Softcore fumbling from a Hammer writer
INTIMATES GAMES is a cheap British sexploitation film written and directed by Tudor Gates, the man whose main contribution to cinema was writing Hammer's female vampire trilogy (THE VAMPIRE LOVERS, LUST FOR A VAMPIRE, and TWINS OF EVIL). This film was produced by Guido Coen, a long-time producer who originally started out in the B-movie crime genre back in the 1950s.
The plot is a lightweight affair about a group of young and nubile university students who are tasked with exploring each other's sexual fantasies by their middle-aged teacher, played by George Baker in a role he preferred to forget about by all accounts. For the first half of the film, there's some mild storytelling as sub-plots featuring each of the students in turn are explored; the men are typically presented as weak and scared, the women carefree and open to exploring their sexual desires.
The second half of the film descends into farce with a serious of random vignettes, such as a guy imagining he's a jockey and riding an obese woman around or Ian Hendry cameoing as a snooker player who fantasises that his playmate is playing naked. And nudity is what INTIMATE GAMES is all about; most of the sexual fantasises just tend to be imagining girl-next-door types naked. There are a couple of stronger moments, like a lesbian interlude between softcore starlets Heather Deeley and Suzy Mandel, but much of the running time is concerned with smut. Baker must have wondered what he was doing here because he's the only recognisable face outside of the sexploitation genre and he sticks out like a sore thumb.
The plot is a lightweight affair about a group of young and nubile university students who are tasked with exploring each other's sexual fantasies by their middle-aged teacher, played by George Baker in a role he preferred to forget about by all accounts. For the first half of the film, there's some mild storytelling as sub-plots featuring each of the students in turn are explored; the men are typically presented as weak and scared, the women carefree and open to exploring their sexual desires.
The second half of the film descends into farce with a serious of random vignettes, such as a guy imagining he's a jockey and riding an obese woman around or Ian Hendry cameoing as a snooker player who fantasises that his playmate is playing naked. And nudity is what INTIMATE GAMES is all about; most of the sexual fantasises just tend to be imagining girl-next-door types naked. There are a couple of stronger moments, like a lesbian interlude between softcore starlets Heather Deeley and Suzy Mandel, but much of the running time is concerned with smut. Baker must have wondered what he was doing here because he's the only recognisable face outside of the sexploitation genre and he sticks out like a sore thumb.
- Leofwine_draca
- Sep 10, 2016