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Sleazoid Express|Bill Landis

Sleazoid Express : A Mind-Twisted Tour Though the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square

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Warning: Watch your wallets and stay out of the bathroom
In a bygone era, when Times Square was crammed with porn shops, gun stores, and drug pushers, disenfranchised moviegoers flocked to the grindhouses along 42nd Street. If the gore epics, women-in-prison films, and shockumentaries showcased within their mildewed walls didn't live up to their outrageous billing, the audience shouted, threw food, and even vandalized the theaters. For dedicated lovers of extreme cinema, buying a movie ticket on the Deuce meant putting your life on the line.
Authors Bill Landis and Michelle Clifford came to know those grindhouses better than anyone else, and although the theaters were gone by the mid-1980s, the films remained. In Sleazoid Express, Landis and Clifford reproduce what no home video can -- the experience of watching an exploitation film in its original fight-for-your-life Deuce setting. Both a travelogue of the infamous grindhouses of yore and a comprehensive overview of the sleaze canon, Sleazoid Express offers detailed reviews of landmark exploitation classics and paints intimate portraits of directors whose notorious creations played the back end of triple bills for years on end. With wit, intelligence, and an unflinching eye, Landis and Clifford offer the definitive document of cinema's most intense and shocking moments as they came to life at a legendary place.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780743215831
  • ISBN-10: 0743215834
  • Publisher: Touchstone Books
  • Publish Date: December 2002
  • Dimensions: 9.83 x 6.98 x 0.72 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.25 pounds
  • Page Count: 336

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