Blast-Off Girls

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A sleazy record promotor tries to make it big with a local Chicago garage band and plans to make them famous while keeping the profits for himself.A sleazy record promotor tries to make it big with a local Chicago garage band and plans to make them famous while keeping the profits for himself.A sleazy record promotor tries to make it big with a local Chicago garage band and plans to make them famous while keeping the profits for himself.

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Trivia
Harland Sanders: According to director Herschell Gordon Lewis, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Colonel Harland Sanders, whose company supplied Lewis' production company and advertising firm with fried chicken during the filming of this and other movies, insisted on appearing in a cameo at a KFC restaurant located in Wilmette, Illinois. Lewis recalled that Colonel Sanders was very difficult to work with because Sanders made several unreasonable and self-serving demands for, among many things, multiple rehearsals, top-billing, and wanting to direct the scene himself. With Sanders costing time and money, Lewis and his film crew decided to shoot a rehearsal of the scene without telling Sanders that the camera was on at the time. After the filmed rehearsal was finished, Lewis told Sanders that they had to leave to be somewhere to film another scene and lied by claiming they would return to the KFC tomorrow to film, in which finally Sanders left. The entire scenes with Sanders were secretly filmed rehearsals which Lewis noted that they worked OK in the final released film.

Quotes
Gordie: Hey, man. Do you serve fried chicken?
Harland Sanders: Do we serve fried chicken? Whoo-wee! We DO serve fried chicken!
Gordie: I got five hungry musicians in the parking lot wanting five buckets of fried chicken.
Harland Sanders: Musicians you say?
Gordie: Well, they ain't nuclear fissists.
Harland Sanders: Hey, I love music! If you can get them to play here, I will give you and your musicians five buckets of fried chicken for free.
Gordie: You got yourself a deal, buddy!

Connections
Edited into Twisted Sex Vol. 12 (1996)

Soundtracks
Bad Day
Composed by Herschell Gordon Lewis (uncredited)
Music arrangements by Larry Wellington
Performed by The Faded Blue

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Geriatric Go-Go Chicks, Fried Chicken

Just for the Hell of It -- the sequel to She-Devils on Wheels -- is packaged on a double disk with another of Saint Hershell's masterpieces: Blast-Off Girls. I haven't watched JftHoI pending our next Exploitation Film Festival, but BOG charts unfamiliar territory for Saint Hershell: the rock 'n' roll flick. Unabashedly promoted as St. Hershell's "Hard Day's Night," Blast-Off Girls centers around a by-now familiar HGL archetype, the charmless blond man with inexplicable preternatural powers over all the babes in the vicinity, and his usage of these powers to direct a corps of three (3) geriatric but extremely tarted-up go-go chicks (actually, they're hens) to appear to be a screaming horde of teeny-boppers to beset what is likely the very rock-bottom jaw-dropping worst five-man combo in garage rock history, thus making them seem like the next Beatles. Zany antics ensue. Though the lead actor is good, he's no Tony McCabe; his presence is notable mainly for his ability to corrupt a straight-laced cop with reefer and his enviable collection of seasonal-colored jackets from Chadwick's of Boston. Best moments: chicken theme reaches zenith with extended and very special appearance of Mr. Rock & Roll HimSelf: Col. Sanders.