Topic: Jimmy's XXX Movies review

[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Hardgore (1973)

Genre: Horror
Director: Unknown
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h03
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Dianne Galke
John Seeman
Joan Devlon   
Justina Lynn
Turk Lyon

Plot:
Young Maria is sent to Fox Hollows Sanitarium for treatment. During the day, sexy nurses pamper her with dildo therapy. At night Maria unwillingly participates in sex and death rituals practiced by resident cultists. A nurse has her throat slit while Maria attends a castration gang-bang. Maria is taken to "the room", a blood drenched cadavery where skulls bleed and hot red dildos spurt thick strands of semen....a place of meat hooks, blood stains and necrophilia. Hardgore is packed with disgusting over-the-top special effects, psychedelic strangeness, and hot Satanic orgy action!

My Thoughts:

The concept for this is a good one, since it was a combination of a gore movie and an adult movie (the first of the genre) and the special effects are well done (I'm sure that a film professional had done them, but since the movie had no credit it's a complete guess). But the story is really complex and hard to follow mostly because it is really badly edited (not to mention that a reel looks misplace, since somewhere what happen on screen make no sense). Evidently this fact remove a lot of enjoyment to what could have been a good movie.

The acting isn't that great except for Diane Galke who didn't really had a long career (only 6 movies in 2 years). Like I've said previously the special effects are professionally done. A sex scene between Galke and Seeman is particullary well photographed with the camera who rotates during the scene around the actors. I was always tempted to enter the Boom Mic as a special guest star since it make some apparition (a good hint that the ratio is incorrect)...

Not a bad film or a good one (just an average one that try to much), but a complete mess because of the usual bad quality control of Alpha Blue Archive (if this departement exist at this PD label).

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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

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Title: Teenage Runaway (1975)

Genre: Drama
Director: Unknown
Rating: XXX
Length: 0h53
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Dianne Galke
Desiree West
Joey Silvera   
John Seeman
Mick Jones

Plot:
Angel (Dianne Galke) is thrown out of her apartment by her boyfriend (Howard North) and now she must return home (whatever it is). The film follows her travel and her encounters. 

My Thoughts:

This film is so bad it's not surprising that its director didn't put his/her name on this. The story is boring, an annoying musical score is always present (lounge music, piano and saxophone ), the night scenes aren't lighted so we see almost nothing, the sex scene are badly directed and uninspired, the end happen to fast and a normally good cast look crappy because they were badly directed...

Don't really worth the time even if it's not more than one hour lost...

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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Angela the Fireworks Woman (1975)

Genre: Drama
Director: Abe Snake
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h13
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Jennifer Jordan
Eric Edwards
Helen Madigan   
Ellis Deigh
Erica Eaton

Plot:
Angela and Peter are siblings and have loved each other since they were kids. They are both physically attracted to each other but Peter is studying to become a priest.

My Thoughts:

Finally a film that deserve to appear on my new topic. But this isn't a surprise considering that Jennifer Jordan and Eric Edwards are the two leads of the film and the director is Peter Locke (the producer of The Hills Have Eyes) hiden behind an alias. This is a beautifull impossible love story and very sad by moment (it doesn't happen often that I almost cry watching an adult movie). The film is well made and it had a big artistic vibes in it. The cinematography is haunting (it's evident that the director of photography name is an alias), a lot of the story is told in the narative mode, the music score is effective too (the song played when the Sandra Cassels characters is killed in LOTL is use in a very erotic scene) and before all the sad situations that happen to Angela a mysterious character appear (Do you recognize him with the yellow shirt?).
 
A real unreleased gem that I proudly own in its complete form (10 minutes were cut on the video release).

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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Kneel Before Me (1983)

Genre: Roughie
Director: Phil Prince
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h11
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Annie Sprinkle
George Payne
Niko   
David Christopher
Alan Adrian   

Plot:
After a young man marries, he starts having hallucinations that he is the Marquis De Sade. He begins having nightmares that he is attending deviant S&M orgies, where he engages in whippings, piercings and other degradations against women, and ending with his tying up and strangling his new wife. Terrified of these images, he turns to a doctor who specializes in these problems, but he doesn't know that the doctor has her own kind of "treatment" in mind for him.

