Black Shampoo

Ok, most of my film reviews up here have been spaghetti westerns as of late, mostly because I've seen most of the blaxploitation flicks worth watching, and have to watch them again before a review. Unlike some of the spag westerns, most of the blaxploitation genre is lacking any artistic merit whatsoever. It's pure camp, even the better ones, such as Foxy Brown, Shaft, etc. Some are so campy they make you laugh out loud, like Blacula or Bucktown. And then there's pure crap, like one called Black Shampoo. I'm not gonna waste too much time on this.

John Daniels stars as a studly hairdresser named 'Mr. Jonathan', who, in his office gives some of his female clients a bit more than a new hairstyle (and that's where the similarities with Warren Beatty's Shampoo end). Turns out his new receptionist is in trouble with the mob or something like that. They trash his shop and later sodomize his male hairdresser with a curling iron (yup!), so he goes after them with a chainsaw. Do I need to say anything else?

Everything is over the top (or scraping the bottom, rather) in this; the soundtrack is generic blaxploitation movie music, and the dialogue is at times almost porno movie quality (not meaning it's sexually explicit, just that bad). I can't even recommend this one for the camp value, unless you like 'em really bad. You've been warned.