HOLLYWOOD'S HELLFIRE CLUB: The Misadventures of 'The Bundy Drive Boys'

HOLLYWOOD'S HELLFIRE CLUB: The Misadventures of 'The Bundy Drive Boys'

They made fans and censors go crazy, and spent fortunes faster than they made them, some were accused of committing statutory rape on necrophiliac teenage girls, and they swilled immeasurable quantities of booze during week-long parties.

They were 'The Bundy Drive Boys' and they made the 'Rat Pack' look like Cub Scouts. 

Includes remarkable material on: W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn, John Barrymore, John Carradine, Ben Hecht, Gene Fowler, Sadakichi Hartmann, John Decker, Thomas Mitchell, Roland Young, Anthony Quinn, Alan Mowbray etc....

Their self-destructiveness was spectacular, the misanthropy profound, but behind the boozy bravado was a devoted mutual affection. 'The Bundy Drive Boys' story has never been told so well and so completely as within the pages of this book, Hollywood’s Hellfire Club.

With Many Black and White Photographs and Illustrations / Cover Illustration by Drew Friedman

Feral House Books 2007 - 383 Page Paperback - B&W Illustrations - PRICE: $20.00

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EROS IN HELL: Sex, Blood and Madness in Japanese Cinema - by Jack Hunter

EROS IN HELL: Sex, Blood and Madness in Japanese Cinema
By Jack Hunter


SEX: The history of "pink" movies, from Daydream and Ai No Corrida to the pop avant-garde violence of Koji Wakamatsu and beyond: Violated Angels, The Embryo Hunts in Secret, Violent Virgin and many others. Bondage and S/M from Moju and Captured For Sex to Kinbiken rope torture. The New Wave pink films of Hisayasu Sato: The Bedroom, Naked Blood, Private Torture of Uniforms, Thrust It In! and tons more.

BLOOD: From Shogun Assassin and Psycho Junkie to the killing orgies of Guinea Pig and Atrocity: from the "pink horror" nightmare Entrails of a Virgin to the post-punk yakuza bloodbaths of Kei Fujiwara's Organ and Takashi Miike's Fudoh.

MADNESS: Homicidal psychosis, hallucination, mutation: Tetsuo, Death Powder, the films of Shozin Fukui: Pinocchio 964, Rubber's Love. Post-punk excess, nihilism, violence, suicide: Burst City, Labyrinth of Dreams, Squareworld, Tokyo Crash.

Eros in Hell examines all these movies and many more - it is heavily illustrated with rare and unusual photographs, and contains illuminating interviews - includes massive film index - very unique guide to the most prolific, fascinating and controversial underground cinema in the world.

Creation Books 2000 Edition - 221 Page Paperback - Many many black and white illustrations - Extreme ADULT Material - Price: $20.00

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From the Film: Embryo Hunts in Secret

LAID BARE: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood Death Trip - by John Gilmore

LAID BARE: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood Death Trip

By John Gilmore (Author of Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder and Garbage People: Charlie Manson and the Family)

A powerful chronicler of the American Nightmare through his gripping examinations of near-mythic Southern California murders - the Black Dahlia and Tate-La Bianca - John Gilmore now draws upon his personal experiences to turn his sights on our morbid obsession with celebrity and the ruinous price it exacts from those who would pursue it.

With caustic clarity Gilmore recounts his relationships with the likes of Janis Joplin, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Jane Fonda, Jean Seberg, and Lenny Bruce on the way up and at the peaks of their stardom. Gilmore explores the actor James Dean's fascination with speed, death. and sexual experimentation and describes his often haunting first-hand encounters with Hank Williams, Ed Wood, Jr., Brigitte Bardot, Sal Mineo, Eartha Kitt, Charles Manson, Jayne Mansfield, Vampira, Steve McQueen and many other denizens of the 20th century’s dubious Pantheon.

"Reads like a first-person Hollywood Babylon!"-- V. Vale/ REsearch

Amok Books 1997 Edition - 251 Page Paperback - Great b&w photographs - Price: $14.00

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