Satan In High Heels

A cut above even Something Weird's standards!
Often with Something Weird's releases, the extras easily overpower and overshadow the featured film. There is nothing wrong with this, of course; I think it adds to the fun. But Satan in High Heels offers a great feature alnog with some dandy extras.

The feature is a dandy little film noir, made in 1962. In terms of sheer content it is strictly PG-rated stuff, but that doesn't mean it's not an exploitation delight. A woman, Stacy, rips off her creepy ex-junky husband and escapes her life as a carny burlesque dancer. She moves to New York and gets a job as a singer in a high-class but oddly seedy club run by Pepe, a dominatrix-style woman with a stare that can shatter windows. Stacy wastes no time in seducing both the club's owner and his shiftless son. Much witty banter follows, as does the club's "star" Sabrina (playing herself in a performance of such high camp it may be harmful to small animals), and the piano player (played by Del Tenney, director of "I Eat Your Skin",...

THE BEST OF SOMETHING WEIRD....
This is the best of Something Weird's rather disreputable DVD offerings of 60's sleaze. A surprisingly well made and acted low budget trash gem starring respectable actress (and former cheesecake model) Meg Myles as voluptuous carnival dancer Stacy Kane. Stacy's had it with low rent living so she rips off her junkie husband and goes to New York to seek fame and fortune. Well, fortune anyway. She lands a job at Pepe's cabaret as a singer (yes, she CAN sing) run by "Pepe" ("Dark Shadows"' Grayson Hall!) a wily lesbian with the eye for Stacy. But Stacy can't keep her hands off men and/or their money. She gets a sugar daddy but soon finds herself dallying with his skinny young son causing the inevitable snowball to start rolling downhill. Myles performs a torchy ballad in the audition for Pepe's and later a leather clad dominatrix number that will knock your socks off called "Deadlier than the Male" . This routine alone is worth buying the DVD for. But wait! There's more...a British...

Something Very Weird
Definitely one of Something Weird's better offerings. This one hits the perfect medium between being campy and just being a good movie. For the camp fans there are memorable song and dance routines (including a hysterical dominatrix number by the femme fatale lead character), a desperate junkie, a grouchy gay piano player, an over-the-top lesbian club owner . . . And for straight drama, the love triangle formed by the husky-voiced, manipulating sex bomb Stacey and the father and son who both want her, is quite compelling. Throw in Stacey's ex-husband, a desperate junkie who wants her back but can never have her, as well as some wildly entertaining characters who perform at the same club as Stacey, and you've got a plate full of entertainment.

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