Director Claude Mulot used the alter ego of Frederic Lansac — a character from his previous film The Blood Rose — to make this movie, which was known as  Les Charnelles (The Carnals) when it was released in its native country.

Of course, Mulot would move on to hardcore with his next movie, Pussy Talk, but he was also known for comedy and thrillers, too. And, well, softcore, as evidenced by Black Venus. Sadly, he drowned at the way too young age of 44. His last film was 1986’s Le Couteau sous la gorge (The Knife Under the Throat).

Sins of the Flesh is all about Benoît Landrieux, the potentially insane son of a rich industrialist who comes into the lives of car thief Jean-Pierre and Isabelle (Anne Libert, who was the Queen of the Living Dead in A Virgin Among the Living Dead, along with appearing in House of 1000 Pleasures and numerous Jess Franco films, such as Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac, The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein, The Demons, Daughter of Dracula and Dracula Prisoner of Frankenstein), who is saved by the duo when she’s being assaulted by her stepfather.

Benoît is many things: maniac, coward, killer and perhaps even an impotent voyeur, as the only way he is able to perform is after watching other couples make love. Now, he has a new goal: to rob his father’s safe, to make his stepmother fall for someone else and blackmail her for it, then finally, to kill and kill again.

The sequence where our threesome ingests psychedelic mushroom tea before swimming and aardvarking amongst fuzzed out acid rock*, strobing lights and statues of alebrijes is the highlight of this affair. It’s a scene filled with crazy lenses and a complete lack of body hair grooming, so it’s pretty much everything wonderful about exploitation circa 1974.

The region free Mondo Macabro release has a brand new 4k transfer from the film negative, along with interviews with Anne Libert, Gerard Kikoine, distributor Francis Mischkind and assistant director Didier Philippe-Gerard. Plus, there is an original trailer, an alternative title sequence** and optional newly created English subtitles.

All hail this label, which continually finds movies I never knew existed and makes the best versions of them that have ever been released. You can get this directly from Mondo Macabro.

*The score is by Eddie Vartan, father of actor Michael.

**Émotions secrètes d’un jeune homme de bonne famille is the other title, which translates as Secret Emotions of a Young Man from a Good Family.

A police officer becomes obsessed with The Zebra Killer, who has kidnapped his girlfriend and has kept on murdering people. The Get-Man of the title refers to this cop, who goes by Lt. Frank Savage and is played by Austin Stoker.

In real life, the zebra murders — called that because of the police frequency used to communicate the crimes — were a string of racially motivated murders committed by a small group of Black Muslims in San Francisco.

Some thing that the Death Angels, which is what the killers wanted to be known as, may have killed more people — up to 73 — than all other 1970’s serial killers put together.

This movie, however, has the killer appear as a white man in blackface and afro wig, killing in random ways, much like the Zodiac Killer, who inspired Scorpio in Dirty Harry, which therefore is ripped off by this film.

If you’re making a blacksploitation version of a Hollywood film, go with the best. Go with William Girdler, who also made Abby, which is one of my favorite Xeroxorcist films. You can also find this movie as Combat Cops, which is not anywhere near as good of a title.

What shall we call this movie? The Blind Dead 3? Horror of the Zombies? Ship of Zombies? Or The Ghost Ship of the Swimming Corpses? Let’s just go with The Ghost Galleon and know that it’s the third Blind Dead movie after Tombs of the Blind Dead and Return of the Blind Dead.

Writer and director Amando de Ossorio is back, again pitting the former Knights Templar, now zombie horde against some swimsuit models and the rescue party that comes to get them. Now, they have the power to appear within the fog, taking over the ocean and killing all that they come near.

Jack Taylor, who worked with Jess Franco often, shows up here. He was in everything from Mexican films like Nostradamus and the Monster Demolisher to The Vampires Night Orgy and Pieces.

