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horror-aesthete · 5 months

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, 1962, dir. Robert Aldrich

#horror aesthetic #horror movies #what ever happened to baby jane #60s horror #hollywood gothic #hagsploitation #noir horror

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bitter69uk · 4 months

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Considering campy horror masterpiece Strait-Jacket turns sixty this month (it was released on 19 January 1964), it’s only fitting that it’s the first Lobotomy Room presentation of the New Year!

Call it “hagsploitation” or “psycho-biddy”, Strait-Jacket (directed by low-budget trash maestro William Castle – one of John Waters’ primary influences) is a stark, vicious little b-movie featuring a truly berserk and mesmerizing performance from bitch goddess extraordinaire (and perennial Lobotomy Room favourite) Joan Crawford as a deranged ax murderess! If you liked What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) or Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), you’ll LOVE Strait-Jacket! In fact – and I appreciate this is a controversial opinion – I’d argue Strait-Jacket is the superior film. Join us at Fontaine’s on Thursday 18 January and I’ll explain why over cocktails! But take note – as the original poster exclaimed, “Warning! Strait-Jacket vividly depicts ax murders!” Spaces are limited, so reserve your seat via the venue now! (Phone 07718000546 or email [email protected]). Full putrid details.

#lobotomy room #strait-jacket #william castle #joan crawford #bad movies for bad people #bad movies we love #cult cinema #hagsploitation #horror movie #lobotomy room film club #lgbtqia #john waters #bad movies rule #shock value #bad taste

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esqueletosgays · 3 months

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STRAIT-JACKET (1964)

Director: William Castle Cinematography: Arthur E. Arling

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anhed-nia · 6 months

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BLOGTOBER 10/6-7/2023: X, PEARL

Ti West is so frustrating. His more successful movies have earned him enough good will that I've been willing to wait for him like some war bride while he turns out things I find unforgivable, assuming that someone with his demonstrated talent will right himself eventually. For this reason I wish I liked X more. I find it very watchable and I don't hate the premise, but I also really object to parts of it. Some of it is just half-baked; like I kind of enjoy the movie's conversation about how pornography inflates or injures people's vanity and shines a light on inner moral conflicts, but it's all kind of gestural, I don't know if any real conclusions are reached. And I really don't appreciate the take on hagsploitation here, with sexy Mia Goth under a hundred pounds of foam rubber reminding us all of how scary aging is--which connects to this questionable tradition in horror where the monster is a human who is alienated due to their looks, and we'd better learn to fear such people because being sexually undesirable is a punishment so cruel that it could make you dangerously insane. I'm really interested in this trope, where the corrupting force is just physical ugliness (and/or the inability to get laid), but in the case of X I would have found it more compelling if the villains were played by actual old people.

The movies we think of when we hear the terms "hagsploitation" or "psycho biddie" generally star actual older actresses who bring a certain kind of thoughtful, energetic presence to their roles, and that's why they're so effective; when it's just a young person pretending to be old, it requires the viewer to really be afraid of and repulsed by the basic concept of an old person. I've heard some arguments that X is "sex positive" because of its graphic scene of the fake old people doing it, and although I'd agree that some amount of pity is elicited by that (with the husband explicitly pitying his horny, ugly wife), I think it's a big reach to suggest that that content is celebratory or elevating in any way. Again, I might change my tune if it were real old people, but in the meantime the whole production is just young people telling this story about how old people are gross and you might become a crazed killer if you stopped getting laid, and that's just not good enough for me. Maybe if the old people were more like anti-heroes and less like general monstrosities slobbering in the dark, I would have gotten more out of it.

Meanwhile, the prequel PEARL tells a compelling story about a real monster who is complex and charismatic enough to make you sympathize with her, even though she is unambiguously villainous. I do think this movie is somewhat overhyped, but I'm not mad about it; I'm happy that this happened for Ti West, who I definitely want to make more good movies, and PEARL has a lot of cool qualities. It stretches its $1mil budget a surprising distance to make a period piece (usually inadvisable for a cheap movie) with a lot of style and class. Ti West has a talent for genre pastiche--the present movie is somehow a cross between THE WIZARD OF OZ and HUSH...HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE--but it doesn't feel like an empty fashion statement, which is the problem I usually have with modern horror productions that do a forced impression of older genre films. Despite whatever is familiar about it, PEARL feels really fresh and original. Tellingly, I don't even feel like enumerating this movie's flaws. It's a charmer and it deserves its success.

