Sin in the Suburbs the Swap and How They Make It Dvd Reviews

SIN IN THE SUBURBS (1964)/THE Bandy AND HOW TO Make IT (1966)
Director: Joe Sarno
Something Weird Video/Image Entertainment

Streeting the aforementioned twenty-four hour period as previously reviewed and highly recommended Joe Sarno double feature FLESH AND LACE/PASSION IN HOT HOLLOWS is this pairing of two suburban behind-closed-doors sexploitation masterpieces, both breaking down sexual mores and peeking into the secret sex lives of housewives and bored businessmen.

Stone-faced Geraldine Lewis (OLGA herself, Audrey Campbell) seems to have the perfect life: a successful husband, a beautiful home, and a popular cheerleader daughter, Kathy (Alice Linville, who Campbell beat the shit out of in OLGA'S House OF SHAME!). But her husband spends more time at the role than he does at dwelling and Kathy has begun exploring the boys in her class, leaving poor Geraldine at dwelling past herself twiddling her thumbs.....or so you would call up....Geraldine and Lisa Francis, her unhappily married next-door neighbor, invite over two men at a fourth dimension during the twenty-four hour period, trading them off for hot sex activity romps, until Kathy comes home early one mean solar day and catches Mommy getting felt upwards past a sleazy fella in her bedroom, voyeuristically watching Lisa get buckwild with her stud of the twenty-four hours! Enter Yvette Talman (ILSA herself, Dyanne Thorne, who only shares 1 scene with her beau dominatrix) and her slimy brother Lou (W.B. Parker, who was Campbell'south partner-in-crime in OLGA'S House OF SHAME!). Discovering all the muddied piffling secrets of their neighbors and desperate for greenbacks, they begin a secret sect of sex-swappers, with neighborhood couples attention donning silver Kato masks and Monk robes. Merely as Geraldine falls deeper and deeper into the spell of the random sexual activity coupling, she neglects her immature blooming daughter...who holds a deep dark hugger-mugger of her own...

Hailed as a sexploitation classic of the sixty'southward, it is difficult to fence that widely regarded opinion. In a historical context, SIN IN THE SUBURBS is a footing-breaking masterpiece; it was the first in the "suburban sex secrets" subgenre, predated several films which have been said to exist the beginning "roughies," and raised the bar for well-written, well-acted, and still very sexy grindhouse films. Not only that, it's a vastly entertaining sordid betrayal, reportedly based on a true story! Sarno begins the pic by introducing the slutty Yvette seducing and bedding a repo man so she can go on her expensive furniture (!) and then gain to bear witness the boilerplate everyday life of her uptight neighbors. Just are they really that normal? On the surface possibly, but scratch underneath and you take a hotbed of lust and desire which must be quenched, whether it be with the local handyman or a high school senior skipping schoolhouse! In addition to the clever script, anybody gives a very practiced performance here. I have already sung the praises of Alice Linville in my Mankind AND LACE review, and I'll do it again here. According to Joe Sarno, she was nineteen hither, which would also hateful she was 19 in FLESH AND LACE. Taking this into consideration, she is just amazing in both films, in two incredibly unlike roles. In comparison, Audrey Campbell is skillful, but not great. She has trouble with line delivery and shows her origins as a model with her posture and facial expressions, but however leaves a lasting impression as the frustrated housewife. Dyanne Thorne, a dark-haired vixen in juxtaposition to her usual blonde or cherry-red locks (merely still with that incredible bosom), would meliorate over the years (she was an exotic dancer around this time), only W.B. Parker is sinfully brilliant every bit the mastermind behind the sexual practice-crazed cult. Another standout performance is Meg Ellison (billed here as "Marla Ellis") as Lisa, the side by side-door neighbor who becomes clamorous and when she can't get a homo, she turns to the bottle and kicks her job-obsessed husband out, calling upwards anonymous members of the cult to invite them over for a little lovin' to their infuriation. Sarno says he still keeps in impact with Meg and she calls him every twelvemonth on his birthday.

Every bit much as I liked SIN IN THE SUBURBS, I thoroughly enjoyed THE Bandy AND HOW THEY MAKE IT fifty-fifty more! This very similar tale features several of Sarno'south stock players from 1966-1967 (Lorraine Claire, Peggy Sarno aka "Cleo Nova," Judson Todd) and best of all, the transfer is culled from the original negative! In a snowy upstate New York village, two unhappily married women bide their fourth dimension with each other's company. The husbands of beautiful blonde Mona (Lorraine Claire, who was usually cast as a frigid Frau with passionate urges) and big-haired brunette Karen (lovely German Sheila Britt) are busy developing their own company, with their love lives suffering in the process (Karen's hubby is played by Warhol Factory actor Louis Waldon!). Mona's next-door neighbor Brooke suggests the girls bring together the surface area's near happening lodge, "The Exchange." Rather than the usual men-swapping-wives routine, this time round it's the horny wives who switch husbands for a nighttime of sexy fun!

If you liked SIN IN THE SUBURBS, you'll honey THE Bandy! Quite a cliché recommendation, but information technology definitely applies here. Where there was an doubtfulness in some of the performances and camerawork in SIN, any apprehension Sarno may have had lensing a virtually sexless exploitation film has disappeared. He had adult his own make of sexy melodramas by this time, and THE SWAP is a perfect example of what makes his movies work then well, even today. All the performances are perfect, especially Lorraine Claire as the inquisitive young wife who bursts into tears when her husband's too tired after a busy week for an evening of marital elation and finally takes the plunge into "The Exchange," becoming addicted to its forbidden delights. For some other marvelous Claire film, check out THE BED AND HOW TO MAKE It, where she plays a bitchy hotel owner whose marriage is thrown on the rocks by her visiting niece. Of form the cast had a superb script to work with, with smart dialogue, impressive characterization, and an emphasis on sexual psychology and its translation to the screen rather than the usual bump-n-grind that frequented 42nd Street. THE SWAP is just superb, I give it my highest possible recommendation! Plus information technology has an incredible garage band rock theme that pops upwardly at all the correct moments!

