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fakeboitherottengirl · 4 years

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my 100 ideas

Most of these totally suck but i wrote 100 of them so let me know if any of them sound like something you would read or have any ideas for how to spice them up with blood and gore and how to get the most shock possible out of the idea.

-Two girls become drifter killers to fund the abortion of father-daughter incest

- Zombies like EDM and converge on a rave, replacing the drugged up crowd with nobody noticing

-human farming and a cannibal restaurant

-girls discover fairies and torture them

-two pageant stars become pro-ana superstars

-people earn points in an online game called “Calligula” by committing crimes and filming them

-A boy befriends a vampire trucker and reminds him of his last mortal love

-mall goths murder a “poser” in the woods

- De sade as a transcript of a hurtcore chatroom

-neighborhood kids who congregate at “dirt Hill” bully a child to death who comes back and haunts them in their teens

-A suicide club starts at a highschool

-Oliver twist remake where they are prostitutes instead of thieves

-A glitch in time leaves a rapist turned into a child and lands him at the mercy of his victim

-killer caterpillars

-Aliens that can only get you if you think of them

-A bulimic girl vomits up a baby

-Monsters live in the sand of a beach

-Experiments done on kids to turn them into weapons

-A pedophile on the run with his victim writes a fake memoir supposedly penned by the victim about murdering his family to escape

-Women storm the white house to torture/kill a rapist president

-An exchange studentl living in germany is called upon by the ghosts of a murdered jewish family to kill the family next door who are descendants of the nazis that killed them

-addicts at the end of the world trying to stay high

-anti-aging cream is made of dead 3rd world babies

-Bigfoot, our protagonist, tries to befriend a group of campers but accidentally kills them all off

-Prtending to be underaged, a girl traps a sadist pedophile in his own BDSM dungeon

-An american pedophile in asia becomes possessed by the ghost of a little girl killed in a brothyl

-a girl mutilates herself in her room in an attempt to look “beautiful” by cutting off all the features she finds ugly

-Satanists overtake a christian summer camp for SRA rituals

-A girl who is being molested’s dolls com to life in order to kill her stepfather, told from the POV of her favorite teddy bear

- A girl falls in love with a ghost who she can only see when she asphyxiates so she becomes hooked on duster

-A mute autistic girl befriends a demon who gets vengeance on her bullies

-Two DID alters fall in love and write love letters to each other in a diary even though they can never exist at the same time, plan revenge on church gardner who abused the host and caused the split in an attempt to be whole

-A child who killed another child is released from prison upon turning 18. When another child goes missing he must solve the mystery to clear his name with the help of his murder victim’s sister (who turns out to be the real killer)

-An adopted girl, upon turning 18, searches for her birth family only to discover a human puppy mill

-Two little boys abduct and murder another at a carnival and watch the panic unravel as the adults search for him

-A cult leader drives his followers to mass suicide

-A mother and daughter break a murderer out of jail and fight for his affections

-a school adopts lobotomies for problem students

-A human trafficker crosses paths with a telekinetic child

-An adopted girl finds out she is the blood heir to an enormous hurtcore ring

-A woman becomes aware that she is a character in a story and begins fighting the writer, who plans to write her into a tragedy

-a rich girl who has spent her life in a self sufficient high rise accidentally hits a lower-floor elevator button to discover that the zombie apocalypse has been happening for over a decade

-The son of a truck stop stripper living motel to motel comes across a magic pack of cigarettes that each grant a wish when smoked. In the end he gives his last one to his mom and she wishes he was never born and he disappears.

-An abusive troubled teen camp in the wilderness combats a masked slasher

-Activists free elephants at a circus but are captured by sadistic clowns

-Patient zero of a zombie virus goes around infecting hundreds of people through her work in a fast food chain because she cant take paid time off

-A vigilante caring for her murdered best friend’s infant has to take out a chain of criminals while still keeping up with the overwhelming task of motherhood

-A new club drug goes around the rave scene, highly addictive, eventually turns you into a zombie but so addictive people cant stop using it

-A girl wakes up and lives the same day out 100 times, with each day becoming more gruesome and out of control as she tries to stop the death of her best friend from happening

-A woman with no memories is arrested for involvement in a hurtcore ring

-Teens in a mental hospital after a rash of suicide attempts begin to die in strange accidents around the hospital

-A girl singer rising to fame realizes shes being prepared to be sacrificed by a death cult

-A boy who accidentally murdered his sister as a child becomes obsessed with a local girl who looks like she would have grown up to and stalks her, killing everybody close to her to “get his sister back” for his dying mother