#blogtober #2023 #ti west #mia goth #pearl #x #horror #slasher #exploitation #hicksploitation #hagsploitation #psycho biddie #period piece #sexploitation

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schlock-luster-video · 1 month

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On March 12, 1964, Dead Ringer debuted in the United Kingdom.

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michaelvarrati · 3 months

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From Baby Jane to Auntie Roo and beyond! This week, Peaches and Michael unveil a special episode dissecting one of horror’s most “Sainted Subgenres” – HAGSPLOITATION (aka “Psycho Biddies”)! In addition to discussing the many luminous women who brought these movies to life, our hosts tackle the oft problematic labeling of this particular avenue of fright. Joining the conversation is award-winning historian/author/host David Del Valle, who provides insight and personal stories about the era of Hollywood that birthed these films. Additionally, David digs into why these deliciously devilish dames connect with a whole generation of queer folks. Bette! Joan! Olivia! Oh my! This episode has it all! Go!

#midnight mass #michael varrati #peaches christ #horror #david del valle #hagsploitation #baby jane #whoever slew auntie roo #what's the matter with helen?#lady in a cage #bette davis #joan crawford #strait-jacket #curtis harrington #trog

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tcmparty · 2 years

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@tcmparty live tweet schedule for the week beginning Monday, October 17, 2022. Look for us on Twitter…watch and tweet along…remember to add #TCMParty to your tweets so everyone can find them :) All times are Eastern.

Monday, Oct. 17 at 8:00 p.m. WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH HELEN? (1971) After their sons are convicted of murder, two women relocate to Hollywood to start a talent school.

Saturday, Oct. 22 at 8:00 p.m. DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE BIKINI MACHINE (1965) Dr. Goldfoot hopes to ensnare the fortunes of the world's wealthiest men with the aid of the beautiful bikini-clad robots he manufactures in his laboratory.

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canadianslut · 1 year

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Joan Crawford in Straitjacket (1964)

#just watched this for the first time! obsessed with Joan’s performance in this she CHOPPED #joan crawford #HAGSPLOITATION

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barbaragenova · 2 years

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what’s wrong with Jessica

Down-home demonology comes easy in the summertime. I don’t believe in fallen angels; the Devil doesn’t exist. Limbo is a narrative device introduced in the late nineteen twenties; Hell is a washed-out metaphor — do better, Senator.

But, for the short time I was in league with Jessica, this much I can swear: evil is real. Evil’s the weed you brush against on a country road at dawn. Hate you can feel.

(read the rest here: what’s wrong with Jessica)

#what's wrong with jessica #grande dame guignol #baby jane #psycho biddy #hagsploitation #first person narrative #short story #unreliable narrator #bureau of complaint

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rexalogy · 4 days

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#I love the way they animated her..#Oliver n company is a hagsploitation film

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womansfilm · 1 year

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What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969)

#geraldine page #what ever happened to aunt alice #what ever happened to aunt alice?#m #this is mostly terribly dull and underwritten (and should've been a lesbian rom com not a hagsploitation film) but nevertheless. she posted

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bitter69uk · 4 months

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“Lucy Harbin - born and raised on a farm. Parents - poor. Education - meagre. Very much a woman - and very much aware of the fact.”

Yes! See Joan Crawford portray deranged axe murderess Lucy Harbin when Lobotomy Room (the FREE monthly cinema club devoted to cinematic perversity) presents William Castle’s berserk 1964 horror shocker Strait-Jacket on 18 January! The film turns sixty THIS month – let’s commemorate it over cocktails at Fontaine’s bar! Numbers are strictly limited – contact the venue to reserve now! Full putrid details here.

#lobotomy room #lobotomy room film club #joan crawford #william castle #b movies #bad movies for bad people #bad movies we love #bad movies rule #hagsploitation #horror movies #exploitation cinema #cult cinema #cult films #cult movies #lgbtqia #shock value #bad taste

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eurosleazarchive · 2 years

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i think...as sadie turns away from her reviews and goes more into video essays, they’re very james s*merton-esque. long, well-written videos about topics she cares about. usually, they’re about horror (what a surprise /s). she saw the attention and positive feedback she got from the cannibalism videos and just kept doing that.

#( canon. ) images burnt on silver nitrate.#currently she's working on a hagsploitation video

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holyhakunon · 1 year

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i watched phantom thread and followed it up with X and pearl and like lol...

