PRIMITIVE SCREWHEADS

Cheerleaders Wild Weekend 1979

Cheerleaders Wild Weekend is a 1979 Kristine DeBell movie. D W Gilbert and Jason Williams wrote the screenplay and Jeff Werner directed. Jason Williams played the main character in Flesh Gordon, a naughty version of Flash Gordon. He plays one of the kidnappers in CWW and the White Knight in Alice In Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy. The latter is Kristine DeBell's first movie and though it was released as an R rated film at first, Producer Bill Osco put the hardcore scenes back into the film and released it again. It's been on DVD and Blu-ray but it seems to go out of print quickly. Kristine was only did the one hardcore film and then managed to slip into film and TV without much trouble. She appeared with Jackie Chan in Battle Creek Brawl.

Cheerleaders Wild Weekend is about the kidnapping of some cheerleaders. Jason Williams plays the head of the gang and Kristine is one of the nice cheerleaders. Unlike most of the other cheerleaders she keeps her clothes on during the movie. Kristine has a commentary and an interview on the disc where she mentions she had a no nudity clause in her contract. There's still plenty of other nudity. Good thing, it's not that great a movie.

The baddies keep the girls hidden in a cabin in the woods. They want 2 million smackaroonies for the girls. Jason has an elaborate plan for the transfer of the money that works pretty well. If the cops are any slower on the uptake they would have caught Jason and his pal as they ran off. I enjoyed it but wasn't impressed at the film making etc. It's all pretty average or below. I gave it a 4 and that's kind of generous. Still, I got a laugh or two.

Friday Night Movies 700

First up is Deadly Dreams, a 1988 psychological thriller, written by Thom Babbes and directed by Kristine Petersen. Thom has a part in the film but his script is a bit whiffy. A young boy sees his parents killed by a man the father wronged in business. The boy grows up and still has issues about the death of his parents. He meets a young woman and they start a relationship. All the while he keeps having nightmares and seeing things that others aren't seeing. It gets worse and worse as the movie progresses then it turns out to have a greedy mundane reason at the back of it. Not bad, certainly not great, it gets a bit tedious for a while in the middle. Luckily, it gets riled up for as while as it comes to a conclusion. I wouldn't much feel the need to pick up a copy.

Our second feature was Cathy's Curse, a 1977 horror film that was funded by France and Canada. It was filmed in Westmount suburb of Montreal. The richest suburb in Canada at one point. A family move into a nice big house that used to belong to the dad's father. The little girl gets possessed by the spirit of a long dead girl who died in a fire. I didn't find it was keeping my attention in the middle there. The effects make up is pretty weak. Just all in all a movie that deserves a below average score on the IMDb. Some say it's so bad, it's good. That's crap. It's just a dull possession movie with so-so actors and a weak script. I'm not going to seek out a copy, that's for sure.

4 Cult Movie Marathon Volume 2

4 Cult Movie Marathon Volume 2 is a Shout Factory produced dog's breakfast of films. A cycle movie, a sex comedy and a couple of women in prison films. I guess slapping Cult on a set is all you need to do when you find you're running out of the ability to create themed sets.

Angels From Hell is a 1968 biker movie written by Jerry Wish and directed by Bruce Kessler. An ex-Vietnam vet returns home to find his old gang holed up in Bakersfield with a new leader. He beats the guy down and then goes up against the police force. It all ends badly for the bikers, they are a stupid lot, but who cares, they deserve punishment for their stupidity. It's all similar to other biker movies you've seen. The script has poor dialog at times. I gave it a 5 but it's barely worth it. The opening credits are by Von Dutch but it sure isn't his best work.

Chatterbox is a 1977 film about a gal who wakes up with a talking vagina. She turns it into a stage act and has some relationship problems. It's kind of funny and Candice Rialson gets naked a lot.

The Naked Cage is a 1986 movie about a young woman who gets involved with a robbery and winds up serving 3 years in prison. Then it's girl fights all the time. Nothing new here, really.

Savage Island is a 1985 movie that has Linda Blair show up at an old man's place and tell him a story. The movie shows you the story but Linda isn't in that part of the movie. She ends the story and blasts the old man. The old man is Leon Askin who played General Burkhalter on Hogan's Heroes. Here's an entry from the IMDb that explains what happened.