-after trying acid for the first time a college girl is dragged back in time and witnesses the slaughter of the natives by settlers and is taken in by a native family fighting back

-A conscious zombie takes out a white supremecist stronghold

-Teens at a christian youth retreat battle a tentacle monster that feeds on virginity

-A haunted house bonds with the family that it is killing after falling in love with the lonely teenage daughter

-After abuse in the industry, a porn star seeks revenge against the producer who abused her, rendering her infertile

-A little girl who lives in a funeral home forms a bond with a senile old man who believes her to be his dead wife reincarnated

-A cursed school play production where the creepy theater teacher has a deal with the devil to sacrifice the lead girl, who grows a thirst for blood

-Upon puberty a girl starts to gruesomely turn into a mermaid despite her family’s assurances that these changes are beautiful and special

-a homeless prostitute forces her son to be her daughter in order to scam and kill pedophile men

-somebody nearby dies whenever a child sucks her thumb and she tries to break the habit

-after discovering her beloved guide dog is a demonic hell hound who needs human flesh to survive, a blind girl goes about finding deserving victims for him to eat

-A band of punk rockers find themselves set upon by nazis after one is killed at their show, the nazis have super-meth

-Everyday life in a small town is disrupted when the residents awake to find themselves living with grotesque cartoon physics

-A date-rapist catches an STD that turns his penis sentient and against him

-A boy who has never seen the sunlight is identified as a kidnapped infant and returned to his family, who have no idea how to handle his PTSD

-A tween popstar’s lyrics contain satanic messages that make his fans killers they kill their families and go on robbing sprees to afford his concerts

-A prim and proper young woman crosses a zombie-infested city to reunite with her (female) childhood best friend who she is in love with

-A chubby loner girl suddenly becomes an asset to her girl scout camp when it is set upon by monsters that only she knows how to fight from reading about them in horror books

-A kidnapped boy realizes he is outgrowing his captor’s attraction and sets out to eliminate the competition of new boys brought into the house

-A redneck boy and his incestuously abusive brother are the lone survivors of a monster attack on their family farm and the boy has to decide if he wants to help his abuser survive or take his chances on his own

-A school for poor children where children are farmed for their organs for the rich

-a young junkie discovers one day that he has the power to regenerate lost body parts

-An interracial group of rich friends finds themselves lost in a bad neighborhood overnightdurring a full moon where the occupants of the neighborhood come alive as werewolves

-A small Amish-type religious community is completely cut off from the world during a monster attack and carry on business with no idea that the outside world has collapsed other than that they’ve stopped receiving letters and newspapers. A team is sent out to scout the damage

-A girl who has her driver's license for the first weekend is held hostage as a getaway driver for two sadistic maniacs on their crime spree

-At a sleepover, two elementary school girls decide to kill another

-An ex-amish girl assimilates herself into society right when a monster attack begins to crumble it and must get back to her family to warn them that the world is ending

-Desade’s 120 days rewritten in the modern day hamptons

-a new diet pill causes moths to take up residence in somebody’s digestive system

-a group of white people go to film the “horrors” of a supposedly cannibal tribe, but when their racist notions are false, they force the people to conform to what they expected to find so they have something for their film

-a “murder circus” where participants pay to torture victims runs into a clash with protestors

-fights to the death like dogfighting but with human children

-a young man gives himself up to a sadist to pay off his sister’s drug debt

-A young woman working in the crime scene clean up business tries to shelter her own daughter from the horrors of the world by locking her in their apartment and becoming more and mor agoraphobic

-A home invasion turns the tables when the serial would-be-rapists/robbers break into the home of female vampires

-In the aftermath of the end of the world, a small tribe of hardened cannibalistic survivors now have to face forced assimilation back into society

-Trapped in a building with an active shooter, a group of elementary school kids fight back with school supplies

-An international tour group of study abroad students become stranded in the alps with a snow monster

-a team of serial killers/lovers is put to the test when one of them gets a woman pregnant and decides he wants to quit killing and become a normal person

-A teenage punk with a specialty for giving piercings turns into a back-ally abortionist in a wealthy suburb

-Twins who share a body and each have a head get into a feud over a lover and attempt to separate

-A group of racists find themselves cursed by a flesh-eating virus that starts with a change in skin pigment

-Racists hunting illegal immigrants come up on the wrong side of a desert spirit after destroying water left out by humanitarian groups

-A police force in a poor city is hit with a curse that transform them into flesh hungry pig-monsters and the local youth must take them out to protect their neighborhood

-A massive flood turns into a struggle for survival for a dorm building full of art students

-A woman is convinced that her son, conceived through a rape, is a demon

-A mental hospital during a zombie outbreak

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watusichris · 4 years

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I Went to “Rock ‘n’ Roll High”

This story, now expunged from the web, originally appeared on Night Flight in 2015. ********* “Pay five bucks and be in a movie starring the Ramones? Hell, yeah!” And so it was, 37 years ago this month, that I made my first appearance before the cameras, as an extra in the concert sequence in Allan Arkush’s Rock ‘n’ Roll High School.

