Doris Wishman week (July 21 – 27) Doris made the loopiest of movies. A self-proclaimed prude who made nudist camp movies, her filmography is filled with contradictions. When she tried to be mean spirited with something like Bad Girls Go To Hell there was always an undercurrent of silliness and fun, but when she tried to be silly and fun in things like Keyholes Are For Peeping there was an underlying seediness and grime that couldn’t be wiped off. It’s hard not to love her!  

There is a Doris Wishman cinematic universe. This is the sequel to Double Agent 73, as Jane Genet (Chesty Morgan, who didn’t come back for this, as she upset Wishman when she cost her a full shooting day the last time they worked together; in her brief moment in the film she’s played by Cindy Boudreau) has died after being strangled while she was sunbathing and her three daughters — who had no idea each other existed — are brought together for the reading of the will by John Erikson (Robert S. Barba).

Ginny (also Boudreau), Sandy (Sandra Kay) and Nancy (Michele Marie) are charged by the will to get revenge for the death of their mother. If they kill her killer — killers? — in a year, they each get $1 million dollars. If one of them dies, they each get $1.5 million and, well, you can do the math if only one survives. If they all die, Erikson gets the money.

Is this a giallo? Holy shit, yes. There’s a black gloved killer on the loose!

There are four suspects for who the killer could be. All four of these men could also be any of their fathers. But before we get to all that story, Kay decides to fellate a banana in front of a gardener, then do the same to him while we see her banana-loving face superimposed over his. It’s mind-numbing in the way all Wishman’s movies can be and it’s just getting started.

Is Doris Wishman the American Jess Franco? Both have a banana lovemaking scene in their films. Or is she the American Bruno Mattei? Both have no issues just outright taking shots from other movies.

Sandy gets attacked by a grocery boy and Ginny makes love in an elevator for no reason other than the fact that she’s a character is a Wishman movie. Everyone has their feet focused on, slow moving on thick shag carpet or rolling in bed. Ginny does all the heavy lifting, heading off to Vegas and New York City, while the others stay in Fresno, but hey — Sandy has an “On Shit” belt buckle, so who are we to deny her lack of need to move this movie forward?

Written by Judy J. Kushner (who also wrote the first two movies in this series, Deadly Weapons and Double Agent 73) and Robert Jahn (The Yum Yum Girls, Bloodrage), this is one of the most deranged movie I’ve ever seen and imagine the ground that covers. The whole thing ends like Shakespeare and by that I mean — spoiler warning — everyone dies, but not before you find the real dad, you get declarations of love and Doris’ apartment plays Munich.

You can watch this on Cultpix.