#tom desimone

[pierppasolini]

Confessions of a Male Groupie or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Electric Banana (1971) // dir. Tom DeSimone

#Larry Danser #Myona Phetish #Confessions of a Male Groupie #Tom DeSimone #my caps #my edits #*confessionsofamalegroupie

[celestialmega]

Hell Night by Tom DeSimone.

#movies #movie #movie cap #movie caps #film #film stills #films #film still #film screenshots #film screencaps #Tom DeSimone #Hell Night #Hell Night 1981 #Linda Blair

[dweeeeeb]

Adult Movie Posters Hellhole (1985) A young woman becomes amnesiac after an attack by a hired killer. She's admitted to a mental asylum run by a ruthless doctor who experiments on her patients with a lethal drug, and her attacker just got employed there. Pierre De Moro - Tom DeSimone - Aaron Butler - Lance Dickson - Mark Evan Schwartz - Ray Sharkey - Judy Landers - Marjoe Gortner

#MovPov13 #AMP #1985 #Pierre De Moro #Tom DeSimone #Aaron Butler #Lance Dickson #Mark Evan Schwartz #Ray Sharkey #Judy Landers #Marjoe Gortner

[gatutor]

Jill St. John "La jungla de cemento" (The concrete jungle) 1982, de Tom DeSimone.

#Jill St. John #Tom DeSimone

[crumbargento]

Station to Station - Tom DeSimone - 1974 - USA

#station to station #tom desimone #vintage #70's #70's film #1974 #gay

[schlock-luster-video]

On August 28, 1981 Hell Night debuted in the United States.

#hell night #tom desimone #peter barton #horror film #horror movies #slasher art #80s slasher #slasher movies #art #horror #horr or art #new art #tcm underground #movie art #drawing #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film

[briarrosefromthedead]

Linda Blair as Marti in Hell Night (1981) dir. Tom DeSimone

#linda blair #hell night #horroredit #filmedit #horror #mygifs

[garethllane]

FILM LOG || March 2024

★★★★★ - Blonde Ambition, Lem Amero and John Amero (1981) ★★★★☆ - Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975) ★★★★☆ - Theorem, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1968) ★★★★☆ - Wild at Heart, David Lynch (1990) ★★★★☆ - Chatterbox!, Tom DeSimone (1977) ★★★★☆ - Barbara Broadcast, Radley Metzger (1977) ★★★★☆ - Peeping Tom, Michael Powell (1960) ★★★★☆ - Streets of Fire, Walter Hill (1984) ★★★★☆ - Women in New York, Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1977) ★★★★☆ - Shock Corridor, Samuel Fueller (1963) ★★★★☆ - Pumping Iron, George Butler and Robert Fiore (1977) ★★★★☆ - Rapture, Ivan Zulueta (1979) ★★★★☆ - Superstar: Karen Carpenter Story, Todd Haynes (1987) ★★★★☆ - Pumping Iron II: The Women, George Butler (1985) ★★★☆☆ - Muscle, Hisayasu Sato (1989) ★★★☆☆ - The Death of Maria Malibran, Werner Schroeter (1972) ★★★☆☆ - Reform School Girls, Tom DeSimone (1986) ★★★☆☆ - Hell Night, Tom DeSimone (1981) ★★★☆☆ - Angel III: The Final Chapter, Tom DeSimone (1988) ★★★☆☆ - Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore, Sarah Jacobson (1996) ★★★☆☆ - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Howard Hawks (1953) ★★★☆☆ - Death on the Beach, Enrique Gomez Vadillo (1991) ★★★☆☆ - Erotikus, Tom DeSimone (1973) ★★★☆☆ - I'm Going to Get You Elliot Boy, Ed Forsyth (1971) ★★★☆☆ - Mondo Trasho, John Waters (1969) ★★★☆☆ - Nighthawks, Ron Peck (1978) ★★★☆☆ - Bloody Muscle Body Builder, Shinichi Fukazawa (1995) ★★★☆☆ - Fortune and Men's Eyes, Harvey Hart (1971) ★★★☆☆ - She Devils on Wheels, Hershell Gordon Lewis (1968) ★★☆☆☆ - Jail Bait, Ed Wood (1954) ★★☆☆☆ - Athena, Richard Thorpe (1954) ★★☆☆☆ - Flaming Creatures, Jack Smith (1963) ★★☆☆☆ - The Hunger, Tony Scott (1983) ★★☆☆☆ - Jesus Christ Superstar, Norman Jewison (1973) ★★☆☆☆ - Beefcake, Thom Fitzgerald (1998) ★★☆☆☆ - Partners, James Burrows (1982)