At that point, I was laboring as the staff writer and publicist for Landmark Theatre Corporation, then a chain of repertory movie houses that included the Nuart, the Sherman, and the Rialto in the L.A. area. (Today it’s an art house chain owned by billionaire Mark Cuban.) In October of that year, I’d become the “rock critic” for the Los Angeles Reader, a new alternative weekly. I’d been a die-hard Ramones fan since the release of their first album in 1976; in fact, I had lost my job at the free-form Madison, Wisconsin, radio station I had worked for after playing their first album in its entirety on the air in the middle of the afternoon. I still hadn’t seen the band live, so I was understandably excited when a tantalizing flyer fell into my hands. It read, “BE IN A MOVIE! AND ATTEND AN EXCLUSIVE RAMONES CONCERT!” I jumped at the chance, called the phone number on the flyer, and reserved two $5 dollar tickets to attend an evening shoot at the Roxy on the Sunset Strip. Why were the filmmakers charging a fin to make the scene? Well, first of all, they knew they could get away with it: The Ramones were punk pathfinders who commanded a large fan base in L.A. More importantly, the money would help defray the cost of a picture that was being filmed on a budget that could charitably be called infinitesimal. Rock ‘n’ Roll High School was the second solo project by director Arkush, the former lighting director of New York’s Fillmore East, who had labored for several years at B-movie titan Roger Corman’s New World Pictures. Arkush had convinced Corman to let him lens his rock ‘n’ roll comedy – a bargain-basement fusion of A Hard Day’s Night and The Girl Can’t Help It – but he had to make the picture on a three-week schedule for a cost of $180,000, virtually nothing for a professional feature. (Historical footnote: The original script for the film, conceived as Girl’s Gym, was written by my University of Wisconsin classmate Joe McBride, who had based his story on a student walkout at his father’s high school in Superior, Wisconsin, in the ‘20s. Joe went on to write authoritative books about Orson Welles, John Ford, and other directors and produced several documentaries about the movies.) On Dec. 14, 1978, I joined a couple hundred other suckers – uh, extras – at the Roxy at 5:30 p.m., for the second of two shoots for the picture that day. The earlier shoot, which had convened at the ungodly hour of 8:30 a.m., had been largely devoted to filming footage in the club’s cramped upstairs dressing room area and tight set-ups featuring the band and the picture’s stars. The Roxy was standing in for the fictitious “Rockatorium,” the exterior of which was actually the Mayan, an ancient, ornate theater in downtown L.A. In the picture, high school rocker and adoring Ramones fan Riff Randell (P.J. Soles of Halloween and Carrie) and her gal pal Kate Rambeau (debutante actress Dey Young) attend the Ramones concert against the express wishes of evil Vince Lombardi High principal Evelyn Togar (Mary Woronov, a former member of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, the dance troupe that had performed under Andy Warhol’s auspices with the Velvet Underground at their New York club gigs). The venue was crowded that night, and insanely hot, thanks to the movie lights that sent temperatures soaring inside the small venue. It was under these extreme circumstances that the “audience” of extras was introduced to the tedium of movie-making; we were directed to pogo up and down repeatedly as the Ramones ran through pre-recorded versions of the five songs – “Blitzkrieg Bop,” “Lobotomy,” “California Sun,” “Pinhead,” and “She’s the One” – that would be heard in the movie’s climactic concert sequence. I stood about 20 feet from the stage, melting in my heavy leather bomber jacket, and surveyed the crowd. An actor costumed as an enormous white mouse stood a few feet to my left. The open cash-for-casting call had drawn a motley assemblage; the extras ranged from Valley girls in Fiorucci finery (not entirely unlike what Dey Young is wearing in the scene) to hardcore Hollywood punks. Standing directly in front of me, and visible in most of the shots taken from the stage, were the Germs’ lead singer Darby Crash and bassist Lorna Doom. You can’t miss Darby – he’s wearing a white jacket sporting a black Germs armband. (He would die from a suicidal heroin overdose just shy of two years to the day later.) It was a long night, protracted by multiple camera set-ups and inevitable retakes, but the crowd weathered it with good humor. After all, we were all gonna be in the movies! But the icing on the overheated cake came at the end of the shoot, sometime after 11 o’clock, when, after a brief pause, the Ramones returned to the stage, plugged in for real, and treated their fans to a loud, full-on, seven-song mini-set. (The action wasn’t filmed, but audio can be heard as an extra on Shout! Factory’s 2010 DVD re-release of the movie.) When I finally saw the finished film after it opened in April 1979, I was gratified to discover that I had not been consigned to the cutting room floor. If you look carefully – I mean, very, very carefully -- at the shots of the crowd taken from the stage, in the upper left-hand corner of the screen you’ll see a guy with shoulder-length hair and ugly glasses, clad in a bomber jacket, punching the air with his fist and chanting, “HEY! HO! LET’S GO!” That would be me. The film’s final scene, the destruction of Vince Lombardi High by its rebellious students, was still to be shot, and a week or two later some of us trekked down to Mt. Carmel High, an abandoned Catholic school in Watts, to visit the location. (This was probably on the eve of the Ramones’ Christmas show at the Whisky a Go Go, which I attended.) Temperatures in L.A. that week hit record-shattering lows, and so, after a couple of hours milling around freezing amid the chaos on the street, I split the scene before the building was blown up. But stories of that night rapidly circulated among L.A. punkdom: The technicians in charge of the pyro had underestimated the power of the charge, and when it was detonated it reduced a large part of the school to rubble, and also blew out dozens of windows in the neighborhood, terrifying the local residents. That’s show biz. It does look great on screen. Four years later, I had the opportunity to hang around the Wiltern Theatre location of Allan Arkush’s second rock movie, the ill-fated Get Crazy. (Allan had managed to survive the case of exhaustion that had put him in the hospital at the end of the Rock ‘n’ Roll High School shoot; the picture had been completed by Joe Dante, who had co-directed 1976’s movie spoof Hollywood Boulevard with him, and would go on to helm Gremlins). I interviewed Allan at home at that time; he is a charming guy and a complete music nut, and also the only person I know who has a light show installed in his living room. The Ramones likewise survived the Rock ‘n’ Roll High School shoot – they had already managed to live through making an album with Phil Spector, so they were game for anything. Sadly, only drummer Marc “Marky Ramone” Bell is still with us today. But the movie – as cheap, goofy, and frequently silly as it is -- lives on in TV, repertory, and film festival screenings as a testimony to the band’s energy, spirit, power, and bountiful sense of fun. I’m glad I had a chance to be a small part of it.

