My favorite Peekarama is.... BABY ROSEMARY and HOT LUNCH!

PEEKARAMA continues from VINEGAR SYNDROME with a double feature that had me drooling before I even had the disc!  Two films directed by John Hayes, the man behind the classic (and one of my all time favorite flicks) GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE!  I did not even know he directed adult features, so I had no idea what to expect.  BABY ROSEMARY and HOT LUNCH are radically different in approach and content, but Hayes definitely brought some interesting skills to the table.  Both feature some nice location work and idiosyncratic performances that had me thinking back to the weird behaviors of those in the path of Caleb Croft.  So, lets take a look at VS-040, another set of adult entertainment to warp your mind!

Baby Rosemary recounts the story of the deeply troubled Rosemary and her relationship to her father, a mysterious figure that faded from her life after she was put into an orphanage after the death of her mother.  "Ya know, it's not really right for a man alone to raise a young girl..."

  

 

Well, Rosemary has definitely had trouble relating to men, as she rebuffs her boyfriend John (John Leslie) and finds herself in deep as she goes to her fathers apartment to find a ne'er do well couple in for a private session of porn picture taking with the mysterious man.  They take their liberties with Rosemary, and all hell breaks loose in her psyche after that!  She loses out on John, who becomes the fastest prostitute visiting dude to cop in uniform I can recall seeing in a film while Rosemary becomes a girl school teacher and hangs out with a dynamite duo of sex cult chicks that includes Candida Royalle!  

 Well, the father passes on and Rosemary has a sexual awakening that includes re-traumatizing herself with the sleazy man from the apartment and letting John dry hump her. But once we get to the funeral parlor though, it's all body parts on and clothes off. John Seeman appears with the sex cult girls and things get out of hand. Or in hand. Lots of hands.  Rosemary finds herself the object of attention and desire, in the presence of the corpse of the man whose presence, and lack thereof, has warped her sexual life.

 

BABY ROSEMARY is an interesting film with the added bonus of it's porn sequences.  There is a horrific vibe and I couldn't help but think of the "legacy" aspect of GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE as I watched it.  The father is obviously into some kinky stuff, and Rosemary is battling that same desire in the blood story from GRAVE.  Caleb Croft never got up to this much sucking, but the two make a nice set of bookends.  NOT your typical porn or horror film, it's a great little curio of a filmmaker using his tiny porn budget to regurgitate and rework themes that obviously resonate with an audience. Highly recommended, it will definitely be worth the cost of the disc.  As a bonus, John Leslie and Leslie Bovee have a great scene that expands on the John characters frustrations early in the film that blends character development  with dirty talking athletic stairway play. Yeah, John the aptly named for the actor and his actions wants Rosemary, but could never ask for her the way he wants to. Bovee, looking fantastic here, breaks it down to it's core commanding he "eat that cunt...eat Rosemary's cunt..."  

Hey, it ain't art, but a nice touch and a great scene.

So, now that the one that looked spooky is out of the way, the second feature, HOT LUNCH delivers something completely different.  I have to be honest, I actually enjoyed this film MUCH more than I had any expectation to.  It's got a strange feel to it, but is EXACTLY what I would have expected a porn film, and probably what many others would as well, when you think of the 1970s.  But Hayes brings us to some cool spots, the actors deliver some fantastic dialog AND we get bass player fucking scenes as well. WHILE PLAYING a guitar like a bass. That is badass. I'm not even a bass player, but it's still badass.  STRUM ON, YOU CRAZY DIAMOND.

HOT LUNCH has a near perfect opening scene as we enter on a diner, a flasher and a couple that fucks in a car while a woman eats an ice cream cone and a crowd of porn stereotypes gathers around them.  Fat leering guy.  Horny couple.  It's fantastic fun and definitely a wink and a nod to all the raincoat crew of 1978 that we are all just here to watch some sex and the playing field is equal in the land of spank!

  

 A luckless loser of a dude played by Jon Martin starts working at the Hot Lunch diner, but doesn't have a long run of it, since he ends up cooking a cop's dinner while Sharon Kane (who wears the butch look really well here) and her hooker girlfriend have sex with utensils on the floor beneath him.  Talk about a hard start!  

His girlfriend meanwhile, just wants disco dudes and does she ever get some from getting down, going down and riding up and down.  Our hapless hero just can't win. But you can take the bass playing schlong slinger scene to the bank, it's hilarious.  And Martin can't win even at home as she tosses him out because he can't dance and if ya can't dance then you are no friend of mine.  Ah, to fall victim to rejection from a frosted facial full of fury...ouch!!  

 Seriously, told off like this.  "You are gonna pay, and you know why, because your a SCHMUCK!"  I mean, you got 'fro guy, Santa and angry glazed gal all in your grill.  This is a bad day.

