A brief wade through the murky depths of the genre pool is all the evidence we here at videotapeswapshop. need to assert that women underpin the backbone of cinematic motif. They are the invariable damsel in distress in adventure films, they are the final girl in the slasher, the muse in slushers and invariably the subject and object of violence. But what about dangerous women – the ones who play by their own rules? This is the question we’ve resolved to spending a week looking to answer. This week is Dangerous Women Week at VTSS. and a whole bunch of Womens Lib film fiends have joined us in uncovering who these wanton celluloid hussies really are…
The Daily Grindhouse‘s Joe Don Baker summons up zombies; Graham Bywater gets bloody, wedded (congratulations by the way!); Todd Cauley gets Big, and Bad; Rich Flannagan serves up hot frothy coffee and Mike Commane liberally smothers it all with a British garnish. Throw in a series of Top 5 film lists and it should make for an interesting week hell bent on celebrating the fairer, and much more dangerous, sex…