Tuesday, May 16, 2017

BLACK SHAMPOO 1976 (VCI)

One of the oddest films I have ever seen.

A black hairdresser name Mr. Jonathan is very popular with the ladies and he has sex with as many of his clients as time will allow.

Suddenly he finds a mob boss is after the pretty young secretary he has working for him. Her name is Brenda (Tanya Boyd) and she is in love with Jonathan.

Thugs break into the business and wreck it as well as abuse some of the help. This sets off a chain of events in which Jonathan loses Brenda to the mob boss, but that doesn't last long as all is made clear a little while later.

The ending involving a small chainsaw and pool cues with have you, if you're like me, with you jaw hitting the floor. It's one of the wildest ending to a film I have seen in quite a while.

Greydon Clark directed this little "blaxploitation" gem and it has all of the usual Clark touches including some bizarre characters as usual.

Tanya Boyd steals the show. The woman is simply beautiful. The scene where she and Jonathan are running thru the woods to get away from the gangsters while wearing only a large blue shirt is priceless.

The rest of the cast includes Joseph Carlo, Skip E. Lowe and William Bonner. Recommended for fans of the genre.

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