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Gods In Polyester: A Survivors' Account Of 70's Cinema Obscura is a cult film

Cult film

A cult film, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but specific group of fans. Often, cult movies have failed to achieve fame outside the small fanbases; however, there have been exceptions that have managed to gain fame among mainstream audiences...

book covering mainly American obscure, low-budget, and independent film

Independent film

An independent film, or indie film, is a professional film production resulting in a feature film that is produced mostly or completely outside of the major film studio system. In addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies, independent films are also produced...

horror

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

, sci-fi, exploitation film

Exploitation film

Exploitation film is a type of film that is promoted by "exploiting" often lurid subject matter. The term "exploitation" is common in film marketing, used for all types of films to mean promotion or advertising. These films then need something to exploit, such as a big star, special effects, sex,...

, Blaxploitation

Blaxploitation

Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is a film genre which emerged in the United States circa 1970. It is considered an ethnic sub-genre of the general category of exploitation films. Blaxploitation films were originally made specifically for an urban black audience, although the genre's audience...

, Spaghetti Western

Spaghetti Western

Spaghetti Western, also known as Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's unique and much copied film-making style and international box-office success, so named by American critics because most were produced and...

, and action film

Action film

Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases...

s that were created between 1970 and 1981.

This book was published by Succubus Press in 2004. This publishing company was based in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

, Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. This book was compiled and edited by Suzanne Donahue and Mikael Sovijärvi.

This book is told entirely in the words of the actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

s, directors

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

, producers

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

, and cinematographers who made these films.

Contributors

Ed Adlum Invasion Of The Blood Farmers, Shriek Of The Mutilated

Shriek of the Mutilated

Shriek of the Mutilated is a 1974 American horror film directed by Michael Findlay, also known as Mutilated and Scream of the Snowbeast.-Plot:...

Laurel Barnett The Child

George Barry Death Bed: The Bed That Eats

Death Bed: The Bed That Eats

Death Bed: The Bed That Eats is a 1977 one-off horror film written, produced, and directed by George Barry.-Plot:A large, black, four-poster bed, possessed by a demon, is passed from owner to owner. The Demon was a tree, who became a breeze and seemingly fell in love with a woman he blew past. The...

Margaret Blye Final Chapter: Walking Tall, The Sporting Club, The Machine Gun Kelly Story

Lynn Borden

Lynn Borden

Lynn Borden is an American actress best known for her role as "Barbara Baxter" in the final season of the Shirley Booth sitcom Hazel, which aired on CBS from 1965 to 1966.-Background:...

Walking Tall

Walking Tall is a 1973 semi-biopic of Sheriff Buford Pusser, a former professional wrestler-turned-lawman in McNairy County, Tennessee. It starred Joe Don Baker as Pusser...

Don Dohler

Donald Michael Dohler was an American film director known for making low-budget science fiction and horror films as well as work in underground comix and publishing.-Early life:...

Fiend, The Alien Factor

The Alien Factor

The Alien Factor is a 1976 B-grade science fiction film directed and written by Baltimore low-budget filmmaker Don Dohler. The film begins with a young teenage couple making out in a car when an insect looking monster attacks. The local sheriff must find out what's causing the killings. Meanwhile,...

Robert DoQui

Robert DoQui was an American actor who starred in film and on television. He is best known for his role as King George in the 1973 film Coffy, starring Pam Grier, as Sgt. Warren Reed in the 1987 science fiction film RoboCop, the 1990 sequel RoboCop 2, and the 1993 sequel RoboCop 3...

Coffy

- Track listing :# "Coffy Is The Color" - 3:03Vocals – Dee Dee Bridgewater, Roy Ayers, Wayne Garfield# "Priscilla's Theme" - 3:58# "King George" - 3:00Vocals – Roy Ayers# "Aragon" - 2:55# "Coffy Sauna" - 2:16# "King's Last Ride" - 1:10# "Coffy Baby" - 2:26...

, Walking Tall Part II

John P. Dulaney Squadra Antiscippo, Squadra Antitruffa, Squadra Antifurto, The Crystal Man

T.G. Finkbinder The Redeemer

Robert S. Fiveson Parts: The Clonus Horror

Parts: The Clonus Horror

Parts: The Clonus Horror, also known as Clonus, is a 1979 science fiction horror film about an isolated community in a remote desert area, where clones are bred to serve as a source of replacement organs for the wealthy and powerful...

