A Bring Out the GIMP (Girls in Merciless Peril) Movie Review


Hot Summer in the City

Reviewed by John Galt


Hot Summer in the City (1976)

I was encouraged when Hot Summer in the City started and the background music was "Summer in the City," by the Lovin' Spoonful. We are introduced to our young blond protagonist, Debby, who is being driven home by her boyfriend, who tries to slip his hand up her skirt while they are kissing good night but she says no, let's wait until we're married and he reluctantly agrees. He tells her he'll pick her up in the morning to go to Sunday School. She might as well have INNOCENT VIRGIN stamped on her forehead. As she walks to the house, the background music changes to the Doors' "Light My Fire."

Debby is played by Lisa Baker, by the way, who was Playboy's Playmate of the Year for 1967. She kind of has that Britney Spears wholesome blond innocent look that morphs so easily into that fat trailer trash look before you know it. But she's still very early Britney looking in this movie, which, according to IMDB, was her only movie. Quentin Tarantino loves this movie as well, by the way.

Anyway, Debby goes in the house and finds her naked mother in a menage a trois with two naked guys, one of whom is porking her while she is sucking the other one off. Shocked and disgusted, she runs out of the house, into the woods and down a road on which horny black dudes drive. Sure enough, four of those evil horny black dudes who crave young white girls and will rape them any chance they get--the ones the Republicans are always warning you about--drive by and decide to grab her. She flees, and makes it into the front yard of a house, where she stumbles and screams as they descend upon her. The porch light comes on and out steps middle-aged white Joe American, who takes one look and goes back inside and turns his porch light back off. Guess he figured the little tramp was getting what she deserved or something.

The black guys wrestle her into the back seat of the car and hold her down as she struggles. The background music is "Leader of the Pack." They imbibe evil spirit liquor directly from the bottle, and force her to drink some. I expect they will light up reefers any minute now.

The horniest black dude just can't wait, he's got to fuck the bitch now. (A reefer would have probably taken the edge off.) So he fights to undress her, and she is not cooperating. We get shots of a black hand squeezing a white breast as the two guys in the back seat attempt to strip her. They get her dress pushed up. They get her panties pulled down. They get her bent over. She is not making a sound this entire time, by the way, but when the black dude penetrates her she says "no please stop." The black dude observes that she sure is tight and his black dude rapist accomplice wonders if she is a virgin. Her deflowering certainly didn't pain her enough to scream. Bummer. The music is now Diana Ross singing "The Happening." That's kind of funny. Whoever did the soundtrack on this flick has a wicked sense of humor.

We get some XXX sex, as we watching a black cock move in and out of a very white (well, okay then light pink) pussy. When he comes on her back, it is the standard white semen, though.

They arrive at a remote cabin and walk the girl in. Debby seems sullen, more like she's pissed she didn't get a kiss than she's just been bent over and raped in the back seat of a car. She stands there as the black dudes engage in a difficult to translate ebonics conversation, but the gist of it is "the man" is coming down and they need to raise more money for "civil rights" and other "good causes." Just so you know evil horny black dudes who love to rape young white girls are the driving force behind civil rights. Republicans already knew that, of course, but the rest of the nation was obstinately denying it, the blind fools.

The head black dude (the one who raped her) decides Debby will "take care of them" and slaps her. Next thing she is cooking for them. With her dress top still pulled open to reveal her bare breasts. Right. I was expecting her to cook them fried chicken, but it looked more like pork chops. Maybe fried chicken is on the menu for tomorrow night.

Head black dude decides she's "his chick." The others don't think that's fair. So head black dude says they can play poker and anyone who wins his $50 from him can fuck her as long as they give him his $50 back. They turn on the radio and reject a few stations, looking for some "funky shit," which they finally find on a station playing "Sugar Pie Honey Bunch." It just doesn't get much funky shittier than The Temptations. They deal the cards.

The head black dude bets it all on three queens, but another guy has three kings, so he's gonna get him some honky pussy tonight! Oo-wee! Head black dude is philosophical about losing, saying they'll have all the honky pussy they want once they "take over." The Beach Boys start singing "Good Vibrations." The winner black dude lifts up Debby's dress and tells her she sure has a nice looking pussy there. I personally don't know how he can tell because what she really has is a huge dark 70s bush. She could have WMDs secreted down there and no one would know.

