IT’S SLEAZY (2001/USA) From 1993 until 2001 the heavy metal band GWAR released a series of outrageous straight-to-VHS films celebrating their complex mythology, while simultaneously skewering popular culture and reveling in gore. Also, sometimes there was music. When I was but a naive teenager, I recall seeing these videos tucked secretively behind the counter at music stores and I regularly fantasized about what possible extreme content could possibly be contained in films like (the Grammy nominated!) PHALLUS IN WONDERLAND or SKULHEDFACE. Friends of mine would whisper about the totally outrageous GWAR stage shows which usually ended with the audiences covered in blood and semen. Of course,
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