 Can it get worse?   Nah... it's time for our man to RISE to the occasion.  And he does in ultimate porn expectation cinema tradition.  He sells encyclopedias and works HARD to sell them..  This hooks him up with a ruthless business woman that wants to capitalize the cock and ride it to the top!  And hey, why not...  

When this is part of the job interview, you gotta just stand tall and represent.  

There is more talking and gesturing and screwing in several charming positions and formations to be had from Hot Lunch, and you know that Hayes isn't taking anything too seriously.   We have characters like ditzy Tish and sexy Salome double teaming our man which leads to the best reason to watch Hot Lunch.  You've dug Baby Rosemary, you want to skip to the best part of Hot Lunch to finish out the night... jump to 53:40 or so and while it isn't sex, you need to see this epic confrontation.

In an endless series of one ups and yo' mama rhythmic line reading we get treats like...

"Don't let these fancy clothes and proper English fool you, I could fuck an arm!"

 OH YEAH??? 

"I've had his thing so far into my cunt it's lucky I didn't get brain damage!!!" 

OH YEAH????

"I drank enough of his nut juice to drown a fucking whale!"  

Amazing... I'm not sure how you win this round of OH YEAH, but it sure is entertaining.  Don't overlook this HOT LUNCH and remember, this guy can fuck the meat clerk and get the chicken free!!  

Another finely presented winner from Vinegar Syndrome scanned from 35mm camera negatives, it looks great, it gives you two VERY different films and for horror fans, gives a glimpse beyond the GRAVE...OF THE VAMPIRE, John Hayes.  

Streaming Sleaze with EXPLOITATION.TV #6 : Expectations

Happy New Year to all..what better way to celebrate than to enjoy some Exploitation.TV action with Kristine Heller giving us her CONFESSIONS?   Works for me!  If you ever wondered what a really good blowjob looks like played over a song that would make the Partridge Family cringe more than a little bit, this is the flick for you! 

 

"It would look a lot better if I could get laid this morning...Gary, we've got to sit down and talk and it's got to be soon. We're going down a one way street and I got bad vibes that it's all your way."

Kristine Heller has the perfect blend of Sexual Skill Smarts, comic timing and well..more sex skills to play a perfectly bored housewife that decides it's time to get in touch with her inner self, and to let everyone else do the same.  After we meet her and get the sense that her semi-upwardly-maybe mobile hubby who refers to himself in the third person (played to hilarious perfection by John Leslie) is pretty much interested more in having a hot wife to suck his headaches away instead of satisfying her needs...well, it's on!  Getting dolled up and hitting the road, she finds all kinds of new experiences and satisfactions are coming as fast and furious as she is. 

The shot above is probably the first and only time I've ever declared someone in the, "damn, she is Tatum O'Neal hot!" category, but that's just how I see it.  After Gary gets some amazing therapy in the first scene she decides to bump the first hippy biker she can find on the street, head back to his place and get right back at it.  But can she handle the returned favor?  Of course!!  However, and you definitely could have fooled me, our horny housewife apparently doesn't have the oral accumen I thought. Thankfully, hippy dude can help.  Hilariously.

"The cock...is very...delicate. Mwarpabarpapharp...suck on..it...suck it back....just a little harder."

BINGO!  She's got it now!  So just a few hours after Gary left, she is a devastating hippy trip advised lady of the world!  Heller is trying not to laugh during the instructional phase of our program, but it's all good...  And hey, she isn't looking for more than a quick ball and bail.  But can the hippy dude take that?  OH NO!  After she tries to leave there is one of my favorite pronouncements in all of porn!

 "Hey, if we're not going to see each other anymore you're gonna stay here and we're gonna play!"

["SOUND OF MOWING THE LAWN"]

Ah, that is just awesome, and CONFESSIONS is just getting warmed up.  There is lots more fun to be had, especially with our heroine meeting up with Gary as he watches women eat at a party in some kind of bizarre loop of attraction while his boss, played by Joey Silvera, gets off with his wife in the bathroom leaving her covered in something that is possibly as protein packed as this banana! 

And what could be more fun than answering an ad and finding out that you are going to get to play some bizarre dominant game with a dude that likes to be teased (Jack Wright has a distressing "young Stephen King" look to him) and then get some sapphic sensualism on with his leather clad wife that knows her way around every bit of a woman?  Not much!

