Wanna Join a Club?

We here at the Overtime love a certain kind of sick twisted cinema loosely known as Exploitation Movies.  We would love to get together with fellow enthusiasts to share our love for this bizarre genre, and to help share the cost of acquiring the more arcane of these items.

Every Saturday at midnight, we close our doors, locking out taste, reason and art.  What are we left with?  Some of the greatest bad movies ever created by man!

BUT WHAT THE HECK IS AN EXPLOITATION MOVIE? 

Instead of looking up a definition, I (this is John Poole writing this) have decided to give it my own definition.  An Exploitation movie is a work of fictional or names-changed-to protect-the-innocent- film that claims to present real-life dramatic situations and employs scenic techniques that are considered to be ‘shocking’ in their time.  That can cover a lot of territory, and I’m probably wrong so come to the meeting and argue with me about it!

BUT. . . if you liked 

          CLEOPATRA JONES,

You might be an exploitation movie buff.

 

If you liked 

          REEFER MADNESS

You might be an exploitation movie buff

 

If you liked  

          FREAKS

You might be an exploitation movie buff.

 

If you liked

          MINI SKIRT LOVE 

You might be an exploitation movie buff

 

If you liked 

          NICK FURY, AGENT OF SHELD STARRING DAVID HASSELHOFF 

Then you’re a sick and twisted freak and might as well be an Exploitation movie buff.

 

We’ll also discuss, condone and proliferate hygiene films, anti-communist propaganda, freaky cartoons, old industrial films, etc.  We will not air pornography, though many of our features will be rated ‘R’, and many are literally written to offend.

AND that just above us is why I personally love the exploitation drama; that strange line between genres, between moralities are always directly challenged in the Exploitation movie.  The images we used to show those lines are flung at the audience with every frame, well about every fiftieth frame, there can be a lot of padding in some of these flicks.

  And even though these films deliberately push the boundaries of taste in nudity and violence, they are wrapped in tales of cautionary morality, as warnings of “what might happen if. . .” .  So it’s okay to be titillated with sex and violence as long as it teaches a good lesson!  Also these films serve as precious time capsules of their era, preserving not just popular thought, but unpopular thought and incorrect assumptions about the world. 

It’s easy to laugh at some of the strange sources of fear and loathing our forefathers possessed, but there is a lesson to be learned.  I don’t know what it is yet, but I won’t rest until I’ve seen every single Joe Sarno film out there! 

Fans of MST3k, comic books fan boys, gamers, and consumers of the unusual and bizarre, let’s exploit each other!

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