In Praise of Our One Year Anniversary!

 

It was one year ago today that the IPOE blog was launched with little fanfare and many a raised eyebrow.  There were many doubters from the exploitation film world who scoffed at the very notion of time traveling cult film archeology, but now, three hundred and sixty-five days later we feel that these naysayers have been proven wrong.  

Our initial mission statement had three main points:

 

1.  Travel back in time to seek out and watch the lost and forgotten exploitation movies.

2.  To bring this collective information back to present day and present to you.

3.  To bed as many sixties and seventies chicks as possible.

Consider the first two accomplished.  Unfortunately, when we travel back in time, we cannot mingle with the people of the era, nor can we bring back anything physical from our journeys to the past, like film prints, as we would disrupt the natural progression of history.   

For example, on our first trip back we innocently brought back six Flavos shrimp rolls from a drive in in Schenectady, NY.  When we returned, we had found out that Mclean Stevenson’s HELLO LARRY had run for ten years, won fifteen Emmys and a Nobel Peace Prize, and had surpassed M*A*S*H* as the number one rated show of all time.  Having discovered our error quickly, before one bite was taken, we were able to travel back and return the shrimp rolls to rectify history . . . So, as you can see, we have to be careful not to upset the balance.

We time travelers have an old saying. 

“Time flies when you are time traveling.”

This may sound a bit redundant.  But what is redundancy?  What is redundancy?  What is redundancy?

Whenever we gas (yes, we still use gas) up our time traveling concession stand machine and venture back to the drive ins and grindhouses of our past to watch forgotten films, we do so with the spirit of the great explorers the world has ever known.  

What’s the point of covering the same movies over and over again?

Is there anything new to add to the conversation about THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, THE WILD ANGELS or REVENGE OF THE CHEERLEADERS?  When there are movies like THE IDAHO HAMMER MASSACRE, THE VROOM VROOM GANG, and THE GRAVEDIGGER’S DAUGHTERS that have never been covered and deserve to be.

We will continue on our quest to boldly go where no exploitation movie blog has ever been.