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celticnoise · 6 years

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After Sunday’s stampede there has been a lot of soul searching at Ibrox.

They have even started with their usual ploy of getting their friends in the MSM to do their spin for them.

With numerous opinions from media lackeys on who should be handed the keys to the manager’s office already, there’s little doubt that Murty is just about done.

Whatever your thoughts on Miller and Wallace, they are not the reason Sevco are in the mess they are. Are they a bad influence in the dressing room? Yes, it is clear they are. Should they be disciplined? Yes, but they have not caused this debacle.

We all know Murty should never have been allowed to take control for this long, so lets not dwell.

There are plenty who will say it’s the board who’s to blame, and they certainly have a great deal of culpability, however there is one group of people who deserve most of the blame for what’s happened to the club, and that is the fans.

Yes you fans; we know you read this blog, so read on and I will give you a history lesson.

When David Murray bought the club from Lawrence Marlborough in 1988, he inherited Graeme Souness.

Oh did some of you not know that?

You thought Murray appointed him, eah?

It’s the Celtic Song that says “if you know the history”; I am not surprised many of your lot don’t.

Well it was David Holmes, through Marlborough, who appointed him.

Murray had came in, after being told no by Ayr united, pandering to Rangers’ sense of superiority, promising millions of his own money.

To his credit – but possibly owing much to the possibility of a European ban – the signing policy was changed, at Graeme Sounsess insistence, and your fans were ecstatic at the transformation in your fortunes. Finally, your sense of superiority was being matched by the club.

Signing after signing, statement after statement “for every fiver…..” all showing that Rangers were the best and biggest, but what David Murray hid from you, what he was hiding from everyone, was that it wasn’t his money, it was all loans from the bank, who were run then, by mates of his.

Now a couple of times the bank needed money back and a player had to be sold to balance the books, but in the main, all was good.

