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Hurray for Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers!
July 24, 2008
Man, there’s a lot of gas in those chainsaws!
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, the campy low-budget gorefest from 1988, revs up again Aug. 5 in a 20th Anniversary Edition from Infinity Entertainment Group and Retromedia Entertainment. Prompted by its celebratory re-issue, we asked the director, grand genre schlock-meister Fred Olen Ray (who counts Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold and Hollywood Scream Queen Hot Tub Party among his nearly 100
directorial credits) did he
really think later people would still be watching
scream queen Michelle Bauer slicing up her johns two decades later?
“You know, at the time I don’t think I would have believed it,” he told us with a laugh. “I thought it was just passing through. I just figured it was just right place, right time for the environment.”
With Bauer’s fellow Eighties femme fatale Linnea Quigley in the cast and a crew of soon-to-be-Hollywood notables (including producer Nancy Paloian of Antwone Fisher and Dude, Where’s My Car? fame), Ray describes Hookers as “like an early Roger Corman movie where you hit on a combination of talent that hadn’t actually been discovered yet.”
In the best cult-movie tradition, the film was shot in his house over two weekends. “I think the whole movie cost $50 to $60 grand up to an answer print, which cost $10,000 back in those days,” Ray says. “It didn’t have much money behind it, that’s for sure.”
“But it’s certainly made its money back,” he added.--Buzz McClain
Posted by Laurence Lerman on July 24, 2008 | Comments (0)
