Topic: The little known movie review depot

[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Hot Summer in the City (1976)

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

Stars:
Lisa Baker
Duke Johnson
Shorty Roberts
Stitch Umbas
Coke Cain

Plot:
Debbie, a lily-white virgin, is abducted by a gang of black men being paid by whites to start a race riot. After violating her in a Cadillac, the men take her to a country cabin. Duke, the leader, takes possession of her but then loses her in a poker game. The violence escalates to a full throttled climax. Filled with stark, brutal imagery from start to finish, Hot Summer In The City is a haunting film you won't soon forget. The characters are so believable that it seems like a documentary. Lisa Baker's sexy screen presence is mute and ghostlike.

My Thoughts:

After everything I've heard and read about this one, I was expecting something really good and violent. Did, I expected too much? Maybe... This film is one of the worst adult movie made in the seventies that I've seen. The acting is painfull, the four black men are impossible to hear (they always talk like the 2 black guys in Airplane), the cinematography is crappy (no good angle, not in focus,...), except for a whipping scene (where the girl is under a blanket) all the violent moments look phony and ridiculous, ...

But two things are good; the performance of Lisa Baker and the music in it. They had used many great classic songs for this movie, just a few of them to give you an idea : Summer in the City by The Lovin' Spoonful, Leader of the Pack by The Shangri-Las, Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys, She'd Rather be With Me by The Turtles,...

Finally another proof that Quentin Tarantino is an untalented idiot, he had already said that this movie is "the best porno ever". What an idiotic, ridiculous, untalented and not praise worthy person, how can he be respected by his fanboys is beyond me... How this idiot can be an autorithy on anything is something I can't understand... 
 
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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Confessions of a Teenage Peanut Butter Freak (1975)

Genre: Comedy
Director: Zachary Strong         
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h27
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Rex Roman
Helen Madigan
John Holmes
Constance Money
Veronica Taylor

Plot:
Billy finds it hard to relate to girls so his Aunt Opel introduces him to oral sex. His teenage cousins handcuff him and rape him. But Priscilla, to whom he confesses the pains of growing up, loves him. Look for a young John Holmes appearing in one scene.

My Thoughts:

I love this one, the poor Billy is so unlucky with is experience with the other sex. The action of this film happen one night when Billy tells his misadventure that explain why he is always incomfortable with the woman to Priscilla (Helen Madigan) who secretly love him. His traumatism starts when he was caught by one of his aunt masturbating (I've no problem to see how it could be embarassing) and "forced" to make love with her. Some time later he is catch spying his cousin (Karen Reed) having a lesbian relationship with the always great and lovelly Constance Money in her first role. For that he is "rape" by the 2 ladies (not sure that I would be traumatized if I would be rape by Constance Money ). He even miss his shot with an easy girl (Veronica Taylor) that his friend (John Holmes) had found for him. But finally all will end well for Billy...

A very nice little adult film with Helen Madigan looking the best she had ever look, a lot of funny moments (some of them involving the peanut butter), John Holmes talking with a laughable accent and a 19 years old Constance Money that I like since I've seen her in Misty Beethoven.

If you find it give it a chance you will not regret it.
 
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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Passage Thru Pamela (1985)

Genre: Third Sex
Director: Leslie Brooks (probably Tom De Simone under an alias)         
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h17
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Pamela
Kimberly Carson
Sharon Kane
Ashley Moore
Johnny Nineteen

Plot:
Are you ready for an utterly unique erotic experience? Are you ready for PASSAGE THRU PAMELA? Pamela is an Argentinian beauty who has all the right assets to make it as a model in New York--as long as no one discovers her shocking secret. Rising quickly in the high-gloss world of sexy models and horny shutterbugs, Pamela takes charge of every situation with her lusty Latin charms. She jumps head-first into a torrid affair with a delicious female photographer, Ashley, who turns Pamela into the toast of Manhattan--and keeps Pamela's secret safe from the world. But when a rival agency tries to reveal the truth about Pamela, they set the stage for one of the most unusual climaxes in erotic film history...a climax that takes us on the unbelievable PASSAGE THRU PAMELA!