Then 2008 happened, the banking crisis hit, HBOS was bought by Lloyds, they called in their debts and Murray fled like a rat from a sinking ship.

Here endeth the lesson.

I watched a film last week called Shutter Island; in it, Leo DiCaprio plays a US Marshall in the 50’s in which he’s trying to get to grips with an investigation into the experiments he feels are being performed on an island which holds the criminally insane.

He goes through the film having visions of his dead wife, convinced that everyone is against him, and that he is being kept from everything he has a right to. He is confused but determined to get to the bottom of it.

What he discovers, eventually (and spoiler alert! Get out now if you don’t want to know!) is that he is a patient on the island; he had been a US Marshall but he had gone insane and blocked out a horrible trauma in his past, and so he had invented a whole new identity for himself, called himself a different name but using his own history as a base to build from. None of what he believed of his life was real. All the people he encountered on the island were part of a role play designed to shock him into a breakthrough, so he that he would stop hurting people.

But his previous trauma and reality were there and holding him back.

This analogy is perfect for Sevco fans, except that they haven’t yet twigged that they are living in a fantasy and there’s actually real life out there. For that to dawn on them there has to be a breakthrough. It needs to happen to their fans before they can begin to heal.

The previous trauma is there and will haunt them until dealt with.

At the end Leo is taken away to have a lobotomy because he relapses back into his alternative reality.

David Murray convinced Rangers fans that it was his money and they were big spenders, but that was a fantasy and when that came crashing down they could not accept the reality of it. It had to be a conspiracy, it had to be everybody else’s fault … and they keep fighting reality and what is really going on.

For a couple of days this week I believed the result on Sunday might give them the jolt they needed, like a little electroshock therapy.

But nope. The madness persists.

Everything is as it was before on Nutter Island.

They’ve spend the last few days shrieking about the need for massive injections of cash to catch Celtic, a manager they can pay £40k a week to, and whipping themselves over dressing room revolts that are caused by a “fifth column” on Celtic fans inside the club, not to mention that today they are being spoon-fed good news medicine by an mainstream media locked in its own alternative reality, and just as prone to delusions.

If they don’t wake up soon, their own lobotomy is a certainty.

But at least it will be fun for us to watch.

David Campbell has seen too many movies … and not enough of the extended highlights from Sunday!

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bitter69uk · 6 months

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Come see a cat-suited Catherine Deneuve serving fierce lesbian vampire chic when the FREE monthly Lobotomy Room cinema club presents blood-drenched cult classic The Hunger at Fontaine’s cocktail lounge in Dalston! NOTE that our original screening on Thursday 19 October filled up instantly – so due to popular demand we are presenting The Hunger AGAIN on Thursday 26 October. But even that additional screening is filling up, so contact the venue to reserve your seat NOW! Full deets here.

#catherine deneuve #the hunger 1983 #lesbian vampire #horror movies #lgbtqia #cult cinema #cult film #cult movies #lobotomy room #lobotomy room club #lobotomy room film club #bela lugosi's dead #halloween

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bitter69uk · 5 months

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“I have friends who adamantly feel that Sextette is a terrible film, but I just stoutly maintain that if you can get past the fact that Mae West is way too old to be playing a sexually insatiable, internationally glamorous movie queen, there really is nothing wrong with this movie. In fact, it’s a perfectly adequate example of the genre she invented and made her own. However even I must admit that since Mae is well into her eighties here there is something vaguely surrealistic about this movie’s habit of surrounding her with handsome hunky young men who fall all over each other in pursuit of her favours. The film is a campy, corny, funny, smutty romp just as one might expect.”

/ From High Camp: A Gay Guide to Camp and Cult Films by Paul Roen (1994) /

Heartfelt thanks to the attendees of the 16 November Lobotomy Room cinema club presentation of Sextette (1978) at Fontaine’s! It was gratifying to see everyone respond to this “you have to see this to believe it!” kitsch classick. (You immediately get a measure of Sextette’s quality with the painful opening musical number “Hooray for Hollywood” with bellboys dancing on carpet with the tap shoe noises added in post-production). My favourite moment: West and Dalton dueting on Captain & Tenille’s “Love Will keep us Together.” I was glad to dispel the urban myth – spread by an unchivalrous Tony Curtis – that the earpiece concealed under West’s bouffant wig feeding her lines to her would receive police signals that she would recite as if they were dialogue. Maybe that was Curtis’ revenge for West loudly demanding, “You’re going to wear a wig to cover that bald spot, aren’t you?” when they first met. Yes, Rex Reed was correct when he predicted Sextette “will probably be shown decades hence as a monument of ghoulish camp” but do check out the 2020 documentary Dirty Blonde for a more sympathetic feminist assessment. Finally: after Sextette flopped, West contemplated releasing a disco album as her next venture – then decided against it. The mind boggles at this missed opportunity!