CONFESSIONS is short on plot, but uses a nice and breezy mix of humor to match up with the sex scenes that make up the majority of the running time. I really enjoyed Kristine Heller's performance a lot, she has a real comfort level in front of the camera that director Anthony Spinelli plays up by letting her talk plenty and keep the pace swift with no overly long scenes.  And when you bounce between Partridge Family groove and elevator musak for long lesbian encounters you know you have me.  I was actually conducting along at one point, but that may have been to keep my hands out of my pants!
Spinelli sure was a prolific porn, and I always think of him as the guy that gave us Batwoman and Catgirl (with my porn fave Madison)...but now I have this little flick to thank him for.  When you let your star break the wall to the audience over a jar of Vitamin E and some Polish Dills I say VIVA CONFESSIONS!!

Special thanks to Gary, for setting his lady free to be with you and you and you and you and...ME!
It's GROOVY!

Streaming Sleaze with EXPLOITATION.TV #5: PRISONER OF PARADISE

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Streaming Sleaze with EXPLOITATION.TV #4: CHAMPAGNE FOR BREAKFAST

Streaming Sleaze Fans rejoice... EXPLOITATION.TV has launched.  With more amazing films at your fingertips than you can shake John C. Holmes massive dong at, I'm glad to re-review a few old favorites. How can you not love high gloss fun with Leslie Bovee and faux gay boxers?  

This film has laughs, hot women and men and a goofy sense of style that feels like a Hollywood farce of days gone by.  Champagne (Leslie Bovee) is one women headed to the top of the advertising world, but her sex life may be active, but her choice of men is the pits.  Be it paying for an all dicks on deck pounding or picking up a random “beer kinda guy” that has a name for his schlong and no manners at all when athletic sex goes awry, what could she do?  Enter our man, Harry.  John Leslie is in top form throughout, be it getting his schlong long when the time is right or cracking the audience up as Harry’s weird sense of morality shines through. Watch for one of the absolute best mid blowjob “come on down”s EVER early on. So, Harry is screwed both literally and figuratively because he needs work while his brother in law fucks him over on some investments.  Problem is…his blue balls problem seems to always end him up working on his thrusts over working on getting his paychecks.  Enter, Champagne and Harry’s plan to pretend to be gay to get a job as her bodyguard. Her VERY close bodyguard.

Hilarity ensues as the odd couple talk about life, and Harry paints a picture of his life as a gay boxer in the Navy, where massages were commonplace.  He protects his employer from herself on occasion, sure, but his constant attempts to avert his eyes from Leslie Bovee are really entertaining to watch. Never mind when Champagne rewards him with a nice gentleman that announces…”All night, my cock is yours!”

OH SHIT!

The film is really funny, and Bovee is always a pleasure to watch because she has that classic beauty AND she really puts her all into making Champagne likeable and enthusiastic.  Her cracking up as a horny construction worker holds her upside down and pours a beer in her butt was just making me smile the entire time.  A porn film that rarely feels dirty, it’s good fun for all.

Directed by Chris Warfield (be sure and check out SEX WORLD as well) and written by GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE’s John Hayes.  It’s just plain porn with a smile, and bubbly as champagne.  Even though I’m a beer man myself, I can’t resist a good naughty comedy!

Streaming Sleaze with EXPLOITATION.TV #3: THE SEXUALIST

Streaming Sleaze Fans rejoice... EXPLOITATION.TV has launched.  With more amazing films at your fingertips than you can shake John C. Holmes massive dong at, I'm glad to re-review a few old favorites.  Time for some Gorilla action and A VOYAGE TO THE WORLD OF FORBIDDEN LOVE!


"The use of the vibrator has been spoken of by many women's liberationists as 'the great relaxer' sometimes being used two or three times a week for solitary pleasure."

  -Happy soothing narrator as Tina Russell works a suction cup vibrator over herself as the soundtrack sounds like a lawn being mowed in THE SEXUALIST

Jeffrey Montclaire, a goofy filmmaker with grand intentions attempts to mix race, astrology and a gay gorilla...and a Paradise scene as well.  With a heavy emphasis on lengthy sex scenes being broken up as narration takes us on a path of astrology and mumbo jumbo over masturbation scenes both male and female (Jason & Tina Russell), a lesbian coupling (Jennifer Welles and Shana O'Neal) and hardcore action (with the Russells in a different setting).  Sandwiched in the action and probing discussions there is a small amount of plot threads including some gorilla fun, a gangster that has "lost his shirt" called Mr. Godfather and a little story about Welles character taking in a girl about to find herself being introduced to the sex pictures of Jeffrey Montclaire.  And did I mention that her name was Inga and she biked in from New Jersey? 

Random SWORD Appearance!

THE SEXUALIST is an odd duck that feels like some randomly connected loop bits with entertainingly bland and monotone narration describing to the viewer the intentions of Jeffrey Montclaire, since they, like me, were busy admiring Welles and especially Tina Russell!  I mean... do you want some comedy, or do you want this? THIS!

