For nearly an hour of its hour, The Beautiful, the Bloody, and the Bare consists of a naked woman being drawn or photographed for artistic purposes. How does the narrator make that interesting? Beats me, because he doesn’t. Director and writer Sande N. Johnsen (Teenage Gang Debs) doesn’t seem to know, either, although he tries … Continue reading The Beautiful, the Bloody, and the Bare (1964)
What’s a nudie cutie without the nudie? Why, it’s What’s Up Front!, directed by Bob Wehling, scripter of 1962’s infamous Eegah. In fact, this film is something of an Eegah reunion, being co-written by Arch Hall Sr. and co-starring caveman-kidnap victim Marilyn Manning. Homer L. Pettigrew (the weasel-resembling Tommy Holden, Magic Spectacles) used to sell … Continue reading What’s Up Front! (1964)
My foray into the world of pinup photography began way back in the mid ’90s. Now, some 20 years later, a collection of my work has been turned into a coffee-table book, Retro Glamour Photography of Mark Anthony Lacy, by Schiffer Publishing. The journey has been long and arduous, but well worth it. I’ve worked … Continue reading Guest List: Mark Anthony Lacy’s Top 12 Sexploitation Films of the 1960s
In conjunction with the mighty Something Weird Video, cult director Frank Henenlotter (Frankenhooker) takes moviegoers on an epic, yet whirlwind tour of a film genre as old as cinema itself. Ladies and gentlemen, That’s Sexploitation! For assistance, Henenlotter calls upon someone who not only knows his sexploitation history inside and out (and in and out), … Continue reading That’s Sexploitation! (2013)
Very little story exists in House on Bare Mountain. Very little needs to; it’s not meant for telling a story. The debut of The Defilers director Lee Frost, the flick is a nudie cutie, period. The House in question is the site of Granny Good’s School for Good Girls, with Granny Good being played by … Continue reading House on Bare Mountain (1962)