Description
“A pioneering slice of post-apocalypse cinema”* only begins to describe the soft-core doomsday fever-dream that is Cries of Ecstasy, Blows of Death (1973), head-lining this fantasy – sci-fi double-feature Blu-Ray / DVD combo from Pop Cinema and Something Weird.
Before Mad Max, humans struggle to survive a barren planet populated by roving bands of biker gangs, armed with only some killer kung-fu moves and a willingness to get down with just about anyone. Starring Sandi Cary, Kim Lu and the ubiquitous Uschi Digard, Cries of Ecstasy, Blows of Death is a dystopian action film tailor-made for lovers of 70s exploitation cinema.
“Welcome to…The Erogenous Zone” intones a Rod Sterling-esque voice as we dive into 1977’s Invasion of the Love Drones, an absurd, ambitious and ultra-stylish sci-fi romp in which Eric Edwards is enlisted by aliens to deflect a nuclear-tipped rocket from their mother ship…by causing a planetary orgasm, of course. Featuring Bree Anthony, Jennifer Jordan, with an appearance by Jamie Gillis.
Remastered from the original film elements and featuring a new essay by film critic Jeremy Richey.
“Cult film fans of sci-fi dramatizations of mankind’s collapse must pick this up, because it is perhaps the earliest film of this sub-genre and certainly one of the more lurid specimens mine eyes have ever seen” – horrorview.com
“a pioneering slice of post-apocalypse cinema and an above-average early Seventies softcore film, it’s well worth checking out” – Reprobatemagazine.uk.
Directors:
Antony Weber,
Jerome Hamlin
Starring:
Sandi Carey,
Uschi Digart,
Michael Abbott,
Eric Edwards,
Joann Sterling,
Arlana Blue
