you've done it again. The second release from the Grindhouse Collection has gone to all the dear partner of bad taste. The grace period for the young label sub-culture is after two first works over. From now on, the shooting starts! Also I now have a half of double features sighted and would no longer keep up with my thoughts to himself. In "A Scream In The Streets" (1973) are innocent bystanders, a concentrate of bad taste, cheap sleaze and an utterly absurd plot is served.
The sometimes explicit mixing one or the other may not get that, but certainly embodies the essence of what makes the grindhouse cinema. Here the lower instincts are addressed, the fan of trash gets his money and the intellectuals can look down quite distant from its meta-level to the spectacle and dissect it as a case study of a woman contemptuous, cruel and corrupt world. "A Scream In The Streets" is nothing more than an unvarnished social study of the worst kind of fun or a grenade for people with the capacity for abstraction and reflection.
got in the run the audience group of a promising and anteasenden Trailer made by subculture served via Youtube. "A Scream In The Streets" a funny slasher with a promised even funnier German synchronization, and a lot Prilblumen be. 2 things it was a mistake, even downright misleading!
But before anyone here can dish with a raised finger on a large scale criticism, of course, must be qualified.
We have no bona fide slasher. Rather we get a movie that prototypical Slasherelemente used and these are mixed with others. There is also no Prilblumen. No.
I think no one among my readers is powdered with the bag and staple the strip is nothing for young people anyway. "A Scream In The Streets" contains sex scenes and lots of it. In fact it contains twice as many sex scenes, as the transvestite may slashes women! Hear, hear!
From perverse brothel visitors who like to beat women, our super cops to two completely separate characters who have to their lesbian love scene nothing to do with the film, there are sex scenes on the run. Even if for some viewers, these scenes are of primary importance, they can also be dismissed as a nice accessory and dedicated to the main work: the history of crime.
Ok, admittedly it is not 100% there, but at least we appear partially in policing. I think, moreover, that not a single policeman turns up the term. In the 70 one has the police officers in blue long-barreled as "bulls" and if you were attacked and called in state power, was announced to be with "Hello bulls (...)!" When arriving, and then locate the business in the brothel sector, defends it with pithy sayings like "This is not a fucking human!" What brings us to point 3 and that impression from the trailer is definitely true!
The German dubbing is a fireworks display. Here, bad puns, bad dirty jokes and outlandish awards to be tapped in a high frequency that it is the only way crashes. Although this can not disguise the confused and obscure plot, the entertainment value but significantly potentiated.
Let's try anyway, to bring in a bit of structure into this discussion.
We have a transvestite who likes to kill women with a knife and they also like touches. Why does he do, he tells us himself, "I hate all women because I was beating my mother always" and then something about pork in the slaughterhouse. The boy has serious problems and these do not show the fact that he wears women's clothes and a wig. But this is only a small part of the strip. Actually, the work of the two other police Protagonistencops is pursued. The old rabbit gets a mustache support from the office staff made on the side. This young can not always keep in check and verkloppt the bad guys on the bar and thread. Dealers, thieves and clamp are on their hit list.
The performances are of course under all beaten and who has dovetailed the script, the Codex Gigas is one of the ears. A nerve. But that is precisely Exploitationkino and that's what to expect, when emblazoned on the cover in large letters the word "Grind House". This also means that microphone stand can be seen in the picture, wild Verfolgungsjadgen shown a shootout and the misogynist men so much feeling for the supposedly weaker sex have left, like an amputee for his stump. In addition, sprawl are no well-toned and skinny models, but there is naturally hairy and orange peel. That was in the 70s!
All that trash can be tolerated as a hard-boiled of course fine, but the aforementioned synchronization skin then get out a bit. When people talk without moving his mouth, an unintentional comedy is clearly not and I would like to see the man who with slogans like "You're smooth a wife who could pull me into marriage hole" or "why do not let you divorce - I'm not mad, I would have to go to work! is not under the table. What police officer would Today it is still a woman say, shortly after a man has raped her, "Stop whining to? Yes, we are here in the emancipatory Neandertal and it shows in every nook and cranny.
This open hostility toward women displayed is from today's enlightened perspective, of course, totally unacceptable, but the absurdity of the comments one can nevertheless difficult to gasp for air. Either the film is a woman inhuman, cheaper sex film or a nostalgic reflection of reality, a view through a telescope into the abyss.
"A Scream In The Streets" is certainly not a film for everyone, but if you open challenge and who are all parameters deterrent aware of the can, with sufficient distance to have a lot of fun! The picture quality is great, there are some atmospheric streaks and the camera shakes sympathetic in some places.
So I will not lose a lot more words and highly recommend these strips all adult readers. Those who already "Astro Zombies" (1969) liked, who will come here at his expense.
Featured DVD of the subculture and the second film (which is actually the first part of double features) "Blackout" (1978) then more tomorrow.