So winner black dude pushes her onto the bed and she kind of struggles. Apparently, he wants no struggling, so he enlists the aid of the other two black dudes. One pulls her arms up over her head and pins them to the bed. The other one fumbles with her legs. She doesn't cooperate enough, so he decides to whip her with his belt. They wrap her in a blanket so as not to mark her (head black dude said he could do anything but he couldn't mark her) and he whales away on her. She fake screams "you're killing me!"--a line she should have saved for when he violated her with his huge black cock. I can't believe they missed that stereotype in this flick.

She pleads that she tried to help. She marched and everything. Yes, but she didn't sleep with any black dude who wanted her, so I guess that doesn't count. Poor misguided white liberal girl! Now you'll pay the price for your liberalism! While he's whacking away at her with the belt, the Beach Boys song ends and the DJ proclaims, "As the hits just keep on coming!" That is so warped. I love this sound guy.

The girl makes fake pained sounds and finally says "fuck me fuck me anything I can't stand it" or words to that effect. She didn't say the words with any enthusiasm, though, so I think I would have kept on with the belt until she screamed with some conviction. But that's just me. And I'm not a radical black dude. I'm going to vote for a guy for president who once spoke to a black dude who is a community leader and a university professor but was once a radical black dude back in the 60s, though. But that's not the same thing.

He stops and admires his handiwork (red marks that will fade) and then declares, "I'm gonna fill that little belly of hers with black power 'til it comes out her ears." I am not making this up. He goes on to say, "'Ol shortie's gonna bake his bread in that oven all night long," and employs other clever metaphors to describe fucking her, several of which I had never heard before. Thank god.

The two flunky black dudes strip Debby while winner black dude undresses. He tells her to look at his big black cock and asks if she likes it. She says yes. The Turtles are singing "some girls like to run around" in the background. While one of the flunkies holds her hands, he gets on the bed behind her and tells her to get up on her knees.

The next part could almost be a comedy bit if raping girls was all that funny. Head black dude kisses or licks her back. She whimpers. Black flunky number one gets up on the bed at her head and pulls up her head and mashes her face into his crotch. Black flunky number two, who I suspect is retarded in some respect, sticks his finger up her ass and shouts about how excited he is because he's got his finger up her ass. Winner black dude pulls his finger out and pushes him away, all while trying to line his cock up with her pussy. Finally we get the two remaining black dudes rocking back and forth, with the guy in back talking about how tight her pussy is and commenting about her mouth. As far as we know, the guy in front hasn't taken his cock out and forced her to blow him, though. Apparently they figured that out in editing after the fact, so they went back and shot inserts where she is sucking his cock in close-up but he's using her hair to mash her face forcibly into his crotch in the long shot. It's kind of sloppy direction.

The radio is now playing "Everlasting Love," by one-hit wonder Robert Knight. Meanwhile, largely non-explicit XXX sex follows. Black flunky number two (the retarded one with the lazy eye) is sitting off to the side spanking his monkey. Black flunky number one does not have a huge black cock, what of it we can see. We don't see any actual penetration. The director has a bit to learn about filming XXX features. Flunky number one comes on Debby's cheek. Winner black dude comes on Debby's back. Flunky number two comes on his hand. It is all the standard white semen, though, instead of the promised black power. Black flunky number two attempts to fuck Debby, but winner black dude stops him because head black dude said he couldn't.

It is the next day. The plot develops. A rich fat white guy who looks suspiciously Jewish (or maybe Italian) arrives with the money from "the man" and the plan to start a race riot too big for "the fuzz" to handle. They even have snipers set of to pick off the "pigs" and the firemen. Head black dude is upset because some "brothers" might get hurt but fat white cat says hey that's what he's getting paid to do.

The fat white money man also brought along head black dude's girlfriend, who is none too happy to see the honky bitch and gets all territorial. Head black dude tells her he's going to fuck the honky bitch tonight. Girlfriend attacks Debby. Head black dude pulls her off, slaps her to put her in her place, and tells black flunky number two (the retarded one) that he can have her. She says "no no not him!" but lazy eye is on her like stink on shit. Serves the bitch right. He wrestles around with her, exposes her breasts, pulls off her panties, then she just kind of settles down on the floor on her back while he fucks her. We see some penetration this time. He comes on her belly. (White semen again.)

