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!

First off, this movie has the amazing gift of a totally stolen soundtrack that includes parts of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; at least three Beatles songs (“I Wanna Hold Your Hand,” “Good Day Sunshine” and “Yellow Submarine”) and the song that inspired Little Peggy March’s “I Will Follow Him,” Franck Pourcel’s “Chariot.”

This is the story of Pamela Goodnight (Judy Angel), who is looking for her best friend Carla. She calls her college sweetheart Wayne (James Mathers) and they spend a good chunk of the film baking the potato instead of looking for their friend, who has already been sacrificed to the dark one by Manheim Jarkhoff (George “Buck” Flower!) and his coven, which includes Boris, who has already been burned at the stake once, and Edith the witch. I mean, all Wayne has to say to set her mind at ease is, “You just let me be your daddy.”

As they descend into the Hollywood Hills, they learn that Jarkhoff runs Satanic Pictures, an adult studio devoted to making sinful cinema. He tells them that Carla was a speed freak on her way to an early grave before she burned up in a car that she never knew how to drive. In the midst of their investigation, Edith falls for Wayne and sneaks into his house as a black cat, then into his bed.

Before it’s all over, the cult has taken Pamela, Edith has fallen in love with Wayne and therefore must age into a skeleton and Satan himself shows up, wearing only the finest of Ben Cooper masks.

Edith looks like Susan Atkins when she was dancing in Anton Lavey’s Nude Witches Revue before she met Manson, in a time when the Church of Satan and a bunch of girls all living at Spahn Ranch seemed idyllic and we hadn’t yet learned of the Satanic Panic.

Also: The opening title cares are amazing.

“Night of the Warlock was filmed in its entirety in the hills above Hollywood, California by Satanic Films, Inc. whose involvement in the bizarre and the occult have gained the company a certain “notoriety” among the witchcraft groups and “covens” throughout the nation.

In the last sixteen months, the officers of Satanic Films, Inc. have received over 140 overt threats of violence and destruction if they continued to reveal the results of their research into the subject of witchcraft through the media of film.

Night of the Warlock is probably the most comprehensive and revealing film on the entire subject of the occult practices as they are pursed today by the disciples of the entity referred to as the “King of the Darkness.”

It is singular to note that since the release of Night of the Warlock, all six of the principals of Satanic Films, Inc. have met with violent death by fire — The Distributors”

This is also the only movie you’ll ever seen where George “Buck” Flower is naked except for a cape as he sneaks into the bedroom of a 70s porno blonde and gives her the stinkfinger while an instrumental of “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” plays.

1971 was a wild year and I can only imagine the audiences that saw this. It’s not really all that arousing, which is my favorite kind of adult film, one that is more out to just be oddball or upsetting. Although Edith’s Michael Aquino eyebrows are doing something to me…

You can get this movie as part of AGFA’s Smut Without Smut: Satanic Horror Night from Vinegar Syndrome. It also has Hotter than Hell, Sacrilege, Satanic Sexual Awareness and The Devil Inside Her.