Posts tagged Greydon Clark

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IMPOSSIBLY FUNKY!: Beyond The Valley Of The Film ‘Zines

If you’re of a cer­tain age and into fol­low­ing cult movies, chances are you’ve bought plenty of ‘zines.  Before the inter­net changed com­mu­ni­ca­tion within sub­cul­tures, these self-made pub­li­ca­tions were the way to get infor­ma­tion on your under­ground hobby of choice with­out any of the filtering/softening-down that often comes with main­stream pub­li­ca­tions.  In fair­ness to the More >

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WITHOUT WARNING: It Came From Beyond… To Stalk & Slash

After the one-two punch of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and Star Wars, film­mak­ers look­ing for a com­mer­cially exploitable hook came down with a big case of “space fever.”  Those on the low-budget end of the spec­trum didn’t have the resources for tricky visual effects or elab­o­rate space­ship mod­els but still man­aged to find More >

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HI-RIDERS: An Exploitation Combo Platter, Greydon Clark-Style

If you’re an exploita­tion film fan and you haven’t explored the work of Greydon Clark, you really ought to do so.  He churned out a string of inter­est­ing low-budget flicks dur­ing the 1970’s and 1980’s that dis­tin­guished them­selves by exploit­ing more than one trend or genre at once.  For instance, Joysticks crosses the early 1980’s More >

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Schlock-Wire: VCI To Release A Greydon Clark Drive-In Double Feature, HI-RIDERS and THE BAD BUNCH

Your Humble Reviewer has always been a fan of Greydon Clark’s 1970’s and early 1980’s work as an exploita­tion film­maker so it’s a plea­sure to post this 2-for-1 DVD news.  Hi-Riders is an action flick that deliv­ers plenty of car and motor­cy­cle stunts, crisply lensed by future John Carpenter d.p. Dean Cundey, and The Bad More >