Showing posts with label Old School Sinema. Show all posts
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Monday, April 16, 2012

She Devils A Go Go

Review by Matt Finley

Back in September 2008, Psychology Today published an interesting piece, written by Eriq Gardner, called What Your Stuff Reveals About You. In it, Gardner breaks down art appreciation into four personality types that describe four distinct (though not necessarily mutually exclusive) breeds of culture consumers: Taste Hunters, Thrill Seekers, Self Medicators and Decorators. About Thrill Seekers, the type most associated with extroversion, Gardner says this: “[They] are drawn to art with ‘sensational elements’ – wild colors, forceful action, and themes of sex or violence.” If that sounds like a decent description of you, dear reader, then the new film by local grassroots horror production house Old School Sinema, SHE DEVILS A GO GO, will be right up your trash-strewn back alley. 

When I say that this film is low budget, I don’t mean that there are a couple parts where they forgot to mask out a stunt wire. The film starts with a title card noting that SHE DEVILS was inspired by the works of Russ Meyer and Herschel Gordon Lewis. And it looks like something one of the two might have made in high school, but with more breezily unaffected vulgarity. That’s not a cheap jab – it’s an expectation-setter. Go in with your perception properly aligned (and, god-willing, a few shots of liquor) and you’ll have a good time.