Black Emanuelle Gets Her Man (Or Woman)

We've previously professed our admiration for Laura Gemser and her many, many turns as Black Emanuelle, but while re-organizing our uh ... "media collection," we just had to revisit her wild international exploits. The amazing thing about Black Emanuelle is that whether she's on safari, or exploring ancient ruins, or battling a global white slave conspiracy, she still finds time to get it on with just about everyone she meets. Then she brings down their criminal enterprise. More »

This Week In Japanese Nunsploitation

If you've ever wondered where Japan's love of bizarre sexual ritual comes from, you can rest assured that this is not a recent development. Yes, flogging, hot tub bondage, and filthy horny nuns are time-honored themes in Japanese cinema—at least according to the selection of classic DVDs available at Japan Shock. These old rape-revenge fantasies, samurai-mob murders, and S&M sex romps are proof that erotically violent entertainment is nothing new, both here and abroad. Heck, even Genki-Genki is old hat to the "Shoguns of Joy Torture." You just can't beat Japanese sex horror dubbed into German voices. More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "The Orgy Of The Golden Nudes"

Are you tired of the same old orgy? Is your hedonistic group sex just not fulfilling you the way it used to? Perhaps you need something new to spice up your routine. Why not incorporate an idea that was in no way stolen from a James Bond movie and add some really expensive "golden" babes to the menu? They last longer, don't lose their value like silver or brass nudes, and it makes your King Midas role play fantasy that much more realistic. And if you decide to bomb Fort Knox afterward, that's an excellent way to recoup your investment.

· "Orgy Of The Golden Nudes" aka, "Honeymoon of Horror" (1964) (imdb.com) More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "This Picture Is Censored"

This dirty old man would really like to show you some filth. But first, he wants to tell you about it and then maybe provide a history lesson about obscenity laws in the United States from 1921 up to and including 1965. When you're giving a lecture, it's important to provide examples and demonstrations to prove your point. It helps to make your arguments clear and also keeps your audience from falling asleep. Sure, you could just dispense with the talking all together, but then who would get to admire your mustache?

· "Censored" (1965) (imdb.com) More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "Kiss Me Quick"

Unlike most sexploitation films, this one is not meant to scare you. Unless you find alien fat guys coming down to Earth with no knowledge of women and their sexual charms scary. If that's the case, then there is a solution—an insane Frankenstein-esque doctor who turns women into horny sexual freaks! Oh, and also re-animates the dead, like the original Dr. Frankenstein. But that's just a side project to the more important task of making the freak bots. Even scientists have to have priorities, you know.

· "Kiss Me Quick!" (1964) (imdb.com) More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "Bitch Slap"

There seems to be a renewed interest lately in the big-breasted sexploitation films of the '50s and '60s, and we're going to go ahead and give all the credit to our own weekly feature. There's even been talk that Quentin Tarantino plans to follow up his "Grindhouse" nonsense with a remake of "Faster Pussycat Kill Kill" starring Tera Patrick (!)—but it appears that some other Russ Meyer fan has beaten him to the punch. Take a look at the trailer for the subtly-named "Bitch Slap," a brand new sexploitation homage that is sure to make an excellent stocking stuffer when the holidays roll around this year, and you'll see what we mean. Oh, and if we are to blame for this murderous D-cup lesbian revival? You're welcome. More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: Russ Meyer's "Cherry, Harry & Raquel"

For this week's clip we take a dip back into the Russ Meyer catalog for a movie that we think artfully demonstrates the skill and vision that made him such a great director. The teaser is a little long, but it does provide a tidy synopsis of the entire story and all the characters, so you really do come to understand the themes and symbolism of the film as a whole. However, if you look beneath the surface and carefully examine the subtext, you can get an even deeper sense of the true message of this saga: It's about boobs. Lots and lots of giant boobs. The man was subtle, but trust us, it's there. More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "Hot Erotic Dreams"