George Buck Flower

George Buck Flower was an American actor, writer, producer, assistant director, production manager, and casting director. He was sometimes credited as Buck Flower, George "Buck" Flower, George Flower, Buck Flowers, C. D. LaFleur, C.D. LaFleure, C.D. Lafleuer, and C.D...

The Capture Of Bigfoot, The Alpha Incident

The Alpha Incident

The Alpha Incident is a 1978 American film directed by Bill Rebane.The film is also known as The Alien Incident in Belgium .- Plot summary :...

, Tender Loving Care, Carnal Madness, Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS, Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks

Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks

Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks is a 1976 sexploitation women in prison film, the first sequel to Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS.-Premise:Dyanne Thorne repeats the title role, but this time Ilsa works as head of the harem of Sheikh El Sharif...

, Candy Tangerine Man, Lady Cocoa, The Executioner, The Witch Who Came From The Sea, Flash And The Firecat, Drive-In Massacre

Lawrence D. Foldes

Lawrence D. Foldes

Lawrence D. Foldes is a director and producer. He is separated from producer Victoria Paige Meyerink.He has directed Don't Go Near the Park, Finding Home, Young Warriors, Social Suicide, Nightforce, and The Great Skycopter Rescue...

Don't Go Near The Park

Leo Fong

Leo Fong

Leo Fong is a former Methodist minister, boxer, martial artist, and actor who has been making films, acting and directing since the early 1970s.-Early years:...

The Last Reunion, Ninja Assassins, Bamboo Trap, Blind Rage, Murder In The Orient

Bruce Glover

Bruce Glover

Bruce Herbert Glover is an American character actor, perhaps best known for his portrayal of homosexual assassin Mr. Wint in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever. He is also the father of actor Crispin Glover.-Life and career:...

Black Gunn, Walking Tall

Walking Tall

Walking Tall is a 1973 semi-biopic of Sheriff Buford Pusser, a former professional wrestler-turned-lawman in McNairy County, Tennessee. It starred Joe Don Baker as Pusser...

, Walking Tall Part II, Final Chapter: Walking Tall

Gary Graver

Gary Graver

Gary Graver was an American film director and cinematographer. He was a prolific film-maker but is perhaps best known as Orson Welles' final cinematographer. Under the pseudonym of Robert McCallum he also directed adult films.Graver was born and raised in Portland, Oregon...

Texas Lightning

William Grefe Mako: Jaws Of Death, Stanley, Impulse, Whiskey Mountain

John D. Hancock

John D. Hancock

John D. Hancock is an American stage and film director, producer and writer. He is the son of Ralph and Ella Mae Rosenthal Hancock. His father was a musician with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in Chicago, Illinois and his mother a school teacher. Hancock spent his youth between their home in...

Let's Scare Jessica to Death

Let's Scare Jessica to Death is a 1971 low budget American horror film, directed by John D. Hancock, and starring Zohra Lampert in the title role. The film focuses on a recently institutionalized woman who has various nightmarish experiences after moving to an old farmhouse on a Connecticut island...

Richard Harrison

Richard Harrison (actor)

Richard Harrison is an American B-movie actor and occasionally a writer/director/producer.Harrison was very prolific and worked with most of the better-known names in European B-movies during the 1960s and 1970s, branching out to exploitation films shot all over the world in the early 1970s...

Beast With A Gun, Fireback, Joe Dakota, Achtung! The Desert Tigers, Boxer Rebellion, Marco Polo, Voodoo Baby, Sex Explosion, Reverendo Colt, Churchill's Leopards, Holy Water Joe, Dig Your Grave, Friend...Sabata's Coming, Black Gold Dossier

Ron Honthaner The House on Skull Mountain

The House on Skull Mountain

-Synopsis:After Pauline Christophe, the sole heir for the house/mansion on Skull Mountain dies, four of her family members are called to hear her will. Upon arrival, each of the guests is stalked by a skeleton in a robe, and begin to meet their deaths...

Jack Jones

Jack Jones (singer)

John Allan "Jack" Jones is an American jazz and pop singer. He was one of the most popular vocalists of the 1960s.-Overview:...

The Comeback

The Comeback (film)

The Comeback is a 1978 British horror film directed by Pete Walker.-Plot:A once successful American singer, Nick Cooper , relocates to a country manor in England, leaving L.A. and a failed marriage behind him, to begin work on his career comeback...

Donald G. Jackson

Donald G. Jackson was an American filmmaker who is often referred to in the media as the Ed Wood of the video age...

