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
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DIE NICHTEN DER FRAU OBERST
DIE NICHTEN DER FRAU OBERST (“Frau Oberst’s Nieces”) Production: Germany, 1968 Director: Erwin C. Dietrich Category: Sex Exploitation Posted by Cyanide Queen
SEXUAL FREEDOM IN DENMARK
SEXUAL FREEDOM IN DENMARK Production: USA, 1970 Director: John Lamb Category: Adult/Documentary A broad documentary look at sexuality in history, including Japanese and Chinese erotic art (including images of bestiality), plus issues of contraception, sex education and obscenity, and ending with a child-birth sequence plus filmed demonstrations of various sexual Continue Reading
SEX PSYCHO
SEX PSYCHO Production: USA, 1970 Director: Walt Davis Category: Hardcore Pornography/Gore One of the earliest and most powerful examples of that ultimate hybrid exploitation genre, the hardcore porno-gore movie. All cast and crew (including John Holmes) were uncredited, and the film was actually deemed unreleasable even on the sleaziest of midnight Continue Reading
THE HEALERS
THE HEALERS Production: USA, 1972 Director: Eduardo Cemano Category: Hardcore PornographyThe first film in an unusual trilogy of early hardcore porn movies, centring on radical theories of sex therapy, and directed by Cemano who started his career with a pair of wild “acid sex” films, Millie’s Homecoming and The Weirdos And Continue Reading
PAT, UNA DONNA PARTICOLARE
PAT, UNA DONNA PARTICOLARE (“Pat, A Peculiar Woman”) Production: Italy, 1982 Director: Alberto Cavallone Category: Hardcore Pornography/Freaks One of two horror-tainted hardcore porn movies shot back-to-back by Cavallone after his extreme experimental films of the 70s – inspired by Sade, Lautréamont and Bataille – saw him a virtual outcast from the Continue Reading
WATCH THE BIRDIE… DIE!
WATCH THE BIRDIE… DIE! Production: USA, 1968 Director: Don Doyle Category: Softcore Pornography Downbeat sex-and-death opus from the first wave of softcore. A Jacques Descent Production. Posted by Nightcrawler-X
TONGUE
TONGUE Production: USA, 1975-76 Director: K.B. Category: Pornography/Blaxploitation Grotesque, gloomy, existential black freak pornography from the enigmatic “K.B.” (possibly actress Niva Ruschell), featuring Al Poe as Quasi, a mute with a 12-inch tongue. Quasi lives in solitude with a pet frog, and plays chess. He has voices and visions of Continue Reading
TO HEX WITH SEX
TO HEX WITH SEX Production: USA, 1969 Director: Simon Nuchtern Category: Softcore Pornography/Satanism An early example of Satanic erotica, in which the Devil incarnates as a voluptuous woman (named Lucibel) and promises an orgy of erotic delight to an introverted young man in exchange for his soul. When he accepts, the film shows Continue Reading