
May 24, 2013
Trailer 895 of 895
No, really--not B-Girls, but BEE Girls! BZZZZZZ! "They'll love the very life out of your body!" A bevy of sultry sirens turned mutated insect women prey on the male population in this gonzo sci fi epic, the last feature from usually sober-minded director/ documentarian/ Oscar winner Denis Sanders. Reissued as Graveyard Tramps(!). The full movie can be seen here. NSFW
There's a fascinating essay on the complexities of this film in The American Reader by Tony Tulathimutte which can be accessed here: http://theamericanreader. om/the-curses-the-fates-the-races-the-fakes-the-faces-the-names-of-the-game-of-death-or-the-game-of-death/
I first heard of this movie my first semester in college when my French instructor used her having seen it on TV the previous weekend to form an example sentence. I think I probably saw it on the same show a year or two later (although not uncut) and agreeing it was pretty good for an early '70s low-budget sci-fi movie, certainly a step above something like Track of the Moon Beast or The Blood Waters of Dr...
The link to the full film doesn't work. But this flick was recently on Netflix Instant, and may be...
I had the fortune of seeing Poison Ivy in the theatre (albeit a second-run dollar theatre) during its original release. I think I saw a trailer for it at a showing of Bill Duke's Deep Cover, and I think Poison Ivy only played for a week first-run...
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