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No matter what they say, this is - so far - a lost film. Filmed as The Sex Serum Of Dr. Blake (1970) and aimed squarely at the raincoat crowd, writer/director Charles Nizet shot additional scenes to make another movie, the R-rated drive-in horror film Voodoo Heartbeat (1972). In his only film role, producer Ray Molina stars in both versions as Dr. Blake, an abortionist who injects himself with a purloined "youth" serum that results in a few inconvenient side effects. Famed character actor Philip Ahn (Tex Rides With The Boy Scouts) is Mao Tse Tung in a gruesome torture chamber scene, one of a number of segments not found in the X-rated version currently available on Blu-ray. With Forrest Duke from Ray Dennis Steckler's The Hollywood Strangler Meets The Skid Row Slasher, Will Long (Perverted Passion), Ebby The Ravager Rhodes, and Chuck Alford from Dracula (The Dirty Old Man). Filmed entirely in and around Las Vegas.
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Originally issued as The Politicians but then rebranded with a snape covering the old title, writer/director/producer Bob Augustus (Fox Holes) mined the public's curiosity about political scandals for this 1970 tale about a high-level pimp whose clientele is the rich and powerful in the halls of Congress. An ex-manicurist (Angela Carnon from Fabulous Fanny) arranges and participates in the assignations before returning home to North Carolina to help her brother with Downs Syndrome masturbate on his birthday. Happy birthday! Also with Neola Graef from Cries of Ecstacy, Blows of Death, softcore star Dixie Donovan (Divorce Las Vegas Style), Douglas Frey from Drop Out Wife, and ubiquitous Uschi Digard (The Disco Dolls In Hot Skin). Production company Fountain Films was also responsible for Monica's Thing, another apparently lost film.
Writer/director/co-producer/editor Gary Graver's unhinged sex-horror feature from 1973 was also released as And When She Was Bad, ostensibly for markets where the more perverse title might have ruffled civic feathers. EVI studios favorite John Alderman (The Erotic Adventures Of Zorro) stars as an unlucky businessman whose love affair with a homebound alcoholic (Heather Vale from Saddle Tramp Women) is threatened when the teenage step-daughter from a previous marriage (lovely Lyllah Fly Me Torena) shows up at his door seeking shelter, and perhaps more. Also with Sandy Carey from Cries Of Ecstacy, Blows Of Death, Jean Clark (Leonard from Graver's Sandra: The Making Of A Woman), and Graver himself.
The late Ken Scudder from Curt McDowell's Thundercrack! is a private investigator tasked with learning the secrets of a sex cult led by a charismatic charlatan (porn extra Herbert Wong) in Charles (China de Sade) Webb's The Sinful Pleasures Of Reverend Star. Also with Kristine Heller from The Erotic Adventures Of Candy, Desiree SexWorld West, Paul Thomas (Jesus Christ Superstar), and actor/filmmaker John Seeman (Blazing Zippers).
Before producing critically lauded films for John Faces Cassavettes, jack-of-all-trades Al C. Ruban directed this 1965 sexploitation feature made on location in New York City. Through the tale of a housewife seeking work at a "modeling studio," The Sexploiters surveys the various kinks offered behind the phony facade. These involve New York sex film regulars Gigi Darlene (Bad Girls Go To Hell), June Roberts from Joe Sarno's Red Roses Of Passion, and Jackie Miller (Mme. Olga's Massage Parlor); along with uncredited roles by filmmakers C. Davis Smith, Jerry Denby, Sande N. Johnsen, and Ruban himself. The soundtrack was by Steve Karmen (Teenage Gang Debs), and distribution was handled by Bob Cresse's Olympic International.
"Godfather of Gore" Herschell Gordon Lewis followed up his hillbilly horror extravaganza Two Thousand Maniacs (1964) with this cornpone tale about a country and western singer (Charles Glore from the aforementioned Maniacs) who with his girlfriend (Marilyn Walters, later in The Spy Who Came) returns to his rustic roots for songwriting inspiration. Instead, they stumble into in a battle over moonshine between a hillbilly clan and a psychopathic sheriff (Gordon Oas-Heim from Paul Morrissey's Bad). Glore, originally from Waycross, Georgia, was screenwriter as well as star. Also with Jeffrey Allen (Santa Claus from Lewis' The Magic Land of Mother Goose), Ben Moore (She Freak), and Body Shop auteur J. G. "Pat" Patterson.
Hoping to tie their product to a certain controversial Swedish import from 1967 directed by Vilgot Sjöman, New York's Century Cinema Corporation lifted part of Sjöman's title for their 1970 soft core cheapie starring Rita Bennett (the corpse from File X For Sex: The Story Of The Perverted), Uta Erickson (She Came On The Bus), and Sheila Britt from Murder In Mississippi. A jilted lesbian gets even with her lover Sylvia by picking up a submissive wino on Skid Row, a ploy that fails when Sylvia joins them for a threesome. The credits-free campaign for this lost film leave us wondering who made it, as Century Cinema pushed everything from Patrick Wright porn to Leonard Kirtman's horror double-bill.
The 1971 German-made mondo feature Wunderland der Liebe - Der große deutsche Sexreport, English-language title Sex Freedom In Germany, profiles purported permissiveness, mostly of a sordid sexual nature, in the new Germany. Segments include the peculiar stance of the German Sexual Democrats, Danish sex research doctors Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen, a pedophile priest, Viennese Actionist madman and real-life sex offender Otto Muehl (also seen in Dusan Makavajev's Sweet Movie), druggie pornographers, a condom factory, and a cult of Teutonic orgiasts. Director Dieter Geissler is better known as a television actor and producer/co-producer of films such as Roman Polanski's What? and the kiddie fantasy The NeverEnding Story. The soundtrack from the krautrock band Apocalypse (aka Die Anderen) was overseen by disco wunderkind Giorgio Moroder. Distributed in the U.S. by Sunset International (Flesh Gordon).
Former RAF flying ace Barry Mahon alerts grindhouse audiences to the dangers of hippie pads in his grim 1968 feature Prowl Girls, also known as Runaway Daughters but currently missing under either title. With Sue Akers (Trailer Camp Sex Ring) and Kristen Steen from the X-rated Alice In Wonderland. Cinematography was by William K. Hennigar (See How They Come), and Chelly Wilson's Chancellor Films handled distribution.
This early Boxoffice International release is a nudie cutie from 1961 that's memorable for being She Freak star Claire Brennen's first feature film and little else. Spoofing the popular television series The Untouchables, it's a Prohibition-era comedy involving two gangsters (John Dennis and Brad Logan) seeking revenge on a schlubby bookkeeper (Billy Holmes from Terror Circus) hiding out in a health spa called The Fat Chance Rejuvenation Center. Also with Baby Bubbles from Mr. Peter's Pets, Margo Woode (Bop Girl Goes Calypso), and Nancy Lewis, the stripper from The Oscar.
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