Accompanying SIN IN THE SUBURBS is another astonishingly educational audio commentary with managing director Joe Sarno, his married woman/leading lady Peggy Steffans (who is quieter this fourth dimension around, as the movie was shot before she became associated with Joe), and moderators Mike Vraney and Frank Henenlotter. Unlike the PASSION IN HOT HOLLOWS commentary on the previous disc, this commentary focuses on Sarno's early years, from his beginning feature SIN YOU SINNERS! through his lost film LASH OF LUST and offering plenty of anecdotes on the truthful story the picture show is based on (!), his thoughts on his contemporary filmmakers like Russ Meyer, Barry Mahon, Bob Cresse, and Dave Friedman, memories of Alice Linville, Audrey Campbell, and Dyanne Thorne, and as well finds enough of fourth dimension to talk about more of his amazing filmography (MOONLIGHTING WIVES, Cerise ROSES OF PASSION, YOUNG PLAYTHINGS, working with Harry Reems and Sonny Landham). Vraney and Henenlotter again make a groovy example for appreciating their rare finds (SIN IN THE SUBURBS had a 15 print count, and this is one of two prints that take surfaced since 1997!) and getting over less-than-perfect video quality. You also go some fabled groundwork noises typical of New York City (the commentary was recorded at Henenlotter'south Hamlet flat) similar barking dogs and blaring police sirens. Even worse, the two SWV head honchos claim they can't release MOONLIGHTING WIVES considering of print condition! I say bring it on!! However, on the flip side, good news is that Mike hints at acquiring MISTY, ABIGAIL LESLIE IS BACK IN Town!, and several other color Sarno films...

Billed as a "Swinging Double Feature" rather than a Sarno double feature, the extras platter have a wife-swapping them to them rather than present more examples of Sarno sinema. You practice get the trailer for THE SWAP AND HOW THEY Brand IT, which isn't half equally good as the feature, just the majority of the previews are for some really not bad 70s sexploitation gems! Best of them is MATINEE WIVES, a recently unearthed Southern California sex romp starring lovely brunette Barbara Mills (currently an artist in Venice, CA) and bewitching European blonde Allessanora. I reviewed this awesome flick for the Mobius Home Video Forum and I promise Something Weird gets around to releasing it on DVD soon! THE Case OF THE STRIPPING WIVES is an Fifty.A. nudie cutie (belatedly in the game in 1966) directed by Manuel Conde, the cinematographer of many 70s sinema favorites like THE ALL-AMERICAN GIRL. It looks similar a Barry Mahon film (gorgeous colour scheme) and a Harry Novak motion picture (buxom stripper cast) rolled into one, and the trailer is narrated by Joel Holt! Now it is reportedly still missing, but I could have sworn I saw a clip of Natasha (the tall brunette from Kiss ME QUICK) giving a stripping class SWV's Kiss ME QUICK disc. Perchance STRIPPING WIVES is just a drove of loops compiled into a feature motion picture, which would explicate how the Natasha short is notwithstanding around in some other form? DROP OUT Married woman is one of the improve films by infamous sexploitation chief A.C. Stephen (aka Stephen Apostolof); written by Ed Wood, the dialogue is pure trashy genius! And expect at this bandage: Angela Carnon, Christopher Geoffries, Candy Samples, Sandy Dempsey, Rick Cassidy, Kathy Hilton, Ric Lutze, Foreman Shane, and Terry Johnson! WOW! Hopefully SWV will get around to releasing an Air conditioning Stephen collection, with commentaries by the homo! SUBURBAN WIVES is a British sex activity one-act with a cast of 9 beautiful women; one of them looks just like a porcelain doll, with cheekbones that could cutting glass! SUBURBAN CONFIDENTIAL is another AC Stephen sexploitation moving picture, but this time in black and white and the sex is some of the well-nigh unerotic, uninteresting scenes you'll see. Even the novelties of a transvestite (Ed Woods must have written this one, too) and a foot fetishist thrown in wouldn't drive me to see this one. The narrator proclaims, "From the man who gave y'all ORGY OF THE LIVING Expressionless! [sic]". SWEDISH Wife Exchange Order is a puzzling one: half of the movie is a desperately dubbed German film, while the other half is new footage shot in Hollywood by a completely unlike cast! And I don't mean sexual activity inserts, I mean dialogue and plot developments and everything! Blink and yous'll miss a immature Sybil Danning in one of her first film appearances! The complete uncut version is HAUSFRAUEN-REPORT ane, which isn't even a Swedish motion picture!!

Too included with the trailers is "A Sneak Peek at Strip Poker", the boring strip poker short shot past Joe Sarno for an unknown producer to include with shorter features for theatrical runs. The requisite Something Weird epitome gallery is unfortunately the same gallery that has been making the rounds with the repetitive BOOBY TRAP theme (it'south a shame at that place wasn't a strictly Sarno gallery created, especially considering Vraney notes on the commentary how much press textile he has for lost Sarno films!). An Easter Egg on the Extras menu allows y'all to view the trailer for OLGA'S HOUSE OF SHAME, reuniting the three stars of SIN IN THE SUBURBS a yr subsequently! It's kind of bizarre seeing "Mom" beat out upwards "Girl"... (Casey Scott)

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