Rene Bond week (August 11 – 17) Rene Bond could brighten up even the most dreary productions, and she was in plenty of them. In the early adult scene she was one of the better actors, particularly when it came to comedy, though she could squeeze into some leather and throw the whips around when the role called for it. Bond appeared in somewhere near 100 films, thanks to her affable professionalism she worked with many filmmakers multiple times and regularly performed with her boyfriend Ric Lutze. Her career received an enhancement when she became one of the first stars to get a boobjob. She retired from film in the late-70s just as the porno chic era was dying down, but before the video era. You can find her in a ton of SWV titles, so take yer pick!

Somehow, this is one of the better shot movies I’ve seen in some time and I was shocked that it was an adult movie. It also has some generally creepy moments in it to the point that if this was a mainstream movie, it would definitely have a cult audience.

Constance Money, fresh from The Opening of Misty Beethoven, is Mary and the movie opens with her swimming, filmed with underwater cameras and creating some arty ways of exploring her. Soon, she and her husband Ned (John Leslie) are making love poolside and he finishes too soon, enraging her. It seems he has a habit of this, but you know, he’s married to Constance Money. Ned screams to Heaven for help, then when there’s no answer, to Hell. He’s soon met by the shadowy Arranger (a man only listed as Andre), who is almost always in shadowy and constantly doing tai chi moves. He gives Ned a special paste that can be put on his body or eaten and soon, he’s able to satisfy Mary. The problem is that he can’t stop being aroused, which leads to him passing on this Satanic ingredient to so many of his friends and everyone starts having the kind of sex that even makes the Devil jealous.

Soon, Eric (Jon Martin), Jane (Sharon Thorpe, Sodom and Gomorrah: The Last Seven Days), Bonnie (Sandy Pinney, Long Jeanne Silver), Kate (Angela Haze, Devil’s Playground), Briscoe (Tyler Reynolds), Ben (Kent Hall), Diane (Lucia Lenki), Helene (Kristine Heller, Confessions), Ned and Mary are all having an orgy, devouring a pink cake and smearing it all over a table, mixing it with the occult powder and basically doing coke with it and smearing it all over one another.

This is a strange one as it starts happy and full of free love, but there are quirky moments that suggest that this could become a horror movie at any time. By the last two minutes, that’s what it is, as the colors start to warp, people start to have little deaths and big deaths during a gigantic lovemaking session between the cast and the Arranger dances around all of them to the bongo beat of Hands Benedict. Then, as everyone lies dying or dead, he picks up Mary and tells her that he saved her, as he has plans for her as they disappear into the Hollywood hills.

Mary! Mary! was directed and written by Bernard Morris, which is a pseudonym. Another alter ego is cinematographer Hans Kristian, who is really Henning Schellerup, the cinematographer of Silent Night, Deadly Night; Kiss of the Tarantula and The Lincoln Conspiracy, as well as the director of In Search of Historic Jesus and Beyond Death’s Door.

Most incredibly, this has the kind of car chase that should be in a 70s action movie instead of pornography. As Hank, Bonnie and Kate speed to the party nude, they’re nearly arrested by the police, played by a blink and you miss her Rene Bond and Ken Scudder from Thundercrack! I couldn’t believe just how amazing this film gets in this scene and in the psychedelic ending, as each person dies and the screen looks like a black light poster. There’s even a scene where Mary and Ned eat steak while having sex, rubbing greasy cuts all over one another. It’s just weird and I mean that in the way that this movie becomes fascinating and even disturbing as they Ned showers her with red wine, making it seem like the two are devouring raw flesh.

This movie blew me away.