This week's clip forgoes the standard formula involving an outraged narrator warning you to avert your eyes from (and also definitely go and watch) a sordid tale of sex fiends throwing their lives away for the sake of cheap thrills. In fact, it doesn't even pretend that there's a story to be told at all. This trailer simply levels with you: you want to see crazy swingers having sex under a background of smooth jazz, and that's exactly what you're going to get. It's refreshing, even if that kind of honestly isn't nearly as .... shocking! More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "Unholy Matrimony"

What happens when you mix S-E-X with LSD? Whatever it is, you probably won't remember it after you come down, but this movie sure makes it sounds like F-U-N. Well, except for the blackmail. Always with the blackmail. Can't anyone have a drug-fueled suburban orgy without some tough guy in a cowboy hat shaking you down for a few thousand dollars? No wonder everyone has to take so much LSD before they get freaky. More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "She Came On The Bus"

One of the things we can never understand about all these exploitation movies from the 1960s is whether the announcers are actually trying to convince people to see them or not. After all, the only things they talk about are the shocking violence and unsettling images and the deranged characters that no sane or rational person could ever like because they're so sick and twisted. That doesn't sound like any fun! And another thing: what difference does it make if the girl in the story arrived on a bus or not? (What's that? Oh, now we get it ... ) More »

Sexploitaiton Clip Of The Week: "Come Play With Me"

We should warn you that this week's clip contains some really outlandish freaks. These are people on the "outer fringe of society"—outcasts who don't fit in with rest of us, but still manage to fascinate us with their bizarre alien-like ways. Who are these dangerous outsiders? Sexy college co-eds who occasionally make out with and spank each other! Seriously, when will the mainstream media start paying attention to their secret hidden world? More »

In A "Sex Galaxy" Not So Far Away ...

100 years in the future, when sex is illegal and the Grand Canyon is a ghetto, a group of astronauts embark on a mission that ultimately leads to self-discovery (with a fair amount of naked flesh thrown in for good measure). This labor of love sci-fi comedy exploitation film combines snippets of dozens of public domain B movies—as well as, horrifyingly, a U.S. government syphilis primer—to tell a story that stars everyone from Mamie Van Doren and Basil Rathbone to Fleshbot Crush Object^TM Puma Swede. "Sex Galaxy" premiers at Hollywood's New Beverly Cinema June 26; check out the trailer after the gap. More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "Mr. Mari's Girls"

The voiceover for the trailer to "Mr. Mari's Girls" makes Mr. Mari sound like kind of a jerk: with all that violence and rape and murder, he can't be that much fun to hang around with. So why do the girls engage in clothes-tearing lesbian catfights just to join his harem? Are they (not to mention anyone who would watch this movie) actually, like ... turned on by that sort of stuff? It sounds so dirty and evil—and since when is dirty, evil sex a turn-on? Good to know that some things really have changed since 1967 ... More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "The Dirty Girls"

Ah, the French. They gave us fried potatoes, fancy salad dressing, Stouffer's French Bread Pizzas and, of course, erotic cinema that goes way too far. (Way farther than those snooty British!) Think about it: it isn't just any foreign film that can combine lesbian shower action with sadistic marching band majorettes. They also somehow managed to capture on film the elusive art of self love—which in France apparently means making out with a mirror. Boy, they really are kinky over there! More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "The Twisted Sex"

We didn't mean to make this an all-prostitute day here ... wait, yes we did. Fortunately, we are mature adults who can handle rough stories about men who seek pleasure and pain and the women who provide it ... but at what cost? Like all good sexploitation movies, "The Twisted Sex" is pulled from real "files" that, for some reason, document all the freakiness in the world in excruciating detail. Which leads us to one inevitable question—where are these files and how can we can get a look at them? More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "Prostitutes Protective Society"

