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Really Awful Movies: Ep 77 – Class of 1984

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Orwell’s 1984 envisioned a sinister dystopia where everyone answered to a central, totalitarian authority. In Class of 1984, it’s lack of authority that’s the problem: a bunch of kids running roughshod over a highschool.

Mr Norris is the new music teacher at a problem school, rife not with sax and violins, but sex and violence. As he arrives on his first day, he meets fellow teacher Mr. Corrigan (McDowell) who packs heat to deal with the dangerous ruffians.

This film predated the ubiquity of metal detectors in North American schools.

It’s a fun, exploitation flick, shot in Toronto and featuring the debut appearance of one Michael J. Fox.

Quite shocking for its time, this one holds up really well today. Cut class, meet us behind the bleachers for a smoke and join us for a chat.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 76 – Kiss Me Quick

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What is a nudie cutie? We delve into that very topic with Something Weird Video’s release Kiss Me Quick. The nudie cutie is an odd sub-genre from the 1960s, featuring monsters and burlesque dancers and bad Vaudeville jokes. Producers, looking to cash in on more permissive attitudes, sought to stuff their films full of salacious images – go-go-dancing, pasties – with no consideration for plot development.
In Kiss Me Quick, the planet Buttless is a male-only planet. The leader of the planet sends his emissary to earth to find “the perfect female specimen.”

There’s a mad scientist named Dr Breedlove. He’s got a lab to create the perfect woman.

That gives you an idea of the kind of thing we’re dealing with!

The nudie cutie had a very fleeting run before its ilk was replaced by mainstream cinema’s acceptance of nudity. It’s fun, silly escapism. We put the sub genre in context in this edition of the Really Awful Movies Podcast.

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 67 – The Big Doll House

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Entering women’s prison territory in this week’s episode.

The Big Doll House is a 1971 American women in prison (WiP) film, produced by the one and only Roger Corman and starring the incomparable Pam Grier.

Filmed in the Philippines (one of our favorite locales) and directed by the talented Jack Hill (Coffy/Foxy Brown), Big Doll House also features the amazing Sid Haig (The Devil’s Rejects).

The plot is about as skimpy as the inmates’ attire: an inmate, Collier, is found guilty of murdering her husband and introduced to the joint. Therein is a cadre of some of the more beautiful jailbirds you’ll ever see – forget the gritty realism of Orange is the New Black. Collier’s cellies include a political dissident and an addict in the throes of heroin withdrawal. And this motley crew, which includes the domineering Pam Grier (as Grear) plots their escape with help from two dim-witted males inexplicably granted prison-wide access to deliver fruit.

Because this is a WiP, there’s a sadistic prison guard and inmates are hosed down, some would say unnecessarily (we won’t). Corman and Hill basically wrote the rules of the WiP genre with this one. Great stuff!