Herschell Gordon Lewis week (July 14 – 20) HG seemed to truly love packing theaters. He’s most famous for introducing gore to horror movies, but he’d fill any need that the audience had. He made every genre of exploitation  – even kids movies! Gore movies would’ve happened eventually, but Herschell seemed to take joy in crafting gross-out shocks for unsuspecting cineasts. INTERESTING FACT! HG Lewis was a huge fan of Kentucky Fried Chicken and had them cater all of his productions. Col. Harland Sanders himself appeared in Lewis’ Blast Off Girls!

Dr. Percy Corly (Robert Wood) teaches sex education and he’s still a virgin. If that makes sense, this movie might. He and Dr. Hamilcar West(Jim Vance) build a machine that creates women — well, it makes a rabbit instead of a Playboy Bunny and a gay man, which they soon erase — and they both become addicted to it.

There is no nudity in a sex movie. Herschell Gordon Lewis has flim flammed you, making you think you’re going to see a man create his dream women and have orgies. No, he just kisses them. Well, he is a virgin. And that’s not a computer, it’s a Lady Schick Consolette Portable Hair Dryer Model 307.

The point of this movie was to get marks into a theater and not really to entertain anyone. This movie, however, entertained me because it’s just so strange. Lewis told Bleeding Skull how it was made in one sentence: “I had a partner named David Chudnow. His peculiar wife, Rosamond, wrote that script. What the heck.”

Seriously, I can only imagine how angry people were watching this when it came out because there are still people who get mad about it today and they weren’t going to an art theater to see some nudity. Instead, they watched a movie that is baffling on nearly every level, one that challenges you to keep watching it.

You can watch this on Tubi.