Crack House
directed by Michael Fischa
I guess even icons have bills to pay. In some ways that's reassuring I suppose. In other ways it's sad. Perhaps most people sometimes do things for money.
directed by Michael Fischa
I mean most of us have jobs right? Or if we don't we used to or rely on our savings from previous jobs.
Well when that money gets low and you're an actor perhaps you show up in movies like Crack House. That's about the only way I can understand how former leading men Richard Roundtree (Shaft) and Jim Brown (Slaughter) wound up in movies such as this.
Now get this straight, considering that this was a Cannon Films production I wasn't expecting much. At the time Cannon Films was owned by Israeli film makers (and cousins) Menachem Golan and Yoram Globus , who were notorious for cheap low budget (but not always low quality) films. But even by Golan: Globus standards Crack House was a pretty s****y movie. The visual quality was poor.
The sets looked like thrift shop rejects. The lighting was dim. I've seen better cinematography at family birthday parties.
The plot such as it is that Ricky (Greg Gomez Thomsen), a Hispanic high school gangster trying to go straight gets pulled back into gang war with Black gangsters after they kill his cousin. Everybody, and I do mean everybody, White, Black, Hispanic or otherwise wants Ricky's girl Melissa (Playboy model Cher Butler).
After a conga line of bad luck, humiliations , and double crosses by Ricky's fellow Hispanics, Melissa winds up as the drug addicted sexual plaything of top Black gangster Steadman (Jim Brown) who doesn't give anything back he considers his, especially women.
Now in prison, Ricky hopes to make a deal with Black cop Johnson (Richard Roundtree) to get some evidence on Steadman and save Melissa before Steadman tires of her. Soap opera star Anthony Geary -Luke from General Hospital- shows up as a horny drug dealing teacher.
This film wasn't worth watching. There's a fair amount of bloodshed, cleavage, toplessness, and nudity.
