For a while now, certain directors have taken it upon themselves to champion or lobby production companies to remaster films that they have decided have some merit. Tarantino has a terrible track record for this. Take a glance at his regular 'top tens' or list of 'best movies' which are full of obscure genre fare.
Crack House 1989 Full Movie
On paper it's an After School Special - a good kid gets mixed up with gang activity, which leads directly to his honor student girlfriend becoming a crack house sex slave - but on film it's something of a grimy, ugly triumph. If nothing else, it'll add "being trapped in a skeevy drug den run by Jim Brown" to your list of nightmares.
But the heart of the action in this movie revolves around two blaxploitation giants. Richard Roundtree portrays Lieutenant Johnson, a LAPD cop determined to break the backs of the crack dealers infesting his city. His nemesis is the aptly named Steadman (Jim Brown), a cruel brute SOB who makes Melissa a virtual captive in his crack house.
There was some really cool style in Crackhouse though. The hookers looked like they were from the future, and the black gang all had sick sweat bands and attitude in the way they dressed. The mexican gang had this awesome New Wave mexican music playing in the background and both gangs had really great racial slurs. My favorite line was from a guy trying to get his cousin to stop shooting heroin and start smoking crack:
But if the life of a crack house whore is one littered with the sorts of challenges present in any demanding yet rewarding career, the road to getting drafted to be a crack house whore is even tougher! Take the innocent Melissa. She was just a simple design student prone to dressing in stupid outfits and hats like a refugee from a late 1980s Molly Ringwald movie who was also dating Rick Morales, a former gangbanger.
In 50 years, this movie will be rediscovered and appreciated in the same way that Reefer Madness is now. Like that camp classic, this movie is an anti-drug pamphlet dressed up in exploitation clothing, though it's considerably more violent and sexually explicit. Drugs lord Jim Brown has everyone in his LA neighborhood on drugs except for one teenage Hispanic couple. When the boy ends up in jail, she is alone long enough to get sucked into the world of crack and be used and abused like all the other female cast members. Funny at times, Crack House needs time to reach its full laugh potential.
President George H.W. Bush addressing the nation on Sept. 5, 1989. The president illustrated the threat of drugs by holding up a baggie of crack he said had been seized across the street from the White House. (Courtesy of George Bush Presidential Library and Museum)
Some police officers were concerned about the growing presence of Jamaican criminals here as early as 1983. But, by the time the department higher-ups began to take notice--in 1986, about the time that the federal government began a national crackdown--the posses had moved 450 gang members into town, set up business in 50 crack houses and created a demand for the drug that shows no sign of abating.
Despite the weather, the crack houses were busy. After slowing down in front of one that the police had closed and boarded up the week before, Harris turned his spotlight on the open door. There were furtive glances from the people inside. The squad car kept moving.
Foulk grew concerned that a house on Ash Street, his block, was being used to deal crack cocaine. He purchased his own house for $10,000 ($20,875 in 2019 dollars), with the idea that property values would rise. He was set on ensuring the "drug-ridden" neighborhood would become safe from gangs and drug dealers -- sooner rather than later.
Just after the Rangers arrived on Sept. 23, 1989, some 15 to 20 gang members began to shoot up the 32-year-old's house while his buddies were inside. Luckily, the Rangers had brought their own personal weapons to the party. The Crips were probably surprised when their would-be victim's house began to return fire.
TRUE BELIEVER. The ambiguities are as unsettling as a crack-house mugger in this humdinger about a sleazy attorney who bends the system to wreak justice. But the real drama is in the demonic intensity and haunted eyes of James Woods, a criminally gifted actor who may be too edgy to become... To continue reading: responsiveAd(className: "subscribe-link",ads: [type: "desktop",size: "142x70",cm: position: "subscribebtn", type: "text",type: "tablet",size: "142x70",cm: position: "subscribebtn", type: "text",// Mobile 300type: "mobile",size: "142x70",config: zone: "219200",site: "28275",size_x: "142", size_y: "70",type: "-1"]); or Log-In
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Penniless, he panhandled for meals and slept in Times Square movie theaters. He began smoking crack cocaine, he says, and sold himself for sex to support a growing habit. He ``bottomed out,'' when he stole 200 vials of crack from a drug dealer and went on a three-day binge. Fearful that the dealer would track him down, Kevin turned to Covenant House, a private social welfare agency in Manhattan for homeless youths.
