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I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE AND OTHER CLASSICS Reprinted from JOE BOB GOES BACK TO THE DRIVE-IN While nothing can come close to duplicating the inimitable Drive-In experience, going to the videotape is the next best thing. I heartily recommend these classics-true Drive-In material-for every home library:
But "Spit" is the most feminist drive-in movie ever made. The most likely thing that'll happen after a man watches this flick-especially the bathtub scene-is he won't be able to walk straight for a week. A combination of "Deliverance," "Death Wish" and "Straw Dogs," this one has the second-best title of the '70s (the best is "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre") and is a category all unto its ownself. Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor and Richard Pace all give Drive-ln Academy Award performances-especially Tabor, who is the finest crudhead slimeball woman-hater ever portrayed on the big screen. The speech this guy gives about why it was necessary for him to rape Camille is a classic, and Meir Zarchi-one of those directors who is world renowned for just one movie, this one-develops every single scene so that, even though you already sorta know what's gonna happen, you're always surprised by what really does happen. The flick also has the best ad line in history: "This woman just chopped, burned, maimed and mutilated four men beyond recognition-and no jury in the world would convict her." A 94 on the Vomit Meter. Screenwriting Hall of Fame, for the following line, spoken by a drunk rapist standing over a battered, corpselike woman: "Total submission. That's what I like in a woman. Total submission." "Sybil Danning's Adventure Video": This is a bunch of drive-in movies with ripaway bra queen Sybil Danning stuck on the front end of 'em, and usually Sybil is the only decent thing to look at on the whole reel. One exception: "Fast Money," the ultimate dope-deal movie, made in Austin in 1981 for about 50 cents, never seen in theaters, featuring an incredible gonzo acidhead performance by Lou Perry, who also appears as the dead-but-still-blubberin' radio-station engineer in "Saw 2." "She-Devils on
Wheels": A hard-to-find 1968 classic
about a female biker gang called the Man-Eaters,
who wear pink pussycats with bow ties on their
leather jackets and have a daily race to see who
gets first pick from the "stud line." Joe Bob says check 'em all out. |