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On 2/6/2020 at 12:42 AM, Curt McGirt said:

One of the first exploitation films I ever watched.  I still can't believe that trashy movie spawned three sequels (Wicked Warden, Tigress of Siberia, and Keeper Of The Sheikh’s Harem) and an entire genre of exploitation cinema.  Nazisploitation aka Canucksploitation since most of these movies were Canadian produced.

Irony.

I am ashamed to admit that Ilsa's notorious line, "One does not give caviar to guinea pigs," is still a part of my lexicon.

RIP

PS:  I am not sure if I am brave enough to wear that Ilsa gaffer crew jacket out in public.

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9 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

I'm proud of my VHS copy of Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks, the only Ilsa film I will ever watch again.

I have a bootleg with the three sequels.   Wicked Warden IMO is the best of the lot but that bar is low and covered in slime and shame.

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5 minutes ago, odessasteps said:

Hopefully only slime and shame.  ?

It ain't that kind of party, man.  Remember that these movies were torture porn before there was such a thing.

Anyone who found She-Wolf of the SS arousing should probably do society a favor and shoot themselves In the head.

Which is kinda sad because Dyanne Thorne was the epitome of the blonde bombshell.

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I remember which one I still haven't seen and it's Tigress of Siberia. Wicked Warden probably stopped me in my tracks because it was a Jess Franco picture and I'll be damned if everything he does doesn't put me to sleep. 

The funniest part of that obit is the guy saying the double feature he saw as a kid was Rolling Thunder and THEN the "Adults Only" feature. So Rolling Thunder was perfectly fine for kids, got it. 

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10 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

\The funniest part of that obit is the guy saying the double feature he saw as a kid was Rolling Thunder and THEN the "Adults Only" feature. So Rolling Thunder was perfectly fine for kids, got it. 

That's not terribly unusual.  There use to be a drive-in theater (yes, a drive-in) in Petersburg, VA called the Blue Star which would show an R-Rated normal film for the night opener and then show a more adult themed movie as the late night half of the double feature.

Later on, it strictly showed softcore adult movies and exploitation joints.  My crew and I would camp out in the woods behind the theater and wait for dark with our binoculars.   That's how I saw She-Wolf of the SS for the first time.   

Eventually the owner got smart and put up an eight foot concrete wall to obscure the view of anyone skulking around behind the theater.  It was the end of an era.  Not too long after that, multiplex movie theaters put the local drive-ins out of business. 

I think there is a Pizza Hut or a strip mall now where the Blue Star used to be.

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I'm not young enough to not remember drive ins. Unfortunately the one closest to us as a kid only did family friendly stuff, so the best thing I ever caught was The Birdcage... which was still weird to see with your dad when you're like ten. 

We still have the Harvest Moon out here locally and a couple I know went to see Nightmare on Elm Street at another, more distant one last October. 

EDIT: Oh yeah, I saw Twister at the drive-in! That was a trip. And apparently the Harvest Moon is celebrating its 66th anniversary this year. 

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NEPA represent. *complicated handshake with @odessasteps*

I saw a bunch of movies at the Honesdale, PA drive-in over the years, but my #1 with a bullet favorite was the double bill of Bloodsport and Iron Eagle II in 1988. One of my go-to movie stories.

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3 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

Shit.  My cousin took his course before he became a Television City camera crew guy and later a media director.  I told him what a lucky bastard he was to be in the same room as a man that worked with John Carpenter.

RIP

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RIP actor/comedian/author Orson Bean, who died at 91 after being hit by a car while crossing a street. He had a nearly 70 year career in show business beginning in golden age television and continuing to work in recent guest spots on shows like Modern Family and Superstore. He also appeared in films like Anatomy of a Murder, Being John Malkovich, and did the voice of Bilbo in the Rankin and Bass/Topcraft adaptation of The Hobbit. Besides being a prolific theater performer, he also sidelined as an author of Me Generation self help books. This is where I know him from, as my grandfather gave me his Wilhelm Reich-inspired book The Orgone and Me: One Man’s Sexual Revolution when I was in middle school. I’m totally normal by the way. 

Oh, and RIP Robert Conrad. Undefeated at wearing a battery on his shoulder; no one dared knock that shit off of him.  

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