My Thoughts:

This is a movie that had catched my attention the minute I've seen it's trailer on 42nd Street Forever XXX-treme Special Edition (by the way I recommand it if you have an interest in vintage adult movies). But every place I've checked listed this dvd as oop (the reason is more that VCA had retired it of the market because they are idiots), so I've finally get it last week on a forum and to be honest : I don't feel guilty at all, if the adult label don't release or butcher their material I couldn't care less to get them "legally". In my review of The Openning of Misty Beethoven I've already said that the scene between Constance Money and Ras Kean is the most erotic one ever put on film. In fact that scene deal with my sexual phantasm. Now what this have to do with the movie reviewed here? Very simple, Pamela the star of our movie is a real life pre-op transexual who had made two adult movies (the other is Girl Busters) to pay her final chirurgy.

First thing to say, Pamela is really beautifull and sexy (the cover doesn't really show this, but I will not post any picture. Since the last time Rich had laughed of me ). She really looks like a girl and you could be fooled easilly by her in real life, she doesn't have a big adam apple that is usually the big giveaway. The only sad thing is the visible scars for the breast implants. Yeah, I know she had a penis too...

Surprisingly this movie isn't exploitative. The sex is really good, the scene between Pamela and Sharon Kane is highly erotic and another one between Pamela and Frank Serrone is funny in a way (the scene is played seriously, but you can't block a smile since the Serrone character had no idea that she is not fully a girl). The story is good too, I've seen better but for a mid-eighties production this is surprisingly well made.

Certainly not a movie for everyone (I can hear the man here shouting "WTF Jimmy, this is a girl with a dick!!!!!") but I have really appreciated my viewing experience. But you know that sometimes my choices of film are weird      
 
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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Water Power (1976)

Genre: Crime Story
Director: Shaun Costello       
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h23
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Jamie Gillis
John Buco
C.J. Laing
Eric Edwards
Marlene Willoughby

Plot:
Think Taxi Driver with hardcore scenes, only instead of blasting pimps away, the enema bandit is dishing out forced enemas on the female population of NY. You see, he becomes obsessed with this after seeing one administered in a brothel.

My Thoughts:

This time we have a movie that can only been made in the seventies, you can't even find a complete uncensored release of it (the dvd I own is a composite of 3 different sources and the quality is really poor, but this the complete film). First I've to rectify a false conception about this film : Gerard Damiano had nothing to do with it, his name was attached to the film because it was a flop at his release. In fact this movie was a succes in only one country : Netherland  No, Japan No, Denmark No, so where? Germany .  

This film is really a good crime story and this is based on a real criminal case. Jamie Gillis give an excellent acting performance it isn't hard at all to see him as a weird and crazy sexual maniac. The rest of the acting is so-so, but it's great to see Clea Carson in a more substancial role than usual. The mood is creepy, dark and suspensfull but it's not really a surprise when we know that Costello was the director of Forced Entry another good crime story.

Now I'm at the point were you will probably lost your interest to watch this. The enema scenes (4 times) are done for real and did I had to say that it isn't appetizing to see? If you have seen a cut print and heard one of the girl say "There shit everywhere..." with the complete version you will understand that this isn't an exageration.

Hard to say if I recommand it or not since it's a really well made movie, but it's really disgusting by moment... Even for me
 
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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: The Good Girls of Godiva High (1979)

Genre: Comedy
Director: Jim Buckley      
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h27
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Robert Kerman
Kittsy Storm
Susan De Angelis
Denise Sloan
Diana Sloan

Plot:
The Good girls of GODIVA HIGH, opens in the girls gymnasium when we are introduced to a lovely set of young ladies. Then we are introduced to the problems inherent in any modern education. While scanning Playgirl, our young heroines are discussing the doing away with the conservative band and instituting a new tradition at Godiva High; a Disco Party. But how to convince Miss Lena, the headmistress? The school psychologist lets them know how(wink)! Through one of the boys who just happens to be her gardener. Convincing her is not "hard". Our heroine, Kitsy directs her girls in the fine art of extricating what is needed , from the men & boys, to make this "Graduation Disco Party" one of the best memories of the young girls lives. Super Hot!

My Thoughts:

This is the film made by Buckley after the success of Debbie Does Dallas and this isn't a very good follow up. The story is again set in a school, but this time that looks creepy. In DDD the girls had a relativelly good reason for doing what they do, but not in this one (sorry it's just to have a disco party, no need to sleep with everything that move and breath for a dying fashion). The story isn't really funny, sorry but a janitor who sleeps with 2 high school students doesn't make me laugh. The only moment that I've found comic is the one where the twin students use this fact to win a bet with a businessman. Complete waste of talent in a really bad script, everyone look bad in it and the sad thing is that many members of the cast are good actors (Robert Kerman, Herschell Savage and Merle Michaels). Even the sex is annoying, badly edited and for most of the scene done with really bad generic disco music in the background.

