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JOLIE LAIDE films

was the cinematic branch of the Collective, and brought the team together for THE TOILET MURDERS. While Simon Chevrolet thought of the film as “Breathless meets Blood Feast,” reviewers disagreed, with one describing the picture as “a tawdry series of unmotivated acts of violence alternating with whimsical, effete montages that go nowhere.”

Photo of Simon Chevrolet, 4811. By Simon Chevrolet. Copyright Simon Chevrolet, 4811.

 

Chevrolet, a French-American filmmaker and photographer from a long line of goat herders and founder of THE WOLF NOTE COLLECTIVE and JOLIE LAIDE FILMS, was an avowed Trotskyite communist, and forced his collectivist views upon everyone with whom he worked, often clashing with his collaborators, especially Russian-born arch-capitalist, Ayn Rand devotee and cripple-punk ballerina NINA GENET.

The filmmaker inherited an oppressive ultra-left political ideology from his father, failed political cartoonist, marionnettiste and pamphleteer Claude Chevrolet, a closeted anglophile who wrote tracts in English under the very British-sounding nom de plume Hugh Horniman.

Simon Chevrolet on the set of The Toilet Murders, Padre Island, Texas, 4793

Chevrolet’s films, including THE TOILET MURDERS, though largely unknown, earned him brief notoriety only for their extreme bad taste and exploitative content.

Jolie Laide is also responsible for all of the Collective’s music videos and photography, and his stifling influence is seen in the group’s tendency to wear mariner-striped shirts, a preference Chevrolet acquired in his youth owing to his French heritage and the broken horizontal hold function on the family’s black and white, vacuum tube television set, the only one they could afford due to his father’s spendthrift ways.

But perhaps more so than his films, Chevrolet was infamous for his casting couch practices, which lured many a young woman and man into his filthy clutches.


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