A Horny Vampire

Viewed September 14 2019 Directed by Jonas Middleton ***** Ever since I watched it a few nights ago, I can't stop thinking about Jonas Middleton's masterpiece of erotic cinema Through The Looking Glass. But even that categorisation seems overly simplistic because this is a weird porn film because all of it's (still very explicit) sex scenes are deliberately, almost perversely unappealing. Having a horror score (by Arlon Ober and Harry Manfredini of Friday The 13th fame) certainly helps but it's more in the performances. The sexual bacchanalia and free for all of the garden party scenes brings to mind Pasolini's trilogy of life but it's all too much, so far beyond limits that it more closely resembles Sweet Movie or Pink Flamingos. Deliberately unerotic. The same goes for the famous sequence where a camera goes inside Catherine's vagina. It's not sexy, just invasive, gross and disturbing. As Catherine recalls being sexually abused by her fat...

Viewed October 28 2019 Directed by Wakefield Poole **** Groundbreaking example of pornography predates Deep Throat but no-one remembers that. Works as a kind of lazy, horny summer day film where Casey Donovan can't keep his clothes on and with a gay paradise like Fire Island and a beautiful pool why would you? New life goal: move to a house with high fences and a pool so I can lounge around naked with my boyfriend all day. Nothing super outrageous but it is relatively arousing, especially the final sequence which is stunningly beautiful. One shot of a cock dripping precum with Donovan's face slowly moving into shot to swallow it is awe inspiring. Pick your fave 70s detail: all the dudes are wearing cock rings or they all have untanned lily white butts.

Viewed January 6 2020 Directed by Gerard Damiano ***1/2 Well, this is certainly one of the weirdest things I've ever had the pleasure to witness. A puppet porno comedy musical that has a lot of what the fuck imagery. During the first half, it's like the filmmakers decided to indulge in their most disturbed fantasies, turning out a dog/woman scene, a BLOWfish, a gross audition and Pinocchio using his nose as a dick (which later goes in a woman's ear). Goes on too long, but this is certainly SOMETHING. It makes you wonder who it was for. Muppet fetishists? This seems unlikely as this CAME OUT THE SAME YEAR AS THE MUPPET SHOW STARTED. Apparently, it was inspired by an erotic puppet show on the stage. Stage shows of weird funny sex shit work better because it seems more permissable. Here, it seems likely that this would've played in the same adult theatres that had screened Damiano's Deep Throat and Devil In Miss Jones. It's hard to imagine the moviegoe...

Viewed January 13 2020 Directed by Bud Townsend ***** My first 5 star film of the year. Don't hate me y'all. This is the most I've been entertained by a movie in ages. A silly porno musical parody of Alice In Wonderland should definitely not work and yet... It helps that Kristine DeBell is actually a good actress, but there's some surprisingly smart thematic work going on. Alice is a woman who believes she needs to grow up, to become more sexually active to keep her boyfriend on the line. While this suggests a very simplistic sex = maturity dichotomy, the film suggests that it's actually more complicated. Alice at one point states "If it feels good, it's usually bad." Another character gently tells her, "Trust yourself, if it feels good, it is good." That kind of instinctual understanding of sex and maturity is not something we often hear. Later, Alice has the revelation that growing up is not just having sex or doing adult thi...