Caged Fury is the original The Shawshank Redemption
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Born on this day: sensationally beautiful burlesque dancer turned Russ Meyer glamazon Haji (24 January 1946 - 9 August 2013). Haji graced five of Meyer’s sexploitation masterpieces (starting with Motorpsycho in 1965) and enlivened them all with her exotic, sultry presence (she is awe-inspiring in Good Morning and … Goodbye! (1967) and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) - but she will forever be remembered as the vicious Latina go-go dancer Rosie in one of my all-time favourite films, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965). She gives a towering performance as the sexy lesbian girlfriend of tough-as-nails villainess Varla (Tura Satana), sometimes literally spitting with rage, picking her teeth with a switchblade, and employing a thick comedic Spanglish accent. (Haji and Satana had already known each other for years, having danced together in Los Angeles strip clubs since the early 1960s). One of Haji’s best moments is when the drippy good girl Linda misguidedly offers the trio of homicidal go-go dancers a soft drink, and Rosie snarls, "Honey, we don't like nothin' soft! Everything we touch is hard!" Details of Haji’s early life are misty: of British-Filipino descent, she appears to have been born Cerlet Catton (or Barbarella Catton, depending on your source) in Quebec, Canada and began dancing at age 14. Haji’s niche in the glamour jungle is certainly secure.
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Dyanne Thorne - Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS. 1974
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On October 25, 2012, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! was screened on The Angry Brothers Omaha Shock O Rama.
Here's some new Haji art to mark the occasion!
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Alucarda
Juan López Moctezuma, 1977
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Pamela Stanford, actress in many “exploitation” films, an intelligent and talented actress, artist, and animal rights advocate (photographer unknown)
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Valerie Leon, Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971)
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“If I have a semi-erection and my shorts are getting moist, then I know I’m doing something right.” Russ Meyer
“Russ Meyer is the Eisenstein of sex films. He is single-handedly responsible for more hard-ons in movie audiences than any other director, despite the fact that he has refused to ever make a hardcore feature … He writes, produces, directs, films and edits his own productions and they all make money. Russ Meyer has never made a bad film.”
/ Sultan of Sleaze John Waters waxing lyrical about one of his primary cinematic influences, Russ Meyer, in his book Shock Value (1981) /
Born on this day 101 years ago: visionary breast-fixated high potentate of sexploitation cinema Russ Meyer (21 March 1922 - 18 September 2004). Pictured: genius at work Meyer with his fiercely glamorous then-wife and collaborator Eve Meyer, pin-up model and actress turned movie producer. The 2005 book Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer by Jimmy McDonough is compulsory reading.
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