Post #86353 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Apr 15, 2004 11:55 AM

On 2004-04-15 10:23, Atomic Cocktail wrote:
Let us hope it is at least as good as "She Gods of Shark Reef".

Now that is not even a good Corman flic (and my DVD from Alpha Video is really sub-sub-quality, too), the poster and lobby cards are better than the film, promising more Tiki than there actually is:

"BEAUTIFUL MAIDENS RULED BY A HIDEOUS STONE GOD!"

And all you get to see (barely) is one and the same take of a Tiki submerged in murky muddy water....

But HALT! A closer look at his Tiki reveals: It is the SAME Tiki used for Martin Denny's FORBIDDEN ISLAND and the Mills Brothers GREAT HAWAIIAN HITS cover photos, (plus for the double page pin up in "Tropical Paradise" a men's nudie mag from 1961).

I suspect it was a Rent-a-Tiki from the famed ROSHU prop house in Hollywood.

On the subject of the "Erotic Tiki" flic: That director is known among fans of absolut bottom barrel budget soft core flics as a veteran of such, but to me, contemporary B-movies like that that are aware of their cult following are often too self-consciously silly, which doesn't work. It might be fun to MAKE them, but to BE funny, the filmmaker has to take himself and the project absolutely serious.