ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[Fran]

Blaxploitation version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic:

[Ellemeno]

Also known as "The Tattoo Connection" and "Black Belt Jones."


Starring the rather satisfying Jim Kelly.

[Meryl]

Directed by Russ Meyer, who also wrote the script, together with Jack Moran. It stars Tura Satana, Haji, and Lori Williams.

The film features gratuitous violence, sexuality, provocative gender roles, and campy dialogue. It has become a cult film favorite and has been widely referred to in pop culture.  It is one of Meyer's more provocatively titled and explicitly exploitative films, yet unlike most of his films it does not contain explicit nudity.

[Ellemeno]

Meryl, I think I speak for all Movies thread regulars, when I say this movie is so...you.   

[Meryl]

Why, thank you, Elle (I think).  I particularly identified with the cheerleader-type chick jumping up and down in the background. 

[oilgun]

Why, thank you, Elle (I think).  I particularly identified with the cheerleader-type chick jumping up and down in the background. 

 

[MaineWriter]

In English, Hanzo the Razor. Samurai exploitation.

[oilgun]

Biker Exploitation

Synopsis: Biker exploitation at its best, starring Ralph "Sonny" Barger and the original Oakland Hell’s Angels! In one of the wildest robbery plots ever conceived, two brothers play a deadly game by infiltrating the ranks of the Hell’s Angels with the ultimate purpose of using them for a cover so that they can holdup Caesars Palace in Las Vegas! Their scheme is a smashing success, but they have forgotten one small detail- NO ONE makes fools of the Hell’s Angels.



==ASIDE==
There is some really twisted stuff available out there, quite the eye-opener! Yikes!

[memento]

IMDB: Finding a new employer, and looking not a day older since the end of World War II, Ilsa works for an Arab sheik who enjoys importing females to use as sex slaves. An American millionaire's daughter, a movie star, and an attractive equestrian are among his latest victims.

=aside= Gil


  Congrats on 1000 posts.

[Fran]

From IMDb:

This horror/blaxploitation hybrid set in New Orleans delivers a fairly original variation of the old ghost-seeking-revenge plot. Ike (Glynn Turman), a handsome college boy who also works as a cabbie, is one night out on the town with his girl and his pals. Now I didn't live in the 70's or 60's but judging from this movie, and "The Graduate", a strip joint was the ideal place for a date in those old days! But that is also a fine excuse to show some shapely dancers in their birthday suit. Well, the night goes on, and in another spot Ike agrees to be a volunteer for a hypnotist. But while being in trance, Ike is possessed by the ghost of J.D., a gangster who died in the 40's and now is back to take revenge on those who killed him and his sister. Ike begins to have cryptic hallucinations and sees blood on his hands, slaughtered cattle, the sister getting her throat sliced and even J.D.'s face in the mirror where his own was supposed to be!