Retro Porn Review - Roommates

Retro Porn Review – Roommates

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 […]

Retro Porn Review - Lunch

Retro Porn Review – Lunch

For some reason, when I first saw the Lunch title from this 1972 movie, I thought it would be a Naked Lunch porn adaptation. It actually has nothing to do with William Burroughs — or actual lunch, really. But there might be more drug-infused sexual […]

Retro Porn Review - Angel on Fire

Retro Porn Review – Angel on Fire

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 […]

Retro Porn Review - Starship Eros

Retro Porn Review – Starship Eros

Science fiction is a tough sub-genre to pull off in porn, as the budget for cool-looking sets and special effects tends to be infinitely smaller than those of their mainstream counterparts. Having said that, the Star Wars phenomenon was an undeniable hit in the late […]

Retro Porn Review - Sylvia

Retro Porn Review – Sylvia

You know porn was mainstream counterculture-approved when Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese — at the peak of their collaborative years — attend your movie premiere. Sylvia happens to have that honor. Of course, it helps that Peter Savage, the film’s writer and director, was […]

Retro Porn Review - Babyface

Retro Porn Review – Babyface

Alex de Renzy’s Babyface is somewhat of a cult hit. One thing that stands out about Babyface is that neither the “baby” whose face served as the film’s title (Lyn Cuddles Malone as Priscilla), nor the actual lead character of the story (Dan Roberts) ever […]

Retro Porn: The Opening of Misty Beethoven

Retro Porn: The Opening of Misty Beethoven

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, […]

Retro Porn Review - Tapestry of Passion

Retro Porn Review – Tapestry of Passion

Johnny Wadd was probably the most famous recurring male part in 70s adult cinema. It inspired Dirk Diggler’s own action movie character Brock Landers on Boogie Nights, and established the badass detective type within porn as much as it was already in mainstream culture. And […]

Retro Porn Review - Deep Tango

Retro Porn Review – Deep Tango

Combining famous titles and plots from both the era’s porn and mainstream worlds was fairly usual in the mid-70s. Because Deep Throat had been such a huge commercial success, lots of adult movies started referencing it, and throwing together elements of it along with those […]

Retro Porn Review - Oriental Blue

Retro Porn Review – Oriental Blue

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 […]

Retro Porn Review - Starlet Nights

Retro Porn Review – Starlet Nights

Starlet Nights was the last directorial release by Joseph Bardo, whose adult filmmaking credits used to go under the Lisa Barr pseudonym. What you wouldn’t get from the title is that this is a loose adaptation of Snow White into a porn movie, although only […]

Retro Porn Review - Madame Zenobia

Retro Porn Review – Madame Zenobia

Straight from Eduardo Cemano’s unique version of porn, Madame Zenobia was the director’s final piece of his cult Sexual Healing Trilogy; and just like his previous efforts, it has enough weirdness to fit more comfortably with the works of experimental filmmakers of the time than […]