#lobotomy room #mae west #bad movies for bad people #bad movies we love #cult cinema #bad taste #high empress of sex #raunch #sex comedy #vintage smut #lobotomy room film club #lobotomy room club #cult movies #shock value

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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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bitter69uk · 11 months

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Come appreciate Brad Davis’ chest pelt when - in honour of Pride month - the FREE monthly Lobotomy Room cinema club presents Querelle (1982), R W Fassbinder’s adaptation of the scandalous Jean Genet novel! 15 June at Fontaine’s bar in Dalston! Set in the port of Brest (or “the fetid, stinking port of Brest” as it’s described on the back of my paperback), the plot focuses on Angel of the Apocalypse, the titular young sailor Georges Querelle (Davis), a totally amoral anti-hero with a sideline in murder, theft and opium smuggling. Querelle is so physically beautiful he’s irresistible to both men and women: pretty much every character he encounters becomes fatally attracted to him – and boy, does it lead to some wacky mishaps! Won’t you join us to watch this flawed, messy but compelling movie over cocktails? Full rancid details here.

#querelle #jean genet #rainer werner fassbinder #r w fassbinder #lobotomy room #lobotomy room film club #brad davis #pride month 2023 #homoerotic sailor #cult cinema #cult movie #queer cinema #lgbtqia

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bitter69uk · 4 months

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“As a movie, Strait-Jacket is no better than adequate. As myth however, it’s something else again. For homosexuals this is a remarkably resonant film. Few images could be more iconic than Joan Crawford as the ultimate castrating mom: an axe murderess who carries a weapon which has a handle that seems to grow longer with each successive reel. Add to this the fact that she’s all dolled up in forties finery, including a shoulder-length hairstyle and a flashy flowered dress. Her mouth is a livid, lipsticked slash. To complete the ensemble, she sports a set of charm bracelets which clank and tinkle ominously whenever she’s hefting her hatchet.”

/ From High Camp: A Gay Guide to Camp and Cult Films, Vol 2 by Paul Roen (1997) /

Yes! Find out precisely what Roen means on Thursday 18 January when the FREE monthly Lobotomy Room film club (devoted to Bad Movies for Bad People) presents William Castle’s ultra-lurid 1964 exploitation shocker Strait-Jacket! Starring eternally fierce scary diva Joan Crawford! Contact the venue (Fontaine’s bar in Dalston) to reserve your seat now for THE cinematic event of the New Year! (Phone 07718000546 or email [email protected]). Full rancid details here.

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

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bitter69uk · 6 months

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“John Blaylock! The hunger has given him everlasting life – until now! PRAY for him!” “Miriam Blaylock! She “feeds” one day in seven on the unsuspecting … and soon she will turn into something that you will never forget no matter how long and how hard you try. FEAR HER!” Pictured: David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve, the stars of seductive 1983 cult horror flick The Hunger. Don’t they suggest an impossibly chic 1980s synth pop duo? Can’t you imagine Deneuve huskily warbling French-accented lyrics over Bowie’s icy keyboards? Anyway, heartfelt thanks to everyone who attended the Lobotomy Room cinema club’s second presentation of The Hunger last night (26 October). Wow – who could have anticipated there was such a “hunger” for this movie? (Sorry!). Quick reflections on having watched The Hunger two weeks in a row at Fontaine’s: I can recite lines of dialogue by heart now (“No ice!” “I’m afraid you’ll find me mostly idle … my time is my own.” “Are you making a pass at me, Mrs. Blaylock?” “She’s that kind of woman. She’s … European”). It felt apt that the two screenings coincided with Deneuve turning 80 (she was born on 22 October 1943). As I explained in the intro, The Hunger is set in Manhattan and feels persuasively like a “New York” movie but 95% of it was actually filmed in London. It’s amazing how seeing a few yellow taxi cabs convincingly evokes NYC! And finally, The Hunger must be one of the most smoking-est films ever! Every character is a chain-smoker wreathing themselves in plumes of smoke (including doctors standing around in their white lab coats! Unsurprisingly, as a French woman of her generation Deneuve in real life is an inveterate lifelong smoker. Reportedly if anyone ever tells her “You can’t smoke here”, she calmly replies, “How much is the fine? I’ll pay it.”). I’ll be announcing the November film club selection shortly!