Do you remember that part in "Sin City" where the prostitutes took over an entire section of town, kicked out the pimps and the cops and the mafia, and started dispensing their own brand of justice to anyone foolish enough to mess with their sisters? That's a true story! Here's the documentary proof to show that no organized crime syndicate is a match for a fiesty band of hookers who know how to talk tough and shoot a gun. (It's also Chapter 5 of this book.) By the way, people love to complain that there is too much nudity and violence in the movies—but have you noticed that no one ever complains about "nude violence"? The more, the better as far as we're concerned. More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "Obscene House"

Are you the kind of person who settles for second best? Then you're in the wrong place, because this movie is not for losers that settle. It's for winners! Winners who respect things like quality entertainment, but don't necessarily care about things like characters names or plot. If you are one of these special people who understands pleasure and the sins of the flesh, then settle in for the best little whorehouse story this side of Texas. Just don't forget to tip Fat Mama. More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "Stefania" Is A Bad, Bad Girl

We're not really clear on whether this is a movie about a woman's prison or a women's insane asylum—but in the world of '60s exploitation flicks it's all caged heat. Besides, even the narrator can't decide if the romance takes place in the shadow of a dream or its twilight. (We make that mistake a lot.) Other than that, it's pretty typical fare—you know, white slavery, crazed lesbian sex fiends, violent bludgeonings, incest ... the usual. Oh, and one other thing: this film is apparently not for children! It's good thing they said something because we totally looking for something to watch with our nephews this weekend, especially now that "Hannah Montana" is a little too racy for her own good. More »

Beware Of "The Beast In Space!"

In 1975, European movie audiences were enthralled by "The Beast," an erotic horror film about a young woman ravished by a mysterious cloven footed manimal. Then a few years later, "Star Wars" came out and someone had the genius-level brainstorm, "What if The Beast ... was in space?" That's how you end up with this sci-fi erotic adventure, just re-released on DVD by Severin Films (the fine folks who brought you "Malabimba" and "The Sister of Ursula.") We'll have a full review of the film for you soon, but for now here's a little taste of what happens when Italian "spaghetti sci-fi" meets lurid French hardcore. With evil, mineral-hoarding robots! More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "Infidelity, American Style"

Say whatever you want about the American forms of government, language, culture, cuisine, automobiles, railway systems, game shows, financial markets, foreign policy, football, or televised amateur karaoke contests—but don't you dare impugn our style of adultery. Nobody, and we mean nobody combines violence and sexual lechery in the pursuit of hedonistic personal gain like the good old U.S. of A. The Chinese can buy up all our foreclosed houses and fill them with lead, but they won't be winning any Olympic medals for depravity, that's for sure. More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "Scarf Of Mist, Thigh Of Satin"

Some people will do anything to get ahead in business: shady backroom deals, wild hooker-filled sex parties for clients, intimidation, blackmail, violence ... even murder! So what high stakes industry inspires such immoral and bloodthirsty tactics? No, not international politics or Wall Street finance. Those folks look like Boy Scouts compared to the ruthless leaders of the silk-stocking industry. What kind of sick and perverted things had to happen in order for you to cover your legs in the latest sheer and sexy style? You don't even want to know ... More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "All Women Are Bad"

It is true that our male-dominated society sometimes puts women at certain disadvantages. That's because somewhere along the line, certain men became convinced that women were inferior beings who could not be trusted. But the good news is that we think we've finally figured out the original source of this whole sexist attitude: you see, some movie producer in the late 1960s fell in love with a pretty girl, asked her out on a date and, for whatever reason, it didn't work out. So he made a movie about it, and that's where all the trouble started. Can't we just forget about it and move on now? More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "Women For Sale"

This week's sexploitation clip is not just shocking! and outrageous!—it's also timely! You know, what with all the talk in the news of prostitutes and white slaves and greedy and powerful men who will buy your wives and daughters and use them to fulfill their own seedy desires and all. (You might be surprised to learn that this is not a new phenomenon.) If this cautionary film seems ripped from the headlines, it's because it's totally based on real international police files ... and it's in color! Lock up your women! (Because that's how other people will know you paid for them.) More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "The Girl With The Magic Box"

