Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Savage Streets (1984, Linda Blair)





Well, here it is. The moment no one has been waiting for....my first movie review!

"Go Starmummy! It's your birthday! Shake your booty!" I really am shaking my booty right now, I swear.

I thought long and hard about what the first film I reviewed should be. After seconds of laborious contemplation, I chose the classic 80s Exploitation flick Savage Streets. Why Savage Streets you ask? Simple, I just watched it last night.

Savage Streets, directed by Danny Steinmann (Friday the 13th: A New Beginning), stars Linda Blair (The Exorcist) as a teenager out for revenge against a group of thugs who raped her deaf sister (Linnea Quigley from Return of the Living Dead) and killed her friend (some girl I've never seen before but reminded me of the bass player for the Bangles).

That's really all you need to know about the film to decide whether it's your cup of tea or not. Well unless you are interested in nudity, blood and profanity because its got plenty of those as well. This movie is fresh, vulgar and definitely doesn't hold back. Just as it starts getting a little cheesy or melodramatic, next thing you know there is a catfight breaking out in the girl's locker room or a student saying Fuck You to the principal.

The new 2 disc release from BCI is pretty sweet with interviews and 3 optional commentaries. This film definitely isn't for everyone but after reading this review you should be able to tell which side of the fence you are on.

Rating: 4/5



Welcome to my movie blog

Do you like movies? Do you like B movies? Do you like bad movies? Do you like or even know who Joe Spinell is? Well, if you answered yes to any of these (preferably more than just the liking movies thing cause everyone likes movies) then hopefully you'll like my blog.

I plan on updating this blog frequently. I work 3 shifts on weekends and sometimes watch up to 7 movies in that chunk of time. Who said it's hard to find good help these days?

Anyhoo, hopefully someone reads this and I encourage comments, whether they be positive, negative, downright insulting, accusatory, scathing, insidious, nefarious, poriferous (is that a word?)...you get the idea.

The Blood Spattered Bride (1972, Vicente Aranda)

Just released from Mondo Macabro  is the 1972 Spanish Vampire film, The Blood Spattered Bride.  This is a film I have heard the me...