Year: 1998
Duration: 01:21:33
Directed by: Johanna Demetrakas and Odette Springer
Actors: Maria Ford, Julie Strain, Lisa Boyle
Language: English
Country: USA
Also known as: Hollywood avklätt
Description:
Since the popularization of home video into the mid-’80s, exploitation films, which once populated film homes and drive-ins, have since ruled the direct-to-video clip market. As well, exploitation films as an entire have lost a number of the inventiveness and campy charm that noted the fantastic get older spanning the ’50s through the ’70s. With few exceptions, the final decade in specific has seen a few fatigued, generally dark-spirited styles tirelessly reworked, many particularly the deadly appeal and Basic Instinct-derived erotic thriller. This phenomenon has largely gone unmentioned, and first-time filmmaker Odette Springer may seem an ideal candidate to rectify that situation. A previous composer for B-movies created by Roger Corman’s Concorde/New Horizons studio, Springer observed the procedure from inside for many years. Unfortunately, she doesn’t appear to have paid also much attention, once the amateurish Some Nudity Required amply shows. The movie tries to cover modern B-movies from a feminist perspective, which makes feeling: Any insightful documentary on the industry, with its high quotient of gender and physical violence, would almost seem to demand it. Some Nudity Required, however, is much less a documentary than an extensive journal entry in documentary form. Before it’s more than, viewers will understand a good deal more info on Springer—from her childhood love of doing (a part in an opera at 13!) to her relocate to L.A., to her nose task at 16, to her singing and songwriting career (generously sampled on Nudity’s sound recording), to her thrill at purchasing her first bustier within the company of scream queen Maria Ford—than Nudity’s ostensible topic. In fact, for many the suspiciously contrived-sounding narration about her strange blend of attraction and repulsion to B-movies, Springer never ever appears to see all of them with anything aside from condescending disdain. Interviews with Corman, Jim Wynorski, and Andy and Arlene Sidaris are filled with top questions, while interviews with feminine stars (aided by the notable exception of Julie Strain) perhaps unintentionally cast them in a worse light than prior to. (An addled-looking Ford’s apparent bafflement that her components in movies like Stripped To eliminate 2 would require nudity is especially unconvincing.) Apart from some findings that could be created by anybody equipped with an introduction To Women’s research textbook, truly the only point Springer convincingly makes is the fact that she—along with her monotone revelations and sub-Vonda Shepard musicianship—is even worse as a documentary topic than as a documentarian. The fact that Springer does not point out that Corman is just one of the couple of studio heads to regularly employ women writers and administrators (or composers, for that matter) provides a concept of how balanced the woman portrayal is. Late in a few Nudity required, Springer shows that an aunt and uncle molested her as a child. This is, of course, unfortunate, however information technology has no relevant link to the realm of B-movies into the ’90s. Given her film’s song-of-myself qualities, moreover it has the unusual impact of generating Some Nudity Required feel more exploitative compared to films it addresses, that is most likely maybe not what Springer had in mind. Because of the tremendous opportunity she squanders right here, it’s difficult to determine exactly what she ended up being thinking.
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SOME NUDITY REQUIRED is a naked truth presentation of Hollywood’s B-movie genre, from a point-of-view rarely seen. It gets to the heart of the hopes and dreams of the people who gave us slumber party hits like MIDNIGHT TEASE and SORORITY HOUSE MASSACRE.
Odette Springer documents both in interviews and film clips the world of erotic/
slasher/action movies–a world she worked in for 4 years as Roger Corman’s music supervisor. She becomes a modern day Alice on a harrowing, yet insightful trip through the looking-glass of a “second cinema” as she analyzes both her repulsion and attraction to the images and themes around her. Stunning questions of cause and effect inevitably arise.
SOME NUDITY REQUIRED features most of the prominent players from the industry including Roger Corman, Directors Jim Wynorski, Catherine Cyran, Fred Olen Ray, and veteran “scream-queens” Maria Ford and Julie Strain.
Each provides their own view on the relevance of the material they create. And each offers their opinion on why these films have the followings they do. For a genre that – in the early years – was made by Hollywood as a proving ground for young stars, it has grown to cult-category status.
Special thanks from the bottom of my heart to WIP Films for uploading this insightful, outrageously entertaining documentary memoir, that is a real must-have for every true movie fan