While the landscape of adult cinema was changing rapidly in 1981, moving towards cheaper options and the more graphic and less plot-oriented 80s, Chuck Vincent’s Roommates stands out as one of those extremely rare porn films that were richer in its plot, acting and cinematography […]
Back in the 1970s, there certainly weren’t many women directors in porn, and many years before she fully switched to making horror films, Roberta Findlay was one of them. Along with her then-husband Michael, their early roughies had been playing in the grindhouse theaters of […]
A couple of years before bringing the (grind) house down with horror classics like Maniac and Vigilante, William Lustig (under the pseudonym Billy Bagg) was paying his dues in adult cinema while learning his craft. Hot Honey would be Lustig’s second and last adult film, […]
It’s no secret that the adult industry of the 70s was heavily linked to the Italian-American mafia. Just like with any good racket where there was money and vice, mobsters would likely show up sooner or later. By the mid-70s, the “porno chic” tag carried […]
More than 30 years before there was a real life Veronica Vain screwing Wall Street, a namesake of hers was whipping it. Porn legend — and occasional mainstream actress — Veronica Hart stars as the title character in Wanda Whips Wall Street. Once the financial […]
A significantly less aggressive story than its name would suggest, The Violation of Claudia was William Lustig’s (here under the pseudonym Billy Bagg) first film. The then-21-year-old, who would go on to direct horror and thriller classics like Maniac and Vigilante, started — like other […]
Considered by many to be the greatest adult film of all-time, The Opening of Misty Beethoven was a reasonably high budget film with an elaborate plot, reasonably good acting, an academy award winning cinematographer, an original musical score, and was shot on location in Paris, […]
Following his first movie, the significantly weird and absurd Vixens of Kung Fu, director Bill Milling continued his deep obsession with Asian exploitation — albeit with a much more grounded and well-made effort — with the cult classic Oriental Blue. Unlike his first film, this […]
In spite of its title, Dracula Sucks is definitely not a parody, nor a half-assed attempt at a vampire-based spoof. It is actually not a bad porn adaptation of the classic Bram Stoker novel, and heavily influenced by the Tod Browning film. This is a […]
Claude Goddard’s Winter Heat belongs to the sub-genre of 70s porn and sexploitation known as “roughies” — movies focused on terrorizing, degrading and often raping women — which immediately makes it not everyone’s cup of tea. I add this disclaimer because these tend to make […]
A little known director named Gary Khan did Night After Night (an also not-so-known adult movie from 1975) as his last foray into porn. Not much is known about him, but if we had to guess something from his final title, is that the man […]
The true question to determine the underlying quality of any sex thriller is: would anyone watch it without the sex? Countless bad 80s and 90s movies — hardcore or otherwise — haven’t been able to pass that little test. They survive because there are naked […]
Even in today’s world, it’s hard to keep up with technological and social advances. If you’re a Greek God, I can imagine staying on top of things gets exponentially more difficult. Such is the problem that Jupiter Stormbringer (Jamie Gillis) has on The Mount of Venus. […]
All-around interesting porn fellow Alex de Renzy wrote, directed and produced Fantasy Girls. But while some of his other movies tend to tackle weirder and more niche-oriented pornographic settings, Fantasy Girls is surprisingly a very stereotypical and simple male fantasy turned into a movie. The […]
Blow Dry is a 1976 porn spoof on the movie Shampoo, released a year earlier. Victor Colicchio (here under the single name “Pepe”), an actor and director better known for small mainstream parts in movies like Goodfellas, Bullets Over Broadway and Inside Man, had his […]
Following the roaring success of Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones, Gerard Damiano returned in 1975 with his own adaptation of the classic French erotic novel The Story of O. Picking up where The Devil in Miss Jones left off, The Story of Joanna […]
It’s not often a heterosexual man gets happy about a specific male porn star being in a movie, but Jamie Gillis just happens to be the kind of solid and competent actor that will always increase any smut’s artistic value. So when you see him […]
