Crash!
Jack Hill’s corruscating PIT STOP reviewed by moi over at Electric Sheep. Confession: I have never seen Hill’s vaunted blaxploitation films. What’s the best?
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April 19, 2014 at 1:28 pm
Hill is most (in)famous for Spider Baby
April 19, 2014 at 1:32 pm
Poor Dick Davalos.
April 19, 2014 at 1:59 pm
What’s his story?
I reviewed Spider Baby earier for Electric Sheep: https://dcairns.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/baby-doll/
It’s sensational: and despite genre differences, very much of a piece with Pit Stop.
April 19, 2014 at 2:02 pm
He just never got the breaks he should have after East of Eden
April 19, 2014 at 2:05 pm
That’s for sure. He’s excellent in Pit Stop, but there aren’t enough roles for intense, nasty leading men. Ray Liotta Syndrome.
April 19, 2014 at 3:08 pm
The only one of Hill’s blaxploitation films I’ve seen is Coffy and I think it’s great! Although not blaxploitation, Hill’s The Big Bird Cage also featuring Pam Grier and Sid Haig is a lot of fun as well.
April 19, 2014 at 3:31 pm
Ah… Philippines-shot women in prison flicks are a barrel whose bottom I have yet to scrape. Probably high time I did, see what I’ve been missing.
April 19, 2014 at 7:23 pm
Off-Topic: It’s Curtis Harrington Day at Dennis Cooper’s
April 19, 2014 at 7:32 pm
Yay!
April 19, 2014 at 7:39 pm
Well, BBC is appropriately seamy in parts as I recall, but it’s probably not even close to the bottom of the barrel of WIP flicks, it’s too intentionally ridiculous to come across as completely sleazy. Of course, one’s mileage may vary.
April 20, 2014 at 12:03 am
Oh, it’s probably the Citizen Kane of Philippines WiP films!