Big Bad Mama

Here’s a flick that demonstrated how fun exploitation/sexploitation movies can be. Right from the start, it crackles with life and energy—and further proves that NOT sticking to the facts—to reality—is a good idea. This is one of the first Roger Corman produced films I came across in researching material for my own sexploitation-based drama. It convinced me that I needed to enter a similar playful universe in creating a world for my characters, a world where females were larger than life and capable of absolutely anything, including mixing it up with the boys. Sexploitation provides the perfect soil where excessive characters and situations can take root. Really, it’s a kind of universe where wish-fulfillment is satisfyingly granted. (Are these sexploitation mamas mere caricatures of power, as is often charged? I say, no. No less so in my view than the so-called heroic men depicted in cornball blockbuster action films and books. I mean, in movies, why should Bruce Willis have all the fun?)