Thursday, July 5, 2018

Nymphs (Anonymous) (1968)

Sexploitation of the '60s is usually more 'miss' than 'hit' with me with the exception of some the 'rougher' kind of shit, like "The Defilers" and one or two of Russ Meyer's titty-flicks, which I find fairly enjoyable and classic. But I especially hate when they went the totally wacky comedic route - case in point, "Nymphs (Anonymous)". While it managed to suck from the start, it completely goes off the rails and into some truly frustrating, unintelligible idiocy and horribly directed and shot tedium around the halfway point.

From what I could make of the plot before it degenerated into a mind numbing mess of random scenes: a neighborhood of nympho housewives belong to a all-female club that caters to their individual sexual 'kinks' by sending men over to their houses while their repressed hubbies are at the office. Various desires in need of fulfilling include a woman who craves 24-hour sex sessions, one who liked to be chased around and get fucked in her pool, one who digs being beaten with belts and so on and so forth... When one of the husbands discovers how his wife is spending her days he freaks out and starts sniping the male sex-workers as they arrive at their assigned homes. This doesn't sit too well with the feminist head of the secret sex society and the pissed off husband finds himself immersed in her sordid male-prostitution game...

Not only does the plot synopsis on the back of my DVD-R copy not match up with what I saw in the film, itself, it's also wrongly slated at a 73-minute running time, of which is about 20-minutes or so fewer then the actual length this thing ended up being. This fucking movie DRAGS. It was almost as though the hack director behind this did a ton of blow halfway through production, ran out of script and just told the actors and camera people to run around and shoot whatever. There are seeminly endless scenes involving a chick who likes having her dress torn off... so she has a dude rip about 5 off. There's another equally long, go-nowhere striptease featuring a woman with a cellulite, cottage cheese ass. By this time I had come to grips with there being no real story-line anymore so was just returning some emails until this piece of shit finally ended. I can't stress enough that "Nymphs (Anonymous)" is one of the shittiest and LONGEST 'sexploit' joints I can recall, thus should be avoided like grim death.

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Killing Spree (1987)

"Killing Spree" is a slightly above average SOV cheapie. Of course, this opinion I have is based on my own personal standards regarding these types of (usually) godawful, turd movies (i.e. "The Bloody Video Horror That Made Me Puke on My Aunt Gertrude" and the virtually unwatchable "Violent Shit" films), so I'm just trying to be as fair as possible and give credit where it's due. It's one of the better of its kind that I've come across, while still suffering from some of the same expected pitfalls that movies of this ilk tend to.

A newly wed airplane mechanic with a recent, drastic pay cut begins to suspect his wife of cheating on him with the slew of handymen that seem to be showing up at his house lately while he's at work. Detailed sexual escapades are discovered, penned in a diary, hidden in their bedroom, so he totally goes off the deep end and does the only thing a potentially scorned man CAN do: get all these guys to come back to the house when wifey isn't home and murder them in creative ways.

There's quite a bit of comedy thrown into this one, which I expected - much of which didn't quite 'land' for me - although I did enjoy the odd 'giving head' dream sequence. Some of the murder gags, however, were okay; such as the machete ceiling fan and a guy being beaten to death with his girlfriend's severed head (accompanied by yet another reference to 'giving head'...). Not to mention a decent chainsaw disembowelment/intestinal electrocution... Yeah. So, while being watchable enough and fairly well shot for such a micro-budget production, "Killing Spree" suffers from being a bit overly long and drawn out in too many, much too obviously padded - as well as repetitive - scenes. If you have any kind of tolerance for ultra-low brow, SOV flicks, you could definitely do a lot worse than this one, honestly.