Moore returned to his urban milieu again with The Disco Godfather, also released on video as The Avenging Godfather and - the best of both worlds - The Avenging Disco Godfather. Moore really shines as Tucker Williams, the dancing king DJ "godfather" mixmaster at the popular Blueberry Hill nightclub. His routine involves spinning wax and rapping hilarious catch phrases for the crowd. One night his nephew, Bucky (Julius Carry), comes to the club hopped up on "PCP! Angel Dust! The new psychedelic drug of the '70s!" and winds up in a hospital with lots of other drug-damaged wrecks. After a helpful lecture by a doctor on the dangers of hard drugs (including one jaw-dropping flashback), Tucker decides to wage war on the drug community, kickboxing and bitchslapping his way into your heart. Meanwhile viewers also get to experience first hand the horrors of PCP, which consists of weird psychedelic visions involving an African demon woman and a day-glo skeleton (these sequences obviously influenced the last segment of Tales from the Hood).

An extremely dark film (literally), Disco Godfather looks as good as it ever has but was obviously more of a nightmare to transfer to DVD. The low budget obviously presented any real depth in the shadowy photography, so a few murky shots actually looked that way in the theater. Overall, though, the flashing lights and sequins look just great, and simply having this title at all is pretty miraculous. Considering what they had to work with, Xenon has done a nice job with these (certainly better than their kung fu titles so far), and hopefully a DVD for Petey Wheatstraw will be coming along soon.