#lobotomy room #the hunger 1983 #horror movies #lesbian vampire #bela lugosi's dead #cult cinema #lobotomy room film club #catherine deneuve #david bowie #susan sarandon #lgbtqia #halloween 2023 #lesbian vampire movie

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bitter69uk · 2 months

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“By the odds, it should be a bomb. But a bomb it is not, let us tell you. At least, it is not the sort of thing to set you to yawning and squirming, unless Elizabeth Taylor leaves you cold. In the first place, it has Miss Taylor, playing the florid role of the lady of easy virtue, and that's about a million dollars right there. "I was the slut of all times," she tells her mother in one of those searing scenes wherein the subdued, repentant playgirl, thinking she has found happiness, bares her soul. But you can take it from us, at no point does she look like one of those things. She looks like a million dollars, in mink or in negligée. When she sits at a bar with Laurence Harvey, who is not just any Joe but a millionaire with a ten-room Fifth Avenue apartment and "caves all over town," and she lets her eyes travel up and down him, measuring not the bulge of his pocketbook but the bulge of his heart—well, all we can say is that Miss Taylor lends a certain fascination to the film. Then, too, it offers admission to such an assortment of apartments, high-class bars, Fifth Avenue shops and speedy sports cars, all in color and CinemaScope, that it should make the most moral status seeker feel a little disposed toward a life of sin. Brandy, martinis and brittle dialogue flow like water all over the place.”

/ Bosley Crowther reviewing Butterfield 8 in The New York Times, 17 November 1960 /

How enticing, huh? Well, you’re in luck: the FREE monthly Lobotomy Room cinema club (devoted to Bad Movies for Bad People) presents gloriously tawdry 1960 melodrama Butterfield 8 on Thursday 21 March at Fontaine’s bar in Dalston! Featuring an incredibly compelling performance from Elizabeth Taylor as an elite high-price escort girl! Numbers are limited, so reserve your seat via Fontaine's website. Alternatively, phone 07718000546 or email [email protected].

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bitter69uk · 2 months

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“In both Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Butterfield 8, Taylor appears in a tight white slip that looks as if it were sewn onto her body. What a gorgeous object she is! Feminists are currently adither over woman’s status as sex object but let them rave on in their little mental cells. For me, sexual objectification is a supreme human talent that is indistinguishable from the art impulse. Elizabeth Taylor, voluptuous in her sleek slip, stands like an ivory goddess, triumphantly alone. Her smooth shoulders and round curves, echoing those of mother earth, are gifts of nature, beyond the reach of female impersonators. Butterfield 8, with its call-girl heroine working her way down the alphabet of men from Amherst to Yale, appeared at a very formative moment in my adolescence and impressed me forever with the persona of the prostitute, whom I continue to revere.”

/ From "Elizabeth Taylor: Hollywood’s Pagan Queen" by Camille Paglia, Penthouse magazine, March 1992 /

YES! Join us for an evening of diva worship and experience Elizabeth Taylor in her full glory when the FREE monthly Lobotomy Room cinema club (devoted to cinematic perversity!) presents juicy 1960 melodrama Butterfield 8! Thursday 21 March at Fontaine’s bar in Dalston! Email the venue on [email protected] to reserve your seat!

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bitter69uk · 4 months

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“After seeing What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) fifteen times, [William] Castle dreamed of hitting the big time, of working with stars like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. One evening at a party in Beverly Hills, he had the good fortune to be introduced to Crawford. “He almost fell at her feet,” said writer Hector Arce. “He told her he had a script that he had written specifically for her. It was called Strait-Jacket. It was written by the man who wrote the Hitchcock classic Psycho. “I’m listening, Mr. Castle,” said Joan … After Crawford read Strait-Jacket, she called the director. The woman was supposed to age from thirty to fifty. Joan wanted to make the character younger, to lop off five years at each end. Castle agreed. He also said yes to her salary, percentage and contract demands.”

/ From Bette & Joan: The Divine Feud (1989) by Shaun Considine /

Yes! See 59-year-old Joan Crawford portray a woman of 25 in the opening moments of Strait-Jacket on Thursday 18 January when the FREE monthly Lobotomy Room cinema club devoted to Bad Movies for Bad People presents the 1964 William Castle b-movie shocker at Fontaine’s bar in Dalston! Numbers are limited, so reserve now: via the website. Phone 07718000546 or email [email protected]. Full putrid details here.

