#70's exploitation

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Big Bad Mama (1974)

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Switchblade Sisters (1975) 70′s girl gangs are the best movie gangs.

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Race With The Devil (1975)

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Dixie Dynamite (1976)

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Since today is Tuesday, I'm going to do two of the Today’s Public Library Trade paperback posts. This offering is Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Fatale, Book 2: The Devil's Business, which is published by Image Comics. The listing for the Fatale, Book 2: The Devil's Business from Amazon.com describes the story:

In 1970s Los Angeles, Josephine can't hide from the forces of Hollywood, Satanic Cults, and creepy 8mm films collected by wealthy deviants. And when a struggling actor and his wounded friend cross her path, all hell will break loose, leaving ripples that echo all the way to modern time, where Nicolas Lash falls deeper into Josephine's spell.

As I stated in my prior post for Brubaker and Phillips' Fatale, Book 1: Death Chases Me, I love how this story arc takes a cue from the old Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler pulp novels and stories with a swirl of H.P. Lovecraft. Things change with Book 2.

The tone changes from a 1940's/1950's film noir to a 1970's style exploitation film set in Los Angeles. It feels as if Charlton Heston from Omega Man is going to pop up at some point to rescue our protagonist Josephine from the cult members that are looking for her. LOL.

I like how Brubaker peppers in references of Charles Manson and his Manson family along with other relevant aspects of that era's Los Angeles. It seems as if LA was a hotbed for this kind of cult worship from the Manson Family, the Hurd murders in Orange County and the Source Family just to name a few.

I believe he really captures this era. I'm really looking forward to seeing what's the next era he visits and how the other protagonist Nicolas Lash fares, since he is jailed in the present day.

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Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS - 1975 [x]