While the semi-recent phenomenon brought up by Robert
Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse project, complete with fake
trailers that for some reason show some of the best of their respective
directors’ work (seriously, I want to see a full-length version of Eli Roth’s
Thanksgiving), modern-day exploitation is far from a new thing. And long before
he’d end up making a career out of mocking old-school cinema involving nuns, Nazis
and cannibals, Brad Jones was doing much the same. From his snuff film thriller
Cheap to his more recent efforts like the Italian giallo homages in The Cinema
Snob Movie, you get a definite impression that the man has a clear admiration
for this style of filmmaking. So, in what I’m sure is going to be me playing
the long game, let’s take a look at his (available) filmography starting with
one of the earliest productions to come out of Stoned Gremlin.
Most people get their friends together to watch movies. Brad
Jones is the guy who gets his friends together to make them, and to his credit,
it usually results in product that is watchable outside of his inner circle.
With as equal a love for the glory days of exploitation cinema as he does all
things 70’s, his homebrew style of filmmaking may not be the most technically
polished stuff around but the real-life comradery between him and those around
him can be reasonably relied on for something fun. And his latest, Disco, is no
exception.