Complete waste of time...
 
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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Dirty Girls (1984)

Genre: Scene Mixing
Director: Alex De Renzy      
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h23
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Jamie Gillis
Jacqueline Lorians
Stacey Donovan
Sharon Kelly
Joanna Storm

Plot:
Independent sex scenes, about the many forms of sexual activity: lesbianism, double penetration, swing and even conventional sex.

My Thoughts:

With this film Alex De Renzy was starting a new way of doing his movies. Forgot the story and show a serie of short loops tied together by a thin line. To be honest this isn't my genre of adult movie, for me a story must be present to keep me interested and if you don't have one you better be unusual. The tying story is Jamie Gillis and his girlfriend (Jacqueline Lorians) editing some movies together, getting more and more aroused after each loops.

Not every loops are equal in interest some are pretty good like the one with Kelly Nichols, Billy Dee and Rocky Balboa (DP) or the one with Joanna Storm (WS at the beginning and four participants orgy at the end) or the one with Sharon Kelly, Tom Byron and Blair Harris (DVP). But the rest is not that special : the lesbian scene between Stacey Donovan and Cody Nicole is really boring and I can't stand Helga Sven it's like watching my grandmother doing it .

Like I've said this is just not my style of film and I've almost use the fast forward command (usually this is a good sign that I'm bored). But the 3 good loops save this one for me.
 
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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Through the Looking Glass (1976)

Genre: Surrealist Horror
Director: Jonas Middleton      
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h31
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Catherine Burgess
Jamie Gillis
Douglas Wood
Laura Nicholson
Marie Taylor

Plot:
Catherine Burgess plays an ultra rich matron who escapes her boring aristocratic lifestyle when a demon resembling her father beckons her to the other side of the mirror. Her secret passions eventually lead her through the mirror into a world of carnal desire. She becomes immersed in an insane sexual hell where demons jerk off on their faces and bathe in mud and piss. Images of this movie are right out of a Hieronymus Bosch painting. It was released not only in adult theatres, but also was a top grossing 'R' release in the Drive In Theatre circuit. Jamie Gillis, as Catherine's father, and the angel-faced Marie Taylor as Catherine in her adolescence. Using perverse smoothness, Gillis talks his daughter out of her clothes and onto her knees in one of the most erotic hardcore scenes of any year. Looking Glass expresses dramatic values through skilled camera work and good production quality.

My Thoughts:

This is one of the perfect exemple of why I love so much this period. This movie is visual poetry on screen, a complete surealist haunting experience and a symbiotic relation between the viewer and the movie. This is much more than an adult film, in fact very little sex happens on screen and the majority of it happens at the end. This isn't even a feel good representation of the sexuality, since it happens in hell and this is probably the best representation of what the inferno looks like if it really exists. You can't never anticipated what will happen through the movie, but at the end you understand the logical progression.

The acting performances of Jamie Gillis and Catherine Burgess are astonishing. I can't understand why the career of Burgess doesn't get better. The young Laura Nicholson in her first and only role is also great, it's so rare to see a child actor who can act without playing the "I'm cute" game (she never get a career and I can't understand it). The rest of the acting isn't that great, but at the defense of the actors/actresses when you play a character in hell you're supposed to act wooden.

This is a real professional production with a great location, a superb filming job by a professional cinematographer (João Fernandes, who continue to works on television movies and series today) and even the film score was done by Harry Manfredini. This is the last film that Middleton had directed and I sure want to see his previous one. His last credit in the cinema industry is the story that was the base for the horror movie Just Before Dawn in 1981. Truely a great director who had never get the career he deserve.

It's evident that I recommand this movie, it had even replace "Misty Beethoven" as the best film experience of my life. 
 
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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: The Devil Inside Her (1977)

Genre: Satanical Horror
Director: Zebedy Colt      
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h09
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Jody Maxwell
Terri Hall
Zebedy Colt
Rod Dumont
Dean Tait

Plot:
A mind-blowing, demon-infested tale of incestuous mayhem! Zebedy Colt plays a puritanistic farmer who rules over his family with an iron hand. He sadistically punishes his daughters, attempting to repress their sexual urges. The daughter's response is a revengeful pact with Satan. The huge cocked devil possesses the entire family. Identities shift and transform randomly.