This "new movie" was cobbled together from scenes of both Hotel Paradise (1980) and Escape From Hell (1980) with 10 minutes of new additional footage featuring Linda Blair. The result was an incoherent movie featuring some of the same actors who appeared in both earlier movies disappearing and reappearing as different characters at different points in the story.

It's all the fault of Ted Nicolaou who is a pretty poor film maker on average. He directed 4 Subspecies films. It's pretty much the poorest movie of the lot. Not a real recommendation unless you've seen most everything already.

Loophole 1981

Loophole is a 1981 British heist film. It's based on a novel by Robert Pollock, Jonathan Hales wrote the screenplay and John Quested is the director. Martin Sheen is an architect that loses his job at the start of the film. He's having trouble getting hired when Albert Finney gives him a job redesigning a commercial building. As he progresses it becomes obvious that they aren't renovating. Albert and his team, including Colin Blakely and Jonathan Pryce, are planning to break into a bank across the street. Martin needs the money, Suzanna York plays his wife and she's got some costly plans going on, Robert Morley is his banker and he wants to get paid for the loans he floated. The robbery goes on and the tunnels get dug. It's a bit pokey but mostly entertaining. It gets a 5.9 on the IMDb and I gave it a 6.  I bought a copy cheap somewhere and I'll keep it to watch again.

Virgins From Hell 1987

Here's an Indonesian crime/exploitation film from 1987. It's called Virgins From Hell here in the US but it's original title is Maiden's Revenge. Revenge sure is a common plot in Asian movies, you know, just to generalize without data to back it up. The painting on what I think is the box to a German VHS sure looks nothing like the women in the movie. I don't think any of them were blonde. Check out the gang below.

The lady in the middle is Karen, she's gathered this gang of biker chicks to attack her enemy, Mr Tiger. That's him below.

Mr Tiger killed Karen's parents, she watched from the bushes while his gang took over their isolated house and compound. Mr Tiger turned the place into his fortress HQ and laboratory. He's got a goal, he wants to corner the world's aphrodisiac market with his new date rape drug. It's like Super Spanish Fly, it turns women into a writhing moaning mess. 

Karen first attacks the gang casino and when that goes well enough, the attack their old house. That doesn't go so well and the women who aren't killed right away are captured and imprisoned. Karen and her sister manage to survive.

MR Tiger is a mean man, he tortures some of the gals. Eventually the tide turns for Mr Tiger and Karen and her sister live to fight another day.

Ackyl Anwari is the director, what he lacks in budget he makes up for in imagination. He's a fairly good film maker, simple scenes and lots of long shots in the action scenes, not as many close ups as you'd find today. That costs money, after all. The sets are cheap looking but they work well enough. To make up for the lack of cash, there are plenty of fights and action bits. Stuff blows up, people shoot guns all the time, motorcycles race on the ground and even explode in the air. There's no nudity but there are plenty of ladies in skimpy outfits. There's a good cartoony villain and it's just over the top enough to make me laugh once in a while. I'd recommend it to those who would like something a bit out of the ordinary.

Vice Squad 1982

Vice Squad is a 1982 crime drama with an opening credits song by Wings Hauser. Neon Slime is a pretty dumb song. Wings is in the movie, he plays a murderous pimp called Ramrod. Wings is really good at being a psycho. Season Hubley plays Princess, she's a street walker who falls afoul of Ramrod.

The movie takes place over a few hours. As it opens we meet Princess and her daughter. She gets a call from a girl called Ginger who works for a pimp called Ramrod. Ginger tells Princess that Ramrod is after her for holding out on him. She's hidden herself but Ramrod finds her pretty easily. He goes nuts and beats Ginger to death. Original MTV VJ Nina Blackwood plays Ginger. The cops frame Princess into helping them capture Ramrod. The bust goes fairly well but the ride to the station doesn't. Ramrod causes the police car to crash and he gets away. The rest of the movie is the cops chasing after Ramrod and Ramrod chasing after Princess. There's plenty of fist fights, yellin', gun shootin', car drivin', murderin' and prostitutes.

Director Gary A Sherman spent a lot of time with the LA vice squad to get a feel for the night life. He's done a good job of creating a look into that world. It's a pretty sad fuckin' place. All in all an entertaining crime film, though some might not like it so gritty and violent. Mom wouldn't like it but I thought it was worth a look. I'd watch it again someday.