Julie Strain
1962 - 2021Julie Strain was born in Concord, California. A graduate of Diablo Valley College, she had an extensive athletic background. Much of her youth was wiped from her memory, however, when she was left with a case of retrograde amnesia due to a severe head injury suffered in a fall from a horse. She eventually made her way to Las Vegas and later Hollywood, California and her acting career took off.
Strain has come to be known as the "Queen of the B-movies". She has over 100 films to her own credit. She has also had herself attached to numerous comic book characters and animation items. For example, she was the basis for the third person shooter item Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.².
Penthouse Satin & Lace II: Hollywood Undercover
Andrew Blake
Brandy Ledford, Julie Strain
The gorgeous women of Hollywood's past are lovingly reincarnated here as beautiful Penthouse Pets. Disguised as a variety of Hollywood seductresses, they recreate the most erotic scenes from classic films.
Penthouse Satin & Lace II: Hollywood Undercover
The Passion Chronicles
Cybil Richards
Julia Ann, Michelle Bauer
Enter a world where Vampire cults seduce young, unwitting beauties into their bloodthirsty ranks. Where experimental cyborgs built for pleasure travel through time warps to spread their message of free love. See sexy paradoxes of time and space converge on a carnal cosmic trip that threatens the very fabric of reality, humping and gyrating across the infinite tableau of creation.
The Passion Chronicles
Popatopolis
Clay Westervelt
Monique Parent, Glori-Anne Gilbert
In 20 years, he's directed more films than Martin Scorsese, He's produced more profitable movies than Jerry Bruckheimer, And he's infuriated more actors than Alfred Hitchcock. The ultimate B Movie Documentary, focusing on B Movie Giant Jim Wynorski (and B Movie Celebration Mentor) and his attempt to make a feature film in 3 days. He's directed seventy feature films, but he's never made one... in THREE DAYS. Jim cuts the shooting schedule, has the actors cook their own food. A documentary featuring B-Movie legends Roger Corman, Andy Sidaris, Julie Strain, Julie K. Smith and Stormy Daniels, Popatopolis follows Jim Wynorski as he begins to film one of his many opuses "Witches of Breastwick" Jim's frenetic pace demands 100 setups per day (the Hollywood standard is 20), and he reduces his electric package to just two lights so he can concentrate on the task at hand.A great overview of a true master at work and in many ways a laser sharp dialectic on the state of B filmmaking today.
Popatopolis
The Rock 'n Roll Cops
Scott Shaw
Robert Z'Dar, Scott Shaw
This film follows its lead character, Detective Jake Blade (played by Shaw) who is pursuing the Russian crime lord Rinaldi (played by Smith). This film is traditional of Scott Shaw's directorial work in that it follows a non-linear storyline that it riddled with strange dialogue and unexpected edits, where the central characters leave behind the storyline and interact solely by the presentation of visual images in association with Techno music. This film also possesses the obvious references to Blacksploitation Cinema apparent in virtually all Scott Shaw films.
The Rock 'n Roll Cops
The Dark Side of Hollywood
Odette Springer
Maria Ford, Jon Kalina
Behind the scenes of Hollywood's low-budget movie industry. It is a powerful portrait of the fragility of fame and the cost of stardom. B-pictures have long been the spawning ground of today's and tomorrow's stars. They started the careers of Jack Nicholson and Sylvester Stallone among many others, as well as now super star directors Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, Ron Howard and James Cameron. The film examines the evolution of starry-eyed newcomers arriving in Hollywood and discovering the harsh reality of getting into pictures.
The Dark Side of Hollywood
The Many Lives of Jason Voorhees
Jeffrey Schwarz
Michael Berryman, John Bloom
A documentary charting the rise and fall (and inevitable undead rise) of fictional killer Jason Vorhees from the Friday the 13th series, which takes in the "video nasty" phenomenon in general.
The Many Lives of Jason Voorhees
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Peter Segal
Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Something to Scream About
Jason Paul Collum
Brinke Stevens, Debbie Rochon
Actresses best known for the power of their lungs in horror classics and cult favorites discuss what it's like to work within the B-movie industry and have a career based in horror.
Something to Scream About
Armageddon Boulevard
Donald G. Jackson
Scott Shaw, Julie Strain
ARMAGEDDON BLVD. A ZEN FILM When the streets go bad, Jack B. Quick gets mad. STARRING: ◇ International Action Star and Martial Arts Master, Scott Shaw ◇ Penthouse Pet and B-Movie Queen, Julie Strain ◇ Co-Creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Kevin Eastman ◇ Ultimate Hollywood Bad Guy, Robert Z' ...
Armageddon Boulevard
Vampira: The Movie
Kevin Sean Michaels
Forrest J. Ackerman, Zack Beseda
Vampira The Movie chronicles the story of Malia "Vampira" Nurmi living on the very edge of show business and her rise to celluloid cultdom 50 years later. Her big break came in 1954 when she played the "glamour ghoul" Vampira, emerging from the mist to greet viewers of obscure horror movies on the new medium - television. Her newfound fame led to friendships with Marlon Brando, James Dean and Anthony Perkins. But Vampira's show was abruptly cancelled. Nurmi appeared as Vampira again in the 1959 low-budget horror / sci-fi film, Plan 9 from Outer Space, directed by Edward D Wood Jr. and often dubbed "the worst film of all time." But you can't keep a good vampire down and Nurmi's character rose from the dead again in 1993's Ed Wood, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp. The movie renewed interest in Maila Nurmi and she has since achieved a Bettie Page-like cult status.
Vampira: The Movie
