22 January 2011

Movie day!!!

Opening with the classic Roger Corman, Big Bad Mama.

Roger Corman movies are usually described with words such as 'bad', 'shocking' etc. This one is set in depression era dustbowl America. So far (10mins) there has been a shotgun wedding - hijacked, a car chase, a gun fight, and cleavage. Corman FTW ! Mama, and Barney, hook their daughters up for weddings, take the gifts of money, then run at the alter. Tragedy has struck, and not just to the script, but praise god, mama has a plan! Bootleg liquor, whiskey n wine. And breasts. And a gun.
It's quite well shot, and the plot (so far) is making sense. There may have money for this movie, which makes for odd viewing for a Corman.
Wow, mama is *really* resourceful. And everyman is a sleazy bastard, Corman as feminist icon, now there's a concept that needs exploring more.
More car chases, Bonnie n Clyde, but cool, money changing hands faster than a bankers bonus, sleazy sax solos, and it doesn't outstay it's welcome. A good 8/10 for this one.

Oh yeah and it has William Shatner. Shatner is, emoting, ohyeah.

"Get ya hand off ma' tit Barney"
"Ya hired girls, take a few bucks outta the kitty, get yaself something you can strip outta quicker"
"I never felt the titties of a millionaire before"



And now, Andy Milligan 'Seeds of Sin', a man who makes Corman look like an auteur. It takes a special kind of person to watch Milligan, there is no plot, storylines are entirely arbitrary, lighting/directing/acting are, ideally, done by the same person. Voices speak off camera, then pan across to see their lips move (after the voices have stopped).
The movie includes sex scenes. These have nothing to do with the story. Indeed, the actors in the sex scenes don't appear in the story. That alone should give you an idea how structured Milligan movies are.
I'm 15mins in, and it's going to be tough lasting the full 78mins. Help!

Ohhh it would be superb if the Bad Seeds were named after this movie.

Everyone is dying. Not those who are shagging, obviously, but everyone else. Their acting improves at that point. This appears to be orchestrated by the wheelchair bound mother, and a man with an eyepatch. The mother looks like the mother in BrainDead, wouldn't it be superb if Jackson had been inspired by Milligan? Maybe The Mad Monk was a direct inspiration for the filming of LotR? Yes, I think we'll take that one as fact. Tell your friends, update Wikipedia, someone tell Jackson. Let's launch a global awareness programme.

I'm not even going to try to rate this.

From Something Weird video:
The good news: we've found an early, formerly lost, sex-filled horror film by ANDY MILLIGAN. The bad news: we've found an early, formerly lost, sex-filled horror film by Andy Milligan.

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