3.21.2011

Good B-Movie Tag Lines

A while back we ended up with about 15 banker boxes full of obscure genre stuff on VHS, the life's work of someone thoroughly obsessed with a specific type of low budget horror/sf/crime movie that abdicates the potential creative freedom of its humble origins to mount a doomed recreation of mainstream Hollywood offerings. Picture a destitute bohemian who, rather than essay their own defiant style from found objects and thrift store finery, attempts to re-create a classic Brooks Brothers ensemble using 15 yards of tan polyester.

I don't know that I'd willingly watch any of them, but the boxes do provide occasionally amusing promotional tag lines, to wit:


Jaded: Not All Sexual Predators Are Men!

Aftershock, Earthquake in New York: Terror is off the richter scale.

Sabertooth: Some things are better left extinct.

Bloodthrirst, Legend of the Chupacabras: If you breathe, it will find you.

Brotherhood of Murder: HATE IS THICKER THAN BLOOD (starring William Baldwin & Peter Gallagher!)

Blowback: Terror Has Never Been So Intense! (starring Mario Van Peebles & James Remar)

The House Next Door; Thou shalt love thy neighbor....to death (with Theresa Russell AND Sean Young...I bet that was a tranquil set.)

and finally, my favorite combination of title, genre, tag line and star:

Joey Lawrence in the horror opus TEQUILA BODY SHOTS (you can tell it's a horror opus because there's a SKULL between 'body' and 'shots', see), tag line:
Lick it.
Slam it.
Suck it.
Kill it.
And actually, as I peruse the promo copy for this one I may have to take back my bold claim about not watching any of these gems.
Peep this, dear readers:

Things take a strange turn for Johnny (Joey Lawrence) and his two buddies when he gets mind reading powers from a medicine man's tequila while on a road trip to a party in Mexico. Armed with secred knowledge about Tamlyn, the woman he loves, Johnny and his friends must race to save her- and themselves- from the clutches of evil forces who threaten their very existence....at a deadly party in hell!

Not saying it'd be good, but the whole project gives off a joie de vivre its contemporaries notably lack.

4 comments:

Malderor said...

Are these for sale at the store, or part of your personal collection?

baxie said...

oh, they're for sale....one dollar each, stock up!


we fished enough internet stock out of the buy to make it worthwhile, the rest we're throwing to the sharks.

Unknown said...

I've actually seen Tequila Body Shots. Surprisingly not as good as it's name/tag line.

baxie said...

Ah well, at least the box gave me more enjoyment than most movies I've actually seen.