The Hellcats bury Big Daddy, who was killed by their mob contact, Mr. Adrian (Robert F. Slatzer, who directed this as well as Bigfoot), when he learned that the crook was also a snitch for Detective Dave Chapman. All of these relationships are symbolized at the start of the film — the biker gang is burying their boss while the cops and the crooks watch from a distance.

Adrian decides to kill off Chapman when he’s on a date with his fiancée Linda (Dee Duffy, who was a Slaygirl and Miss June in the Matt Helm movies The Ambushers and Murderer’s Row). Dave’s brother, Monte (Ross Hagen, who was also in The Sidehackers), returns from the war to learn what happened. He and Linda decide to act like a biker couple and get revenge.

He does so by getting drawn and quartered longer than the leader of the gang, Snake (Sonny West, a member of Elvis’ Memphis Mafia). This earns him the right to have sex with Sheila (one-and-done actress Sharyn Kinzie) and brings our protagonists into the gang’s scam to bring back drugs from Mexico.

Tom Hanson, who directed Zodiac Killer, shows up here as Mongoose. Gus Trikonis, who made Nashville Woman, The Evil, She’s Dressed to Kill, and more, is Scorpio. Tony Lorea, who plays Six-Pack and also acted in Supercock, went on to be the assistant director of Sweet Sixteen, The Glove and Ladies Night. Was this entire gang made up of exploitation movie directors? Where’s Bud Cardos?

Russ Meyer made Fanny Hill in 1964, the Oliver Reed version I watched numerous times on Cinemax was in 1983, and Tinto Brass made Paprika in 1991. But this is the Swedish version, and the American print ads didn’t just say “from the makers of”; they said “from the country that gave you I, A Woman, Inga, I Am Curious (Yellow).” Yes, the whole country made this.

Actually, Mac Ahlberg directed and wrote it. He made all of the I, A Woman movies as well as working as the cinematographer on Hell Night, The Seduction, Parasite, Chained Heat, The Graduates of Malibu High, Dolls, House, Good Burger and Re-Animator. 

Diana Kjær is Fanny. Maybe you know her from Dagmar’s Hot Pants, Inc. Anyway, she’s a girl from the country who has become a sex worker. A rich older man, Jan Wilhelmsson, falls for her, and when he dies, she’s in the will. This allows her to support a past lover, Roger (Hans Ernback).

In the November 19, 1969 issue of Variety, this film was listed as the top movie in the U.S. 

There would be a sequel, Around the World with Fanny Hill, starring Shirley Corrigan. She was also in Devil’s Nightmare, Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf and Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why?

Has there ever been a better movie than Destroy All Monsters? It is everything magical about film: giant monsters smashing cities and fighting one another while people run and scream in terror. It is cinematic junk food, a treat for the mind that transports me back to watching Action Movies on Youngstown’s WKBN 27 as a little kid, jumping around the room in pure glee.

Every giant monster on Earth has been captured and sent to Monster Island, where they are kept secure and studied — until all communication is mysteriously cut off.

Turns out that the scientists on the island are being mind-controlled by the Kilaaks, who demand the human race surrender or face total destruction. They control the monsters to attack famous cities all over the world: Godzilla decimates New York City, Rodan smashes Moscow, Mothra takes out Beijing, Gorosaurus crushes Paris and Manda, a giant Japanese dragon, goes shithouse on London. All of these attacks are to keep the UNSC forces from finding out that Tokyo is the real target.

Luckily, the humans are able to take out the control signals and the good guy monsters take on King Ghidorah, who is overcome and killed (Minilla, Varan, Anguirus and Kumonga show up, too). The Kilaaks also have a Fire Dragon, a monster that starts setting cities on fire. Godzilla takes out its base, and the forces of good triumph.

This was intended to be the final Godzilla film, as the series’ popularity was waning. However, the success of Destroy All Monsters led to even more Godzilla films.

When I was a kid, I was impatient for the human scenes to end and for the monsters to show up. I’ve never changed. All I want to do is watch giant monsters destroy cities and fight one another. This movie delivers all of that and more. It’s not high art, but does it have to be?

Let me put it out there right now: This movie is completely insane.

Let me see if I can summarize it.

A high-tech chicken farm is attempting to breed birds with no heads or bones. A love triangle develops between the three people who run it: Anna (international sex symbol and the photojournalist who was one of the first to interview Fidel Castro, Gina Lollobrigida), her prostitute killing husband Marco and their secretary Gabriella (Ewa Aulin, the near goddess who appeared in films like Candy and Death Smiles on a Murderer).

Yes. Headless and boneless chickens, all inside a fashionable proto giallo filled with sex and murder. You better believe I’m all over this movie.

Director Giulio Questi was also behind Django Kill… If You Live, Shoot! and Arcana. I’ve seen this movie explained as a “socio-politically sophisticated avant-garde giallo,” which is pretty much the best way I can think of telling you what it’s all about. It’s also around 40 years ahead of its time, yet blissfully stuck in 1968.

Despite being Anna’s cousin, Gabri hooks up with her husband, and they debate running away together. However, Gabri is already married to Mondain, and their plan is to kill Anna and frame  Marco. There’s also the issue of Anna wanting to have something special and strange with Marco, which, instead of being a child, ends up being these Eraserhead-ish chicken balls that scream and bleed worms when he kills them.

When Marco discovers his wife’s body in a hotel room, he cleans the scene up and brings her body to the farm to turn it into chicken feed. That’s when we learn his big secret: he doesn’t really kill prostitutes, but instead role plays the murder and sends them away with plenty of cash. But then, as he tries to feed his wife into the machine, he falls in just as the police arrive to catch him disposing of the body. Gabri and Mondaini are eventually seen as we watch the chickens chow down on human food. Nothing good is gonna come out of that. I mean, poultry that feeds on human flesh seems way worse than any steroids or hormones.

I’ve never seen a movie that straddles being an art film, a drug film, a murder mystery story and a science fiction examination of man trying to change nature, along with psychedelic film techniques and non-linear editing techniques. It’s also a satire of the highest order. I have no idea why people aren’t constantly discussing this movi,e and I’m going to do my best to drive people nuts talking about it over and over again.