The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Domination Blue (1976)

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 Joe Davian and star Vanessa del Rio, this is a women in prison movie that goes beyond the teases of mainstream films in the genre. I mean that, as this is an Avon release, as rough as it gets.

A new warden (John Buch) allows his head guard (Holly Bush) to abuse all of the inmates, but specifically destroy Trixie (del Rio), Wanda (Sharon Mitchell), Bernice (Paula Morton) and Rose (Solange Shannon). Just like the WIP movies you have come to love, the women all have their own reasons for being here, like Wanda being a junkie who was assaulted before being caught shooting up in a bathroom (that scene is a rough watch, as Mitchell had a history of addiction, just watch Kamikaze Hearts), another killing someone, another who is doing the time for a crime her man committed and a prostitute.

When the warden isn’t being abused by his favorite guard, he’s having her decimate the girls. Also: one of them uses a Barbie doll for reasons it should never be used for.

How wild is the soundtrack? It’s all early Pink Floyd, like “Astronomy Domine,” “The Grand Vizier’s Garden Party (Entrance),” “Careful with That Axe, Eugene,” “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” and more.

This is a dark and scummy movie with a brutal ending. I have no idea who could get off to this, but man, Avon really knew how to make these.