The ’80s high camp is strong this week. It turns out that we have something of an Arrow Special on our hand this week. Starting with classic Western “The Ox Bow Incident” before going full cult with Jack Hill’s “The Swinging Cheerleaders”, unknown ’80s slasher “Satan’s Blade” before finishing with […]
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Cinema Eclectica 75 – Don't eat the Furry Tomatoes
The ’80s high camp is strong this week. It turns out that we have something of an Arrow Special on our hand this week. Starting with classic Western “The Ox Bow Incident” before going full cult with Jack Hill’s “The Swinging Cheerleaders”, unknown ’80s slasher “Satan’s Blade” before finishing with […]
The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974) Jack Hill’s sleazy entrée into the high school comedy (Review)
1974’s The Swinging Cheerleaders, reissued on Blu-Ray by Arrow Home Video, has a script credited to Jane Witherspoon and Betty Conklin. In the same year, Conklin was also responsible for the screenplay for Act of Vengeance, a female revenge picture also released under the impeccably well-it-was-the-70s title Rape Squad. Witherspoon […]
Pit Stop (1969): the fortuitous birth of Modern Carsploitation (Review)
On the latest making-of documentary for Arrow Video, legendary exploitation director Jack Hill explains that Roger Corman requested that he should make a stock car film, capitalizing on their success at the time. Hill only accepted if Corman allowed him to make an art movie, the result was Pit Stop. […]
Spider Baby & Foxy Brown: Iconic Jack Hill Double Bill (Review)
Jack Hill is the greatest… I think that Hill is a really terrific director. He was the Howard Hawks of exploitation filmmaking. Quentin Tarantino Even if that box quote does cut Jack Hill as a vital figure in the exploitation film world, what’s even more worthy of note is Arrow Film’s commitment to […]