My Thoughts:

One of the last movie directed by Phil Prince and produced by Avon (the theatre was closed not soon after when the city of New York had decided to change the 42nd street as a Walt Disney familly friendly area ). This movie isn't for everyone like most of the Prince's movies. Sure it had a story but this isn't the reason to watch a Prince's movie, you watch them wanting to see an S/M festival And not just the tame part but the real deal. You sure get this here since you have only one regular sex scene at the beginning between Sprinkle and Payne before all hell break loose at the dungeon. Not that the dungeon action took a lot of space in the film, but this is very intense with genital torture, piss drinking, hard whipping, man anal torture and the four letters word is said a lot of time (hey some people find that more offensive than anything else ). As usual George Payne's acting is incredible. The only downside is the fact that my copy quality isn't that great (very dark), but the chance are good that After Hours Cinema will release it in their Avon Theatre Collection and since we can dream with an commentary track from Payne, Sprinkle and Adrian (why not they are alive and have no problem with their past, Adrian is even a member on another forum I am).

Like I've said not something for everybody but if you like this genre, this is a quality production. 

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[Kathy]

(Do you recognize him with the yellow shirt?).

  I can't figure it out...help!

[Jimmy]

This is a much younger Wes Craven. He had an important role in the movie, but don't worry no action...
I suspect strongly that he is the real Director of Photography for the movie and that he had co-directed it too. It's maybe a surprise for some but he is in It Happened in Hollywood, Sweet Cakes and Thunder Buns too.

[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Lust at First Bite (1978)

Genre: Horror
Director: Phillip Marshak
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h21
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Jamie Gillis
Annette Haven
John Leslie   
Serena
Paul Thomas

Plot:
The bite is deep, the lust is forever...

Count Dracula (Jamie Gillis) takes up residence in a dark, foreboding castle presently used as a sanitarium and owned by Dr. Seward (John Leslie). The sick require a large medical staff (John Holmes, Kay Parker, Mike Ranger and Seka) that like the patients, quickly fall prey to the Count's hypnotic spell of LUST. This Dracula, however, goes for more than the throat. Seward and Van Helsing close in for the kill as one of adult cinema's most lavishly mounted productions draws to a final, shuddering climax.

My Thoughts:

This is an interesting adapdation of the Bram Stoker's story that was filmed at a realist location contrary to the 1932 movie (the old castle is real and not a studio set). The story is the same but some sex scenes are present (unless I've seen a really different version of Tod Browning's Dracula there no sex in it ). The acting is pretty good even if the Romanian accent of Jamie Gillies change from time to time (even mainstream actors do the same, it isn't a big deal). I like the different ending used for this film, this is more romantic than an usual vampire movie. For those who like to spot known actor in movie you got an easy one in this one : Reggie Nalder who was in Mark of the Devil, Salem's Lot, Zoltan Hound of Dracula, ...

A softcore version of this one exist and had a longer running time (86 minutes), in fact this is the one on the cover for this review. I can't say how it is since I've never seen this version and had no idea if it is available or not.

Maybe for your next vampire marathon or the october horror marathon Pete

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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: The Night of Submission (1976)

Genre: Roughie
Director: Joe Davian
Rating: XXX
Length: 0h58
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Carter Stevens
Annie Sprinkle
Red Baron   
Cheryl White
Helen Madigan

Plot:
NYC voodoo cult practice ritualistic S/M! Rough sex auteur Davian delivers a straight-faced black magic story. New York reporters investigate the bizarre sex rituals of an underground voodoo cult. Wall to wall graphic orgies, up close whip wounds, and crucifixion!

My Thoughts:

I would like to write that this movie is a good one, but I would have to lie to you. The basic idea is interesting with Carter Stevens investigating a New York voodoo cult, but the movie is boring... The bondage scenes are totally not convincing (this is an Avon production not a lame Vivid Video production...), the orgies are really badly filmed (BTW I find orgy scene boring, too much film jumping from one place to another), the acting isn't that great and some actresses are really wooden (but Carter make me laugh as usual) and honestly even the cast look as bored than me with this film...

Not everything is negative. Like I've already said Carter Stevens is good in this and the scene between him and Annie Sprinkle at the beginning is a good one (but I like her in everything).

