I’m sure that when you think of porn, your mind immediately goes to an epic war movie, a struggle to survive on a deserted island in the South Pacific and a very small crew of off-the-grid horny Nazis. No? Well, too bad, because that’s what […]
Anthony Spinelli’s classic Talk Dirty to Me was one of the biggest movies of the end of porn’s golden era. It produced a bunch of sequels and spin-offs that found success on their own — in fact, part III may arguably be the most (in)famous, […]
In spite of its title, Dracula Sucks is definitely not a parody, nor a half-assed attempt at a vampire-based spoof. It is actually not a bad porn adaptation of the classic Bram Stoker novel, and heavily influenced by the Tod Browning film. This is a […]
Long before the Internet made tagging words a strategy for more clicks and visits, porn was using it for image association. The name Deep Roots is the perfect example for it. The tag line for the film on the movie poster is “Deeper than Throat, […]
Expectations is a hardcore sex drama directed by renowned porn filmmaker Anthony Spinelli — then still using other stage names, in this case Arvid Beller. The film follows the life of two women: Margo (played by the very good yet virtually unknown Delania Raffino), a […]
Obviously inspired by The Exorcist, released a year earlier, Angel Above – The Devil Below is a porn take on horror. Sort of. The title refers to both sets of lips on a teenage girl named Randy (played by Linda York, known more from sexploitation […]
While Confessions was directed by notorious adult filmmaker Anthony Spinelli, it was still a year or two before his biggest films (SexWorld, Talk Dirty to Me, Aunt Peg) hit the theaters. Spinelli was still using pseudonyms then; in this case his last one, Leonard Burke. […]
Claude Goddard’s Winter Heat belongs to the sub-genre of 70s porn and sexploitation known as “roughies” — movies focused on terrorizing, degrading and often raping women — which immediately makes it not everyone’s cup of tea. I add this disclaimer because these tend to make […]
In yet another misleading title, Kemal Horulu’s Virgin and the Lover is not the coming-of-age cherry-popping story you might immediately think of because of its name. After the very underwhelming The Sexualist, I was a bit skeptical about another Kemal Horulu flick, but the darker […]
Boasting one of the oldest arguments in slut-shaming insecurities, Here Comes the Bride follows a horny woman’s need to lie in order to secure herself a husband, all while making sure she’s still getting some on the side. The film stars a very-new-to-the-business Samantha Fox […]
While the name of this movie might suggest a rock n’ roll story full of debauchery and hot groupie interaction, there isn’t one single live music moment in The Girls in the Band. There are girls, though! Lots of girls. And I’m guessing that was […]
It’s a little hard to define this movie. With a full title like The Sexualist: A Voyage to the World of Forbidden Love, you’d expect an elaborate pseudo-spiritual journey that overcomes all kinds of taboos, but just when you think you figured it out, some […]
While the title and the movie poster make it sound like a significantly more serious affair, Abduction of an American Playgirl is as simple and comically silly as it gets for an adult flick. The film credits no one for its direction or writing (an occurrence […]
A little known director named Gary Khan did Night After Night (an also not-so-known adult movie from 1975) as his last foray into porn. Not much is known about him, but if we had to guess something from his final title, is that the man […]
The Healers is the first film of Eduardo Cemano’s cult Sexual Healing Trilogy — no relation to Marvin Gaye, though. This movie actually preceded the song by 10 years! It opens with arguably the funniest cold opening I’ve seen on a feature adult film. Cemano […]
The true question to determine the underlying quality of any sex thriller is: would anyone watch it without the sex? Countless bad 80s and 90s movies — hardcore or otherwise — haven’t been able to pass that little test. They survive because there are naked […]
Say what you want about Alex de Renzy, but he had a recognizable style in the 70s adult industry. The filmmaker was well known for not shying away from kinky, weird or disturbing stuff in a time when it wasn’t the norm. While other directors […]
The mid-70s were a time when the token neurotic Jewish New Yorker was a well-known character in American cinema. Woody Allen was in his prime and many comics and actors were milking the idiosyncrasies of their culture for comedic purposes. Legendary porn director Joe Sarno, […]
There’s something about sci-fi and porn that doesn’t seem to mix well. Perhaps it’s that it usually implies some disconnection with the human side of people, and robotic sounds and features are not something we necessarily relate to sex (most of us, anyway). Producer and […]
I must admit the directness of this film’s title got me on board immediately; there was no odd romanticization of porn clichés, but a straightforward — and after having watched it, rather accurate — description of what you’ll find. Adultery for Fun & Profit was Richard […]
