1robertajl
Well, this really doesn't belong here but we have touched on a few themes that are in the film and there's some cross-readership with the Gothic group, so here goes.
In my constant attempt to escape real life, I've been searching through the more obscure corners of YouTube, looking for trashy movies. In one long scrolling session, I thought I saw Grayson Hall and yep, there she was, in a movie called Satan in High Heels (1962). Well, what could I do?
Shot in 21 days for $100,000 dollars, the movie is way more fun than you'd think. An early sexploitation film, it's got a film-noirish vibe, an unrepentant bad girl, a lesbian Greenwich Village club owner, played by Hall, a gay piano player, some amazing clothes, and Spring-o-lator mules, the fetish shoe of the 50s and early 60s.
The bad girl's clothes are designed to show off actress Meg Myles's figure (she was a big deal pin-up model as well as a sometime singer and actress, with alleged measurements of 42-24-36.) For her club act, she shows up in an outfit that's half dominatrix and half pirate. She's got a whip that she puts to good use later in the movie. She sings a song with lyrics such as, "I'm the kind of woman/Not hard to understand/I'm the kind that cracks the whip/And takes the upper hand.
Hall looks great. The movie was made a few years before Dark Shadows. Still, she reportedly hated the film and denied she was in it, which seems futile considering she's all over the film and in the credits.
I've attached a couple stills and one of the posters.
In my constant attempt to escape real life, I've been searching through the more obscure corners of YouTube, looking for trashy movies. In one long scrolling session, I thought I saw Grayson Hall and yep, there she was, in a movie called Satan in High Heels (1962). Well, what could I do?
Shot in 21 days for $100,000 dollars, the movie is way more fun than you'd think. An early sexploitation film, it's got a film-noirish vibe, an unrepentant bad girl, a lesbian Greenwich Village club owner, played by Hall, a gay piano player, some amazing clothes, and Spring-o-lator mules, the fetish shoe of the 50s and early 60s.
The bad girl's clothes are designed to show off actress Meg Myles's figure (she was a big deal pin-up model as well as a sometime singer and actress, with alleged measurements of 42-24-36.) For her club act, she shows up in an outfit that's half dominatrix and half pirate. She's got a whip that she puts to good use later in the movie. She sings a song with lyrics such as, "I'm the kind of woman/Not hard to understand/I'm the kind that cracks the whip/And takes the upper hand.
Hall looks great. The movie was made a few years before Dark Shadows. Still, she reportedly hated the film and denied she was in it, which seems futile considering she's all over the film and in the credits.
I've attached a couple stills and one of the posters.
2LolaWalser
Haha, just the title is worth the ticket! Utterly fascinating! It reminds me of the catalogue that was (is) being republished by "Something Weird Video"--hundreds of 1950s/60s underground movies with various levels of "daring"... (and definitely crossing over into the soft? porn territory. I got from them a few of the Herschel Gordon Lewis films, a documentary about San Francisco's Church of Satan, and something called "The love merchant"--this last one very much the sort of stuff I imagine once upon a time being shown in dank little cinemas on Times Square to furtive men in mackintoshes.)
