Arline Hunter in Sex Kittens Go to College (1960)
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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!
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how are u going to reblog from me and call bottoms just OK or whatever. find the fun in hot weird lesbians beating the shit out of each other and saving a football player from pineapple juice and killing other guys and having an entire complicated avril lavigne montage and ruby cruz’s sad sad little beat up face and but i’m a diner and havana rose lius ugly cry laugh and a milf who also saves the day and bombing a car to total eclipse of the heart in cunty heist clothes and doing violence for someone as a love language enjoy the weird fucked up dykes or get OUT!!!!!!! it’s not FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
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So @legallynotgreen and I were talking about how funny the phrase “body count” is since it can mean both sex and murder, and in a brilliant moment of inspiration I thought:
An early 2000s style rom-com. An assassin and a sex worker get into a relationship. Neither one actually knows what the other one does for work, not because they don’t talk about it, but because there is hilarious miscommunication. Hijinks ensue
Anyway I keep having genius ideas for media that should have been made 20-30 years ago. Someone give me a time machine and hire me as a screenwriter
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FROM THE B-MOVIE BADLANDS...
...images from the lost continent of cult films, b-movies and celluloid dreamscapes
SF parodies (70's and 80's)
Oooh er! That's no space station!
Flesh Gordon (1974) Dark Star (1974) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Galaxina (1980) Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) Morons from Outer Space (1985) Spaceballs (1987)
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