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miscellanium) wrote2023-06-30 09:10 am
miscellanium) wrote2023-06-30 09:10 am
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hellhole 1985, aka "we're not actually gonna show hole but we might as well have"
in my hellsing server we were discussing the possibility of watching the polish film "hellhole" (2022) together so i checked to see if it was available anywhere or whether it'd need torrenting, and learned that there was a 1985 film with the exact same title but a wildly different plot summary. my partner and i decided to watch it because we were both intrigued by the outrageous premise and also the fact that one of the characters was played by a famous ex-evangelist preacher (i want to see the documentary about him, "marjoe" from 1972) and boy oh boy what a ride.
i've watched a couple exploitation films before but i feel like i'm never prepared for the reality of them, lol. the true star of the movie imo was ray sharkey playing an Evil Leather Punk who went by the nom de guerre of silk - he was so fucking funny and over-the-top he made even the relatively boring parts of the movie worth it. (i'm sorry, as somebody who's mostly interested in men i'm very particular about the type of woman i find attractive..... if you like seeing lots of conventionally attractive women get in fights, naked or otherwise, and have erotic drug-taking scenes together then this is the movie for you by a mile.) i say "relatively" because tbh i found the whole thing fascinating in an anthropological way, but idk if it's a movie i'd recommend unless you also enjoy watching exploitation movies for what they say about the people involved in the production. it also has vibes of re-animator and i was amused to realize they came out the same year. it'd be interesting to read an argument connecting movies about medical malpractice vis-a-vis innovation to the visibility of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.
i want to see the other things sharkey was in now because he was incredible. marjoe was good too, though his performance was more restrained than sharkey's (which isn't saying a lot tbh but he played it more normal). every time they said his character's name, dr. dane, i had to do a mental double take haha. i also liked mary woronov - she has a very striking face and she owned the role she was given. it was fun discovering i'd seen her before in "the house of the devil", though she would've been much older in that one. i'd like to see more of her movies some time when i have the chance.
speaking of movies, though, i want to do another danepost soon. i think it'll be bear island, since that was on the last poll, unless people would prefer to read about the national lampoon movie.... or i might do the "control of inmates" short since i might already have all the screenshots necessary for that. if you have a preference for some reason, let me know in the comments!
i've watched a couple exploitation films before but i feel like i'm never prepared for the reality of them, lol. the true star of the movie imo was ray sharkey playing an Evil Leather Punk who went by the nom de guerre of silk - he was so fucking funny and over-the-top he made even the relatively boring parts of the movie worth it. (i'm sorry, as somebody who's mostly interested in men i'm very particular about the type of woman i find attractive..... if you like seeing lots of conventionally attractive women get in fights, naked or otherwise, and have erotic drug-taking scenes together then this is the movie for you by a mile.) i say "relatively" because tbh i found the whole thing fascinating in an anthropological way, but idk if it's a movie i'd recommend unless you also enjoy watching exploitation movies for what they say about the people involved in the production. it also has vibes of re-animator and i was amused to realize they came out the same year. it'd be interesting to read an argument connecting movies about medical malpractice vis-a-vis innovation to the visibility of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.
i want to see the other things sharkey was in now because he was incredible. marjoe was good too, though his performance was more restrained than sharkey's (which isn't saying a lot tbh but he played it more normal). every time they said his character's name, dr. dane, i had to do a mental double take haha. i also liked mary woronov - she has a very striking face and she owned the role she was given. it was fun discovering i'd seen her before in "the house of the devil", though she would've been much older in that one. i'd like to see more of her movies some time when i have the chance.
speaking of movies, though, i want to do another danepost soon. i think it'll be bear island, since that was on the last poll, unless people would prefer to read about the national lampoon movie.... or i might do the "control of inmates" short since i might already have all the screenshots necessary for that. if you have a preference for some reason, let me know in the comments!