Slimetime: A Guide to Sleazy, Mindless Movies

by Steven Puchalski

Sci-fi, schlock, women-in-prison, Japanese monsters, biker gangs, brazen gals, mindless men, kung fu mischief, bad music, flower power, and puppet people! Utilizing in-depth reviews, cast and plot details, Slimetime wallows in those films which the world has deemed it best to forget-everything from cheesy no-budget exploi-tation to the embarrassing efforts of major studios. Many of the motion pictures in Slimetime have never had a major release, some were big hits, others have simply "vanished." Complimenting the wealth of reviews are detailed essays on specific sleaze genres such as Biker, Blaxploitation, and Drug movies. Steven Puchalski is editor/publisher of the cult-movie magazine Shock Cinema , and a frequent contributor to Fan--goria , and Sci-Fi , the official magazine of the Sci-Fi Channel.

Genres: Film, Nonfiction

224 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1996

Reviews

[Andy Raptis]

Hilarious reviews.
The guy is really funny. Kinda like Kevin Smith or John Waters.
He should be making films, not reviewing them.
Quickly, some fucker give him the money!

[Peter]

Wow, what a cover. Inside you'll find the ultimate overview on all kinds of pulp movies. Great advertisings, movie stills and reviews. Meet Coffy, Elvira, TNT Jackson, The Wizard of Gore and many more. There is a whole section on biker movies and one on Blaxploitation. Highly entertaining. Those are the films you were always looking forward to as a youth and they still keep fascinating you as an adult. Highly recommended!

[Peter Fenton]

Great reviews. Brought back fond memories...

I came of age watching movies like these, first on late-nite TV, then at Detroit's infamous Roxy and Colonial theaters, where, if you arrived around 6 pm you could watch six different films until about 3 a.m. (the three-movie bill changed at midnight, which was the same time management moved the audience to one side of the theater so that the ushers could hose the other side down).

Thanks, author, for writing this.

[Josie Deryn]

4.5! An amazing source of inspiration for evenings filled with disgusting movies

[Ian]

I love Puchalski's writings on film, from the '80s Slimetime zine through the current, glossier Shock Cinema magazine. Slimetime is what you grab for his reviews, and Shock Cinema is what you read to see character actors and cult directors dish about their careers and the people they've worked with. Like Roger Ebert, his writing and perspectives are always great to read even when our tastes don't align (he never gave a positive review to intelligence-insulting garbaggio like Crash, so he's already one-up on Ebert). Mandatory if you love cult film.

[Johnny]

This is an essential guide to the best "worst" movies ever made. Extremely comprehensive, the author has a deep love for trash cinema while also pointing out that the low quality of most of these films is what makes them so great. For some reason, this book is going for a shitload of cash on Amazon and other sites. Catch a copy if you can but definitely check out the amazing magazine the author still puts out, "Shock Cinema".

[Brian]

300+ pages of reviews from the pages of Steven Puchalski's short lived Slimetime fan magazine (1986-89). Covers hundreds of titles ignored by academia and official film histories (Blaxploitation, Biker flicks, Spaghetti Westerns, etc. etc. etc.). Although Michael Weldon's 2 books are more comprehensive, the fun here is in the writing, which is both passionate and profane. This guy cares. A lot.

[Seth]

This is the book that opened my eyes to the infinite world of schlock cinema. Good and often great reviews of old drive in exploitation movies from the 50's through the 80's. Most of the reviews are accurat and reliable resources for collectors or adventurous renters.