This locally-set novelty attempts to combine the Roger Corman rubber-suit monster movie with the post-Russ Meyer nudie cutie into one perfect swingings trash pile.
It has so much fun establishing a nonstop party atmosphere on its French Quarter strip club set that it goes to Matt Farley levels of effort to delay the inevitable disruption of its horrific monster — almost a full hour into its minure runtime. This movie has nothing on its boozy, lingerie-clad mind beyond ogling as many burlesque performers as it can before it must sober up and deliver the horror genre payoffs promised on its poster.
Bourbon Street mafia types abduct a swamp-dwelling sasquatch known as The Swamp Thing from the Louisiana bayous played by rockabilly musician Sleepy La Beef and force him to perform onstage as part of a cheap strip club act. In color! The Exotic Ones delays those tedious plot concerns for as long as it can manage, though, saving the entirety of its creature feature narrative for its final half hour. Everything that precedes that third-act genre shift is just a parade of go-go dancers, burlesque performers, and various other salacious sideshow acts.
And which one taunts him into a rage? Oh well. Welcome to Episode of The Swampflix Podcast! You can stay up to date with our podcast through SoundCloud , Spotify , iTunes , Stitcher , TuneIn , or by following the links on this page. In , a few members of the Swampflix crew decided to finally grow up and get serious about Mardi Gras.
We collectively shed our annual personal crises about what themes to include in our Fat Tuesday costuming by pooling our resources to pray at the altar of a single cinematic deity: Divine.
