Frank Henenlotter’s Sexy Shockers (September 1 – 7) We all know Frank Hennenlotter as the director of the Basket Case films, Bad Biology, Brain Damage, and Frankenhooker, but he’s also a cinematic curator of the crass! An academic of the pathetic! A steward of sleaze! A sexton of the sexual and the Sexy Shocker series is his curio cabinet of crudity. Skin and sin are mixed together in these homegrown oddities, South American rediscoveries, and Eurohorror almost-classics. Your mind may recoil with erotic revulsion at the sights contained within these films, so choose wisely!

Jack Weis directed Quadroon, Storyville, Death Brings Roses, Mardi Gras Massacre and a Melissa Etheridge concert video.

That makes sense.

Written by his director of photography Irwin Blaché — who also shot The Legend of Blood Mountain — this movie is less than an hour and worth all of your time. A good chunk of this movie is devoted to Damballa (Maureen Chan, who is supernaturally gorgeous) as she covers herself in oil and dances in graveyards, even mounting graves and writhing on them in a manner that Linnea Quigley would be jealous of.

She falls in love with Vietnam vet Ted (Ronald Tanet) and when three thieves learn that he has money, they kill him for it. Of course, there’s no way you can do that to a voodoo priestess, so she dances all around his dead body and literally humps him back to life, bring the Mick Jagger lyric “You can make a dead man come” to living, breathing undead life. She also levitates at one point, a trick from the spookshow career of previous director and producer Donn Davison that was also used in Herschell Gordon Lewis’ Magic Land of Mother Goose.

The origins of this movie are that Davison had made this as a PG voodoo movie and then approached Weis to improve it. He did a talented search for a woman to play the voodoo woman and Chan, who had no inhibitions at all, was perfect. Once he saw how relaxed she was being naked in front of, well, everyone, he created several scenes where she’d get even more nude.

This is a movie of swamp vibes, voodoo exposition flashbacks, denim fashion and a woman who can transform into a snake. They say there are no perfect movies, but what do they know?

You can watch this on Tubi.