This movie is like being in a trance. A trance that has a flaming ship in a bathtub for a special effect, which is perhaps one of the finest trances to find oneself. The Blind Dead themselves are wonderful as always, but the idea that a sporting goods store owner could get publicity by stranding models and then somehow a galleon filled with the graves of Knights Templar who sacrificed women to Satan find them and take them inside their fog world and…ah, why am I complaining? That’s actually a perfectly logical plot.

You can watch this on Amazon Prime.

Man, this movie really has it all. You’ve got an angry Peter Fonda, a transfixing Susan George and a driven Vic Morrow, all racing across America. It’s really a great time, a tense chase film that never lets up and then crushes you at the end.

Fonda plays a NASCAR hopeful named Larry Rayder who grabs his mechanic Deke Sommers (Adam Roarke) and holds a supermarket manager’s wife* and kid hostage for $150,000, enough to get their own car on the track. To get away with it, they have the maps to a walnut grove that has air cover and no way for the police to block the road from the high speed of their 1966 Chevrolet Impala. But things get complicated when Deke’s one night stand Mary Coombs demands that she be let in on the escape plan, which puts them up against Capt. Everett Franklin (Morrow), who has no idea how to give up.

The script to this movie was started years before by Howard Hawks, who bought the rights to the book The Chase by Richard Unekis. After he had issues developing it, two English industrialists named Sir James Hanson and Sir Gordon White — who owned Eveready Batteries and Ball Park Franks — tried to make the script into a film with Vanishing Point director Michael Pearson. That said, nothing happened and the two were frustrated.

One night over dinner, Hanson related the story to Jimmy Boyd. Yes, the same guy who wrote “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.” Boyd rewrote the script and raised $2 million on his own, planning on having David Soul and Sam Elliott as his leads.

Enter James Nicholson, the former head of American-International Pictures, who was leaving to form Academy Pictures in partnership with 20th Century Fox. It was a great deal: Fox would finance and distribute the movies while giving him complete control. One of the movies he wanted to make was Boyd’s script, which was now called Pursuit. Nicholson was the master of naming movies and gave it the much better title that made it a success.

Nicholson announced that Academy would make six films for Fox over two years and they wouldn’t necessarily be exploitation films. His widow Susan Hart claimed that five of them would be The Legend of Hell House, Blackfather, Street People, The “B” People and Dirty Mary Crazy Larry.

Sadly, Nicholson would only see the first film get made, as he would die of a malignant brain tumor within six months of the deal.

Hell House director John Hough also made this movie, sneaking in the dark ending, telling Film Talk: “…my messages to the audience were plain and simple: speed kills, and also, considering the nature of the film, crime doesn’t pay. That’s what Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry was really all about.”

*A super-brief Roddy McDowell appearance.

When a movie has the working title Want A Ride, Little Girl? you know it’s going to be scummy. What may surprise you is that William Shatner — who director William Gréfe met at an airport — is in the lead role.

Don’t be fooled by the supernatural looking poster. No, this is a slasher with Shatner’s Matt Stone as the bad guy picking up young women, freaking out Shat-style and getting rid of their bodies. He’s being trailed by a detective named Karate Pete (Harold “Oddjob” Sakata), which is, pardon the pun, pretty odd. He’s on the trail because Stone keeps bilking and killing old women for their money.

Jennifer Bishop (who is also in Gréfe’s Mako the Jaws of Death) plays the daughter of one of these older women who suspects that the leisure suit-wearing Stone is a shyster. And oh yeah — Ruth Roman is in this!

Sakata almost died making this, as the rig that was used for his hanging death failed and he was nearly hung for real. Shatner saved his life — breaking a finger in the process — and the entire accident can be seen on the He Came from the Swamps documentary.

This movie belongs to Shatner. As a child, his character kills William Kerwin with a sword in a kind of pre-Pieces opening, then murders a puppy and gets so worked up in one scene that he supposedly farts on camera. His assortment of 70’s fashions are pretty astounding and every single frame of this feels as sweaty and gross as a night in the Everglades.

You can watch this on YouTube.