My Thoughts:

Time for a jump in the weird world of Zebedy Colt. This one is set in 19th century and the story is center around an isolated familly. Can we say that this period was a chasted one, imagine that when Ezekiel (Zebeby Colt) saw his daughter (Terri Hall) and his farm worker (Dean Tait) kissing each other that wasn't please him. The punition is severe : Colt will whip his daughter for this offense to God. Evidently she takes it hard and decide to talk of this with her sister (Jody Maxwell) and the two of them will deal with this problem in a different way. Terri Hall will meet a witch to get a love potion (I think ) and Jody Maxwell will ask for the help of God (but as usual God isn't available and the devil will help). From this point the story is the devil who use his shapeshifting ability to rape each of the familly members. The high point (depending of your taste) happen at the end with the devil orgy sabbath with a lot of "degrading" sex : 3 guys urinating on a girl (Annie Sprinkles), a triple penetration on one unamed girl (first time in my life I've seen that and not really an exciting thing to watch),...

The acting of Maxwell and Colt are good, the rest goes from ok to pretty weak. Dumont in the devil role give a really creepy performance. The idea of filming all the sabath with a red filter is really a good one, the only problem is that some part are hard to see. This is the first movie of Jody Maxwell (a member of another forum that I frequent) that I've watched and I was really impress by her acting.

Last thing, Pete I think that she is your type of woman. Am I right?
 

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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Unwilling Lovers (1977)

Genre: Crime Story
Director: Zebedy Colt      
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h26
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Zebedy Colt
Jody Maxwell
Rod Dumont
Renee Sanz
Terri Hall

Plot:
Timmy is a semi-retarded man who still lives as a child in his backwoods home.His view of sex is distorted by memories of his mom and dad having sex then falling off a cliff,so he tries to emulate their sick sex acts with any girl he sees.He violently kills five women and rapes them post-mortem.This sordid little sickie offers a lot of hard core sex and perversity.

My Thoughts:

I was again in the mood for a Zebedy Colt's movie and this one is a hard one to find. So what I have is a third generation betamax copy with a lot of background noises and a not so good image. But, after a while you stop to notice and who care this is a 30 years old movie that was never released on VHS, Laserdisc or DVD I'm just happy to have it in my collection for my enjoyment.

This is a pretty good story and this is probably the best acting performance of Colt in his career (at least in the 6 movies where he is that I own). His interpretation of a traumatized man who had stop to grow mentally since he had seen his dad die when he was 10 years old (it's a guess since the age is not really said) is just incredible. He plays the character without overacting it, the complete opposite of Dustin Hoffman in Rain man that I can't stand because his overacting is a complete joke. His character possess so much childishness and innocence that you can't see him as bad person or a killer, even if he is and his final act is rather repulsive. The way he learn about sex is played with the same innocent side, he learns by catching the gardener (Rod Dumont) and his mother's helper (Jody Maxwell) doing it. Jody Maxwell is again really good in it as is Rod Dumont also (very different than his demon role in The Devil Inside Her).

Don't judge this movie by it's synopsis that make the movie appear like a vile pieces of trash. 

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[addicted2dvd]

Last thing, Pete I think that she is your type of woman. Am I right?
 

Well... I wouldn't say perfectly my type... but I do like a redhead! 

[richierich]

Last thing, Pete I think that she is your type of woman. Am I right?
 

Well... I wouldn't say perfectly my type... but I do like a redhead! 

Hands up for redheads too 

Picture of my better half below

[addicted2dvd]

Very nice Rich

[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Mary! Mary! (1977)

Genre: Light Comedy
Director: Bernard Morris      
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h19
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Constance Money   
John Leslie
Sharon Thorpe
Jon Martin
Sandy Pinney

Plot:
Constance Money brings to the screen the kind of beauty that easily ranks her among the most internationally famous women of our time. Her appearance in Misty Beethoven brought her worldwide acclaim as the most beautiful actress ever to appear in an adult motion picture. Now in Mary! Mary!, she proves that she is not only breathtakingly attractive, but a sexual superstar, as she, John Leslie and Sharon Thorpe prove beyond any doubt that this is without question the hottest and most erotically arousing film ever made. Truly a collector's treasure.

