CALIGOLA… LA STORIA MAI RACCONTATA (“Caligula: The Untold Story”) Production: Italy 1982 Director: Joe D’Amato Category: Hardcore Pornography/Peplum Only Joe D’Amato could make a low-budget copy of Tinto Brass’ blood-soaked and sexually perverse Caligola and come up with something even more depraved; while no match in terms of production values and acting Continue Reading
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ANIMAL LOVER
ANIMAL LOVER Production: Denmark/USA, 1970 Director: Alex de Renzy & Freddy Hansen Category: Pornography/Bestiality Starring Bodil Joensen, the self-confessed and exhibitionistic Danish zoophile alcoholic, in various compromising positions of bestiality, including intercourse and oral sex with a horse, a dog and a pig, framed by various interviews. Bodil featured in Continue Reading
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