A miss opportunity with wasted talent in orgy scenes (almost all the film)... Not really recommanded.

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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: A taste of Money (1983)

Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Mailer
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h28
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Constance Money
Jamie Gillis
Paul Thomas   
Sharon Mitchell
John Leslie

Plot:
After starring in the all-time porn classic 'The Opening of Misty Beethoven,' elegant and sensual star Constance Money was money in the bank to any porn producer lucky enough to sign her. When Constance took a six year hiatus, her sizzling screen presence became even more in demand. 'A Taste Of Money' is a fun-filled, fictionalized account of Constance's comeback to the ranks of adult superstars. Courted for an epic porn production by producer Paul Thomas, Constance seeks help from her friends in making the decision whether to come back to the business or remain a somewhat subdued housewife. In the end, you know she'll make the right choice! So come get a Taste of this luscious, lovely sexual superstar!

My Thoughts:

Before I start I've one thing to say : seven years after her last movie (Mary! Mary!) she is always incredibly beautifull

I'm sure that it will surprise no one if I say that I've really appreciated this movie. What can I say this is the prettiest woman I've ever seen in an adult movie. Those who had seen Misty Bethoven certainly agree with me. The story is well written and very funny. The cast is full of weird characters like dwarf, transvestite, snake charmer, fire swallower, girls dress only with diaper in a giant crib, a priest, ... The filming locations are really great it's easy to see that it was a big budget (even a sex scene on an air balloon). The acting is great, not a surprise from Gillies, Thomas and Leslie but even Constance Money act much better than usual. The theme song performed by Beth Marlin is really catchy. I really like the decision she take at the end that isn't the obvious one.

Sure I recommand it. We talk about the only girl on earth that could convice me to marry her Yes, even if she is 53 years old now I'm sure that she is always incrediby gorgeous. But to ask her to marry me I must travel to the states of Alaska, find her and... stop dreaming that will never happen    

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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Bacchanale (1970)

Genre: Arthouse
Director: John Amero/Lem Amero
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h16
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Uta Erickson
Darcy Brown
Linda Boyce   
Dick Bennet
Michael Findlay

Plot:
Filmed in 1970 by the notorious Amero Brothers, Bacchanale is the ultimate hardcore film of its time. Follow our gorgeous leading lady into a depraved dream world warped by subversive desire, flagrant indulgence and lascivious lust.

Bacchanale broke all the rulse of traditional film making while establishing the foundation from which the porn industry would grow in the coming years. Its artistic vision combined with the unforgettable sex scenes makes Bacchanale a must see for every fan of not just classic pron but film making as a whole.

My Thoughts:

This one is weird, hard to follow and strangely hypnotic. First thing to say is that this film wasn't originally filmed hardcore, it was a black and white New York softcore film but before its release some hardcore inserts were added. I write that the movie is B/W but it isn't really the case... All the film is tinted in different colors depending of what happen on the screen : sometimes in blue, sometimes in yellow, sometimes in green, sometimes in red, sometimes in B/W and even in full colors. What the movie is about? No idea, your guess is as good than mine . The only thing that I've understand is that Ruth (Uta Erickson) get out of her corpse while sleeping (or dying) and a strange masked character escorts her (sometimes not) from one place to another. Those places are weird too : an house party that seems to be a fashion show too, a funeral were the deceased switch from her brother to herself, a cave with an odd ceremony (prepare yourself since one of the actor is rape with a whip handle), ...

Maybe the strangest movie I've seen in my life, but you can't stop watching even if you understand definitely nothing of what happen on the screen.

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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Pretty Peaches 2 (1987)

Genre: Comedy
Director: Alex de Renzy
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h22
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Siobhan Hunter
Tracey Adams
Herschel Savage   
Ron Jeremy
Peter North

Plot:
This movie continues the story of the classic "Pretty Peaches," but this time out Siobhan Hunter takes the title role as the sexually curious young lady. Siobhan is up to the challenge and turns in one of the best performances of her carnal career, bringing an innocent charm (and an awesomely tight body) to the part. The story revolves around her attempts to please her boyfriend (Peter North), but she's so sexually naive that she doesn't even know where to begin! Her father sends her to San Francisco to learn about sex from her worldly-wise uncle (Ron Jeremy), and that's where the fun really starts. Soon, Siobhan's parents are coming up to San Fran to rescue her, which leads to further erotic complications.

