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This Stuff'll Kill Ya! (1971)
A fun hillbilly semiogore film.... FROM HG LEWS!
This is fun little movie right here but it would have been an 8 or an 8.5 if it was about 80 minutes instead of 100. A couple scenes just drag on a little to long, and there are a few scenes which could have been taken out to make the film better. But even with the bad editing this is still a fun movie to watch. First we have hillbilly shenenigans. Crazy preachers selling whiskey to everyone, isiah weddings, car chases, moonshining. By now, after making 2000 maniacs and moonshine mountain, HG Lewis knew how film the hillbilly way. NExt we get some great hillbilly music. This might be blasphemy to some HG Lewis fans but I think the main song in this movie (one more swig of moonshine) is even better than the 2000 maniacs theme. The bassist for the band who plays the song looks like a retarded Mal Arnold (fuad ramses from blood feast). And finally, while not being a typical HG Lewis gore film, we get some cool scenes of violence. One of the better special effects in the entire HG lewis catalogue is in this film where a girl gets stoned (not that kind of stoned) and its brutally convincing. Probably the funniest scene in the film occurs near the end where ray Sager's head gets blown off. The explosion is so quick (maybe 3/10 of a second) but if you freeze frame or put it in slow motion you can actually see the mask they use to depict Sager's head, then you can see the styra foam head filled with blood and brains. a lesson in special effects.
A Taste of Blood (1967)
Maybe not for the casual viewer, but def. for exploitation diehards.
PRobably HG's most ambitious project even more so than 200 maniacs, and I really loved it. It is very talky but unlike other HG and exploitation flicks the acting from bill rogers and willy kerwin is quite good and makes you care about the characters and what they have to say. Since its an HG flick we have some gore but its not one of his intensive gore flicks. There is a great scenes where the vampire stone takes a nice chunk out of a stripper dancer. I do have to point out however that almost all of HG Lewis flicks have a certain style to them to make you know its an HG Lewis flick. There's the out of focus closeups, lingering gore scenes, but there is also these horrendous day-for-night shots. This movie is no exception to that as the last 20 minutes feature some of the worst day-for-night shots ever filmed. Bad movie lovers and exploitation fans should be very pleased.
Zombi 2 (1979)
Soap Opera Filter gore film
For gore fans this is a must see. When i watched this film I was a gore hound(not into it that much anymore)and the gore scenes were cool but by the time it got around to the gore I was so bored it didn't really care. For those of who you know Italian style film-making its very melodramatic like a soap opera. In fact Zombie, and mostly all of fulci's films, looks like its been shot wit ha soap opera filter. Very dreamy faded quality which equals to extreme boredom because the dialogue and acting are bad. Thats what separates boring itlian films from not boring. This dreamy quality to the picture can really drag a film down if the acting, script is bad. Thats what separates Italian and American exploitation horror films. Bad American movies are cheesy, and fun to watch. Bad Italian movies are really bad and boring to watch.