My Thoughts:

I was in the mood to watch a movie with Constance Money the impossible love of my life

The plot doesn't explain the film a lot, so I will resume the movie a little. Mary (Constance Money) and Ned (John Leslie) are two lovers but they have one problem, Ned came too fast. Since this is 1977 the viagra isn't available to them, so what is the second best solution possible? Easy, make a pact with the devil. The condition isn't too bad, Ned will have to give his soul and like Mary tell so logically : "I can't fuck your soul so do it". After the pact it will be just normal action for an adult film.

I really like the underwater cinematography in the openning that is really greatly done. A car chase action scene is present in the film, certainly something unusual and as good as any other one that I've seen in any other seventies movie. It was nice too to see Rene Bond in a small cameo, sure she's hard to recognize since her hair are black (she's blond) and she wears a pair of sunglasses but her face is easy to spot when you know her. John Leslie is reliable as he is usually and Constance Money is Constance Money... What do you want me to say? I worship her, she would read a grocery list and I would be glued at the screen . You get Jon Martin in one of his first role and Sharon Thorpe is good in this too (even if this isn't her best movie).

A real good movie with some funny moments, sensual sex, the most beautifull woman who had ever appeared on a movie screen and for Jon a car chase

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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Sometime Sweet Susan (1974)

Genre: Drama
Director: Fred Donaldson     
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h16
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Shawn Harris   
Harry Reems
Jennifer Jordan
Neil Flanagan
Craig Baumgarten

Plot:
She was two women, trapped in one body. Is she really sweet Susan, a loving, passionate spirit... or is she Sara, an aggressive, gluttonous tramp whose capacity for sexual fulfillment is totally insatiable?

My Thoughts:

This movie own a special place in the cinema history, it was the first and I think the only adult movie that was a SAG production. What it means is that all the actors/actresses in it were members of the Screen Actor Guild of America, so it evident that it's a quality production. This is a well written drama about a girl (Shawn Harris) with an unknown past staying in an insane asylum that remember very little of her past. Her memory will come back slowly by flasback with the help of the psychiatrist who treat her (Harry Reems). During all the running time of the film the viewer is always let in the same confusing feeling (the flashbacks are always short and not really precise). Since this is a professional production the acting is really good for one Shawn Harris in her dual role is very impressive (weird that she stop her career after this movie) and Reems prove with this film that he was a really good actor. Don't watch this film expecting a lot of hardcore sex since this isn't really the case, in fact this is a movie that I could easilly recommand to someone who had never seen an adult film. Last thing, I find it really hard to believe that Fred Donaldson had never directed anything else before or after that... This is certainly a well known director hidden behind an alias who was never discover.

I'm sure the image cover looks familliar to you, try to remember where you have seen it before...

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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: The Violation of Claudia (1977)

Genre: Drama
Director: Bill Lustig     
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h01
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Sharon Mitchell   
Jamie Gillis
Don Peterson
Waldo Short
Crystal Sync

Plot:
Sharon Mitchell plays a bored housewife whose husband Jason (Don Peterson) is too busy to give her the attention she needs. Taking matters into her own hands, Mitchell proceeds to bed her tennis instructor, Kip (Jamie Gillis), who puts her to work as a callgirl.

My Thoughts:

Nobody can't say that I'm the biggest fan of Sharon Mitchell, I've never find her particullary good looking and attractive. This is probably because I've mostly seen her in her later films after the drugs gave her an unhealthy look. This is the first time that I've watched her at the beginning of her career (in fact it's her first movie) and she is surprisingly beautifull, she possess a boyish look that isn't anyone taste but I like that. By the way the cover is a piece of crap and nothing on it had something to do with the film, pretty usual for a Video-X-Pix release as is the stupid logo that appears before every sex scene.

This film is the first one directed by Bill Lustig (yes, the same one who had made Maniac and Maniac Cop later and the owner of Blue Underground) and this isn't a bad movie. This is evident that it's a first time movie since it miss a little bit of finition, but like I've already said everybody had to start somewhere.

The acting without being incredible is correct, but Sharon Mitchell had certainly the innocence needed for her role. One of the actor (Waldo Short) at the minute of his apparition on the screen gave me one reaction, screaming comic relief in my head and I was sure right. I was unable to stop laughing the 5 minutes he was there in a funnier way to use food than the one in nine and a half weeks.

At the end, be prepared for a surprise ending after a scene that you will probably not like if your a guy.

Nice movie, but way too short.

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