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Big Tits Zombie (2010/E1 DVD in 2D and analog 3D)/Elvira’s Movie Macabre: Mega Movie Marathon (E1 DVD Set)/Nipples & Palm Trees (2012/Cinema Epoch DVD)

 

Picture: C+/C/C     Sound: C+/C/C     Extras: C-/C/C-     Main Programs: C-/C+/C-

 

 

Here is some exploitation meeting sexploitation, usually for comic reasons…

 

 

First we have a release with one of the most obvious titles of the year: Takao Nakano’s Big Tits Zombie (2010) which is offered on DVD in regular 2D with some scenes done sloppily in analog 3D, which means the old blue/red glasses that usually don’t work that well.  The Japanese production is shot on digital video of some kind with some good color, a does of blood & nudity and every tired grindhouse reference you can think of.  It works better in its native Japanese language, but this lame tale of exotic dancers and the undead is dead on arrival and not even a sustainable joke at a very short 73 minutes.  I expected at least some more amusements, but it is as bad as it sounds and even genre fans will have problems with it.  A Making Of featurette is the only extra, give or take the two paper pairs of 3D glasses also included.

 

 

Elvira’s Movie Macabre: Mega Movie Marathon gives us a chance to catch up on some of the double feature DVD sets we may have missed before.  Issued in times as a holiday gift, it remarkably does not include these three fun double features including Blue Sunshine and They Came From Beyond Space we covered at this link:

 

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/5878/Elvira%E2%80%99s+Movie+Macabre

 

However, it does include a few others we did.  The six DVDs offer the following, with the link to the previous covered included where applicable:

 

1) Night of the Living Dead & I Eat Your Skin

 

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/11397/Elvira%27s+Movie+Macabre+Double

 

2) The Satanic Rites of Dracula & The Werewolf of Washington

 

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/11397/Elvira%27s+Movie+Macabre+Double

 

3) The Terror (Roger Corman’s infamous, mixed pairing of Boris Karloff and a then-unknown Jack Nicholson) & Eegah! (with Richard Kiel as the unintentionally hilarious prehistoric monster)

 

4) Scared To Death (an early color Bela Lugosi mad science flick) & Tormented (a wedding has potential terror involved)

 

5) The Brain That Wouldn’t Die & Manster (two “people get experimented on howlers)

 

6) Lady Frankenstein & Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter (considered two of the worst films to feature any of those characters… ever!!!)

 

 

The point is that our host presents the films and sometimes interrupts them with comments, making it a way to see bad films with an amusing twist and she can be likable.  You can see why she has some fans.  A nice set (no pun intended), extras include a Music Video (including a making of it), Christopher Ameruso photo shoot of Elvira and Behind-The-Scenes featurette included on each DVD.

 

 

Finally we have Dylan Reynolds’ Nipples & Palm Trees (2012) which is not a Horror entry, but can be as gaudy and goofy as one in a would be comedy (or is it drama) of a man (Matthew James) trying to find success in Hollywood while being sidetracked by sleeping around too much and we get every sex and dead-end Hollywood cliché you can imagine, albeit more graphic.  After a while, I gave up on this 90-minutes exercise producing anything more despite some promise, but the set-up was initially promising, if briefly as it turns out.  Now you can see for yourself.


Extras include a Slide-show and trailer.

 

 

The anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image on Big is on the soft side with its limited analog 3D hardly working, while the same on Palm is much softer with aliasing errors throughout, so good luck watching either.  All of the Elvira discs offer various aspect ratios, but is 1.33 X 1 just the same and most of the entries here are 1.33 X 1 films.  The lossy Dolby Digital 2.0 sound on all is a mix of stereo, location audio and monophonic sound that is not great in any case, but Big has the least amount of problems, so it is the sonic champ by default, especially in Japanese.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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