The Exotic Ones (1968)

Director: Ron Ormond

Writer: Ron Ormond

Starring: Georgette Dante, Sleepy LaBeef, Ron Ormond, June Russell, Diane Marshall, June Carr, Sam Tarpley, Harris Martin, Ed Livingston

More info: IMDb

Tagline: Bayou Bigfoot Does Bourbon Street

Plot: A trio of hunters in the Louisiana bayous capture a monster called the Swamp Thing. They take it to New Orleans where (naturally) they display it in a strip joint. When the monster's favorite stripper gets into a fight with another stripper, he breaks loose and starts killing.

My rating: 6/10

Will I watch it again?  No.

Lets' see you do that.  Seriously, please send me videos

of you doing that with fiery tassels.

Say, kids, do ya like your 60s exploitation?  How about strippers that can actually dance and know how to use tassels?  Well, how about trapsin' around the French Quarter in New Orleans circa 1968?  Then what about capturing a swamp creature and making it part of the stripper variety show at a struggling titty bar?  No?  Then I reckon you're just going to miss out on some wild entertainment.  OK, so there's no nudity AT. ALL!  But there are a lot of good lookin' broads that are almost nekkid. 

The first half hour is a blast with girls auditioning their acts for hire at the local French Quarter titty bar.  Once the gangster B-plot and the monster C-plot get involved things start to drag a lot.  Then it all picks up in the last ten minutes with a great cat fight between a couple of strippers, the escape of The Swamp Thing going on a killing spree and then it just kind of ends with a Russ Meyer-ish voice over telling us about sleaze on Bourbon Street.  Cut out the middle nonsense and you've got yourself a great flick to toss on at a party.  If I had a time machine one thing I'd do is visit New Orleans strip joints in the 60s and 70s.  It looks like it'd be a blast.  Except for the crazy swamp monsters on the loose killin' strippers part.  Not cool.