Cutts and Gallina were part of a circle of friends who routinely gathered at Gallina's house to play cards, watch pornographic movies, and smoke "crack" cocaine. On March 9, 1998, Peter DePergola went to Gallina's house. Cutts was already there. DePergola, Cutts, and Gallina smoked crack cocaine until Gallina went to bed. Sometime between 3 and 4 A.M., DePergola and Cutts left Gallina's house, locking the kitchen door behind them.
In his written statement, Cutts claimed that he had been incarcerated previously and that on his second day in prison, he had been raped at knife point. A rope had been wrapped around his neck, and three men had raped him for four continuous days. He stated that homosexual activity "makes [him] sick to this day." He also described the events surrounding Gallina's death as follows. On March 9, Cutts and his boss purchased and smoked three rocks of crack cocaine. At approximately 2 P.M. on that day, Cutts's boss dropped Cutts off at Gallina's house, where Cutts smoked crack cocaine with Gallina and other persons until 5 A.M. the following day. Cutts then borrowed his
mother's motor vehicle and purchased three more rocks of crack cocaine, which he smoked by himself. Thereafter, he telephoned Gallina and asked him to contact a "weight man," a person who sells larger quantities of crack cocaine. Cutts drove to Gallina's house and together they proceeded to purchase an additional one-half ounce of cocaine. They returned to Gallina's house where they finished the cocaine. At around 10 P.M. (on March 10), Cutts asked Gallina to contact the weight man again. Before they "went on the second run," Gallina suggested that they engage in a sexual act. Cutts knew that Gallina was homosexual, but did not think that he "would cross that line." Cutts ignored Gallina's suggestion and got up to change the radio station. Gallina proceeded to make sexual advances toward Cutts, touching him on the buttocks and in the groin area. Gallina turned his back and Cutts picked up a white rope on the floor. Cutts was experiencing "a flashback about prison and about when [he] was raped." He wrapped the rope around Gallina's neck, brought him to the ground, and struck him in the head twice with a vise that was on the counter. [Note 6] Cutts then walked into the living room and retrieved a gearshift from a table. He pushed the gearshift into Gallina's ear. [Note 7] Cutts removed Gallina's television and stereo from the house, started fires in the living room and the bedroom with "the torch [they] smoked the coke with," and used a screwdriver to "make it look like a forced entry." Cutts subsequently sold the television and stereo equipment for sixty dollars in cash and several rocks of crack cocaine. Cutts told the police that he had been addicted to crack cocaine since February, 1995, and that the drug "destroyed [him] mentally, physically, and spiritually."
Although "[s]tatements that are attributable in large measure to . . . drug abuse . . . are involuntary," Commonwealth v. Allen, supra at 455, and cases cited, "[i]ntoxication alone is not sufficient to negate an otherwise voluntary act." Commonwealth v. Doucette, 391 Mass. 443, 448 (1984). Here, evidence of Cutts's intoxication at the time he made inculpatory statements to Swolenski and Weldon on March 14 was at best conflicting. On that day, Swolenski drove Cutts to Weldon's house and waited for him while he spoke to Weldon. Cutts returned to the vehicle with crack cocaine. Swolenski testified, however, that Cutts did not smoke the crack cocaine until after he admitted to her that he killed Gallina, and after she drove him to the bank so that he could change the name on his bank account. Weldon, on the other hand, testified that Cutts appeared to be high on cocaine when Cutts told him that he had killed somebody and repeated the phrase, "murder one." While the jury could have concluded that Cutts was intoxicated at the time he made these incriminating statements to Swolenski and Weldon, the totality of the circumstances supports a conclusion that Cutts was nonetheless rational. Commonwealth v. Lanoue, 392 Mass. 583, 587 (1984), S.C., 400 Mass. 1007 (1987), and 409 Mass. 1 (1990) ("In determining voluntariness, we must examine the
At first, the new emphasis on depth led to decidedly mixed results. Conflating depth with difficulty in a manner akin to the way that so many adventure-game designers conflate difficulty with unfairness, Cinemaware gave the world Rocket Ranger as their second interactive movie of 1988. It had all the ingredients to be great, but was undone by balance issues exactly the opposite of those which had plagued the prototypical Cinemaware game, Defender of the Crown. In short, Rocket Ranger was just too hard, a classic game-design lesson in the dangers of overcompensation and the importance of extensive play-testing to get that elusive balance just right. With two more new interactive movies on the docket for 1989, players were left wondering whether this would be the year when Cinemaware would finally get it right. 2ff7e9595c
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