Demon Lover Diary

Bruce Kessler

Bruce Kessler

Bruce Kessler is a former racing driver from the United States. He entered one World Championship Formula One Grand Prix with a Connaught owned by Bernie Ecclestone, but failed to qualify, although he posted the 21st fastest time of the 28 entrants.Kessler grew up in Beverly Hills, California....

Simon, King of the Witches

Simon, King Of The Witches (film)

Simon, King of the Witches is a 1971 film directed by Bruce Kessler and starring Andrew Prine. Not technically a straight horror film as the title might suggest, it also falls in the realm of campy and psychedelia. It is considered a cult classic.-Plot:...

John Phillip Law

John Phillip Law was an American film actor with over one hundred movie roles to his credit. He was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Phyllis Sallee and the brother of actor Thomas Augustus Law .He was best known for his roles as the blind angel Pygar in the science fiction cult...

Death In November, Ring Of Darkness, The Spiral Staircase, The Crystal Man, Whisper In The Dark

Jeff Lieberman

Jeff Lieberman

Jeff Lieberman is an American film director and writer.His films include:*Squirm*Blue Sunshine*Just Before Dawn*The NeverEnding Story III*Satan's Little Helper-External links:...

Squirm, Blue Sunshine

Blue Sunshine (film)

Blue Sunshine is a 1978 horror film directed and written by Jeff Lieberman and starring Zalman King and Deborah Winters. The film has become a cult item among horror fans, remembered mainly for its creatively weird atmosphere and offbeat plot...

, Just Before Dawn

Just Before Dawn (1981 film)

Just Before Dawn is a 1981 slasher film from director Jeff Lieberman. Though the film came and went quietly upon its theatrical release the film has now developed a devoted cult following among horror fans. It is praised for its eerie atmosphere, lush cinematography, and above-average cast...

Ted V. Mikels

Ted V. Mikels is an American filmmaker of independent cult films. Mikels was also known for his home life, as he once lived with a harem in a Glendale, California castle that contained secret passageways....

The Corpse Grinders, Blood Orgy Of The She Devils, The Doll Squad

Mel Novak

Mel Novak

Mel Novak is an American character actor who is best known for villainous roles in action, martial arts and occasionally horror and science fiction films. He is also known for doing all of his own stunts and fighting scenes.-Career:...

Cat In The Cage, Black Belt Jones

Black Belt Jones

Black Belt Jones is a 1974 American Blaxploitation action film. The main musical theme was performed by the funk guitarist Dennis Coffey. The film was featured as number 38 on the documentary The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made.-Plot:...

, Lovely But Deadly, The Ultimate Warrior, Game of Death

Game of Death

The Game of Death is a 1972 film starring Bruce Lee. It was almost the last film Bruce Lee had planned to be the demonstration piece of his martial art Jeet Kune Do. Over 100 minutes of footage was shot before his death, some of which was later misplaced in the Golden Harvest archives...

, Truck Turner

Truck Turner

Truck Turner is a 1974 blaxploitation film, starring Isaac Hayes and Yaphet Kotto, and directed by Jonathan Kaplan. The screenplay was written by Michael Allin, Jerry Wilkes and Oscar Williams...

, Tom Horn

Felton Perry

Felton Perry

Felton Perry is an American actor. He is known for his role as Inspector Early Smith in the 1973 movie Magnum Force, the second film in the Dirty Harry series. Felton's other well-known role is in the 1987 science fiction movie RoboCop as Donald Johnson, the executive at the corporation Omni...

Sudden Death, Walking Tall

Walking Tall

Walking Tall is a 1973 semi-biopic of Sheriff Buford Pusser, a former professional wrestler-turned-lawman in McNairy County, Tennessee. It starred Joe Don Baker as Pusser...

Hy Pyke

Hy Pyke was an American character actor.-Biography:Pyke was born Monty Pike in Los Angeles, California, the son of vaudevillian David Pike and his wife Pauline...

Lemora

Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural is a 1975 American horror film written and directed by Richard Blackburn...

, Slithis, Nightmare In Blood, Dolemite

Dolemite

Dolemite is a 1975 blaxploitation feature film, and is also the name of its principal character, played by Rudy Ray Moore, who co-wrote the film and its soundtrack...