She threatens to "get" Debby. Head black dude tells black flunky number one it is his turn. He grabs girlfriend and pulls her onto the bed. Strips off her clothes completely, fingers her, pinches her breasts (and she actually says "ow!" with some enthusiasm) kisses or licks her breasts, and tells her he ain't gonna put his dick where black flunky number two did, so she's gonna suck him. Suck him 'til it comes out her ears. He pulls her up off the bed and turns her around for the camera so that we get to see her whole body, which is not all that bad if you ignore the hickies and bruises. Then he pushes her down to her knees and forcibly urges her to begin performing fellatio.

Cut to upstairs, where head black dude has taken Debby. There's a tender moment as he feels her up and then carefully undresses her. He undresses himself. This is going to be so consensual, I can tell right now. Debby is a helpless slave to the Black Cock. She can't help herself. He kisses her. There's tongue action and she reaches up and puts her arm around him. Cut to downstairs, where there's a different and less gentle type of mouth action going on. Back upstairs, Debby is lovingly sucking head black dude's cock. So we cut between dueling fellatio for a while. Background music is just some instrument stuff, if you were wondering.

Head black dude fucks Debby. (We see penetration.) Debby gives head black dude a hand job. Debby gives head black dude head, with the camera doing that romantic soft-focus type technique. A wasted effort. Head black dude licks Debby's light pink pussy. Head black dude fucks Debby some more and comes on her belly. Fade out.

Debby wakes up and head black dude is asleep. She sneaks out of the room and sneaks downstairs. Everyone is asleep. She grabs her shoes but the black bitch wakes up and alerts everyone that the honky bitch is going out the door. They grab her. Some are of the opinion they should just kill her now, but head black dude says to tie her to the bed. Black flunky number one takes her upstairs and ties her wrists to the headboard posts, but doesn't tie her feet. We watch him tie her wrists, though, and it takes a while. And he's straddling her naked the whole time, so there's that.

Head black dude walks in and tells Debby she'll be all right because he told them to leave her alone. Then he leaves. It comes as no surprise when black bitch walks in and tells her she's going to let the retarded guy have his way with her and then she's gonna carve her up, tit by tit. Just to prove her point, she burns the bottom of Debby's foot with a cigarette.

In walks the retarded guy. Black bitch rips off Debby's panties and tells the retarded guy to have at her. One of Debby's hands is mysteriously untied, because she rolls over onto her stomach. The retarded guy sticks his finger up her ass again. He seems to like doing that. Black bitch tells him to fuck her in the ass. He does. Debby just kind of whimpers. Both of her hands are now untied. She starts reciting the Lord's Prayer. He continues fucking her and eventually squirts white semen out on her lower back.

Black bitch says now it's her turn, she's gonna cut her tit off. Retarded guy tries to stop her so she stabs him. What a bitch. She leans over and rears back and starts down with the knife when suddenly BOOM! she goes flying backward against the wall because head black dude just unloaded a shotgun into her ample black chest. That sequence was strangely satisfying and cathartic. Turns out head black dude had come back because he forgot something. This time he tells Debby to come with him.

They walk outside. He gives her directions to the road and sets her free. She asks if he has to do it. He just looks noble and gets back in the car. She watches her brave black dude go off to fight The Honky, unsure whether he will survive. Oh the humanity.

As Debby slowly walks down the road we get to hear "Summer in the City" once again.

Okay, in case you didn't pick up on it in my review, this flick had an incredibly racist subtext. This played out more like a public service announcement co-funded by the John Birch Society and the Ku Klux Klan. It was pretty offensive.

However, as a GIMP flick it was not bad. It had the initial kidnapping and back seat rape of Debby by the head black dude. It had the gang bang rape of Debby by the three other black dudes. It had the rape of the black bitch by two of the black dudes. It had the bondage scene where Debby was tied to the bed. It had the rape scene where the retarded guy sodomized Debby. It also had the consensual sex scene thrown in there which was at least XXX sex. Debby did fight initially, but the noises she made while being raped were fairly lame. If she had been a virgin, I would have expected more shrill screaming during her rapes. Also, I would have expected more shrill screaming while she was being sodomized. So that aspect could have been better. But the rapes were pretty good. So this gets a B-.

I downloaded this from Bizarro Video from the membership area. It is also available on DVD in the XXX Grindhouse section.


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