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Issue date: 10/27/09 Section: Arts & Entertainment

Media Credit: Photo courtesy of Movie Poster Database Web site The film, "Hollywood chainsaw hookers"

Naked women dancing around on screen were not what I was expecting to see when I attended the Thrillville event, hosted by Camera 3 on Thursday night.

I thought scary movies were going to be shown, but when I got there, many other strange things were waiting to be seen.

Thrillville, according to its Web site, is a cabaret series showing B movies and cult films, and has been going on for 12 years.

During the 1930s and '40s, theaters would show two movies.

One was a bigger feature, the "A" movie and the other was a lower-budget, more obscure movie, the "B" movie, according to GreenCine's Web site.

Thrillville originated in Oakland and has been hosted by Camera 3 for four years, according to one of its hosts, Will the Thrill.

When I first walked into the theater before the show was about to start, I was shocked at the aforementioned naked women dancing on screen.

It was some strange movie from the '70s where some scientist was trying to make the perfect woman and control her.

So of course, he made them do a bunch of things naked.

After seeing this, I knew these movies would be different from my expectations.

The night's hosts, Will the Thrill and his wife Monica Tiki Goddess, were fun and lively.

The couple interacted with the audience very well and asked ridiculous trivia questions that had even more ridiculous answers for funny prizes such as more "B" movies.

The couple cracked a lot of jokes about the movies shown.

I found it weird that Tiki Goddess didn't even stay to watch any of the movies and snuck out as soon as the movies were about to start to read a book in the lobby.

Will the Thrill, however, stayed to watch the movies.

The first movie shown was the horror comedy "Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers," a really bad movie from 1988 directed by Fred Olsen Ray.

Never had I seen so many naked women in one night - ever.

The movie was about a detective that goes to Hollywood to look for a teenage runaway.

When he finds her, he stumbles onto something much bigger - a cult of chainsaw-worshipping hookers that kill their clients to appease the chainsaw gods.

The movie, complete with bad puns, stupid jokes and outrageous one-liners, was hilariously bad and stupidly funny.

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