Shorts:

★★★★☆ - La Ricotta, Pier Paolo Passolini (1963) ★★★★☆ - I Was a Teenage Serial Killer, Sarah Jacobson (1993) ★★★☆☆ - Le Plus Del Homme Du Monde, Jean Mineur (1948) ★★★☆☆ - Sins of the Fleshapoids, Mike Kuchar (1965) ★★☆☆☆ - Ed Fury on the Beach, Bob Mizer (1960)

[signalwatch]

Watch Party Watch: Reform School Girls (1986)

I'm sure this movie had a poster, but mostly existed as a worn out VHS

Watched:  04/28/2023

Format:  Amazon Watch Party

Viewing:  Unknown

Director:  Tom DeSimone

So, first:  Apologies.  It's probably best that I actually remember the movies we're going to watch more than a few key scenes.  This movie turned out to be a bit much more than I recalled it being, and I find it insane I was watching this on cable when I was like, 13.  

Ah, the 1980's.

I was a bit surprised that no one had seen this, and many never heard of it.  It's a cult-classic of the 1980's, and a lot of what made it so has faded in the ensuing 37 years.

This is a movie that, as Jenifer put it, covers all the tropes of the "women in prison movie" and then cranks up the exploitation (this is New World Pictures, one of the Roger Corman brands).  So, it's assuming an audience that has grown up on slew of "women in prison" pictures that started showing up post WWII as earnest socially conscious filmmaking paired with, you know, ladies kicking each other, which was a novelty.  Plus a host of other sketchy activities, some explicit, many implied.  

1983's Chained Heat - which stars Sybil Danning but as a prisoner -  is a pretty good indicator of what was going on at this point. It has legit actors (Henry Silva, John Vernon) but is clearly an exploitation picture.  Mostly I remember 1980's-me wandering the aisles of the video store and being acutely aware there was more than one movie about women in jail, and some vague promise of sexiness.  But since my Mom was paying, I was not asking to see these films.

Reform School Girls is loosely based on the 1957 film Reform School Girl, which I have not seen.  But also familiar if you've seen other pictures. It's mostly been forgotten, but 1980's hip young adults were very into reflecting back the absurdities of the 1950's American monoculture.  If you go back and watch other 1980's movies, usually lower budget stuff, but you can see the Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, etc...  But also much as folks like myself born in the 70's grew up with 4 or 5 channels, most of which was reruns of stuff from decades prior.  So, yeah, I imagine replays of those old movies were part of all that.*

The movie itself follows a teen girl who gets in trouble with the law, which lands her in court and on to "reform school" (but good luck pointing out when anyone is in class in this movie).  The movie hits all the notes of prison and women in prison films, starting with the "you don't know what you're in for" messaging to the lead and therefore us.  And then cue the humiliations of entering prison, paired with the exploitation of a 1980's Corman flick.  And that's when I realized "oh yeah.  This is probably full of nudity", which is an awkward moment with a chat full of people.  

The movie's stars are Sybil Danning (who many dudes of a certain age has a passing knowledge), Pat Ast (whom you should Google), and Wendy O. Williams of The Plasmatics, who is 37 and playing... 45?  and 17?  I dunno, but I've thought she was great since I was 13 or 14.  And then actually stars a supposedly 16 year old Linda Carol (I am suspicious of her listed birth year) as our POV character hero.

