A motley crew work in space aboard the dilapidated vessel, Dark Star as they destroy unstable planets to make way for future colonisation. John Carpenter’s debut is ripe with stoner humour, perceptive insight (yes, even in space you can hate your job) and a delightfully minuscule budget. Whatever they were partaking in whilst making this …
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From Google- ‘A housewife (Mink Stole) murders her husband, runs away and ends up in a town ruled by an evil queen who wants to infect her kingdom with rabies.’ Desperate Living feels like quintessential Waters…but with significant differences. Firstly, Divine doesn’t feature. He was actually appearing on stage and so couldn’t appear. Susan Lowe …
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Once again, the hilarious Google plot outline- ‘An obese woman (Divine) gives birth to an obnoxious child and embarks upon a bizarre and violent life of crime.’ Get ready for your jaw to ache with this John Waters film. Every single line of dialogue is comedy gold as we chart the criminal career of glamour …
Continue reading John Waters Reviewed- Day 4- Female Trouble (1974)
I was going to write my own plot outline for this masterpiece but I love the one that Google provides- ‘A bizarre fat woman (Divine) and her misfit family compete with a Baltimore couple (David Lochary, Mink Stole) to be named the filthiest people alive.’ Perfect. Waters purposely set out to make a transgressive piece …
Continue reading John Waters Reviewed- Day 3- Pink Flamingos (1972)
Lady Divine runs The Cavalcade of Perversion (key attractions- The Puke Eater, The Bicycle Seat Sniffer and ‘two queers who actually kiss on the lips’). But this is actually a front as she robs any of the squares who come to see the show. Alas, Lady Divine has grown tired of just robbing the patrons …
Continue reading John Waters Reviewed- Day 2- Multiple Maniacs (1970)
I first saw this classic when I was a late teen, studying for my A-levels at college in 1994. My friend taped this for me on the same tape as Last House on the Left. With it being copied from a copy, the picture and audio were crappy, but somehow this added to the experience …
Continue reading The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Reviewed- Day 1- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
One of the first video sleeves I ever saw was for The Amityville Horror which just so happened to be on one of my favourite video labels, Guild Home Video (the people who have ever seen the opening ident for Guild will know why I love it so much) in one of the first video …
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Can you believe I’ve never reviewed Halloween before?! Here goes. I remember the first time I saw Halloween on VHS in the late 80’s here in the UK. It was in pan-and-scan, and hence not the perfect format to watch a film that used the frame so brilliantly. But I’d learn that as the film …
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Emmannuelle Prevert is the wife of French ambassador, Emile Prevert. As he has more interests in keeping fit, Emmannuelle seeks to satisfy her desires with lots of men across London. This was the Carry On I was most intrigued by and, perversely, the film from the series I wanted to investigate the most. Is it …
Continue reading What A Carry On!- Day 30- Carry On Emmannuelle (1978)
In this instalment the team take on the genre of…the recent That’s Entertainment compilation films of old Hollywood films as this is, erm, a compilation of clips from the Carry Ons. Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor introduce the clips and I really liked their chemistry (it reminded me of when Williams was presenting Wogan and …
Continue reading What A Carry On!- Day 29- That’s Carry On! (1977)
Meathook Cinema 