“But having your dong cut off…oh god, I need something stronger!”
“Fair trade…you loose a pecker and I gain a house.”
Fox of all companies picked up this deathly dull yet sincere seeming vanity (?) project from the writer of Dark Places (with Christopher Lee). Plenty of odd creative choice throughout including a jump cut structured, slow motion crotch kick. There’s also a romantic musical montage featuring the leads riding a tandem bicycle. Again, how did Fox end up with this?
The problem here is how immensely padded this is. Every shot seems to drag on and on where most editors would have made a cut much sooner. The entire thing is dry and cheap with only the handful of cult sequences indicating Rollin was involved. The material lends itself to 75 or so minutes, tops, so nearly 30 additional minutes of nothingness throughout makes for quite a chore to get through.
Watching HSITC with an audience was a treat, if mainly because of the obvious discomfort (and handful of walkouts) it caused.
The irony of the vitriol is that it's likely accurate to Mohney's intended response, while still completely missing the point with superficial knee-jerk "it's racist/sexist/etc" reactions.
When I spoke with "T. James Write" (who also edited) about the screenplay, he explained that director/producer Harry Mohney had acquired the film rights to the infamous novel Black Abductor and, while he…
“Sadly I don’t know but it’s clear she’s a woman with a lot of mood swings.”
Greeks playing Italians and Americans in a mostly US shot (and, by the looks of it, mostly English speaking) production which was filmed in Norfolk and Virginia Beach of all places. The flashback structured blackmail/petty crime/romance/sorta-courtroom drama plot is unremarkable as everything ends up quite bloated at 98 min. For once it appears that all the sex was retained in the Greek VHS. Reminded me of the similarly languid southern sex soap opera All The Young Wives.
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