I *do* think the movie is funnier than was taken by the group.  Everything is at 11.  It's all absurd, including the atrocities of the film, and that's kind of the point.  But maybe that's just not where we're at these days.  We kind of are more aware of actual exploitation in a way the 1980's was not.  But the movie could have leaned into the absurdity more and had fun with it instead of saying "no, the joke is how woefully dark this is going to get, and we're going to refuse to take it seriously".  

All in all, I wish I'd revisited it solo, but here we are.  

*it's funny.  Growing up in Austin, we really didn't have much in the way of TV on local channels after 10:30 PM except SNL.  I read  lot of references to latenight movies playing on local TV, but by the late 1980's, I was watching Reform School Girls on cable, not the movies that inspired it.  I don't remember what would have been playing on our UHF channel, if, in fact, they hadn't signed off.  I suspect the larger cities of the 1970s had more of this, but we just didn't.  

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#movies #prison movies #Reform School Girls

[falsebooles123]

FUCK its the end of January - Diary of a Big Ole Gay 1/31/2023

Hey whores, its me your bitch back on his bullshit.

So I have a interview tomorrow and I'm waiting to hear back from like three, four different places. so its a lot of waiting.

(yeah I kinda hate having to sit on my ass and waiting)

Also I probably didn't watch that much queer stuff this week so sorry? I mean I had to slow down a little whores. most of this stuff is stuck behind a paywall. (pssst I have a ko-fi if you wanna help a whore out).

The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968) dir. Robert Aldrich

So this is one of those movies that had a queer element and then were also just very poorly recieved for completly unrelated reasons, (think Sylvia Scarlett or Glen or Glenda). This film is about 80% less gay then that. On one hand you have this very meta type of patisches to it its a lot of elements from things like Rebecca and Sunset Boulivard.

You basically have this young actress who has this preternaturally ability to imitate Lylah Clare a golden age star who died in a spectacular fasion and she bascially falls into the wild child/Bisexual Vamp role. If you remember me discussing Lola from Pandoras Box then you have a sense of what I'm talking about.

TBH it is very campy and fun but the reason why this is on the list is that one of the characters is a lesbian and she was fucking Lola Rebecca, *checks notes*, sorry Lylah Clare.

Muchachas de Uniforme (1951) dir. Alfredo B. Crevenna

so this is a mexican remake of the classic and while there are some aspects I really like about it (the expressionist type architecture, the costume design), it tones down a lot of the queerness of the original.

I will say that this

1. is a lot darker and if you know how the original ends then know that they go for the bummer ending. (bury your gays)

2. I watched this on youtube and there were no English Subs so I had to use the auto-translate function which meant I only got the barest bones concept of the dialogue. its buggy, spanish is a fast spoken language and also if I understood spanish the dialogue would probably be really pretty. So understand there is a language barrier for me here.

Lo siento, me esponal no es bueno, estudiar para tres anos perro soy es estudiente malo. Sue me.

Madchen in Uniform (1958) dir. Géza von Radványi

This one is a lot more faithful to the original but they also butcher the bedroom kiss scene. However they do make that up with this kiss later on when they extend the play plot point.

I will say that I do like aspects of this film, i like there take on it but the original madchen in uniform is far superior to both of the remakes.

and thats not to say that the remakes are bad films they have a great aestetic, they add little details the original does but its something about the original that just sings in a way these ones dont

Everything Else I watched this week and a half

as you can tell I watched Infinity Pool, It was great. Horror Autuers are like lets shit on rich people and I'm all for it. Its giving sci-fi taking to its psycological horror extremes and what happens when you give in negative nihilism.

Also watched 2017 B&B, its a gay thriller and its pretty good if a bit triggering.

I finished the rest of the Hammer House of Horror and umm what else...

So I watched Bi-coastal, one of the Catalina Bisexual Features they did in the 70s directed by Tom DeSimone, (or as he went by then Lance Brookes). The men in it are definetly hollywood twink and not the sexy Gage Men, but despite that Bi-Coastal was V V hot. and honestly very bi positive for the time.

