Six Shes and a He / Kiss Me Bloody

[Billy A. Anderson]

Here's a link to the 47 min version of Six Shes and a He / Kiss Me Bloody

[Dr. Kobb]

I have that one as Love Goddesses of Blood Island, although Kiss Me Bloody is just about as great a movie title as there could ever be.   Ran across it a little while back and was kind  of surprised it had flown under my radar for as long as it had.  Despite this, I still haven't gotten arond to giving it a proper watch. 

[Billy A. Anderson]

It's mostly a bore, Dr. Kobb, so you might be less bored by the shortest 28 min version.

The one big horror scene is extremely outrageous, tho.

A Nazi soldier is disemboweled and then beheaded in a scene that gives some real competition to David Friedman and Herschel G Lewis blood horror films.

I'm just wondering if it bombed at the box office reason for the title changes.

It was released in South Carolina in January of 1965, and played two consecutive Thursday thru Sunday runs at the Sunset Drive-in.

I will get the exact dates, but I think that one of those two weeks in January of 65, the Alice Drive-in might have also run the Blood Feast & 2000 Maniacs double feature for their first time, after repeated return showings at the Sunset.

Blood Feast got right into what it promised to deliver at the very beginning, and had the boring melodrama scenes paced well enough between the horror scenes so that, with the short running time, the film didn't become too boring.

I'm sure that for those horror fans who were willing to sit thru the boring parts of Six Shes and a He, they were quite satisfied with the one big horror scene, and word of mouth would have spread interest in the film.

But, on the whole, the film still might not have brought out the crowds, because the borinig nature of the film as a whole would have also spread among horror film fans.

[Dr. Kobb]

You know, I still haven't gotten around to Blood Feast, either.
 
I didn't quite follow you in your preceding comment about whether 6 She's and a He failed due to the endless name-changes, or whether you thought the name-changes were the undoing of the film.  Just from my perspective (never having even seen the film) - all three of the names chosen for it seem a little tweaked.  None of them necessarily evoke horror in the strictest sense, and as a horror fan , the names don't really grab me.  The 6 She's one has kind of a wish-fulfillment vibe.  You know, the lucky guy shipwrecked with a bunch of women on an island or any number of variations.  If anything, most film-goers were probably hoping for some copious skin (circa 1964, anyway) and the gory disembowelment scene you mentioned was probably a shock to those non-horror fans who lined-up to see it.   

Have you watched either of those discs I recently sent?  They should give you an idea of the depths of home viewing I've sunk to this year.  If anything, 6 She's would likely be a step up entertainment-wise.

[Billy A. Anderson]

I watched the first 15 mins of Henry's Night In, at normal speed, and intend to eventually watch the rest. It was OK, so far some beaver, which the earlier nudie films (which were also in color), didn't have.

A lot of times a title change is made by film makers and distributors, to try to better sell a film that didn't do well at the box office, and that's what I was wondering about with Six Shes and a He.

The Sunset first ran 6 she's with artwork from A House Is Not A Home, drawings of Polly Adler's girls, and the tag line, "first run adult fun," although the rest of the show was horror films.

Later the Sunset ran it with The Blob, Dinosaurus and Macabre, and used the proper ad mats, with the tagline, one man and six love starved goddesses, can he escape this evil eden?

And, another Sunset run used the tagline "blood feast island," when 6 Shes was on a 3 feature show with Zulu, a major studio release, and Gunhawk, a B western.

I didn't think that Blood Feast was much of a film, although it did deliver what it promised as far as bloody horror scenes.

[Marxo Grouch]

You should look for Blood Diner, Billy, Jackie Kong's comedic tribute to Blood Feast. Its pretty stupid, as I recall, but it's also pretty outrageous. Presumably the only film in history to feature a topless girl with a giant popper for a head.

[Billy A. Anderson]

Thanks for telling me about that one, Marxo.

[Dr. Kobb]

I'g going to sound so much like Dave S. here, but I don't remember a damned thing about Blood Diner, except that I did think it was a fun watch.  If I recall, it gets off to a really crazy, gruesome start mere minutes in.   I seem to remember thinking it was a great drunk flick. 

[Marxo Grouch]

Oh, it's a wild ride, and more than a little tasteless at times. I'm curious as to how it would measure up against more current standards.

[Billy A. Anderson]

I don't remember if I saw Blood Diner or not.

[Billy A. Anderson]

One very odd thing about Six Shes and a He is that it starts off with the hero's WW 2 airplane crashing at sea, and also the killing of the Nazi prisoner, but when it ends, the hero is a mid 1960s astronaut who is rescued at sea, after he escapes Blood Island and the few surviving Love
Goddesses. I know that he and one blood goddess do attempt to take the raft out into the ocean, but apparently she isn't there for the rescue,
with the film ending as the tag lines of the ads said, "was it dream or reality?"