The always-dynamic director Jack Hill goes teen-gang wild with this absolutely crazy take on Jd pictures, pitched three octaves higher than normal exploitation drama. All the nasty-rasty thrills are here, from an episode of Wip sadism to brutal misogyny to a gang skirmish fought on a roller skating rink. What began as one of those exploitation cheapies with three women, comes alive with the dynamic Robbie Lee, Joanne Nail and Monica Gayle — even with all the sexist cruelty on view, the no-limits performances feel liberating, energizing. Hill’s gang epic is so stylized, it’s almost a fantasy. With some good interview and analysis extras.
Switchblade Sisters
Blu-ray
Arrow Video
1975 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 91 min. / Street Date April 27, 2021 / The Jezebels Available from Arrow Video / 39.95
Starring: Robbie Lee, Joanne Nail, Monica Gayle, Asher Brauner, Chase Newhart, Marlene Clark, Kitty Bruce, Janice Karman, Don Stark, Don Marino, Helene Nelson, Bill Adler, Paul Lichtman,...
Switchblade Sisters
Blu-ray
Arrow Video
1975 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 91 min. / Street Date April 27, 2021 / The Jezebels Available from Arrow Video / 39.95
Starring: Robbie Lee, Joanne Nail, Monica Gayle, Asher Brauner, Chase Newhart, Marlene Clark, Kitty Bruce, Janice Karman, Don Stark, Don Marino, Helene Nelson, Bill Adler, Paul Lichtman,...
- 4/27/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
“No, let me give you some advice, cop. You can beat us, chain us, lock us up. But we’re gonna be back, understand? And when we do, cop, you better keep your ass off our turf, or we’ll Blow It Off! Ya dig? We’re Jezebels, cop – remember that name. We’ll be back!”
Jack Hill’s Switchblade Sisters (1975) will be available on Blu-ray April 20th From Arrow Video
The Wildest Girl Gang That Ever Blasted The Streets!
From Jack Hill, legendary director of Spider Baby, Coffy, Foxy Brown, and The Swinging Cheerleaders comes another iconic cult classic, Switchblade Sisters!
Lace (Robbie Lee), the leader of inner city girl gang The Dagger Debs, meets her match when new girl Maggie (Joanne Nail) moves into the neighborhood. Mistrust and conflict turn to friendship as the girls end up in Juvenile Detention together at the mercy of abusive guards. Meanwhile,...
Jack Hill’s Switchblade Sisters (1975) will be available on Blu-ray April 20th From Arrow Video
The Wildest Girl Gang That Ever Blasted The Streets!
From Jack Hill, legendary director of Spider Baby, Coffy, Foxy Brown, and The Swinging Cheerleaders comes another iconic cult classic, Switchblade Sisters!
Lace (Robbie Lee), the leader of inner city girl gang The Dagger Debs, meets her match when new girl Maggie (Joanne Nail) moves into the neighborhood. Mistrust and conflict turn to friendship as the girls end up in Juvenile Detention together at the mercy of abusive guards. Meanwhile,...
- 3/28/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
As Scream Factory continues to diversify their slate of releases — most recently striking a licensing deal with Warner Bros. at long last, resulting in more John Carpenter titles joining the lineup — one of the exciting parts of the company continues to be their commitment to giving smaller, lesser-known catalogue titles the HD treatment. They’re not always great, but they’re always worth checking out.
First up is Nightmare at Noon from Greek madman Nico Mastorakis, the director responsible for Island of Death, The Zero Boys, and Hired to Kill. Part crazy action movie, part zombie outbreak movie, Nightmare at Noon finds a small town’s water supply being tainted by a mad scientist, which turns all those who drink it into crazed, mutated monsters. If that premise doesn’t grab you — and as a genre fan, it probably should — the cast is pure B-movie heaven: Wings Hauser, Bo Hopkins,...
First up is Nightmare at Noon from Greek madman Nico Mastorakis, the director responsible for Island of Death, The Zero Boys, and Hired to Kill. Part crazy action movie, part zombie outbreak movie, Nightmare at Noon finds a small town’s water supply being tainted by a mad scientist, which turns all those who drink it into crazed, mutated monsters. If that premise doesn’t grab you — and as a genre fan, it probably should — the cast is pure B-movie heaven: Wings Hauser, Bo Hopkins,...
- 5/7/2018
- by Patrick Bromley
- DailyDead
Cars! Cars! Cars! What climate accord, when we’re celebrating the internal combustion engine! One of the best of the breezy ’70s action comedies, this cross-country road race picture gave us early looks at Gary Busey and Raul Julia in the midst of an always-amusing ensemble of car crazies, out to go from Manhattan to the Pacific in less than two days, at speeds up 175 mph! No 55 speed limit, no catalytic converters!
The Gumball Rally
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1976 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 107 min. / Street Date June 13, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Michael Sarrazin, Raul Julia, Norman Burton, Gary Busey, John Durren, Susan Flannery, Harvey Jason, Steven Keats,
Tim McIntire, Joanne Nail, J. Pat O’Malley, Tricia O’Neil, Nicholas Pryor, Vaughn Taylor, Wally Taylor, Colleen Camp, Lazaro Perez, Med Flory, Lauren Simon, .
Cinematography: Richard C. Glouner
Film Editors: Stuart H. Pappé Gordon Scott, Maury Wintrobe
Original Music: Dominic Frontiere
Written by Chuck Bail,...