Producer and Director Kemal Horulu (who created the film that is joined with THE SEXUALIST on DVD) does make the humor broad enough that it gets a little groovy and it helps that there is a guy in a gorilla suit.  I liked Monica and her male costar that can't get it up arguing and fighting as well. Now, your miles will vary on the Mr. Godfather stuff.  It's a big dude parodying mob producers on the sex scene.  But he does find out that Papamabuto The Gorilla isn't just ready for acting, he's ready for a piece of ass. HIS ASS!!

The happy crew get ready for business

WOOPS!!!

It should be noted that the film is not completely hardcore, and that business is handled by The Russells, going between solo work and some rocking chair action.  It's a bit jarring, but just like it wants to mix gorilla suits and sex, the production certainly needed to go between a "storyline" and the close ups of wet genitals at work!  Fans of Tina Russell and Jennifer Welles will be served well, mostly because of the work of Vinegar Syndrome and making the film look so damn good!  It's in anamorphic widescreen, and you get a nifty trailer and even some outtakes running 5 minutes and worth watching out of curiosity.

While it won't have you on the edge of your seat or busting out of your pants for much of it's running time, THE SEXUALIST is interesting for it's running time and makes me think of what it must have been like to head into a theater and just have no clue what was going to happen when the projector fired up! Give it a try...

And, as always, New York City plays it's own role in the film!  Here is some fun bits of reality slipping in to frame!

This lady seems taken with the stylish appearance of Papamabuto The Gorilla as he heads into his first modeling job audition!

Oh, but here we have someone that looks disapproving of our starlet...  why she is so grumpy is a mystery, that is a pretty swank print on her old lady coat and she has a sign that says SAUSAGES over her head!!

Streaming Sleaze with EXPLOITATION.TV #2 : CATHOUSE FEVER!

Streaming Sleaze Fans rejoice... EXPLOITATION.TV has launched.  With more amazing films at your fingertips than you can shake John C. Holmes massive dong at, I'm glad to re-review a few old favorites. Let's get 80s with some good old dirty delight...

Well, if that doesn't say 1980s porn to you, I don't know what will. The piled hair, the come hither stare and that awesome font.  Another entry fromVinegar Syndrome's PEEKARAMA series unspooled for my delight the other night, and I caught a case of CATHOUSE FEVER!  When it starts with Herschel Savage as a dreamy dream lover I just knew this would be a fun film.  It's not on my top 10 by a long shot, but there is a lot to like, and some odd stuff gets licked.  So, lets arch our backs, curl our toes and dive in!

Becky Savage stars as a lonely California secretary that sips wine while dreaming of her perfect lover. And you know, when I think of dreamy porn hunks in the 80s, THIS GUY fits the bill!

Herschel Savage pokes, tastes and plunges his way (and it's a zany mixed up batch of editing here by the way) through her dream scenarios, talking dirty and working her into a literal lather.  But after the wine buzz fades, our girl decides she needs more and more sexual adventure. Real ones.  Picking up her guitar and thinking hard, she makes the choice to become a prostitute and get some...wait for it... CATHOUSE FEVER!  From there, it's just a series of hijinx as she tries a bit of everything really, we have dildo lessons! We have cowboys and dudes in Giiiiiiiiiiiant sunglasses!  And yes, we even have the occasional lesbian scene where it's more than muff getting munched. It's SOAP!! Seriously, this could not have been fun.

The best part of this shot has to be that it made me think of A CHRISTMAS STORY and I kept hearing Ralphie bemoaning that it was the Life Boy soap that caused his brain damage!  Yep, that is what I thought of.  But I can also say that Laverne Shields / Gaylene Marie is just stunning in the movie.  I can't fake you, my delicate readers...when I think 80s porn I just think of LEG WARMERS and check this out!  DOUBLE LEG WARMERS!!!!  Stiffness Meter Bonus...77 percent!

Oh my god. Seriously. The best thing I've seen all week.  Yow!!

As plot and acting and gesturing goes, CATHOUSE FEVER isn't much, but the bizarre scenarios and vintage outfits keep things flowing like a vintage can of National Bohemian Beer.  Watch for Becky Savage going "native" and relax to a little bit of spank the way it was after the golden years were almost gone. Given it's age and time, the movie actually looks shockingly good, no video dropouts here!
And now...my favorite bit of the film. Totally unrelated, but that guy above, his mouth is taped shut.  Why?

Click the shot. Read the note.  There is a sideplot of all the girls trying to get this guy finished up that just keeps on (trying to) come right up at random times. It's fun, and well, it has a lot of legwarmers and that warms my heart and keeps me fully engaged!  Engorged. Or something....

You may not rate this as a Top Ten film, or even a Top Ten Peekarama, but you will get plenty of chuckles and you may even want to sing along before all is said and finished and done and done again!  Play us out, Becky...