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Desert Sexploitation Movie Night

I wondered why so many car movies take place in the desert and I think I came up with some plausible reasons. But sexploitation movies? Sand, cactus and dryness aren't a good fit. But it does encourage clothing removal and staying indoors so...

Nobody in Hell Squad, A.K.A. Commando Girls, went on to do much else. Although the woman who plays Ann was apparently in Night of the Demon.

This is gross:


She also starred in movies called Sensuous Delights and Domination in Spiked Heels before making Hell Squad her last movie. You might as well go out on top.

The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak is directed by Just Jaeckin. But it doesn't end there! It stars Loi Lam Duc, Kristopher Kum, Chen Chang Ching and Zabou. Just Zabou. In fact Zabou maybe one the most successful people we see Friday. She's now a successful director. Anyway, who knew the Land of Yik Yak would be so full of people with funny names.

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Lustig's Maniac Movies Night

 Here's William Lustig:



He made a small number of movies, mostly in the 80's, but a lot of them are notable.

After starting with a couple of porn movies Lustig really made a splash with 1980's Maniac. It stars Joe Spinell, last seen at Bad Movie Night in Cruising, and Caroline Munro, who's starring in her fifth BMN movie:


Starcrash
Maniac
Slaughter High
Faceless
Don't Open Till Christmas 

Maniac was also the inspiration for the song of the same name from Flashdance with original beginning lyrics:

He's a maniac, maniac that's for sure
He will kill your cat and nail him to the door

This sounds like a joke but it's not. The remake is in post-production, slated for a 2013 release, and stars Elijah Wood. This sounds like a joke but it's not.

Maniac Cop stars everybody. Tom Atkins,


Escape from New York 
Desperate Lives
Creepshow
Halloween III: Season of the Witch 
Night of the Creeps 
Maniac Cop
Drive Angry

Bruce Campbell, Richard Roundtree, William Smith, Robert Z'Dar, George 'Buck' Flower,


Massacre Mafia Style
Escape from New York 
Maniac Cop 
Mac and Me
They Live
Blood Games

and the lady that played Kramer's mom.

Nowadays William Lustig runs Blue Underground, a home video company that has brought us Anguish, Nightmare City, Q - The Winged Serpent, Rats: Night of Terror and Zombie.

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They Came Back Wrong

Stank Edition

Japanese Movie Night

Our Nipponese friends have had some great movies at BMN. Hausu was a big hit. Battle Royale beat The Hunger Games to the child-killing punch. Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice was shown at Penis Movie Night. And The Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds and Godzilla's Revenge round out what Japan might be most famous for, big rubber monster movies.

But here we are nearing two years without a Godzilla movie. Unless you count the costume in Hollywood Boulevard:

 

So we should watch Destroy All Monsters because it's the The Expendables of monster movies. In that I'm pretty sure Mickey Rourke is in the Rodan costume.

 

Wild Zero stars the band Guitar Wolf as themselves. In that way this is the Head


 of Sci-Fi zombie musicals.

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