TheAgonyOfPlasma

Those viewers familiar with Japanese director Koyu Ohara's zany sex farces of the early '70s are in for quite a shock if they see this appallingly misogynistic excursion into sexual sadism. A vicious rape-killer terrorizes a city, while pretty Tomoko (Erina Miyai) unwittingly derails the investigation by fingering the wrong suspect. The predictable plot line, however, is lowered into the dark recesses of Sadean cinema by some of the most grotesque murders this side of "Giallo a Venezia". One scene has the killer inserting a lightbulb into his female victim and kicking her stomach until it shatters inside her. This is the sort of material that gave extreme pinku eiga films their bad reputation, and while it would be nice to call it atypical, it was successful enough in Japan to result in half a dozen sequels including lovingly surreal "Zoom In: Rape Apartments" by Naosuke Kurosawa. I saw "Zoom Up: Rape Site" during its brief theatrical run in Osaka, in 1980. It certainly left the lasting impression on me.

Ignacio F. Iquino's only horror film is as sleazy and gory as they get. It was barely distributed on VHS at all, which is a shame. Former mercenary Frederick falls in love with Helen but is blinded by his furious wife. Hoping to start a new family with Helen, Frederick calls on a fertility doctor to help them have children, unaware that he's a member of a Satanic sect who is going to use Helen to mother the Devil's son. Spanish sadistic re-vision of "Rosemary's Baby" contains plenty of gore and nudity. The eyes are gouged out, the fountain of blood is regurgitated and the unlucky woman is fertilized with the Devil-authored sperm. Wild and transgressive horror film from Spain which reminded me several Lucio Fulci's bloodbaths with its uncompromising gory mayhem. The constant sinister aura of "Secta Siniestra" is almost suffocating. A must-see for fans of Castilian crimson.

Adriana Vega and Eva Lyberten, two starlets of Spanish sleaze and wonderful actresses both, are two hippie adolescents who, after car break down, go to the house of restless writer and seduce him, and immediately later force him undergo the majors barbarisms. The affection shown by the producer Manuel Esteba towards its feminine protagonists, the sleazy atmosphere and the declining and weak rate that is able to inoculate to all the development (deals with a erotic film half an hour with one first without a sex scene) turn the result into much more that a product of sexploitation to the use, far beyond the average of the production of then, and even over the previous accomplishment of Esteba, estimable but the less revealing rape and revenge flick "Sexual Trap". Priceless dialogue, delicious historic interpretations and a final scene that seems to predate "Thelma and Louise" are all mixed in lovingly erotic exploitation film with plenty of sex and full-frontal nudity.