A Seduction Cinema presentation from Jess Franco, starring a delicious young thing named Amber Newman. In a Nutshell: One nude whipping scene using a riding crop that starts about 49 minutes in. But some other perverse stuff as well.

Tender Flesh begins with a young woman (Amber Newman) dancing. She is instructed to undress and continues dancing in her underwear. Then she is instructed to remove her bra and dances topless. Then she is told to remove her panties, leaving her naked. Her humiliation and discomfort are obvious. She is told to turn around and bend over and spank her own butt. Then she turns back around (full frontal nudity on view throughout) and is told to dress. She passed the audition.

The job is some kind of private avant garde almost-completely nude performance art involving some fairly erotic simulated fellatio and hand job action on Muppet-looking statues until they come on her, which she was not expecting and which pisses her off and prompts her to jerk the penises off. Literally. Muppets everywhere cringed.

There's the obligatory shower scene, during which Amber's boyfriend sells her for some more advanced private action, as it turns out, on a remote island. Of course. Debauchery follows.

Strange things happen on the island, but the only scene worth mentioning is where Amber Newman is naked having sex with her boyfriend in the middle of the floor. He is dragged off of her before climaxing.

She is left laying naked on the floor and given a drugged drink.

She is viciously and enthsiastically whipped.

One of the spectators pins her arms to the floor above her head to keep her from defending herself. Another one holds her feet. Nice body arching.

Then she is gang-raped or the center of attention for some group sex, depending on your interpretation. The cinematography gets all kaleidoscope and artsy, which is tres annoying. She is turned over on her stomach and stimulated (and possibly penetrated) with the riding crop, but it is difficult to tell for sure. I prefer my sex scenes less artsy. Afterwards, we see a nude Amber with bloody welts, although they don't look overly convincing. While her welts are being cleaned we are treated to a nice nude massage scene that sadly does not develop into lesbian sex. A missed opportunity to my way of thinking.

Anyway, it turns out the next day they want to hunt Amber down with bow and arrow and kill her, and then eat her. So I guess instead of being massaged, she was being marinated. I didn't really see that one coming. With a title like Tender Flesh maybe I should have.

Amber Newman and her copious nudity are the reasons to watch this movie. However, Monique Parent also stars, and she still looks fairly hot, although a little hard. Cult favorite Lina Romay is also in the flick. Lina Romay must have been about 44 when she filmed this, and she has looked much better. I could have done without her gratuitous hairy beaver shot. She also did a lot of licking and aggressive tongue kissing that was a bit off-putting. Kind of yuck. And finally there's Analia Ivars, who spends the entire movie almost naked and also urinates on camera for the cook to make his special sauce. Whatever.

I would grade this a D. It had some potential--I mean, it is almost a Dolcett comic brought to life--but the GIMP possibilities are so badly unrealized. So it loses points for failing to deliver.