How’s this for a fun double feature? A high school student sleeps her way to the top of the faculty, becomes an assassin and goes on a killing spree. Still intrigued? How about a busload of schoolgirls on a road trip straight to hell?

Well, I never saw it coming: That scene in THE BIG DOLL HOUSE when top-billed Pam Grier’s voluminous character gets shanked to death by her junkie girlfriend. It was about the only unexpected moment in a movie that utterly defined the women-in-prison genre of exploitation.

If you are traveling through the South and happen to roll into a town where the patrons are waving Confederate battle flags and the children brandish miniature nooses like party favors, then you’d best turn your hooptie around and lay heavy onto the speeder.

TENEMENT is a fairly nifty urban warfare flick, that is if you have the stomach to endure some fairly sick stuff. It’s a skanky, sordid piece of celluloid. Consequently, it’s probably director Roberta Findlay’s best work of the 80s.

The Devil himself may be to blame when nuns start turning up dead at a troubled convent in the 1980 nunsploitation masterpiece, THE OTHER HELL, a twisty tale full of gratuitous violence, insane dialog and sexual perversion.

This week our Roundtable Reviewers discuss the 1970 grindhouse/exploitation film BOOBY TRAP, a sleazy journey into the mind of an ex-marine intent on destroying humanity by planting land mines at an outdoor rock concert.

Blurring the lines between skin flick, true crime, exploitation, ethnographic film, romance, murder mystery, and courtroom drama, AMAZONIA is a suprisingly potent and well-made Italian jungle film.

FEED, directed by Brett Leonard (THE LAWNMOWER MAN, VIRTUOSITY) is a film that I’ve eyed at the video store for a couple of weeks. With such an eloquent back cover description as “… a heavyweight thrill ride through the depths of depravity” I finally relented and proceeded through checkout whereupon the stunted store clerk asked me, “Do you realize what you’re about to rent?” This, I figure, may be a good sign.