Badmouth » pam grier http://www.badmouth.net Look, Ma! No pants! Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:04:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 interview: jack hill http://www.badmouth.net/interview-with-jack-hill/ http://www.badmouth.net/interview-with-jack-hill/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:37:56 +0000 John Marcotte http://www.badmouth.net/wordpress/interview-with-jack-hill/ Cult filmmaker Jack Hill is legendary for several reasons. A graduate of the the Roger Corman school of filmmaking, Hill got his start in horror films, working with Lon Chaney, Jr., Jack Nicholson and Boris Karloff, among others. He went on to virtually invent the women-in-prison genre and discovered blaxploitation queen Pam Grier in the process. With Grier, he went on to make some of the most influential blaxsploitation films of the seventies, including Coffy and Foxy Brown.

But what made Hill truly legendary among cult directors was that his films were profitable. All of his movies made money, except Switchblade Sisters, and with its successful rerelease, even that minor blot has been erased from his record.

A favorite of Quentin Tarantino's, Hill's films are enjoying a resurgence on video and DVD as well as on the festival circuit.

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