#downgrade sorry maybe I'm just bitter rn about it #i don't have hagsploitation and i didn't hate either of the latter too but i think i could've enjoyed it more #maybe I'll rewatch it before maxxxine comes out and see if my opinion has changed #i think I'm also just defensive bc getting old scares me 💔💔

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hotvintagepoll · 1 month

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Deborah Kerr (Bonjour Tristesse, An Affair to Remember, The King and I)— For several decades she held the record for most Oscar nominations without a win (6 in total), and she was a prolific leading lady throughout the 40s and 50s. She's best known today for the romance An Affair to Remember with Cary Grant, and as the governess in The King and I. Many people have this erroneous perception of her as extremely prim, proper, and virginal, but this could not be further from the truth. When she first came to Hollywood under MGM she was typecast into boring decorative roles, but broke sexual boundaries for herself and Hollywood generally in From Here to Eternity, when she made out (horizontally!) with Burt Lancaster (on top of him!) in the famous Beach Scene. She went on to play many sexually conflicted women, a character type that would define most of her post- Eternity work. She continued to break Hays Code boundaries with Tea and Sympathy, which addresses homosexuality/homophobia head-on, and even did a topless scene in The Gypsy Moths 1969!! One of the only classic stars to do so. She deserves a more nuanced and frankly a hotter legacy than she currently has!!!

Ethel Merman (Anything Goes, Call Me Madam)— Possessed of a bold, brash voice, and an even bolder and brasher presence, Ethel Merman might be more well known for her stage roles, but she made several movies, and was bold and brash in them as well. Also I think if I don't submit her, she's going to come back and haunt me.

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Ethel Merman:

You've gotta love any woman who got typecast as lead-MILF

Deborah Kerr:

I think she was one of my first crushes before I realised I was bi in The King and I when I watched it as a kid honestly. The kissing scene in From Here to Eternity is iconic for a reason. Actually tried to learn the accents for the characters she was playing if they weren't English which is more than pretty much anyone else was doing then. Played very restrained characters who frequently seemed to be desperate not to be so restrained. Did horror movies without venturing into hagsploitation tropes. Gave Marni Nixon the credit she deserved for her share of the singing in The King and I.

Anne Larsen is a peak late 1950s bisexual with big MILF energy. Have you seen the behind the scenes pics of her wearing a suit?? Have you????? Vote Deb as Anne Larsen.

Nominated for an Oscar six (6) times and never won, but besides her having actual talent (hot), and besides her looking Like That (very hot, also beautiful), she was always playing women who are, like, crazy repressed. Which makes it fun and easy for me to read these characters as queer. Icon!!!! You know what's hot? Playing ambiguously gay in vintage Hollywood.

Her face and talent and body, yes, ofc, duh. But also!!! Her HANDS!!!! I may be but a simple lesbian, but she is the best hactor (hand actor) that ever lived and that's HOT! For propriety's sake I feel I must redact a large portion of my commentary on this subject. Anyway. She's hot in her most famous roles (mentioned above), and also some of her sexiest hacting is on display in An Affair to Remember (her hand on the bannister when Cary Grant kisses her off-screen??? HELLO???), Tea and Sympathy (when she's trying to persuade Tom not to go out and she keeps flexing her hands like she wants to reach out to him but can't??? ALLY BEHAVIOR! WE STAN!), and The Innocents (which opens and closes with extended shots of her hands bc director Jack Clayton was also an ally and he did that for ME). Much of her appeal also lies in the fact that she often played deeply repressed characters and you know what's hot? When those uptight characters finally unravel. It's sexy. It's cathartic. It's erotic. Plus, she's beautiful to look at in both black & white and technicolor, and the more of her films you see, the more you can't help but fall in love!

Literally is in thee most famously sexy scene of all time (or maybe just during the hays code era which is what we're talking about HELLO), which is the beach scene with Burt Lancaster in from here to eternity. To quote a tumblr post of a screen capture of a tweet of a video of joy behar on the view: "y'know, there used to be movies where they were kissing on the beach... From Here to Eternity. They're kissing-- Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr are Kissing on the Beach and then the WAVES crash!! You know exactly what they did!"

She might have a reputation of being chaste and virginal or whatever, but we all know it's the quiet ones who are certifiable FREAKS

#ethel merman #deborah kerr #hotvintagepoll #ladies 1 #fuck that old woman

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schlock-luster-video · 2 months

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On February 19, 1964, Dead Ringer debuted in the United States.

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