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Thundercrack! (1975) [Uncut]

Posted By: Someonelse

Date: 24 Jul 2024 11:44:30

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Director: Curt McDowell
Writers: Mark Ellinger (story), George Kuchar (screenplay)
Stars: Marion Eaton, George Kuchar, Melinda McDowell

Words simply cannot do justice to this movie. In the midst of a thunderstorm a motley crew of characters seek refuge in an old mansion, home of the spectacularly obscene Mrs.Gert Hammond. Thundercrack! is chock full of taboo-shattering shocks, dialogue which plays like Tennessee Williams on speed and an undying love of Hollywood kitsch. The high water mark may be when a gorilla enters the fray. Gloriously overwritten and utterly deranged, this is legendary stuff, without a doubt the most truly bizarre film in the history of cinema. Expect horror, black humour, melodrama and zoo animals. But be warned - this is not for the faint hearted.

IMDB | Wikipedia

Imagine Rocky Horror in black and white and as serious perved-out schlock-horror. Now, let's soup up the story a little…

We have a big old mansion on the hill. Some strangers are caught in a thunderstorm as their truck breaks down and they decide to seek shelter. They are shown to a room in which they can change into some dry clothes (this room just happens to contain a wide variety of sexual 'aids'). Maintain an atmosphere of menace.

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Soup it up a bit more. One of the characters is love-sick for a sex-crazed gorilla with whom he had an affair back in the days when he used to work in the circus. The owner of the mansion has the remains of her husband pickled in various bottles in the kitchen. Her son contracted a weird condition in the Far East that made his balls so heavy that they crushed things and sent him crazy (so he's behind a locked door and trying to get out).

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Into what is becoming an increasingly complicated story that involves cliched situations treated and re-created with incredible vision, add the odd 'porno' scene (why have pretend ones?). The effect of this is equally unsettling. Just as you get into the comfort zone of camp horror, some carefree full frontals make you feel distinctly on edge - all the better to freak you out for the next scary plot development. I should add that a bountiful mix of hetero and gay sex ensures it is not a film for dirty old men unless they are exceedingly liberal, and the sudden shifts between genuinely erotic and scarily weird make you feel involved with the characters rather than observing them from a superior height.

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I saw this film for a second time in 2005 and it was apparent that a number of very explicit scenes had previously been deleted. As the graphic sexuality runs simultaneously with double and triple puns explaining the subplots, it makes much more sense with them in and makes the film more cerebral than the average psychotronic experience. The acting by lead character Marion Eaton is also outstanding, almost Shakespearean, and contrasts with the tongue in cheek hamminess of other cast members in a way that makes your jaw drop. One of the most unusual films you'll ever see, I can't imagine anything more weird if John Waters was abducted by aliens and then regurgitated all over someone making a psychotic horror spoof with political and psychological undertones.

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If you like cult films this is a jewel. Go and see it with very open-minded friends, or people you know very well!

Thundercrack! is a cult classic for the seriously open minded.
Eye For Film

…But is it erotic, you wonder? Not to the unimaginative mainstream viewer, but I certainly found something cruelly, crudely seductive in its fondness for fetish and secret pleasures. Without question, THUNDERCRACK! is one of the great underground sleaze epics, and a touchstone for all independent filmmakers to come!
Steven Puchalski, Shock Cinema

THUNDERCRACK! is, in a strange way, a scurrilous precursor of DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAID, and with wicked wit and precision, subverts not only the entire `grammar' of film, but an endless succession of Hollywood images, situations and clichés in the process. It even manages to satirise pornography; no mean feat when such images still retain their power to shock and unsettle some people! Using the familiar "lonely-house on a storm-swept night acting as a safe haven for lost and confused travellers" scenario, (some chance!!), it explores the manners and mores of `normal' society with such wicked wit that only the most puritanical would not be capable of responding. Thankfully made in black-and-white, the entire cast and, it appears, crew, throw themselves into the venture without inhibition or qualm, and the result is Hollywood turned on it's head, and all those previously 'hidden' and subliminal subplots exposed for what they really are.
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1975 Art-house Comedy Cult Curt McDowell Horror Underground