Sunday, August 10, 2014

Hot Nights on the Campus (1966)

Small town bumpkin Sally (genre stalwart Gigi Darlene) gets a family friend to arrange for her admission to a big time New York college. She thanks him by sleeping with him. Feeling strange and left out, she asks her roommates for some advice. In between all the nudie negligee modeling and faux lesbian frolicking, they suggest she go to a "typical" campus party. There's she meets a young "athletics" major and they immediately hit it off. Sally shows her approval by sleeping with him. Soon she is torn between two lovers. Then, she's preggers. Finding it impossible to deal with the impending baby, she goes to the grimiest backroom abortionist in all of pre-Roe vs. Wade USA. Of course, she can't go through with it. Instead, she finds another sucker... I mean, university student - to make her an honest woman...whatever that is.
Tie a hot chick around a hot oak bed! Tony Orlando, not the famous singer we all love, but the late director who made this classic sexy escapade with hot chick from the 60's like Gigi Darlene, who'll make you knock three times, and hey, has anybody seen my sweet Judy Adler, and the mega-goddess, one and only, Alpha Centuri will wonder who's been kissing her on that hot summer campus patch.

Miranda (1985)

Miranda is a beautiful woman who runs a local tavern. After the loss of her husband in WWII, she tries out a variety of men. Over the course of four seasons she meets four men: in Winter the rich old council; in Spring there is the young chauffeur; in Summer the American G.I.; and in Autumn, the servant of the Tavern. Now she has to make a decision, who would be the best lover as well husband.

Coming of Age (1977)

n this sex comedy, a good-looking German girl goes on vacation in Greece, and a large number of people try to get her to go to bed with them. With a light, teasing manner, she turns all of them down, until at last she meets a boy she really likes.

Mondo Weirdo (1990)

A narrator introduces the movie in English, then there's a few lines of dialogue
in German but this is mostly an experimental music videoclip.
Young girl becomes Alice in dreamland during menstruation. Wild dreams and nightmares about sexuality, vampirism, death, obsessions and other bizarre things.
Sick and bizarre B&W German art porn krautensplatter weirdness stars Jess Franco’s daughter Jessica as a disturbed punkette who has gory Elizabeth Bathory inspired fantasies, sucks cock and eats her own menstrual blood! Described as a "pornographic version of Polanski’s Disgust and Romero’s Martin" and "cruel fairy tales from the unconscious" this one proves that the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree!

The Single Girls (1974)

A motley bunch of folks suffering from various hang-ups gather together on a lush Caribbean island to let it all hang out and make out with each other. Unfortunately, there's a vicious psycho wacko on the loose who puts the kibosh on everyone's fun. 
Directors Ferd and Beverly Sebastian, working from a blithely silly script by Ann Cawthorne and William Kervin, relate the engrossing story at a steady pace, milk the premise for a fair amount of tension, and stage the murder set pieces with a reasonable amount of brio (the killing in a greenhouse is especially memorable). This film further benefits from solid acting by an attractive and appealing cast: the ever-radiant Claudia Jennings as sweet nurse Allison, Cheri Howell as saucy and enticing vamp Shannon, Greg Mullavey as stuttering bespectacled nerd George, Joan Prather as demure, yet kinky and eager virgin Lola, Jason Ledger as studly country boy Blue, Wayne Dvorek as charming self-help guru Dr. Stevens, Jean Marie Ingels as the snippy Phyllis, Victor Izay as lonely middle-aged dweeb Andrew, and Robyn Hilton as ditsy airhead Denise. The incredibly groovy theme "Ms. America" hits the smooth-rockin' spot. Ferd Sebastian's pretty cinematography makes the tropical scenery look almost as beautiful as the ladies. With a moderate smattering of bare distaff skin, strictly mild violence, and a handy helping of endearingly dippy Me Decade philosophical New Age hogwash (you just gotta dig the special touching in the dark encounter session!), this movie proves to be a surprisingly good-natured and even quite innocuous romp. Enjoyable grindhouse fare.

