Disco scores in movies out on dvd now

[JussiK]

If you didn't find that gay porn movie with pounding disco in it, here's a couple of films of a different nature that do contain 70's boogie tunes in their soundtracks, and are out now on region one dvds:

"Brutes and Savages" - so-so American mondo doc trying to cash in on the 42nd st success of Italian shockumentaries, with mostly fake material.

"House at the Edge of the Park" aka la Casa Sperduta Nel Parco. Tight vicious shocker from Italy, with David Hess of Last House In The Left infamy. See an unhinged disco dancer terrorize socialites with a tinny eurodisco tune, plus more mayhem

"Amuck" aka All Ricera del Piacere - during a groovy party scene nearly nude woman smokes haschisch cigarettes and gyrates for several minutes to Theo Usuelli's "Piacere Sequence", a fab tune with a deep breathy female voice growling the single word "sexually" over and over again while the excitement mounts.

and naturally "Emanuelle in America" by Joe D'Amato/Aristide Massaccesi - a brilliant Nico Fidenco score, sleazy midtempo beats, strings, great stuff!

[paul]

Hi Jussi.
It's been years since I caught an Emanuelle film. In fact, the last time I even talked about it was here with Boodi. Anyway I clicked on the link for the film you mentioned. It sounds very interesting but I have just one reservation. I didn't see this Emanuelle before and I was wondering just graphic was the breast hacking scene mentioned in one of the reviews?

[Videoskooter]

Jussi, do you know a 70's movie where the plot was: "many youngsters are slaughtered by a mysterious killer on (I think) Venice Beach". I remember this one since the whole pic featured a great discogroove where the repeated phrase was "....on the boulevard". It certainly wasn't a big release but maybe it rings a bell?

Paul, are you a Laura Gemser-fan??? :D

http://www.cultsirens.com/gemser/gemser.htm

(BTW just bought the two DVD's of "Cleopatra Jones", great music, great Kung-Fu and a gorgeous woman!)

[paul]

Hey Johan.
Yep, I do like Laura Gemser :D :P
I haven't seen her in over ten years.
There are 2 DVDs for Cleopatra Jones?

[Videoskooter]

Yes,

- "Cleopatra Jones", the original from 1973
- "Cleopatra Jones And The Casino Of Gold" from 1975.

Both with "MMMh" Tamara Dobson and both available on DVD.

[JussiK]

Hi Jussi.
I was wondering just graphic was the breast hacking scene mentioned in one of the reviews?

Well, should we get as low as to actually rate breast hacking scenes on a scale of 1 to ten ( :o ), it would get a nine, not ten due to the graininess of the image. "Faccia di Spia", a semi-doc about US involvement in Central America, is probably the winner, while "Soldier Blue" would perhaps only merit a five, while Umberto Lenzi's turgid "Nightmare City/Incubo sulla Citta Incontaminata" would barely get a four....but then again, in "Nightmare City" the zombie attack gets underway during a tv studio broadcast of a show called "Disco Music", with lots of dancers in leotards and a cheesy little tune. This pic is out on dvd as well, all regions. - Note that in addition to scenes showing people dressed in fetching fashions cocktailing the night away to Fidenco's sounds, "Emanuelle in America" also contains misuse of a meat hook and brief h/c scenes, one involving a horse.

Young people getting slaughtered on a Venice Beach, meaning Venice, California as opposed to Venezia, Italy? Was this an American production? Who or what did the slashing, was it a maniac or a monster? Most films depicting young people getting killed in a row were made during the early 80's following the success of the Friday The 13th films, not during the 70's. Despite "Halloween" the seventies didn't really see too many teens in peril until around 1979 when "Prom Night", "Phantasm" etc started doing big box office. "Welcome To Arrow Beach" wasn't set on that particular beach as far as I could tell, nor was "Humanoids From The Deep" or "Spring Break" but "Blood Beach" definitely was, though again the period was early 80's, and the victims were of all ages. The culprit was revealed to be a sort of a large sand worm buried in the ground, sucking in old and young alike and castrating a character during the opening scenes.

[Videoskooter]

Jussik, OMG it's so long ago :oops:

It involved many scenes with cars "cruisin' down the boulevard" (that were the lyrics BTW) and youngsters who were tricking cops. That's almost all I can tell you (these things happened in so many movies but the music had that hypnotising sound with the words as described above).

I know this is very difficult but I was gambling that it was a known movie that time or that the song would ring a bell.

THX anyway!

[paul]

Thanks Jussi :)
I ask because while I love Laura, I'm a little put off by slasher movies. I'm more into eroticism. Perhaps I'll see it anyway and draw my own conclusion.