#Muchachas in Uniforme #Madchen in Uniform (1958) #The Legend of Lylah Clare #suicide (implied) #pornography (implied)

[pierppasolini]

Confessions of a Male Groupie or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Electric Banana (1971) // dir. Tom DeSimone

#Larry Danser #Confessions of a Male Groupie #Tom DeSimone #my caps #my edits #*confessionsofamalegroupie

[celestialmega]

Hell Night by Tom DeSimone.

#movies #movie #movie cap #movie caps #film #film stills #films #film screenshots #film screencaps #film still #Tom DeSimone #hell night #hell night 1981

[shiningwizard]

Reform School Girls (Tom DeSimone, 1986)

Now a rewatch inspired by the Reform School Girls poster conspicuously and baselessly on Corey Haim’s wall in The Lost Boys. And rewatching this now older: captures the spirit of the caged women  genre really well but it needs to go further over the edge. Wendy O. Williams remains great. I’m not sure if this will inspire a rewatch of another movie but of course I immediately watched the music video for The Damned.

#reform school girls #last movie i saw #B+

[marypickfords]

this might be a random question but do you have any recs for 70s exploitation movies that have a classic charlie's angels vibe? like the funky music and clothes, women kicking ass, different locations and set pieces but sleazier than the tv show? something like coffy or even certain women in prison movies. i'm not sure if this is up your alley but i'd love any ideas!

not that i have watched, even from the WIP movies for example it's kinda difficult to find that type of collaboration between women because in those exploitation movies it really is every person for themselves and no one is safe (especially not the women). in WIP movies for example those partnerships happen against the women's will a lot of the time so it's hardly ever the nice fantasy one hopes (or the easy girl power sold today). for instance since you mentioned a jack hill movie, there's the big doll house (1971) where women team up to try to escape jail. there's also the big bird cage (1972) and switchblade sisters (1975) but i haven't watched those yet, idk about jack hill even though he did give me the great spider baby. still on WIP films i have watched escape from hell (1980) with the gorgeous ajita wilson, but i'm not sure it is what you are looking for. there's also demme's caged heat (1974). slightly less violent and more absurd, there's franco's ópalo de fuego (1978) where two women team up to escape from prison and go undercover, i'm not sure if that's what you're going for but it rules though. franco's rote lippen (1969) is also wonderful and has janine reynaud and rosanna yanni kicking ass and looking gorgeous (and he also has a lot of WIP movies but i haven’t watched them yet). and also not the 70s but i have to mention my beloved she-devils on wheels (1968). i also thought of a recent watch, reform school girls (1986), it's late 80s but it still has similar roots to those 70s exploitation films and the cast is almost exclusively women. it's totally insane and was directed by tom desimone, who also directed gay adult films. there's also the female gang films from the 70s in japan like terrifying girl's high school (1972) and the stray cat rock and delinquent girl boss series. anyway it's hard to give proper recs on this because i'd need to watch more of them myself, but like i said it's not as straightforward as one would expect today from a movie where "women team up to kick ass and look hot". those movies are way grittier and complicated than that. in jailhouse 41 (1972) for example while the women team up against their will to escape from prison, they also hurt other women eventually and it's a hard watch (though it is my personal favorite from the series). so the kick ass set pieces one would expect do exist, but aren't as simple.

#ask #anonymous #recs #which is why imho i can't imagine watching exploitation carelessly or as a joke #*also not all were written by men but mostly were so it explains a lot

[crumbargento]

Station to Station - Tom DeSimone - 1974 - USA

#station to station #tom desimone #vintage

[schlock-luster-video]

On May 6, 1983, Hell Night debuted in Finland.

#hell night #hell night 1981 #tom desimon #linda blair #peter barton #vincent van patten #horror film #horror movies #horror art #horror #comedy horror #horror comedy #hortor parody #parody mov8es #slasher movies #slasher #haunted house #movie art #art #drawing #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film