#lobotomy room #lobotomy room film club #lobotomy room club #strait-jacket #william castle #joan crawford #horror movies #exploitation cinema #cult cinema #hagsploitation #bad movies for bad people #bad movies rule #bad movies we love #bad taste #shock value #kitsch #b movie #vintage sleaze

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bitter69uk · 9 months

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Contrary to received wisdom, Grease (1978) didn’t pioneer the concept of casting adult actors as high school students. It was already a long-held Hollywood convention. Take, for example, Girls Town (1959). The quintessence of the fifties drive-in juvenile delinquent flick, it boasts teenage thugs running amok, girl-on-girl catfights, frantic rock’n’roll music, drag races, nuns, the threat of sex trafficking in Tijuana – and wanton platinum blonde leading lady Mamie Van Doren as 16-year-old hellcat Silver Morgan. Even with her perky ponytail and tight Capri pants, 28-year-old Van Doren is perhaps the most overripe, fleshy and mature adolescent in cinematic history. (And as Freddie, 34-year-old jazz crooner Mel Tormé seems positively wizened).

But frankly who cares when Girls Town is such a delirious wild ride? These delinquents have impeccable sartorial taste in striped t-shirts, gabardine jackets and saddle shoes. Vocal group The Platters coo ethereal doo-wop in a nightclub sequence. And everyone speaks in ultra-camp hepcat beatnik lingo like “No dice!” “You dig me?” “It’s real gone, ma!” “Not wonderful – crazy! Cool! Fantabulous!” “I’m blasting out of here!” and “You’re in Queersville, man! You’ve flipped!” (Where is this “Queersville” Silver speaks of and how do I get there?). Girls Town is precisely the kind of film that John Waters parodies in his 1990 rockabilly musical Cry-Baby (and the Traci Lords character is directly modelled on Van Doren). See for yourself when the free monthly Lobotomy Room film club (motto: Bad Movies for Bad People) presents Girls Town at Fontaine’s bar (Dalston’s most unique nite spot) on Thursday 17 August! Full squalid details.

#girls town #mamie van doren #juvenile delinquent #exploitation cinema #exploitation film #exploitation movies #b movie #bad movies we love #bad movies for bad people #bad movies rule #lobotomy room #lobotomy room film club #lobotomy room club #bad girl #vintage sleaze

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bitter69uk · 6 months

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Considering Mae West’s 130th birthday was in August and the anniversary of her death (22 November 1980) is later this month, the 16 November installment of the Lobotomy Room club is a tribute to cinema’s high empress of sex! And - because this is the Lobotomy Room film club (devoted to Bad Movies for Bad People) – rather than show one of her 1930s classics, we’re screening West’s infamous final movie Sextette (1978)!

Persuaded to make one last film, the 84-year-old diva made zero concessions to her age and cast herself as a much-lusted after bombshell Marlo Manners, surrounded by besotted male admirers (including 34-year-old future James Bond Timothy Dalton as her husband-to-be. The rest of the oddball cast includes Ringo Starr, Alice Cooper, Keith Moon, Tony Curtis and George Hamilton).

Yes, the mind-boggling, misbegotten musical comedy Sextette is an unintended camp classick which made The New York Times declare, “Granny should have her mouth washed out with soap, along with her teeth!" BUT: I recently watched the 2020 documentary Dirty Blonde, which proposed a kinder reappraisal of West’s reviled later films Myra Breckenridge (1970) and Sextette, asking the viewer why we are so horrified by West still flaunting her sexual appetites into old age. As film historian Jeanine Basinger argues, “There’s a wonderful courage and defiance” to West’s sheer stubbornness in taking what she had in the 1930s and trying to make it work in the 1970s. Judge for yourself over cocktails at Fontaine’s bar on 16 November!

Lobotomy Room Goes to the Movies is the FREE monthly film club devoted to cinematic perversity. Third Thursday night of every month downstairs at Fontaine’s cocktail lounge. Numbers are limited, so reserving in advance via Fontaine’s website is essential. Alternatively, phone 07718000546 or email [email protected]. The film starts at 8:30 pm. Doors to the basement Bamboo Lounge open at 8:00 pm. To ensure everyone is seated and cocktails are ordered on time, please arrive by 8:15 pm at the latest. Info.

#mae west #sextette #lobotomy room #dirty blonde #raunch queen #high empress of sex #bad movies we love #bad movies for bad people #bad movies rule #bad taste #shock value #lobotomy room film club #diva #kween #vintage smut #vintage sleaze

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