Jeff O’Brien

Sweet Sugar because I am and always have been, in love with Phylis Davis. Kingdom of the Spiders because it is so damn much fun and I like the musical cues lifted from the original Spider Man cartoon. And Satanico Pendemonium because my friend wrote and codirected it and I can finally watch it now - decadent nuns, gotta love it!

Doug Nagy

I have chosen the Kung Fu route for my double bill. Shaolin VS Llama would be followed by Crippled Avengers for the ultimate experience. These two movies make me love Kung Fu more than myself.

Don May, Jr. - Synapse

My Ideal Triple-Bill:

DOLEMITE
ROLLING THUNDER
THEY CALL HER ONE EYE

Dave - Rue Morgue’s The Abbatoir

I’d book a triple bill of Shriek of the Mutilated, She Freak and From Beyond, for the sole reason that someone could see the titles on a marquee and mistake them for one really awesome movie called Shriek of the Mutilated She Freak From Beyond.

David Z. - Tomb It May Concern

TOMB IT MAY CONCERN presents….Sticky Floors, Crack Whores and ‘Sploitation Galore!

One ticket…Three Flicks…sit at your own risk!

Fight For Your Life
Trailer Show A (Willie Dynamite, Crippled Masters, Torso, They Call Her One Eye)
Master Of The Flying Guillotine
Trailer Show B (Slaughter Hotel, Friday The 13th Part 4, Maniac, Emmanuelle In Bangkok)
Suspiria

BUT WAIT…Suspiria breaks after the gonzo first reel! Phew…best part viewed thankfully!

Last second replacement, because we always top you off at the Tomb!

Extra Attraction… NIGHTMARE CITY!!

Louis - Damaged 2.0

It’s awesome that you are asking this question–there’s a new art-house theater opening here in Fort Collins and I am going to help them come up with a Grindhouse Double-Feature once a month, so I have been working on my list. I know that most of these wouldn’t be available, but I can dream, right?

1. TENEMENT / COMBAT SHOCK

2. THE STREET FIGHTER / DOLEMITE

3. ROCK N ROLL NIGHTMARE / BLACK ROSES

4. BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE ULTRAVIXENS / PERVERT!

5. CLASS OF 1984 / MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH

6. YOR: THE HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE / RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR

7. THE DEVIL’S SWORD / HUNDRA

8. ALYAS BATMAN & ROBIN / TURKISH SUPERMAN

9. SLIME CITY / STREET TRASH

10. PIECES / DRILLER KILLER

Kimberly - Cinebeats

My ideal grindhouse line-up would be a double bill featuring Deadly Weapons (1974) and Welcome Home Brother Charles (1975).

Deadly Weapons stars Chesty Morgan as a big busted woman killing mobsters with her giant boobs.

Welcome Home Brother Charles stars Marlo Monte as an angry man who’s killing bad guys with his giant penis.

Do movies get any more trashy then that? I don’t think so! A double feature with both flicks would make for one entertaining and raunchy night at the movies.

Casey Criswell - Cinema Fromage

My opener would have to be Shogun Assassin. Samurai flicks, blood & guts, can’t go wrong! Then I’d have to change it up a bit and follow it up with Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! Tura Satana kicking ass and taking names? Sign me up!

Curt - Groovy Age of Horror

Tim - Mondo Schlocko

I would like to see a triple bill including FRIDAY FOSTER, CLEOPATRA JONES, followed by it’s CLEOPATRA JONES AND THE CASINO OF GOLD.

Bill Cunningham - DisContent

I would schedule a full week’s lineup of my favorite exploitation movies during the week with a five pack each night on the weekend;

TEKNOSAURUS - Computer nannites combine with the genetic template from dinosaur bones to create a stainless steel monster of rampagin’ terror!

PISTOL PACKIN’ MAMA - A rampage of revenge as a young prostitute rips the streets apart to rescue her baby girl from a gang of ruthless bank robbers. This girl with a gun is ripped straight from the headlines!

SWEET SWEET SUGARBUSH - When an independent madame and her girls are thrown out of town by a ruthless politician on the take, these girls strike back by bustin’ his rackets down to the ground!

GRAVEDIGGER & COFFIN - Two private dicks are cursed by the devil and drafted to be his undead enforcers from hell!

THE GORE GORE GORE-MET - Herschell Gordon Lewis’s lost splatsploitation classic!

Now all I have to do is go make these pictures!

Sean T. Collins - Attentiondeficitdisorderly Too Flat

Oh, Steven–you have a knack for finding my horror-lover Achilles’ heel. As I’ve said in a previous Horror Roundtable, I really do avoid movies I believe are going to be bad; while I find the patronizing tone of anti-grindhouse essays like that of Slate’s Grady Hendrix annoying, it’s tough to disagree with his basic premise that grindhouse movies, on the whole, kinda stunk.

But wait! As I said in another previous Horror Roundtable, my buddies from work and I regularly liquor ourselves up and indulge in themed triple bills of macho genre delights in what we call the Manly Movie Mamajama. Here are the line-ups we’ve enjoyed so far…

ROADS AND/OR WARRIORS
Road House
The Warriors
The Road Warrior

DYSTOPIAN FUTURES AND/OR KURT RUSSELL
The Running Man
Escape from New York
Big Trouble in Little China

THE MASTERWORKS OF PAUL VERHOEVEN
RoboCop
Total Recall
Starship Troopers

GET WELL, FIDEL
Red Dawn
Invasion U.S.A.
Rambo: First Blood Part II

THE HORROR! THE HORROR!
The Monster Squad
Hellraiser
John Carpenter’s The Thing

FEMME FILM FIESTA
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Aliens
The Descent

While few of those films are of genuine grindhouse provenance, I think the entire enterprise is true to the spirit, if not the letter, of grindhouse law.

Now, if I had to put together a triple bill that approximated the sleaze factor of genuine grindhouse fare, I’d have to do it with very little knowledge of actual grindhouse movies per se. I think I’m two-thirds of the way there…

SEX AND VIOLENCE
Body Double
Cemetery Man

I’d throw Starship Troopers on there, but we’ve already seen it.

Anyone got any suggestions? Let me know!

I think I need to take a shower. Thanks once again to all the deviants who contributed to The Horror Roundtable this week. Make sure you visit their blogs for even more Triple X action. And if you want to contribute your own sleazy movie schedule, please do so in the comments below.

The original version of the photo that graces the top of this post can be found at Popcorn and Sticky Floors, one of my all-time favourite blogs.

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