My Thoughts:

Middle part of the trilogy and the only one that I haven't reviewed yet, so here we go. By the year of production you can see that we are going slowly but surely in the direction where everything had gone wrong in the adult industry (the direct to video no budget era that had lead to the crap that are done now). But don't worry this is an Alex de Renzy's production so the quality is always there, do you really think that I would have lost my time with a boring dtv excuse to show emotionless sex...

Evidently this film isn't as good as the original one, Siobhan Hunter isn't a too bad actress but she doesn't had the same comedic timing than Desiree Cousteau possess. The presence of Tracey Adams compensate for this since she possess a real acting talent that you can see in the "mainstream" films that she had done using her real name (I've seen so many film on video just because of her, I can even bear a crappy film like Starbangers 4 because she's in it). This film like many other made in this period had the real acting talent in the male cast (I ain't the biggest fan of Ron Jeremy since he is a complete asshole deserving no praise, but he can act). Jamie Gillies is in this film in a very funny role (he plays an old woman) and as usual Peter North made me proud to be Canadian since all the Canadians possess his particularity (no that's not true ).

A good movie for this period with a particullary good ending.

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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Little Orphan Dusty (1978)

Genre: Drama
Director: Jourdan Alexander & Bob Chinn
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h25
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Rhonda Jo Petty
John Holmes
Turk Lyon   
April Grant
Valerie Parker

Plot:
Dusty is a runaway teenage girl who gets attacked and gang-raped by a group of savage motorcyclists. She gets taken into the household of a sympathetic artist named Frankie whom she falls in love with, but has problems adjusting to his artistic and social lifestyle. Dusty and Frankie decide to get married, but the bikers haven't forgotten her and plan to crash the ceremony to commit more mayhem.

My Thoughts:

Another classic movie from the seventies that will never get an uncut release on dvd. Why? The forced sex theme and four fisting scenes (it's sure a lot even for a film of this time), so this isn't an happy film. It doesn't took too long to understand it right at the start when Dusty is attacked and sexually molested by a bikers gang (Turk Lyon, Rick Lutze, Mike Ranger, Ming Jade and some others that I can't recognize), this scene is played seriously and in a realistic way. By chance we have a chance to catch our breath after this hard introduction with all the romantic story between Dusty (Rhonda Jo Petty) and Frankie (John Holmes). Evidently the bikers will reapear from time to time in a teasing way untill the very dramatic and sad ending. This is more the story itself that is interesting here, since Petty is not really a great actress and Holmes acting is poor also but the actors portraying the different bikers did it in a perfectly credible way (weird to see Lutze played something else than comic relief).

This is a movie that risk to be too hard for the casual viewer, but if you like the biker movie genre this is something that could please you. My big critics is the fact that the movie had to many scene with John Holmes.

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Edit : For those who like to play the "catch the known actor" game, Spalding Gray appear in an uncredited nonsex cameo.

[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Take Off (1978)

Genre: Comedy
Director: Armand Weston
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h43
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Wade Nichols
Leslie Bovee
Georgina Spelvin   
Annette Haven
Clea Carson

My Thoughts:

The basic idea of this movie is based on The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, the difference is that the character who stop aging doesn't conserve is self portrait in a painting but in a movie. He didn't even consent to this, since it is done without his knowing in the 1920's. During all the course of the film he tells the events that he had lived to a young woman.

This movie is really well done and better than usual, it easy to see that it was made seriously and professionally. The cinematography is great (Joao Fernandez the DP had used his real name for this one) and a lot of attention was taken for the set designing (when the action is in the 20's it look like it and this is the same for all the other decades). The screenplay from Weston and Daria Price (she had written the one for Dawn of the Mummy too) is full of movie refence, character from the past decades and humour. The cast is good too... Wade Nichols is a real actor who was in the American soap Edge of Night in the eighties, Georgina Spelvin is an actress that could had made the mainstream transition easilly (just watch her in Police Academy) and Anette Haven had refuse two important movie offers (The Howling and the principal role in Body Double). You had a lot of my favourite in small cameo : Clea Carson, Patty Boyd, Bethanna, Eric Edwards (who had used his real name),...

