SWEET SUGAR Production: USA, 1972 Director: Michel Levesque Category: Women-in-Prison Scripted by Stephanie Rothman, this WIP movie set in the tropics has plenty of gratuitous sex, sadism and violence. Women in skimpy t-shirts and hot pants toiling in the fields, sweating, with brutal, sadistic, whip-wielding guards driving them to the point Continue Reading
JEROVI
JEROVI Production: USA, 1965 Director: José Rodriguez-Soltero Category: Underground/Queer From the 1960s New York underground, a 10-minute queer movie showing a young man disrobing and masturbating while clutching a red rose. Rodriguez-Soltero also made the camp mess Lupe (1967), starring Mario Montez as Lupe Velez, the Hollywood star who committed Continue Reading
MARAT/SADE
MARAT/SADEProduction: UK, 1966Director: Peter BrookCategory: ExperimentalThe first substantial screen portrayal of the Marquis de Sade, by Patrick Magee, is the centrepiece of Peter Brook’s Marat/Sade, a film of a play and a play within a film, showing the inmates of Charenton asylum performing a theatrical piece written for them by Continue Reading
DATAI
DATAI (“Abortion”) Production: Japan, 1966 Director: Adachi Masao Category: Sex The first “pink” movie directed by Wakamatsu collaborator Adachi concerns Marukido Sadao, a demented gynaecologist who wants to cure the sexual problems of mankind by radically separating sex and reproduction. By creating human life only in artificial wombs, Sadao hopes Continue Reading
ERCOLE AL CENTRO DELLA TERRA
ERCOLE AL CENTRO DELLA TERRA (“Ercole At The Earth’s Center”) Production: Italy, 1961 Director: Mario Bava US release title: Hercules In The Haunted World Category: Peplum/Horror The most horror-oriented of the ’60s peplum craze, starring Christopher Lee. Visually rivalled only by Giorgio Ferroni’s lavish depiction of Dionysus at Thebes, Le Baccanti (also 1961), Continue Reading
THE PERILS OF PRUNELLA
THE PERILS OF PRUNELLA Production: USA, 1981 Director: Barbara Behr Category: Sado-Masochism/Bondage Seemingly inspired by the bondage comics of John Willie, The Perils Of Prunella is an early film by Behr, founder of House of Milan. Prunella is an office girl who is kidnapped and taken to a mysterious castle, where a depraved Continue Reading
ADÁN Y EVA
ADÁN Y EVA Production: Mexico, 1956 Director: Alberto Gout Category: Bible Exploitation A daring biblical film with a near-naked Eve, which was soon picked up for roadshow distribution in the US. A later Mexican variation, El Pecado Se Adán Y Eva (“The Sin Of Adam And Eve”), was made in 1969 and Continue Reading
LIANE, DAS MÄDCHEN AUS DEM URWALD
LIANE, DAS MÄDCHEN AUS DEM URWALD (“Liane The Jungle Girl”) Production: Germany, 1956 Director: Eduard von Borsody US release title: Liane, Jungle Goddess Category: Jungle Exploitation Among the first post-war films from Germany to feature white female nudity, this was basically a female version of Tarzan with a topless teenage actress (Marion Michael) Continue Reading
JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES
JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES Production: Belgium, 1975 Director: Chantal Akerman Category: Experimental Fictional verité-style document, lasting over three hours and with long sections shot in real time, of the daily routine of a woman (played by Delphine Seyrig) living in Brussels with her teenage son. In order Continue Reading
WILD YOUTH
WILD YOUTH Production: USA, 1960 Director: John F. Schreyer Alternative title: Naked Youth Category: JD/Crime/Drugs/Murder Posted by The Purple Gas