Lee Frost rates highly as one of the best, most talented and versatile
filmmakers in the annals of exploitation cinema. Frost was born on
August 14, 1935, in Globe, Arizona. He grew up in Glendale, California,
and Oahu, Hawaii. He eventually wound up in Hollywood, where he started
his career making TV commercials for the studio Telepics. Frost made
his film debut with the early 1960s nudie cutie
Und ewig knarren die Betten (1962). He went on to
make a slew of films in many different genres: tongue-in-cheek horror
comedy
(Gräfin Frankensteins Liebestempel (1962)),
mondo shock documentaries
(Hollywood's World of Flesh (1963),
Mondo Bizarro (1966),
Mondo Sexuality (1966)), perverse
softcore roughies
(The Defilers (1965),
Das Tier (1968)), crime drama
(Die Porno-Katzen (1968)), westerns
(Heisse Sporen (1968),
Scavengers (1969)) and even
Nazisploitation (Love Camp 7 (1969),
which has been widely cited as the prototype for the notorious
Ilsa: Die Hündinnen vom Liebeslager 7 (1975)).
A majority of Frost's 1960s features were made for legendary trash
flick producer Bob Cresse. Moreover, Lee
added sex inserts into such foreign films as
London in the Raw (1964),
La femme spectacle (1964) and
Angeli bianchi... angeli neri (1969).
Frost continued cranking out entertainingly sleazy drive-in items
throughout the 1970s; they include the startling psycho sniper outing
Im Liebesgarten (1971), the
passable biker opus
Chrom und heisses Leder (1971),
the gritty
Chain Gang Women (1971), the
hilariously campy
Das Ding mit den 2 Köpfen (1972),
the immensely enjoyable
Sadomona - Insel der teuflischen Frauen (1974), the gnarly
blaxploitation winner
The Black Gestapo (1975), the
rowdy redneck romp
Dixie Dynamite - Mädchen scharf wie Dynamit (1976) and the
jolting roughie porno shocker
A Climax of Blue Power (1974).
Frost often cast former football player
Phil Hoover in his 1970s movies and
frequently collaborated with producer/screenwriter
Wes Bishop (in addition to their own
pictures, Frost and Bishop wrote the script for
Jack Starrett's terrific
Vier im rasenden Sarg (1975),
which Frost was originally supposed to direct as well). Both Frost and
Bishop often appear as actors, usually in small parts, in Frost's
films. Lee worked as an editor on industrial movies for a film
laboratory throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. His last feature was
the straight-to-video Shannon Whirry
erotic thriller
Entführt - Ein Fan läuft Amok (1995).
Lee Frost died at age 71 on May 25, 2007.