Because our dirty minds always jump to the wrong conclusions, we think this film may have the most misleading title since "The Neverending Story." The box in question is actually a camera, see, and not the other kind of "box" we were thinking of. But it's still clear that the main character does have some sort of special powers because everyone she meets ends up naked — if she doesn't beat them to it, that is. Can you feel the "pulchritude"? More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "Sextet"

In this week's sexploitation adventure, you get not one, but six incredible films! In what other moviegoing experience could you find outer space visitors, magic tricks, rape and revenge, swinging orgies, reincarnated Indians ghosts, belly dancing, sex dolls, and full frontal male nudity ... all in one convenient package? Plus, the trailer has a kick-ass theme song at the end that will leave you wondering who you need to give $12 to in order to see this in a theater right now! It's so sexy and shocking, you'll want to see it six times! (But probably not in one night, unless you're some kind of weird sex maniac or something.) More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "Orgy Of The Dead"

Of course you already know that Ed Wood is best known as the master director of classic sci-fi and sexual horror flicks, like "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and "Necromania." (No, we don't have any copies left.) But did you know he was also a novelist? Yes, he penned the classic "boy meets girl, boy takes girl to graveyard in the middle of the night, boy and girl are sadistically tortured by the dancing undead slaves of the Ruler of the Dark" love story, also known as "Orgy of the Dead." Naturally, his screenplay was turned into a movie where Ed's mixture of high camp, big bosomed lady vamps, and awesome fight scenes could be better appreciated. Check out this scene where the tension is so thick you could cut it like a rubber kitchen knife cuts bra straps. More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "A Weekend With Strangers"

You're probably familiar with the concept of encounter groups: you know, when slightly maladjusted yuppies go off into the woods with a bunch of other uptight freaks to work out intimacy issues arising from their relationships with distant, unapproachable fathers by doing trust falls, hitting each other with pillows, and roasting marshmallows in a camp circle. Oh, and doing dope and having lots and lots of violent sex with multiple partners. Did you not know about that part? Most folks come back with all their psychological deficiencies still intact, but they all agree that it's the best therapy session they've ever been a part of. More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "Bad Girls"

We're a little confused by the title of this film. Do they mean "bad" as in "good," like the kids say sometimes? Because "sensuous swingers who know how to arouse men" doesn't sound that bad at all. (It even says they're good at it!) Plus, if there's a crazy killer who cuts these ladies down for being sexy, then it's seems like he should be the bad guy, doesn't it? You should get your facts right before you start slandering these good/bad girls. More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "Freudus Sexualis"

We never really studied the works of Sigmund Freud—other than a little dream transference and subconscious repression—but we feel like he would be totally down with this incredible tribute to his psychosexual analytic theories. In fact, if our non-expert interpretation of "The Ego and The Id" is correct, male and female subjects often manifest their hidden childhood traumas about parental dissatisfaction by constantly getting it on in the middle of open fields. We've got nothing against our own parents, but maybe we should give this therapy thing a try. More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "Naughty Nudes"

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Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "Gutter Girls"

We had to take a break for a while from all those crazy uninhibited chicks who shock and intimidate us with their groovy sexed up lifestyles, but this week sees the return of those kinds of girls who go all the way and then ask why! We're so lucky to have not grown up in the sixties when wild and way out sex cults terrorized the populace with their sinful ways—not like the innocent upstanding young ladies you meet on the internet these days. More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "Common Law Cabin"

How could we have a regular feature on the classic films of the sexploitation era and not include the work of Mr. Russ Meyer? We will never understand how just one man was able to find so many outrageously-endowed beautiful women in one lifetime without access to some form of voodoo magic. However he did it, just knowing that Russ was involved in anything makes us as excited as the announcer on this trailer who can barely contain his joy or the volume of his voice. (Warning: Dangerous cleavage levels ahead!) More »

Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "The Soul Snatcher"

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Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "Fuego"

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