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  Invasion of the Bee Girls 1973

  ★★★★★ Watched by Mara 🦋 19 Sep 2018

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Whatever genius that decided to rename this Graveyard Tramps needs their genius card revoked. This has no graveyards. This has no tramps. You know what it has? Bee girls.

  You know what else it has? A good script. Good acting. Good camera work. Good music. A story that makes sense (vaguely). It is LGBT-friendly. Good makeup. Pseudo-science. Oh yeah, it has frickin’ bee girls.

  All those hours spent watching crappy exploitation movies, this is what I was looking for.

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  Girls Just Want to Have Fun 1985

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Mara 🦋 04 Mar 2022

  I wanted to be friends with Sarah Jessica Parker from the moment I saw her in Square Pegs. The next step in our friendship would have been me as the Helen Hunt character in this wonderful film. This was the teen girl experience I wished I was living. Alas, it wasn't to be. I had to settle for watching stuff like this way too many times.

  The brilliant thing about this film was that it was girls that were having…

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  Purgatory 1988

  ★★★ Watched by Mara 🦋 08 Mar 2022

  This is the After School Special version of a women in prison exploitation film.

  Today’s lesson boys and girls: When fleeing to the airport during a military coup in the African country you are working in for the Peace Corps, don’t pick up hitchhikers!

  With about five seconds of cuts this could appear on regular tv. But it was an enjoyable watch regardless. I wish Tanya Roberts had more to do.

  Be sure to stick around for the uplifting afro-pop end credits song.

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  For Me and My Gal 1942

  ★★ Watched by Mara 🦋 04 Mar 2022

  I didn't realize Gene Kelly was in this till it started. My expectations increased. Judy AND Gene! How can you ruin that? The answer is Busby Berkley apparently. I just don't care for his stuff.

  It also doesn't help that the musical numbers here are all part of the real action. Judy and Gene are a song and dance team and they perform a lot of random boring songs as part of their actual-in-the-movie job. So the songs don't drive…

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  The Birth of a Nation 1915

  ★ Watched by Mara 🦋 25 Nov 2018

  Well-made garbage is still garbage.

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  Cry of the Banshee 1970

  ★ Watched by Mara 🦋 25 Sep 2018 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Let’s make a scary movie.
  We should get Vincent Price.
  Do we have a script?
  Screw that, just get Vincent Price.
  What is he gonna say that is scary.
  Ummmm, he can just make some stuff up.
  Like what?
  She’s a witch!
  That will work.
  But how will we know who the bad guys are.
  Rape some witches.
  Oh yeah, that will work.
  Do we have a scary dog to kill?
  We can rub some toothpaste on the mouth of…