Saturday, August 9, 2014

The Health Spa (1978)

Starring: Kay Parker, Abigail Clayton, Pheary I. Burd, John Seeman, Robert Girard, Rudy Graham 
Beautiful Kay Parker plays an investigative reporter with Expose Magazine who is assigned to write an article on a new health spa, famous for its program of sexercise. Behind the guarded doors she is lead into an erotic underworld teeming with turned on adults. Everywhere she looks bodies are entwined in a lusty search for passionate ecstasy, unaware of anything except the discovery of new ways to achieve sexual fulfillment. Through a bewildering series of sensual encounters with a variety of partners, and a fantastic display of unusual erotic techniques, she realizes that sexercise is here to stay.

"Health Spa" is a movie truly deserving to be called erotic. It's warm and sensual but still thrilling. The lovely Abigail Clayton is wonderful in it but viewers will always remember Kay Parker ("Taboo"). One of the genre's "mature" actresses, she was always a joy to watch onscreen. It was directed by former adult film actress Clair Dia, at a time when not many women had done adult features. Her woman's touch definitely shows but it will satisfy most men.

Nikita - Sexy Killer (1996)

Lengthy opening has a drunken Sarah, with four of her mates, invading a rich couple's home. They have group sex downstairs (endlessly), with Sarah doing her patented d.p. thing, and then head for the safe to steal the goodies.
 
When they're confronted by the master of the house, we learn that it's an inside job, led by young Mark (Francesco Malcom, young star of ADOLESCENZA/ALL GROWN UP), the owner's son, who has the combination to the safe. A shootout ensues, followed by an even more lethal gun battle with the arriving police, and everyone but Sarah is killed...

House Of Pleasure (1984)

Starring: Cody Nicole, Cyndee Summers, Duschca (as Duskca), Jodie Nikko, Hershel Savage, Jerry Davis, Joseph, Marc Wallice (as Mark Wallice)

Meet Gail, Dushca’s sultry ‘step-daughter’ and witness her erotic humiliation at the hands of her angry, dominating mother. Get acquainted with Perla, Dushca’s insatiable servant, and Walter, the strangely perverted chauffeur. But do not enter the House of Pleasure unless you are prepared to witness some of the most bizarre and sexually exciting acts ever performed, for when Dushca catches poor Gail with a young Army stud, there’s hell to pay for all concerned!

Satan's Bed (1965)

This brutal drug drama (actually two films edited together) features Yoko Ono as the fiancee of a drug pusher who wants to go straight. His supplier kidnaps Ono in order to keep him selling dope, while in an unrelated story three black-clad addicts terrorize women.

This amazing time-capsule is a must-see primer for psychotronic movie fans. Like many other 60s grindhouse efforts, it outrageously combines more serious footage from an unreleased pic with unrelated and mismatching exploitation fare. In this case, the exploitation is provided by the incomparable Findlays (of "Flesh" trilogy fame), whose shadowy lit rape-fantasy shenanigans provide a stunning example of the "roughie" genre, mixed precariously with j.d. and lesbian-leather elements. Add to this the bizarre celebrity angle (a young Yoko Ono, threatening to, but thankfully never appearing in the nude), the lack-of-live sound and filmed-in-someone's backyard technique common to such features, and you have an absolute compendium of 60s sleaze stylings. The naked-girl-tied-to-a-pool-table opening itself is worth the price of the video, not to mention the half-naked girls hiding in trees.

Rated X - A Journey Through Porn

Overall, this is a good documentary. It was a little more explicit than I expected, but definitely not hardcore. This is a dated title: one of the topics discussed is the lack of work for black porn actors. This no longer seems to hold true with the plethora of black and interracial titles flooding the market. It was good to see the lighter side of some of the actors and Jeanna Fine's drug addiction was also a major subject of the documentary. It would be nice to see a documentary about the health hazards inherent in the porn industry, which was mentioned in passing maybe once or twice.