ambitious mixture of lesbian noir, radically experimental filmmaking and community project; a piece of collective art about age, politics, race, desire and gender anxiety. At a house party hosted by a group of Older Wiser Lesbians a young queer is murdered and their disappearance covered up, but just as the group of women let down their guard, a mysterious stranger comes asking questions.Read More »

  • Berry Gordy & Tony Richardson – Mahogany (1975)

    1971-1980Berry GordyCampDramaTony RichardsonUSA

    Tracy (Diana Ross), an aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world’s top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring a choice between the man she loves or her newfound success.Read More »

  • John Waters – Pink Flamingos (1972)

    1971-1980CampCultJohn WatersQueer Cinema(s)USA

    Quote:
    John Waters made bad taste perversely transcendent with the forever shocking counterculture sensation Pink Flamingos, his most infamous and daring cinematic transgression. Outré diva Divine is iconic as the wanted criminal hiding out with her family of degenerates in a trailer outside Baltimore while reveling in her tabloid notoriety as the “Filthiest Person Alive.” When a pair of sociopaths (Mink Stole and David Lochary) with a habit of kidnapping women in order to impregnate them attempt to challenge her title, Divine resolves to show them and the world the true meaning of the word “filth.” Incest, cannibalism, shrimping, and film history’s most legendary gross-out ending—Waters and his merry band of Dreamlanders leave no taboo unsmashed in this gleefully subversive ode to outsiderhood, in which camp spectacle and pitch-black satire are wielded in an all-out assault on respectability.Read More »

  • Jesús Franco – La maldición de Frankenstein AKA The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1973)

    1971-1980CampHorrorJesus FrancoSpain

    After the death of Victor Frankenstein (Dennis Price), two figures vie for control of his metallic-skinned monster (Fernando Bilbao) and the radical technology that created him: the scientist’s daughter, Vera (Beatriz Savon), and the immortal wizard Cagliostro (Howard Vernon), who is assisted by a blind bird-woman with an unquenchable thirst for blood (Anne Libert). With THE EROTIC RITES OF FRANKENSTEIN, controversial filmmaker Jess Franco merged his fondness for old-school horror with his unique and perverse tastes in sex and violence, partly inspired by the garish adult European comics of the early 1970s.Read More »

  • Albert Zugsmith – The Chinese Room (1968)

    1961-1970Albert ZugsmithCampCultMexico

    Zugsmith’s legendary psychedelic treat.Read More »

  • Herb Robins – The Worm Eaters (1977)

    USA1971-1980CampCultHerb Robins

    Plot Outline wrote:
    Herman Umgar, a German hermit, has an ability to communicate with worms. One day the mayor of the town runs him off his property, so in revenge he
    plants worms in everybody’s food. However, these worms are a special breed of mutant worms from the Red Tide, and when the people eat them they are transformed into giant worms themselves. These worm-people also become Herman’s slaves.
    What will the remaining do?Read More »

  • Chusy Haney-Jardine – Anywhere, USA (2008)

    USA2001-2010CampChusy Haney-JardineComedy

    Quote:
    “Anywhere USA” reduces every audience that sees it into a delighted, giggling mob – Quentin Tarantino

    Synopsis

    If Tarantino’s cinematic opinions matter to you or, for that matter, you embrace and appreciate a certain quirky, experimental approach to cinema, then Chusy’s Anywhere USA may very well be the perfect film for you.Read More »

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