THE SLEAZOID EXPRESS BOOK
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In a bygone era, when
Times Square was crammed with porn shops, gun stores, and drug pushers,
disenfranchised moviegoers flocked to the grindhouses along 42nd Street. If the
gore epics, women-in-prison films, and shockumentaries showcased within their
mildewed walls didn't live up to their outrageous billing, the audience
shouted, threw food, and even vandalized the theaters. For dedicated lovers of
extreme cinema, buying a movie ticket on the Deuce meant putting your life on
the line.
Authors Bill Landis and Michelle Clifford came to know those grindhouses better than anyone else, and although the theaters were gone by the mid-1980s, the films remained. In Sleazoid Express, Landis and Clifford reproduce what no home video can -- the experience of watching an exploitation film in its original fight-for-your-life Deuce setting. Both a travelogue of the infamous grindhouses of yore and a comprehensive overview of the sleaze canon, Sleazoid Express offers detailed reviews of landmark exploitation classics and paints intimate portraits of directors whose notorious creations played the back end of triple bills for years on end. With wit, intelligence, and an unflinching eye, Landis and Clifford offer the definitive document of cinema's most intense and shocking moments as they came to life at a legendary place.
Praise for the SLEAZOID EXPRESS book
“I am amazed at the information… [Landis and Clifford] certainly do know these films, and have captured the atmosphere and ambiance of the theaters… I have some wonderful memories of 42nd Street, and I am delighted that someone has taken the trouble of chronicling those days. I’m certain a lot of people will have a lot of fun reading this book.”
- Hubert Selby, Jr., author of Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream
“One of my most cherished possessions is my near-complete file of Sleazoid Express, a work of rare wit and almost unbelievable devotion to trash cinema. I consider it an invaluable resource.”
- Larry McMurtry, author of The Last Picture
Show and Lonesome Dove
“Sleazoid Express is sexy, depraved, and delicious – a chance to time-travel to the good old days when you could be perverted amongst your peers, in a dark theater that is. Finely written, acutely observed, intelligently historical – an excellent read.”
- Jonathan Ames, author of My Less Than Secret Life
“A bent, funny, smell-the-facts look at the movies on 42nd Street during their heyday.”
-
Robert Downey, Sr., director of Putney
Swope and Greaser’s Palace
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