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 Mort Shore, whose only other credit is having the footage from this film being stolen and used within The Confessions of Linda Lovelace, The Love Witch is actually the movie inside this movie, as a Southern court presided over by Harry Reems (who is also the district attorney, the defense attorney and the sheriff) tries to determine whether or not that film — about women on a yacht with several boorish men — is obscene.

This was produced by Leonard Kirtman (director of Carnival of Blood), Phil Parisi, Morton Schwartz (the director of The Zodiac Murders), Louis “Butchie” Peraino (who ran Bryanston Pictures which owned Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as well as the producer of The Devil’s Rain as James V. Cullen, Legacy of Satan as Lou Parrish and oh yeah, an alleged associate of the Colombo crime family and one of 43 people indicted in 1980 as part of the FBI MIPORN pornography investigation) and Shore.

The Love Witch is a boat and the women include Ann Marshall, Linda Del Toro, Cathy Parker, Ami Nitrate and Francine Baker and they hook up with Marc Brock and Robert Sargent. Of the women, only Marshall was in another film, the Sean Cunningham directed Case of the Full Moon Murders.

I love that there’s a performer named Ami Nitrate.

This is kind of boring, other than Reems having fun, but still feels more honest than the movie that took its name, Anna Biller’s The Love Witch.