Teenage Tupelo

D'Lana Tunnell ("Gore Whore") stars as D'Lana, a bad girl who has a tremendous crush on local music legend Johnny Tu-Note (Hugh B. Brooks). Soon D'Lana is pregnant with Johnny's child and he snubs her. A group of women who hate men hook up with her and they bond throughout the movie. It all culminates in them wanting to meet their idol who is a local stripper/exploitation film star named Topsy Turvy. A special mention should be made of the cinematography by Darin Ipema with his interesting choices of film stock, camera angles, distance, and color. The blending of these different aspects of the camera really works out and makes for a compeltely original view in today's world which seems to lack originality. Although Director J. Michael McCarthy does rather obviously have great influences from exploitation films of the 50's and 60's, he makes it seem like everything was totally his idea even though the movie is at times one big homage.