RIP MARILYN CHAMBERS
Gah. Marilyn Chambers checks out...
The legendary porn.star - and presidential candidate! - who appeared in zillions of flicks, incl. "Behind The Green Door", "Angel of H.E.A.T." and, of course, Cronenberg's "Rabid".
I didn't realise she'd also made a Disco single - "Benihana" wh/ was produced by Michael Zager of "Let's All Chant" fame.
posted by I am not Kek-w @ 11:10 PM
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This saddens me because I enjoyed Rabid.
Yeah, 'Rabid' and 'Shivers' are both great movies...
DUDE! I didn't know Marilyn died. That's officially the worst news of the frickin' week. I saw Rabid at The Texas Stadium Drive-In (we were there to see something else, but I snuck off to see my first Cronenberg film), and I still have a VHS copy. Link for a cool artcle: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/breakingnews/King-interview-with-Chambers-42922427.html
Sad news, Amigo.
I saw it as a double-bill with 'Shivers' in the old Odeon one-screen cinema in Yeovil. Not sure when...'77? '78? Might have gone with Lurch, can't remember....a classic UK Grindhouse experience lol.
Wow: imagine if you'd auditioned Marilyn for that role you told me about a few weeks back; that would have been amazing...
Only now in after-thought, Marilyn would have been perfect for Party Girl. She was one who definately knew how to let it bleed in the dynamics dept. Good eye man.
Of things in the Marilyn vein, the great Marilyn Burns will be at Texas Frightmare Weekend, May 1st thru 3rd, as well as Tobe Hooper! I met Hooper many years ago (he was promoting Lifeforce). The original TCM has been an endless source of inspiration for me over the years, and now finally I'll have the chance to meet another one of the originals. And I'll be working the festival all 3 days, so who knows! Maybe she's up for a no-pay, independent roll.
TRIVIA:
The illustrious Ms. Burns followed-up TCM with another feature. What was the title of this film?
Also in this mystery movie, one of the cast went on to become one of the greatest (and most well-known) monster characters in movie history. Who was this unknown actor?
And finally, going out on a limb here... Neville Brand (lead actor in this mystery film) acted in another film written and directed by W. P. Blatty (the underrated and totally awesome 'The Ninth Configuration'). What does The Exorcist and The Mystery Film have in common for the female victims?
CLUES:
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Greek salad or thought provoking? I dunno. BUT, if you do accept the challenge, IMDB is cheating! :)
Awww, man, don't get started on Tobe Hooper. I was lucky enuff to see TCM in the late 70s at a private cinema club in Bristol when it was still uncertificated in the UK - it totally blew my mind...didn't see it again until the early-80s until I caught it round a friend's gaff on video - I was totally stoned and it scared the bejesus out of me, even tho I'd actually seen it before lol! My wife and I caught it again at a local cinema when it was theatrically re-released in the UK back in the 90s...I remember watching "Fun House" on acid in the mid-80s - always remember that bit where the guy goes "Finnnnnnders keepers - loosers weeeeeperrrss" lol.
That whole mid/late 70's/early 80s period was a golden age for cinema.
Okay, I haven't looked at IBDM, but here's my shot at yr pop-quiz: was Marilyn in "Eaten Alive" (also by Tobe Hooper?)? I'm gonna take a totally random blind guess that the soon-to-be famous actor/monster was a pre-V Robert Englund (aka Freddie Kruger)....? Only cos i can't think of anyone else apart from Jason Voorhees lol...
But after that I'm completely struggling.
Anyone else wanna step up to the plate?
Fucking wow and holy shit! I cannot believe this! I don't know what the mean percentages are, but you are one in a bloody thimbleful of folks on the planet who know of Eaten Alive! That just made my day! :) And you are right...Hooper did direct and Robert Englund (roll of BUCK?) was yet to Cuisinart our dreams. Good job!
BTW: Elm St. is being remade. Englund is in it, but someone else is playing Freddy. It's slated for 2010.
Englund also had a small roll in one of my favorite films, Dead and Buried. That flick still gives me The Willies (the needle-in-the-eyeball scene still wigs me)!
Anyway man, you've given me fuel for casting Party Girl! There's been a fascinating new twist in the story. I'll tell ya more in a private EM. Also, I'll eventually be sending you a link for the first of the dark poetry videos (probably a rough edit) and, if you have the time and energies, maybe you could climb inside it and scare up some of that spooky IBS stuff as a thematic music bed. More details to come.
J
Ha! Robert Englund!...always remember watching that first mini-series of "V" - great telly, fully of mouse-eating shoulder-pad clad big-haired 80s beauties lol.
"Dead and Buried" - I'd forgotten about that film...saw that at the cinema when it came out too; haven't seen it in donkey's years...can't remember much about it apart from dead people coming back to life; some sort of small town weirdness going on, but can't remember what....
I'm not an expert on this stuff by any means, but I was lucky to grow up in an era when a lot of cool lowish budget films were still being shown in small-town cinemas...and then there was the early 80s video boom: me and my friends would rent everything we could get our hands on, before the "Video Nasties" law came in and a whole bunch of stuff got banned in the UK for years...
I bought the Re: Search Incredibly Strange Films book when it first came out - saw a short review of it in a magazine and bought it mail-order from the States...that was like a bible for me, that and the early issues of Fangoria - they were like lifelines in the pre-internet days; now everyone can Google on shit....thru ISF I got into Ted V Mikels, H G Lewis, etc - weirder shit that wasn't getting shown even on late nite TV...I used to tape weird foriegn language films, anything that looked interesting, Horror, SF, Art-House, JD, Biker movies...had a real bug for that stuff for years; still do....still pick up a copy of Psychotronic or Asian Trash Cinema when I come across it lol...
just to clarify (and get back on topic), i'm sad about marilyn chambers dying because i loved Rabid. just Rabid. none of her other movies. she didnt really act in anything else, did she? yeah Rabid. great movie. a fine actress. too bad she never did anything else.
When I heard I dug out Behind The Green Door and played with myself to satisfaction as a personal tribute. And I must say it was one of the best (what I like to call) "retro" ejacs I've worked on for ages, and , I hope, a fitting and respectful tribute within the Smails of Holm. She was a truly lovely girl.
"Retro Ejac" LOL
Ha! I bet you watched it on DVD or on-line, not VHS, you fraud.
I admit graciously to being most old, and a fine condition it do be - but fraudster I ain't, not when it comes to the lusty consumation of these unique and excellent recordation of the love activities which do pleaseth mine eye.
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