Movie Details
| Title: | The Black Gestapo | |
| Director: | Lee Frost | |
| Year: | 1975 | |
| Genre: | Blaxploitation | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 08.16.09 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (2)
- Mondo Freudo
- Policewomen
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 08.16.09 | Alamo Ritz | This Screening is part of event: Cinemapocalypse 2009 The next film was introduced by Lars. We were all at that pseudo-delirium stage that comes from massive cinematic indulgence and sleep deprivation, and he pointed out "doesn't it seem like forever ago that we watched the first movie... what was it called? Ingloooreeous Bowastards? And fuck... there's fucking Nazi banners on the wall! That's some surreal shit, right there." Lars then explained that all night we'd been watching shit that could've happened. "But this shit in the next movie? This is shit that could *never* happen." The next title? Black Gestapo! Trailers: Black Samurai (featuring Jim Kelly in a jet pack!), Black Godfather ("The foxiest chicks in town are standing in line."), & The Klansman (featuring the great line from a KKK leader about black insurgeance: "Of course I know about it... Hell! I'm the damn exhaulted cyclops!") Film: Ok... this is the other movie of the night (along with Firebase Gloria) that I absolutely fell in love with. Like The Losers, I could have *sworn* that I'd seen this before. But man... I was wrong. Lars intelligently described this movie by quoting some philosopher that I can't recall right now, but the bottom line is that it's a meet-the-old-boss-same-as-the-new-boss flick. Think a blaxploitation version of Animal Farm. I really don't want to say much more about the plot of this movie other than that. If you're a fan of exploitation cinema at all, you really should see this movie. It has one of blaxploitation's best white villains... a fey, balding godfather who is pure gold in every scene he's in. It could easily be a one-note mincing-gay performance, but it isn't... the guy delivers the weak-white-authority bits, but also has a few honestly terrifying moments, as well as the funniest lines of the night. I'm particularly fond of him telling one of his henchmen (who'd just screwed up) "I don't want you to think that I don't like you [perfect comedic pause] it's just that I think you're the dumbest fuck in the world." He also has an equally-perfect second-in-command that makes me wish I had the chance in real life - just once - to say with great gusto and aplomb "Afternoooon, black gentlemen!" He's also got an amazingly funny make-a-deal sequence in an overturned car. So... yeah... see this movie. |