Extra Weird Sampler DVD

This DVD must be nearly four hours long, and for only $5, at Virgin on Times Square in NYC. It's the weirdest DVD I've ever watched, and a must get. It has more than 100 (mostly) trailers of some of the craziest, goriest and comically near pornographic movies from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s that must have played in out of the way art houses in NYC. It's a sampler of DVDs in the Something Weird series.

Sample movie titles:

Please Don't Eat My Mother
The Wizard of Gore
The Gore Gore Girls
She Freak
Asylum of Satan

And so on.... ahh, the good old days when people could just make any movie they wanted, no holds barred, to a point.

 

I always wanted to do a thread of funny porn titles but didn't know if the Gorts would let me:

The Wizard of Ahhhhhs
Shaving Ryan's Privates
Debbie Does Dylan

etc......

Evan

 

...Or what yer pornstar name would be....

That DVD sounds tittilating - I need to see this!

 

The Wizard of Gore and The Gore Gore Girls are from the great Hershall Gordon Lewis!, far from pornograhic by any means. if you can, check out Hershall's 2,000 Maniacs! Bluegrass and Gore! Hershall wrote the theme song and sings on the theme song. Killer!

 

We picked this up for a laugh a few weeks ago, and sat there all night throwing out MST3K-like lines out while watching it. The freaky part was when the scene from Satan's Bed came on, and a familiar looking Asian woman appeared on screen. Immediately, both Frodis and I shouted "Yoko?", not thinking for a million years that it could really be her. Well, a day or two later, I looked it up, and damned if it really WAS Yoko Ono in an early film role! Done about the time John Lennon was making Help!.

"Extra Weird" is right!

 

I've got this DVD too; laff-riot. It took me about three nights to watch the whole thing.

I would never want to actually watch any of these movies; most films that people claim to be "so bad it's good" are funny for about 10 minutes and then just inept and depressing and boring. That's why a collection of previews is so perfect.

 

Indeed, and the individual DVDs are super-expensive in Montreal-between $24.99 and $32.99. BTW, Country Cuzzins seems to be the most porno-like, it even has glimpses of male genitalia. Not to mention terrible stereotypes of American Southerners.

 

"I would never want to actually watch any of these movies; most films that people claim to be "so bad it's good" are funny for about 10 minutes and then just inept and depressing and boring."

I agree, some of the previews seem to indicate there ain't much of a story otherwise. One hilarious scene, in the Wizard of Gore, one of the female victims can't keep a straight face as she's having a part of her face removed.

 

It was also a time of zero sensitivities-there was something to offend nearly everyone-gays, Southerners, Arabs, etc.

 

Yea, When did things change.?

 

I have some good ones for you!!!

Weapons of a** destruction
Gone in 60 seconds
Glad iator (Figure this one out)

 

Why does that scene with Randal ordering videos in Clerks come to mind?

 

My all time favorite:

Driving Miss Daisy (into the Headboard)

 

And let's not forget 'On Golden Blonde,' 'Sperms of Endearment,' and 'Saturday Night Beaver.' (OK, I made up the last two. But I think 'Golden Blonde' is real.)

 

The book Son of Golden Turkey Awards by Michael and Harry Medved has a chapter devoted to "The Most Shamelessly (and Tastelessly) Derivative Title for a Porno Film." I vote for "E.T.: The Extra Testicle."

Both of the Medved's Golden Turkey books are recommended to fans of bad cinema (if you can find them). They really know their material and have a funny writing style.

 

I've been tempted to buy this in the store. Years ago I got a copy of a similar tape, Sexorama, with a bunch of trailers for movies by Doris Wishman and others - maybe even Russ Meyers.

Variety a few years ago printed their favorite porn title for the year: "Cuckoo for Cocoa C**ks"

Mark