Sleazoid Express

"Sleazoid Express" (1980-1983, and later editions) was the house journal of the Grindhouse movie scene in New York circa 1964-1984. Edited by Bill Landis, a projectionist and devotee of the crime-ridden sleaze houses, the magazine not only captured the genre affections but the whole Times Square milieu of drugs, violence and prostitution. Typical films shown in the movie houses, which centred around the city's 42nd Street, included "Bamboo House of Dolls", "Blood Sucking Freaks", "The Corpse Grinders", "Mad Monkey Kung Fu", "Miss Nymphet’s Zap-In" and "The Ultimate Degenerate".

Far from representing a marginal off-shoot of the movie business, the Grindhouse films would be later plundered for ideas and imagery by mainstream cinema, while the trash ethic and aesthetic of the magazine itself would be effortlessly copied by many others.

External links

* [http://www.sleazoidexpress.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.askewreviews.com/columns/sleazoid_express.htm Review of "Sleazoid Express: A Mind Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square"]