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This is a blazing example of what exploitation can be

posted 15 years ago by son_of_vazkor
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This movie, should you be lucky enough to find it at your local video store or on ebay, is truly one of a kind. It has everything an exploitation movie should have, and nothing superfluous to the genre. Perhaps some "Drive-in Totals," Joe Bob Briggs style, will help you understand:

Number of dry-ice spewing miniature active volcano islands passed off as real islands: 1

Ninja stars thrown to good effect: 5 (IIRC)

Number of enormous, magnificent, natural, fully bared breasts on display: no less than 6

Percentage of screen time aforementioned breasts are bared: roughly 40%

Number of puns included in dialogue: countless

Number of bad guys played by Angus Scrimm of "Phantasm" fame: 1

Tan guys with bitchin 70's mustache-fu

Women in prison-fu

Harmless gay man humor-fu

Women power-fu

1 decapitation

1 giant mechanical penis cannon

Female mud wrestling to the death

Note: I was thoroughly ripped on malt liquor for the entire movie so the above details may not be 100% accurate. But trust me when I say that I have captured the spirit of the thing.

OK, so I ripped off Joe Bob's schtick but really, if you're a fan of exploitation cinema, this is not only a must-see but a must-buy. My local video store, god bless them, has this on VHS and I am going to burn it to CD tonight so I'll have it forever and ever. This is a gem.

[–] dalldorfw 13 years ago

Nice Joe Bob Briggs homage.

[–] Woodyanders 10 years ago

Agreed. This film was a lot of campy fun.

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[–] m-slovak79 7 years ago

I just viewed it for the first time a moment ago (on Feb 2nd 2017) and overall i mildly like it as at the end of the day it's a movie ill see again which is a little surprising as these types of movies (exploitation) are almost always not good from what little i have seen here and there.

with that said... i think the movie could have been a little longer as, maybe it's just me, but the movie feels a little rushed late into the movie. i figure maybe another 10-20minutes longer would have been about right. also, the movie takes a little while to get going, maybe something like 20-25min, before it hits it's stride.

6/10 (a mild Thumbs Up)

p.s. i viewed it in HD ;)

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