Bill Landis  

“Since I wrote about grindhouse films, these professional beatniks accused me of making the world a worse place. Jonas Mekas, for one, was livid that I’d once left (Sleazoid Express) flyers at a screening of Chelsea Girls at his Anthology Film Archives. To Mekas cohort Ken Jacobs, I was an example of everything that was evil and wrong with movies and the world in general. On the other hand, Ken Anger loved it.”-- Sleazoid Express (1984) by Bill Landis

"As ‘I Will Follow Him’ fades into the joker’s laugh of the Surfaris ‘Wipe Out’, the famous Life cover of ‘America’s Youth Today’ appears: a skeleton head marked YOUTH in a woman’s wig, smoking a cigarette. Superimposed over the black eye sockets is a bathetic picture of Jesus with his hand on a young boy’s shoulder, pointing him towards the right-hand path.

Scorpio Rising closes with rapid-fire cuts rhythmically set to the manic surf guitar of ‘Wipe Out’. Scorpio ranting. Nazi flags. A checkerboard with swastika checkers. Assorted shots of bikers in Coney Island. The Back posing. A guy spilling out in the motorcycle race. A skull. Three guys yelling ‘Hooray!’ Ambulance arriving. A dead helmeted face seen under a red strobe."--The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger (1995) by Bill Landis