I just spent MY Christmas cash on a couple of "Something Weird" videos. You guys do know Something Weird right? They started off issuing compilations of peep show loops and old burlesque movies, and they have moved up into releasing bunches of heartstoppingly cool DVDs of gimptastic sexploitation and horror films. If you like gnarly black and white roughies, then by all means get your hands on The Sin Syndicate, Sin Magazine, She Came On The Bus triple feature DVD they've got on the shelves. Also get The Defilers, a true classic of GIMP cinema, and a surprising perverted movie for its time. Great cheese plus sincere sleaze = good times. I know I've had a merry Christmas.
She Came on the Bus is the only one that delivers any extended girl in peril scenes, and they are pretty good. Two women (in two separate scenes) get nabbed by a gang of pervs who drug and rape them. The drugs they are given make them passive, even receptive to the raping, so the actual sex isn't particularly rough. What is rough is the handling the girls get when they are nabbed and forcibly drugged (one girl gets a needle in the arm, the other gets a pill stuffed down her throat). There is much panicked fighting and forced stripping, and everybody puts in good performances. Later in the film the gang abduct a group of women from a bus (thus the title) for more fun. Again, not much to see in the way of on screen raping, but girls are left to sit around crying in their underwear, and the gang are cartoonishly nasty perverts. There's some good consensual sex in the movie also, which, given the sick atmosphere of the film, seems pretty unwholesome, even though it's fairly tame by today's standards.
The real find on the dvd is The Sin Syndicate. Again, not much in the way of extended rape sequences, but the film has an all around nasty atmosphere, and a couple of scenes of women being prepared for torture (being tied up and stripped). The plot is about a white slavery ring run by the mob. There's lots of sex and striptease performances, which, when put into the context of the nasty plot, are effectively tawdry. The film was directed by Mike Findlay, one of the real auteurs of Times Square smut. He and his wife wrote, directed, and acted in tons of cheaply made, sexually obsessive sex and horror films. He's kinda like a punk rock Jess Franco.
Both movies are together on one "Something Weird" Dvd (along with a smutty film about a porno ring called Sin Magazine). All of the films on the Dvd are technically limited black and white films, which, for me, adds to the air of seedy menace. I really love sixties exploitation films. Even though they don't often have the kind of extended torment that you can find in the work of a good bondage producer, they have a special kind of nasty atmosphere that's like catnip to me. For folks who like violent smut in mainstream movies, those films are a really worthwhile genre to check out. They have a good ‘n nasty tone (even if they are much tamer than a lot of bondage porn available nowadays), and they often feature nice looking curvy ladies with natural big tits. Lots of whipping too, for some reason.
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