More junk on celluloid
Some more entries:
Any Jamaa Fanaka movie, which includes:
Soul Vengence (aka Welcome Home Brother Charles). A newly released convict murders his victims using his "manhood" due to experiments suffered while in prison.
(Note: I have not seen this, but it is available at my video store. It is only in VHS, not DVD and I need to get my VCR fixed).
This movie was directed by Fanaka during his undergraduate stint at UCLA.
Emma Mae (aka Black Sisters Revenge). A naive Mississippi girl gets involved with a knucklehead boyfriend while visiting relatives in Los Angeles (Compton to be exact). This was Fanaka's master's thesis while at UCLA.
The Penitentiary trilogy. Leon Issac Kennedy (Too Sweet) gets incarcerated for a murder he didn't commit and becomes a boxer to get his freedom and keep his dignity.
Part 1 - In prison and fights Jesse "the Bull" Amos for his freedom and Half Dead (Badja Djola) to keep his "dignity"
Part 2 - Out of prison as a parolee and fights Half Dead (now played by Ernie Hudson) in revenge for the rape and murder of his girlfriend. Half Dead escaped from prison and vowed to kill Too Sweet Too Sweet thus comes out of retirement from boxing and rematches Jesse "the Bull" Amos in the penitentiary.
This movie IMHO, while much more lighthearted than it's predecessor, is also much more campy. Case in point: Half Dead's henchmen Simp and Do Dirty. Comic relief in it's purest state.
Part 3 - Back in prison for another murder, Too Sweet takes on Serengeti (Anthony Geary) who is an inmate who runs the prison due to the warden's high gambling debts. BAD movie to the Nth degree.
On another note, one more bad movie:
Lady Cocoa - Lola Falana is a convict out of prison to help identify and testify against her boyfriend gangster (kind of a 48 Hrs. type of movie). About halfway through the flick, the lighting is so bad, you literally cannot make out any real details of what is going on, b/c it is so dark it is hard to see.
check em out at your local video store
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