Tuesday 31 July 2012

MORE FROM THE ACCIDENTAL MOTORCYCLE MYTHOLOGY DEPARTMENT . . . . EVEN COMPLETELY SHITE, B-GRADE FILMS HAVE THEIR REDEEMING FEATURES . . . . 'THE THING WITH TWO HEADS' WAS SOOOOO BAD, HOWEVER, THE CHASE SCENE WILL BE FOREVER IN MY HEART . . . . EBONY AND IVORY LIVING IN PERFECT HARMONY, OH YEAH !!!!

Yet another shonky early seventies, semi exploitation flick that was once part of a group of B-movies considered so lacking in quality they were going to flushed down the cinemagraphic shitter of history . . . . until a whole bunch of us the world over started to develop a love afair with old plotless, talentless, scriptless, qualityless flicks in the latter part of the '80's . . . . I reckon all of us appreciators of the B-movie kulture ethic owe a big shout out and debt of gratitude to Joe Bob Briggs and his grounbreaking B-movie bible "Joe Bob Briggs Goes to the Drive-In" released in the late eighties.

If you haven't had the chance to read through this Holy Grail of all that is cheapo, pop culture, throw away, B-Movie, sexploitation, exploitation, Blacks/Blaxploitation opus, get your head out of your pop corn and give it a crack, essential reading up there with HST, Kerouac, Kesey, O'Rourke and the usual cast of luminaries.

Like many of it's genre, "The Thing with Two Heads" is mostly emminently forgettable shit, but the comic oneliners and the 'has to have' cop chase of the bi-cranial beast on a trailbike with pillion is simply fucking hilarious . . . . you get to see the highlights on this, the original trailer from the day, slapstick and uberschtick in nature, it still rates as a definitive moment in celluloid bike ridin urban folklore, have a giggle,  give it a squiz . . . . two heads are better than none !!!

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