Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square

Bill Landis, Michelle Clifford

ISBN 10: 0743215834 / ISBN 13: 9780743215831

Published by Fireside, 2002

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ISBN 0743215834. Trade paperback in very good to near fine condition but for black mark on bottom edge of pages. First printing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square
• Publisher: Fireside
• Publication Date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0743215834
• ISBN 13: 9780743215831
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Warning: Watch your wallets and stay out of the bathroom!
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.

About the Author

Bill Landis founded the legendary magazine Sleazoid Express in 1980 while working as a projectionist on the old 42nd Street. He is also the author of Anger: The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger.