Don’t Eat The Hot Dogs: “Camp Erotica”

The Mondo Family (which also brought us the fascinating/awful "Brides of Countess Recula") is responsible for some of the worst-shot pornography in history. But it's impossible not to watch it because even they didn't know what would happen.

Camp Erotica

Studio: Mondo Family
Director: Colonel Rob
Starring: Kiki D'aire, Maren Beautte, Rikki Lixx, Ariel, Francois Lurid, Dave Hardman, Pie Dog Savage, Thrill Kill, Fritz Deus Kat, Melinda Strange, Jonee Armstrong

Review by Gram Ponante

How can you add nuance to a simple, timeless story about a camp that resorts to a blowjob derby to keep its creditors at bay? Well, to 2000's "Camp Erotica" you could add morbidly obese pedophiles, the hot "American Pie"-era sodomy of food, faux-bestiality, plenty of urination, consumption of actual narcotics, and ample footage of schizophrenics and emaciated Polish crack whores.

And waltzing into this mess—(Oh, and women sticking hot dogs into their vaginas)—comes the then-24-year-old Kiki D'aire, sassy as a naked Ashley Judd.

If any survive in your town or your memory, video stores are havens for VHS endeavors like these that have no right being transferred to DVD. Yet this one has, and I found myself grateful, because there was a time when loopy trainwrecks like "Camp Erotica" could be made and sold, and muttering old raincoaters would buy their like for $60 a pop. That time is gone.

This is a movie as endearing as it is indecipherable and gross. The JM Productions re-release also comes with a director's commentary that is as slipshod and entertaining as the movie, though 12 more years sadder, if not wiser.

"Every drug is real," maintains director Colonel Rob, and we believe him.

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