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Topic: Starjoy Films?
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Marshall Crist
Master Film Handler
Posts: 300
From: San Pedro, CA USA
Registered: Oct 2008
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posted August 27, 2014 07:57 PM
You may have recently seen a few sealed Super 8 movies from "Starjoy Films" pop up and immediately get purchased on eBay. "What on earth are these?" you might well have asked yourself. I certainly did. So I purchased one. A few minutes later, they were all gone.
The one I bought was "Hanky Panky." There was one other copy available from the same seller, as well as something called "Cry Uncle." "Hanky Panky" arrived today--a 340' color sound film. It appears to be a digest of a West German soft-X feature. There are no actor credits (and I didn't recognize anyone) but the print did credit Hemisphere Films. So, I suspect it may be a digest of this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256320/reference
Starjoy Films (listed as "Star Joy Films" on the back of the box) seemed to be based in Bogota, NJ. Based on the fact that this is less than four miles from Fort Lee, and that the box uses the same red "Super 8" label in the upper right corner that Ken Films used in later years, I can't help but wonder if this was Ken's attempt at a separate softcore imprint. Other Starjoy titles listed on the back of the box are:
BORDELLO CRY UNCLE (Presented by Lee Hessel) 1001 DANISH DELIGHTS SWINGING STEWARDESSES
The latter was another West German softcore flick released in the US by Hemisphere, so the overall trend here is clear. I might add--and this is the height of conjecture--than if Ken did license a bunch of sex films from Hemisphere and release them as "Starjoy Films," that might help (sort of) explain why their release of NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST used cover art derived from Hemisphere's BEAST OF BLOOD. Too bad they didn't go nuts and release digests of a bunch of those Filipino horror movies from Hemisphere! (Although there is at least a German digest of BEAST OF BLOOD out there...)
You now know everything that I know about Starjoy Films. [ August 27, 2014, 09:29 PM: Message edited by: Marshall Crist ]
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