, The Amorous Adventures Of Don Quixote And Sancho Panza, The Way He Was

Linnea Quigley

Linnea Quigley

Linnea Barbara Quigley is an American scream queen, B movie actress, and film producer.-Early life:Quigley was born in Davenport, Iowa, the daughter of Dorothy and W. Heath Quigley, a chiropractor and psychologist. She moved to Los Angeles in the late 1970s to pursue her dreams of acting...

Don't Go Near The Park, Graduation Day, Psycho From Texas

Bill Rebane

Bill Rebane

"Ito" Rebane is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. He is best known for low budget horror movies such as Twist Craze] and The Giant Spider Invasion....

The Giant Spider Invasion

The Giant Spider Invasion is a low-budget 1975 film produced by Transcentury Pictures, a partnership owned by the film's director Bill Rebane. The film is about giant spiders that terrorize the town of Merrill, Wisconsin and the surrounding area. The Giant Spider Invasion was given a U.S. release...

, The Alpha Incident

Alan Scarfe

Alan Scarfe

Alan John Scarfe is a British-born Genie Award winning Canadian actor. He is a former Associate Director of the Stratford Festival and the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool...

Cathy's Curse

Ferd Sebastian Gator Bait

'Gator Bait

'Gator Bait is a 1974 thriller film written, produced, and directed by Beverly Sebastion and Ferd Sebastion. The film starred former Playboy "Playmate of the Year" Claudia Jennings. It was followed by the sequel Gator Bait II: Cajun Justice- Plot :...

William Shatner

William Alan Shatner is a Canadian actor, musician, recording artist, and author. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T...

Impulse

Scott Shaw

Scott Shaw

Scott Shaw is an American actor, author, journalist, film director, film producer, musician, professor and martial artist.-Early life:...

The Demon Lover

David Sheldon

David Sheldon

Later in 1980's Russian assassin #1 was portrayed by Joe Piermatteo, another masked wrestler out of Johnny Rodz StableDavid Sheldon was a professional wrestler, known by his ring name the Angel of Death, who wrestled in North American regional promotions during the 1980s and early 1990s including...

Lovely But Deadly, Sheba Baby, Just Before Dawn

Just Before Dawn (1981 film)

, Grizzly

Grizzly (film)

Grizzly is a 1976 horror film directed by William Girdler. The film is about an 18-foot man-eating Grizzly bear that terrorizes a National Forest. The film stars Christopher George, Andrew Prine and Richard Jaeckel...

, Project: Kill

Carol Speed

Carol Speed

Carol Speed is an African-American actress best known for her roles in blaxploitation films of the 1970s . She has appeared in 16 films since 1970...

The Mack

The Mack is a 1973 blaxploitation film starring Max Julien and Richard Pryor. Although the movie was produced during the era of such blaxploitation movies as Dolemite, its producers do not label it a true blaxploitation picture...

, Abby

Abby (film)

Abby is a 1974 blaxploitation horror film about a woman who is possessed by an African sex spirit. The film starred William H. Marshall, best known for portraying the lead role in Blacula, Terry Carter, and Carol Speed as the title character...

, Savage, Bummer, The Big Bird Cage, Disco Godfather

Disco Godfather

Disco Godfather is a 1979 Action film starring Rudy Ray Moore and Carol Speed. Commonly considered a blaxploitation film, the plot centers on Moore's character, a retired cop, who owns and operates a Disco and tries to shut down the local angel dust dealer after his nephew gets "whacked out" on...

, The New Centurions

The New Centurions

The New Centurions is a 1972 crime drama film based on the novel by policeman turned author Joseph Wambaugh.It stars George C. Scott, Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jane Alexander, Erik Estrada and James Sikking and was directed by Richard Fleischer....

, Dynamite Brothers, Black Samson

Black Samson

Black Samson is a 1974 American blaxploitation film, starring Rockne Tarkington, William Smith and Connie Strickland. The film was written by Daniel B...

George Stover Fiend, The Alien Factor

The Alien Factor

Manuela Thiess Barn Of The Naked Dead

Norman J. Warren

Norman J. Warren

Norman John Warren, born 25 June 1942 in London, is a British film director best known for such 1970s horror films as Satan’s Slave , Prey and Terror...

Prey, Satan's Slave, Terror, Inseminoid

Inseminoid

Inseminoid is a British film of science fiction and horror released in 1981. Norman J. Warren's eighth motion picture, the plot of Inseminoid concerns a group of future scientists excavating the ruins of an ancient civilisation on a distant planet...

Marc Wielage Satan's Children

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