As I continue my merry adventure through every sordid movie that was featured on the classic EXTRA WEIRD SAMPLER from SOMETHING WEIRD VIDEO, I thought it was high time I finally watched SCUM OF THE EARTH! If you've ever watched anything from SOMETHING WEIRD VIDEO, you've seen the montage at the beginning of their videos. The montage that consists of highlights from their cinematic collection and is peppered throughout with clips of a chunky guy screaming at a girl about how she is filth and no better than a hooker.
The chunky guy is Mr. Lang (Lawrence Wood.) the evil mastermind in SCUM OF THE EARTH!
Some may not even consider SCUM OF THE EARTH! to be a horror film, but I certainly do, because it deals with THE HORRORS OF THE SMUTT PICTURE PEDDLING RACKET!!
If I've learned anything from this movie and THE SINISTER URGE by Ed Wood, it's that if we don't stamp out this smut picture peddling racket, one of these days, all of our daughters will be coerced by sleazy guys into being photographed topless for weird glamor shots for teenage boys to pleasure themselves to!! I don't even HAVE a daughter and still, I stay up nights worrying about this!!
But I have no worries about anyone pleasuring themselves to this movie, because that would be impossible. Nothing even remotely erotic happens in it. But Friedman and Lewis had some extra time to kill after BLOOD FEAST, so they threw this together and it's now considered, "The first of the roughies," though it's not that rough. There is a whipping scene (shown off camera) but the roughest part is the acting of the guy who plays the dad of the main girl. (If you watch it you will know what I mean.)
It has William Kerwin and Mal Arnold in it so it feels like the world's weirdest sequel to BLOOD FEAST.
I can really only recommend this to BLOOD FEAST fans and SOMETHING WEIRD completists.
Friedman and Lewis went the extra mile to promote this one by giving out PROMOTIONAL COMIC BOOKS for it!! Please tell me someone here has one of those comics!!
The chunky guy is Mr. Lang (Lawrence Wood.) the evil mastermind in SCUM OF THE EARTH!
Some may not even consider SCUM OF THE EARTH! to be a horror film, but I certainly do, because it deals with THE HORRORS OF THE SMUTT PICTURE PEDDLING RACKET!!
If I've learned anything from this movie and THE SINISTER URGE by Ed Wood, it's that if we don't stamp out this smut picture peddling racket, one of these days, all of our daughters will be coerced by sleazy guys into being photographed topless for weird glamor shots for teenage boys to pleasure themselves to!! I don't even HAVE a daughter and still, I stay up nights worrying about this!!
But I have no worries about anyone pleasuring themselves to this movie, because that would be impossible. Nothing even remotely erotic happens in it. But Friedman and Lewis had some extra time to kill after BLOOD FEAST, so they threw this together and it's now considered, "The first of the roughies," though it's not that rough. There is a whipping scene (shown off camera) but the roughest part is the acting of the guy who plays the dad of the main girl. (If you watch it you will know what I mean.)
It has William Kerwin and Mal Arnold in it so it feels like the world's weirdest sequel to BLOOD FEAST.
I can really only recommend this to BLOOD FEAST fans and SOMETHING WEIRD completists.
Friedman and Lewis went the extra mile to promote this one by giving out PROMOTIONAL COMIC BOOKS for it!! Please tell me someone here has one of those comics!!
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