I have no idea who this is for; porno chic was long over, this is softcore, and the jokes are, at best, not very funny. Maybe it was an attempt to make an even dirtier Kentucky Fried Movie. I mean, I know it’s for me, but I’m one person, and I was seven when it came out.
The Villa Elaine — a building — has so many stories to tell. In fact, it’s a person, known as Elaine and personified by Cindy Morgan a year before she played Lacey Underall in Caddyshack. Do you like overalls? Good news. She’s wearing them. Me? I love overalls and suspenders, so this is, again, for me.
Ah, this building. It’s where Belinda Balaski takes obscene phone calls, an old man version of Michael Pataki — using the stage name Caleb Goodman — bites women in the rear end as he thinks he’s a vampire, Dyanne Thorne — as Penny Walters — is the manicurist, Odette Wyler tap dances nude and Chuck McCann eats dog food to the point that he becomes a gourmet in the ways of prepping it. Almost everyone plays more than one character, so you also get to see Pataki ogle the nude roof dancers.
Also known as Up Your Ladder, this movie is as offensive as 1979 could be, including a man being face-painted to look black and sent to his new job, then getting fired. Are you offended? Well, it’s so goofy that it’s hard to be offended. Then again, this was so bad that both Pataki and Thorne used fake names, so just imagine.
Other actors that appear: George “Buck” Flower (I mean, contractually he had to), Eddie Ryder (who co-wrote, co-directed and did an episode of The Bob Newhart show before this, which freaks me out), Tallie Cochrane (Fanny in The Young, Erotic Fanny Hill; the story girl in Can I Do It ‘Till I Need Glasses? and she’s also in If You Don’t Stop It… You’ll Go Blind!!!); Ilsa director Don Edmonds; adult director Chris Warfield (AKA Billy Thornberg, he was in Dixie Ray: Hollywood Star, the only porn — non-sex — appearance of Cameron Mitchell); Jill Jacobson (Nurse Sherri!); Patrick Wright (the truck driver in Graduation Day); John Goff (the writer of C.B. Hustlers and Butterfly) and Antoinette Maynard.
Somehow, cinematographer Hanania Baer is working on it. He was also a DP on movies like Masters of the Universe, Ernest Scared Stupid, Breakin’ 2, American Ninja, Ninja 3 and so much more.
Of course, this is another John Hayes movie, taking scenes from his film Heterosexualis. That’s where some of the Pataki unable to get hard and needing dancing parts come in. I think he was obsessed with strange apartment buildings where people had weird sexual hangups. Anyway, this is like a dirty joke book on film, and if you get that reference, get your prostate checked.
