Charlie LaRue is a cheap rate producer with a dream and that dream is a film, a film that will bring together all the most low-down, filthy, nasty, offensive jokes in one disgusting place. Welcome toNational Lampoon’s Dirty Movie, a flick that doesn’t let up in its efforts to offend your sensibilities and make you lose your lunch laughing, from the people who brought you Christmas Vacation,Animal House and Class Reunion.
On DVD from 16th April 2012 courtesy of Transition Digital Media, Dirty Movie is an hilarious filth rollercoaster that doesn’t let up with the smut for second. Didn’t like that off colour joke? Well don’t worry, because another one is coming to upset your elderly relatives in a second. The twisted humour never quits in this sledgehammer sketch comedy that assaults you with jokes until you can’t take no more.
National Lampoon’s Dirty Movie is out on the 16th April. Pre-order yours here and prepare to be offended!
As a genre, Women-in-Prison (WIP) movies aren’t held in the highest regard. It’s not hard to see why. Whereas a horror movie or a western can be violent and graphic and still be held up as a work of art, the chicks in chain flick was generally shot for a specific niche audience who got their kicks out of cheap tickets, cheap thrills and even cheaper sets.
Most movies in the genre are low rent and low class, which is precisely why they still have the power to shock and amaze today. BEHIND BEHIND BARS fits the bill perfectly. It’s heady rush through all the cliches of the all girl penitentiary movie; The bull dyke guards, the gratuitous shower scenes, beating and whippings and enforced prositution rings. There are hard assed lifers and nervous naifs and of course, an undercover investigator.
BARE BEHIND BARS, as the name implies, isn’t as bleak as the Prisoner Scorpion films or as downright nasty as the ISLA pictures (or other movies in the Nazisploitation sub-genre that goes hand-in-hand with WIP flicks). It’s got a lot of unintentional humour and also a smattering of the intentional kind that will cause smirks for the wrong reasons. None of this means it’s not an entertaining watch. On the contrary, the hysteria-pitch acting, two dimensional characters, incessant and overwhelmingly unnecessary sex and nudity… All these things are what a contempory audience would have looked for in a down and dirty, sleazy grindhouse movie as they settled down into a slashed seat and tried to avoid eye contact with anyone else and it’s kind of the reason why these films endure.
There’s a lot to be said for counting the number of times you have to lift your jaw off the floor during the running time of a really good trashy movie. There’s that spark where you wonder who the original target audience were and how such a demented work was ever conceived in the first place. These are the movie moments I live for, those special times when you question the sanity of the director.
To celebrate the upcoming release of BARE BEHIND BARS, I’ve put together a Women-in-Prison movie primer. Needless to say, it’s not for the fainthearted, but if you’ve read this far I doubt you’ll be offended but just in case… The following is for grown-ups only.
Hey Kids… Want to see a Dirty Movie?