The Gumball Rally
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1976 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 107 min. / Street Date June 13, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Michael Sarrazin, Raul Julia, Norman Burton, Gary Busey, John Durren, Susan Flannery, Harvey Jason, Steven Keats,
Tim McIntire, Joanne Nail, J. Pat O’Malley, Tricia O’Neil, Nicholas Pryor, Vaughn Taylor, Wally Taylor, Colleen Camp, Lazaro Perez, Med Flory, Lauren Simon, .
Cinematography: Richard C. Glouner
Film Editors: Stuart H. Pappé Gordon Scott, Maury Wintrobe
Original Music: Dominic Frontiere
Written by Chuck Bail,...
- 6/3/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Stars: Mel Ferrer, Paige Conner, Shelley Winters, Lance Henriksen, John Huston, Sam Peckinpah, Glenn Ford, Joanne Nail, Wallace Wilkinson | Written by Louciano Comici, Robert Mundi | Directed by Giulio Paradisi
Some films just defy explanation, even to the point that to some people they are just a mess. These films are often labelled as bad, yet they tend to build up a legend around them and gain a cult status just for the insanity you see on the screen. The Visitor is a film that was made with The Exorcist very much on the mind of its makers, but what we end up with is something truly…special.
Looking at the IMDb page for The Visitor the description of the film states that John Huston stars as an intergalactic warrior. This warrior comes to Earth at the request of a Jesus-like character to battle against a demonic 8-year-old girl (Paige Conner...
Some films just defy explanation, even to the point that to some people they are just a mess. These films are often labelled as bad, yet they tend to build up a legend around them and gain a cult status just for the insanity you see on the screen. The Visitor is a film that was made with The Exorcist very much on the mind of its makers, but what we end up with is something truly…special.
Looking at the IMDb page for The Visitor the description of the film states that John Huston stars as an intergalactic warrior. This warrior comes to Earth at the request of a Jesus-like character to battle against a demonic 8-year-old girl (Paige Conner...
- 10/7/2014
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
The Visitor (Stridulum)
Directed by Giulio Paradisi
Written by Luciano Comici
USA/Italy, 1979
This Euro-American science fiction horror clusterfuck was directed by professional body builder Giulio Paradisi (credited as Michael J. Paradise), who made four other films, but is best known for shooting second-unit footage on Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2. It was the brain child of producer Ovidio G. Assonitis – known for his poor quality attempts at cashing in on box office gold by cloning Hollywood’s biggest hits. Assonitis was a hack, with a reputation for producing flagrant knock-offs like the 1977 Jaws rip-off Tentacles (starring John Huston and Shelley Winters) – and Beyond the Door, the most successful of numerous Italian horror films produced in the wake of The Exorcist. In the dawn of ’70s American blockbusters, European production companies emerged stateside, attempting to emulate the success of their American counterparts. Of the hundreds of these films produced, The Visitor is...
Directed by Giulio Paradisi
Written by Luciano Comici
USA/Italy, 1979
This Euro-American science fiction horror clusterfuck was directed by professional body builder Giulio Paradisi (credited as Michael J. Paradise), who made four other films, but is best known for shooting second-unit footage on Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2. It was the brain child of producer Ovidio G. Assonitis – known for his poor quality attempts at cashing in on box office gold by cloning Hollywood’s biggest hits. Assonitis was a hack, with a reputation for producing flagrant knock-offs like the 1977 Jaws rip-off Tentacles (starring John Huston and Shelley Winters) – and Beyond the Door, the most successful of numerous Italian horror films produced in the wake of The Exorcist. In the dawn of ’70s American blockbusters, European production companies emerged stateside, attempting to emulate the success of their American counterparts. Of the hundreds of these films produced, The Visitor is...
- 1/19/2014
- by Ricky da Conceição
- SoundOnSight
Back in the ancient days of the late 1970s and early 1980s, there were several Italian film producers who A) pinched a lot of pennies, B) slapped together some outlandishly bad movies, and C) borrowed, lifted, or outright stole entire plots from American films. (Look up an old Jaws knock-off called Great White to see how bad things got.) Most of these films were laughable and entirely forgettable, but there were also a handful that managed to combine bad filmmaking with some pretty amusing patchwork material -- and a lot of these films had (at the very least) some scenes or ensembles that still make them amusing today.
One such example is Giulio Paradisi's 1979 wacko masterpiece The Visitor, which comes from prolific schlock-producer Ovidio G. Assonitis (his non-classics includes Tentacles, Beyond the Door, and 1974's Super Stooges vs. the Wonder Women, yes really). Here we have a 1979 rip-off extraordinaire...
One such example is Giulio Paradisi's 1979 wacko masterpiece The Visitor, which comes from prolific schlock-producer Ovidio G. Assonitis (his non-classics includes Tentacles, Beyond the Door, and 1974's Super Stooges vs. the Wonder Women, yes really). Here we have a 1979 rip-off extraordinaire...
- 11/1/2013
- by Scott Weinberg
- FEARnet
Drafthouse Films has sent along the new trailer for 1979 re-release of The Visitor sci-fi horror. This is the first-time theatrical full-length cut of the film starring John Huston, Mel Ferrer, Lance Henriksen, Shelley Winters, Glenn Ford, Franco Nero, Sam Peckinpah, Joanne Nail and Paige Conner. In this unforgettable assault on reality--restored and presented uncut theatrically for the first time ever in the U.S.--legendary Hollywood director/actor John Huston (The Maltese Falcon; Treasure Of The Sierra Madre) stars as an intergalactic warrior who joins a cosmic Christ figure in battle against a demonic 8-year-old girl, and her pet hawk, while the fate of the universe hangs in the balance. Multi-dimensional warfare, pre-adolescent...
- 10/30/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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