Yes, this is another collection of Porn reviews and you ask why. Let me clarify that I believe that porn is the most intimate film genre. It is the only corner in the history of film in which performers allow their fellow performers to penetrate them literally and if this is not performance art I don’t know what is. The performers exchange bodily fluids, and they encourage the viewer to touch himself and even orgasm. If that’s not audience participation or engagement with the subject material, I don’t know what is.
I was originally planning for this sixth installment of Secondhand Smut to review the entire Debbie Does Dallas film series, but I
failed to track down the myriad of films associated with it so this plan went
down the drain. I then wanted to review the Loose
Ends films series, and although I could get my hands to copies of all those
films, I did not as I could not find as much information about them as I
wanted. You see, I know that they were the first adult feature-length films to
include BSDM and I always get charmed by firsts, but in order to write an
article I had to find out more background stories than I did. So, finally, what
was I left with? I compiled this May 2015 - October 2015 Secondhand Smut issue with reviews that for some reason or another
were left out from my more regular column, namely Interracial Sex Havoc. I hope you enjoy as much reading the piece
as I did writing it.
9 Lives of a Wet Pussy (1976)
Most of the time the mainstream directors that had a past in porn, had a
past which was decent. For example Wes Craven had made The Fireworks Woman (1975) which is highly regarded by both
scholars of classic smut, but also the director’s fans who like digging a bit
further. Even Lloyd Kaufman’s Sweet &
Sour (1974) is a very good effort. Well, in the case of Abel Ferrara this
is not the case.
Abel Ferrara went on to make many favorite films of mine, including the
early masterpieces The Driller Killer
(1979) and Ms .45 (1981), but 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy (1976) which was
his first feature-length project is an utter failure. Sure the girl-girl
interracial sex scene is interesting (and I should have included it in my Interracial Sex Havoc column back when I
was still researching the ‘70s) but this film makes a very boring viewing
experience with its lack of a real story (it was written by Nicholas John who
went on to pen several screenplays for later mainstream Ferrara fare).
Hot summer in the City (1976)