Dragon Art Theatre Week (September 8 – 14) Pssst. Hey…buddy… you wanna see some naked movies with your mom in em? This stuff here is premium split tail in action, my friend, straight from the vaults at Something Weird Video. It’s all the HARD X stuff on the SWV site that I could find on Letterboxd and let me tell you, when I say HARD X I mean it! These movies show it all baby, whatever sort of freaky shit you’re into, these movies have got it. Nipple clamps, ice cubes on the balls, lesbos, homos, cumshots, whips, leather, you name it! Plus we got air conditioning and the cleanest bathrooms on the deuce. Just step inside … and if you need some luudes or a lid talk to my man Shifty over at the popcorn counter. Tell him Klon sent you.

Directed by Harry Lewis, who was a photographer of nude models until he was arrested for taking nude photos of an underage girl. His lawyer got the judge to give Lewis five years probation instead of time in prison. One of the terms of his sentence was that he had to start taking college classes. At UCLA, he took courses on directing, producing and filmmaking which led to him making hardcore loops and Visions of Clair. In the 1980’s, Harry and Elliot Lewis became the Lewis Brothers of Detroit, a group of adult filmmakers that also included Ken Gibb. They made fifteen hardcore movies before Lewis retired from making movies.

“Boom Boom” Ray Welles (Ben Dover) is an adult producer who is dealing with organized crime in the shadowed shape of Big Jim Thornton while sleeping with his girlfriend P.L. Smithe (Chris Cassidy), dealing with his director Bob Chappe (Blair Harris) and trying to explain to his sound guy John Simpson (Jesse Adams) how to get the best possible sound design out of their shot in one day productions. Then he finds the director’s trained bear’s head in his bed, which is a Godfather reference in case you didn’t get that this movie liberally steals that film’s score (along with Psycho‘s Bernard Herrmann soundtrack).

This line is also said numerous times: “Maximum velocity and top range!”

It’s not great, but still better than what blue movies have become today.