![]() Located on the south side of the street next to the Cine Twins, it was originally one of the Deuce’s grungiest, most pungent smelling, and most dangerous adult houses. Here is an excerpt from “Chapter 13: Lost in the Roxy”: Simon and Schuster published a Sleazoid Express book. Crackheads were insane in their criminality, while the junkies would just pass out. They became unsafe because of the crack epidemic. If the movie disappointed them, they’d throw things at the screen…. People wanted to get the most bang for their buck. ![]() Certain theaters, like The Ankle, which was across from Port Authority, catered to a more criminal element…. It was a very egalitarian form of entertainment that attracted all sorts - kids cutting school, people on dates, inner-city people escaping the cold or heat. A shoebox theater catered to the adult audience, seated eighty to 200, usually on one floor, and was shaped like a rectangular shoebox…. ![]() They seated several hundred people and played all kinds of films, across genres. ![]() Grind houses were opulent, old-style movie palaces with chandeliers, opera seats and huge screens. ![]() With his wife Michelle Clifford he was the editor of Sleazoid Express, a zine that chronicled the films of the 42nd Street grindhouse scene, which he described in an interview at : Bill Landis, a man who championed the world of underground exploitation moviemaking and exhibition, died this week of a heart attack at 49. ![]()
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