I don't post any picture usually, but I'll make an exception this time with 2 underated actresses who had never get a first role in a movie.


Clea Carson

Patty Boyd

I sure recommand this one

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For those who like to play the "catch the known actor" game, this is the first movie of Peter Scolari (the other guy in the TV show Bosom Buddies.

[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: From Holly With Love (1977)

Genre: Drama
Director: Roberta Findlay
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h18
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Beth Anna
Tony Perez
Michael Gaunt
Crystal Sync
Robert Kerman

Plot:
Summertime at the beach. It's the place where a guy can get more than an eyeful of tanned and curvaceous bodies, barely covered by the teeniest of string bikinis. When young and innocent Holly makes her beach debut, the temperatures really start to rise. This nubile virgin is looking to lose it, and she has no problem in finding plenty of virile studs to accomodate her wanton desires. Come along with Holly for one of the wettest and wildest beach romps ever filmed, From Holly With Love.

My Thoughts:

Seriously the synopsis here is really lame (just like the cover) it's make you wonder if they watch the movie before writing those crappy text, So I will try to give you something better. Holly is a young 19 years girl that had her first encounter with a client who want to know why she had become a prostitute. This will lead to the story of the last summer when Holly was living with her sister and her sister's husband at their beach house where she will became friendly with 2 other boys and a girl. Not the best synopsis ever written, but at least it had something to do with the film.

I couldn't resist when I've seen the beach and I've take a screen capture. You can call it a typical English beach on a good day if you want
 

This is the first adult film directed by Roberta Findlay that most people know as the director of Snuff and the sofcore New York roughies that she had made with her husband (Michael Findlay). The film isn't too bad and it seems a little bit inspired by Last Summer (this isn't a copy or anything, but the basic is the same). But I've a big problem with it, this is a cut version and the part cut is an important one since that explain the transformation of Holly without it isn't possible to understand why she change her attitude suddenly (I've seen the complete film before, so permit me to say F you Caballero for scrapping another classic). Another problem the acting... Sure Robert Kerman, Michael Gaunt, Crystal Sync, Marlene Willoughby and Carter Stevens can act. But Beth Anna, even if she is a good looking Native American, can't act at all and when a movie rest on the shoulders of an actress who had an acting talent more wooden than the Amazonian forest it's kind of annoying... Patty Boyd had an important uncredited part in this film and this is always a good thing for me. The end doesn't really make sense with or without the missing scene.

I can't really recommand this one at least on dvd.  

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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Beauty (1982)

Genre: Romance
Director: Shaun Costello
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h21
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Loni Sanders
Jamie Gillis
Laurien Dominique   
Nicole Black
Michael Morrison

Plot:
Penthouse Pet Loni Sanders brings her exotic features, vivid natural auburn hair, and perfectly sculpted body to the role of Beauty, whose father has foolishly gambled her away.

She is forced to become the consort of the vicious, voracious Martin 'The Animal' Gross (Jamie Gillis), and yearns to escape him and the conniving of her evil sisters. Will she find the prince of her dreams?

My Thoughts:

This movie is a real surprise coming from Shaun Costello who is most known as the director of Water Power, Forced Entry and Kathy's Graduation Present (not really since he is uncredited for this one, but I need to watch it just because of the title). This one is an adaptation of Beauty and the beast where the story happen in the present day and no the beast isn't some kind of monster (for that you will have to watch this one). This is a very romantic movie (in fact the target of it is certainly the woman) where the beast hide himself behind a false image to find a girl who will like him for who he is. The parts where Bella dreams of her prince are incredibly romantic and I'm almost sure that the music of Somewhere in Time is used for those scenes (what? No I've never seen this movie and I don't even own it). The interpretation is correct and Loni Sanders that I've discovered in this movie can easilly take a movie on her shoulders. Patty Boyd is again in this movie using a different name and a different look as usual (what can I say? I like her and I've previewed to watch a lot of her movies in the next weeks). Nicole Black another underated actress is in this film also.

A really good movie that I recommand strongly to everyone (even if it's a women movie firstly)   

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This one is certainly for you and don't worry it will come at your house soon