EXPLOITASTIC: POOR PRETTY EDDIE

A new feature that will introduce you to exploitation, sexploitation, blaxpoitation and all of its other subgenres from the 60s, 70s, 80s and early 90s.



Poor Pretty Eddie is a 1975 flick from Richard Robinson and David Worth and concerns a pop singer Liz Weatherly (Leslie Uggams) who heads out on a road trip. Her car breaks down near an isolated lodge in the backwoods and things start to get weird. The inhabitants of the lodge are an ex burleqsque star named Bertha played by Shelley Winters and her much younger boyfriend, the titular Eddie. An Elvis impersonator who becomes obssessed with Liz.
Character actors Slim Pickens and Dub Taylor co star.

What's interesting about this one is that straddles so many sub genres. It has a black female lead. Yet it's set in the backwoods. So it isn't full on hicksploitation. It goes by two other titles: Black Vengeance. A title that caters to its blaxpoitation leanings. And Redneck County, a title made for its redneck leanings.

Imagine if Lynch and Tarantino had sex during Deliverance and this is what you would get.